Ernest Truex
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Birthday: September 18, 1889
Deathday: June 26, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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His Girl Friday
Overview: Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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Life with Blondie
Overview: Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she becomes the favorite calendar gal. All the attention to the dog, makes Dagwood feel that his position as master of the house is jeopardized. Meanwhile all the attention catches the greedy eyes of gangsters who try and abduct Daisy!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-13
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Private Buckaroo
Overview: The film tells the story of army recruits following basic training, with the Andrew Sisters attending USO dances. The film is a mixture of comedy and songs.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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Come on In
Overview: A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough for him to pass the height requirement. Meanwhile, his lady friend decides to become a Secret Service agent, though she is unable to keep the fact a secret, even from the German spies she hopes to apprehend.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-22
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Christmas in July
Overview: An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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Six Cylinder Love
Overview: After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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Tillie the Toiler
Overview: While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a friend, she continually throws him over for handsomer men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
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An American Citizen
Overview: A young American broker at large in London.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-10
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It's a Wonderful World
Overview: Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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All Mine to Give
Overview: This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat-building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year-old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.
Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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Mama Runs Wild
Overview: Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Overview: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Slightly Honorable
Overview: A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
Overview: The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-07
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The Girl from Manhattan
Overview: A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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This Is the Army
Overview: In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-14
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A Good Little Devil
Overview: A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-01
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Night in Paradise
Overview: Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-03
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Whistling in the Dark
Overview: A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
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Fluffy
Overview: A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-27
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Unexpected Uncle
Overview: An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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These Glamour Girls
Overview: A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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The Affairs of Martha
Overview: Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-21
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Mr. Adam
Overview: Ernest Truex reluctantly turning nudist in this Al Christie Educational short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-02
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The Expectant Father
Overview: Ernest Truex's wife is in the hospital to give birth to their first child, and she wants him there. But his boss, Montagu Love, is in a typically terrible mood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-02
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Dog-gone Babies
Overview: In this short film from Educational Pictures, Ernest Truex stars as a man who doesn't like kids and prefers dogs. This gets him in good with the boss, as several other potential candidates for a transfer to South America were ineligible since they had families and didn't want to leave the country. But since Ernest doesn't want kids, he manages the promotion. Of course, there's FAR more to this story...especially when he comes home and finds a baby!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-18
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Gentlemen of the Bar
Overview: Ernest Truex is a lawyer feuding for no clear reason with the lawyer across the hall. Truex gets a woman seeking a divorce; the lawyer across the hall gets the husband. Each must produce evidence of infidelity, which they do .... of their clients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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His Lucky Day
Overview: Ernest Truex and family throwing a dinner party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-14
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Fired Wife
Overview: A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-04
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True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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We Go Fast
Overview: A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-19
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The Warrior's Husband
Overview: The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-28
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Pan-Americana
Overview: A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Island of Lost Men
Overview: A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-16
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Chip Off the Old Block
Overview: The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-01
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Always Together
Overview: An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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Start Cheering
Overview: After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Calling All Husbands
Overview: A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-07
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Bachelor Mother
Overview: Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Kraft Television Theatre: Alice in Wonderland
Overview: Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, join Alice on her adventure in Wonderland.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-05
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The Under-Pup
Overview: A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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The Gay Vagabond
Overview: Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-12
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Swing That Cheer
Overview: Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he can never admit to himself that his blocking-back teammate Larry Royal is equally responsible for Bob's success. To teach his pal a lesson, Larry feigns an injury and pulls out of the Big Game, forcing Bob to have a go at it alone.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-13
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Little Orvie
Overview: Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-11
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Ambush
Overview: Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-20
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Freshman Year
Overview: A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-02
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Swing, Sister, Swing
Overview: In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Little Accident
Overview: A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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Rhythm of the Islands
Overview: Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones) posing as a native chief. Joan Holton (Jane Frazee), daughter of a millionaire (Ernest Truex), falls in love with Tommy, unaware that he's a charlatan.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-16
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The Leather Saint
Overview: Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines offers to fight in an actual staged bout, until he realizes he could use the prize money to purchase equipment for local polio victims. Keeping his real identity secret and hoping to step away after one big payday, Gil signs a contract to fight for greedy promoter Gus MacAuliffe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Don't Get Personal
Overview: Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling is real. Two former associates, Jules Kinsey and J.M. Snow cross him up by substituting Susan Blair, an office secretary, for Mary and Elmer thinks the show's writer Paul Stevens is John.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Lillian Russell
Overview: Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Overview: Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Her Primitive Man
Overview: An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-29
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Twin Beds
Overview: Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-30
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Caprice
Overview: A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears incognito as a tutored and sophisticated woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-10
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Twilight for the Gods
Overview: An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-04
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You're Telling Me
Overview: Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-03
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Everybody Dance
Overview: When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-06
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Men in Her Diary
Overview: Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-14
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Adventure in Diamonds
Overview: A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Sleepy Lagoon
Overview: Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-05
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Club Havana
Overview: A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-23
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Our Town
Overview: Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors. This musicalization of Thornton Wilder's classic play stars Frank Sinatra who introduces the song, "Love and Marriage," which would go on to be immortalized as the theme song to the sitcom Married with Children.
Genres: Music Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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Get That Venus
Overview: A fast-talking philanderer and sometime reporter gets caught up in an octogenarian antiquarian's scheme to steal a classical masterwork, the famous Venus of Asterville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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The Bomb Boy
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-26
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