Vivian Blaine
Also Known As: Vivian Stapleton
Biography: Vivian Blaine (1921–1995) was an American actress and singer best known for originating the role of Miss Adelaide in the musical theater production Guys and Dolls.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 21, 1921
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 09, 1995
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Guys and Dolls
Overview: Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Main Street to Broadway
Overview: In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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State Fair
Overview: During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-29
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Showbiz Goes to War
Overview: While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Jitterbugs
Overview: The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-05
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Skirts Ahoy!
Overview: Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-28
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Doll Face
Overview: Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-31
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If I'm Lucky
Overview: Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate is really a stooge for a corrupt political machine, which discovers the band's handsome and appealing singer would make a better stooge. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between the band's singers. When election day approaches, the band's singer wants out of the campaign, but the machine threatens to smear him and his pals in the band if he quits.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-02
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Something for the Boys
Overview: The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-01
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Greenwich Village
Overview: In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-27
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Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
Overview: A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-23
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Three Little Girls in Blue
Overview: Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-03
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Nob Hill
Overview: A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco's high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-13
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Sooner or Later
Overview: Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. When she finally captures his interest, she lies and tells him she's 16. But what will Michael do when he discovers the truth?
Genres: Drama Romance Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-25
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The Dark
Overview: At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Broadway's Lost Treasures
Overview: The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, were the producers of the show. This film offers a compilation of performances from Tony Award broadcasts during those years. They are presented with color-corrected footage and digitally re-mastered sound.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-10
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The Cracker Factory
Overview: Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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Public Pigeon No. 1
Overview: Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-17
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Richard
Overview: A satirical biopic of a fictional US president Richard, who in many ways intentionally resembles the then-current real life U.S. president, Richard Nixon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-31
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He Hired the Boss
Overview: A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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Thru Different Eyes
Overview: A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-19
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Girl Trouble
Overview: A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-09
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I'm Going to Be Famous
Overview: A group of young actors audition for a play by a famous author starring and a famous star. These hopefuls have every weapon available to achieve their goal including blackmail, sex and murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Parasite
Overview: Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus & his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-12
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The All-Star Bond Rally
Overview: Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds through songs and skits. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-10
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Fast Friends
Overview: A young divorcee struggles to provide for her young son and make a new life for herself in the backstage jungle of a TV talk show, becoming fast friends with its head writer whose job it is to see that its host, a woman-chasing egomaniac, stays at the top of the ratings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-19
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