Tom Ewell
Also Known As: Samuel Yewell Tompkins, Tommy Ewell
Biography: Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is noted for having Starred alongside two of Classic Hollywood's Iconic Bombshells, first reprising his stage role in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which he starred Opposite Marilyn Munroe in what is considered one of her most iconic roles and then the following year The Girl Can't Help it (1956) alongside Jayne Mansfield in her breakthrough role. Ewell had 70 credits in film and television.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 29, 1909
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 12, 1994
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The Seven Year Itch
Overview: With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they soon start spending time together—maybe a little too much time!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-03
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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Overview: Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of the worlds brightest stars are hiding deep, dark secrets that - once revealed show a life of unhappiness, heartbreak and torment that has been so carefully hidden behind the glamour and glitter of the big screen. See the true lives behind some of Hollywoods most iconic stars and learn why, for some, it was as if the act of dying itself was a final performance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Finders Keepers
Overview: A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Adam's Rib
Overview: A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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State Fair
Overview: Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on winning the competitions for livestock and cooking. However, their restless daughter Margy and her brother Wayne meet attractive new love interests.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-09
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The Girl Can't Help It
Overview: A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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They Only Kill Their Masters
Overview: An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relationships centering on the victim; the scattered trail of evidence ranges from a mysterious photograph to the victim's own dog. During the investigation, the sheriff meets and becomes romantically involved with a woman whose connection to the murder is ambiguous.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-22
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Easy Money
Overview: To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Overview: American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-08
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The Great American Pastime
Overview: Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-28
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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Overview: TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life with a young wife, Katy. A letter from the war department arrives that Katy believes is calling Greg back to active duty from the Air Force reserve, but she hides it during a party celebrating their wedding anniversary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-11
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Mr. Music
Overview: A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Overview: Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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To Find a Man
Overview: A boarding-school girl asks the boy next door for help getting an abortion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-20
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Overview: A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-27
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A Life of Her Own
Overview: A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Overview: Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-19
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Overview: War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries to keep the peace. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a stereotypical dumb hick sheriff who's quick to call in the local militia. Tony Curtis plays a skirt-chasing sergeant who can't stay out of trouble and soon lands in jail. Brian Keith borrows a tank to release his friend from jail. Things get more chaotic after that.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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Up Front
Overview: Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "Willie" and "Joe".
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-05
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Back at the Front
Overview: Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Terror at Alcatraz
Overview: Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, respectively, involved in the race to find the buried treasure of Al Capone on Alcatraz Island at the former prison where he was imprisoned.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-04
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Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
Overview: Patsy Kelly is a baby sitter who has no end of problems dealing with the kids in her charge. When Harold and Genevieve sit down in the moonlight for some billing and cooing, Patsy comes along and explains to them that marriage equates to kids and kids equate to trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-14
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The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Overview: Spy spoof about a double agent involved in a phony death plot. Episode of the Wide World of Mystery.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-08
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Tropic of Desire
Overview: A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various political intrigues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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They Knew What They Wanted
Overview: While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
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Desert Bandit
Overview: Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall's "disgrace" was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-24
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Promise Him Anything
Overview: A young bachelor using a dating service picks a woman whose information card read "Anything goes." When he takes her out and finds out that she didn't live up to her description, he sues her for breach of contract.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-15
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Lost in Alaska
Overview: After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-13
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All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Overview: Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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The Return of Mod Squad
Overview: Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss. But the three soon discover that they themselves are the intended targets of a gunman who lives in their old "flower child" world of the 1960s.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-18
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Marilyn
Overview: This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-18
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Tender Is the Night
Overview: Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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The World of Abbott and Costello
Overview: A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Mexican Hayride, Hold That Ghost, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Little Giant, In Society, Ride 'Em Cowboy, The Naughty Nineties, Buck Privates Come Home, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, Lost in Alaska, Comin' Round the Mountain, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. - Written by Tom Weaver
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Concerning a Woman of Sin
Overview: An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief for big money. But he has to conceal the fact that the writer is only nine years old.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-24
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The Great Gatsby
Overview: Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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