Carole Landis
Also Known As: Frances Lillian Mary Ridste
Biography: Carole Landis (born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste; January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was an American actress and singer. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C. from United Artists. She was known as "The Ping Girl" and "The Chest" because of her curvy figure. Landis was reportedly crushed when actor Rex Harrison refused to divorce his wife for her. Unable to cope any longer, on July 5, 1948, she died by suicide in her Pacific Palisades home by taking an overdose of Seconal. From Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA
Birthday: December 31, 1918
Deathday: July 05, 1948
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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One Million B.C.
Overview: One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-05
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I Wake Up Screaming
Overview: A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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A Star Is Born
Overview: Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-27
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Wintertime
Overview: Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-17
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Orchestra Wives
Overview: Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Moon Over Miami
Overview: After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-04
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Behind Green Lights
Overview: An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-15
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Broadway Melody of 1938
Overview: Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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Hollywood Hotel
Overview: After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-15
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Topper Returns
Overview: Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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Noose
Overview: Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-28
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Secret Command
Overview: Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-30
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It Happened in Flatbush
Overview: A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-28
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Four Jills in a Jeep
Overview: Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-17
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My Gal Sal
Overview: Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-30
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A Gentleman at Heart
Overview: After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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Three Texas Steers
Overview: Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-12
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Turnabout
Overview: Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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Gold Diggers in Paris
Overview: When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-11
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Road Show
Overview: Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-18
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A Scandal in Paris
Overview: A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
Genres: Crime Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-19
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Varsity Show
Overview: Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-04
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Blondes at Work
Overview: When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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Having Wonderful Crime
Overview: Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-12
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Overview: A pretty blonde with a Doberman pinscher walks into a bar on April Fool's Day and asks for a bag of bones. Thus begins a merry chase in which a newspaper reporter, a drunken policeman and a hand-painted necktie help locate the missing witness in a criminal investigation.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-01
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Brass Monkey
Overview: Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-01
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Cowboys from Texas
Overview: Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-29
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Mystery Sea Raider
Overview: June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-26
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Daredevils of the Red Circle
Overview: Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-10
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Dance Hall
Overview: Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-18
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Manila Calling
Overview: During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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When Were You Born
Overview: A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-18
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The Powers Girl
Overview: Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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The Patient in Room 18
Overview: Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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The Invisible Menace
Overview: Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-11
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Boy Meets Girl
Overview: Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-27
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Girls on Probation
Overview: A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-22
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Reno
Overview: A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Out of the Blue
Overview: Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-21
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She Loved a Fireman
Overview: A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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The Adventurous Blonde
Overview: The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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Fly Away Baby
Overview: Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-19
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Overview: Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-07
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Over the Goal
Overview: The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-16
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Over the Wall
Overview: When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-02
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Missing Witnesses
Overview: A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-11
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A Slight Case of Murder
Overview: Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-26
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Show-Business at War
Overview: A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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Gold Diggers of 1937
Overview: The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-28
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The King and the Chorus Girl
Overview: A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-27
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A Day at the Races
Overview: Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Overview: Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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Alcatraz Island
Overview: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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Love, Honor and Behave
Overview: Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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Women Are Like That
Overview: Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-23
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Overview: Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
Genres: Adventure Romance History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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Men Are Such Fools
Overview: Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-15
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Penrod's Double Trouble
Overview: When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-23
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Four's a Crowd
Overview: A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-04
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Cadet Girl
Overview: A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Overview: Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-05
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Overview: Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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