Tommy Dorsey
Also Known As: Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey Jr., Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr.
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 19, 1905
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 26, 1956
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Girl Crazy
Overview: Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-26
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The Fabulous Dorseys
Overview: The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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Du Barry Was a Lady
Overview: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-13
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A Song Is Born
Overview: The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-19
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Broadway Rhythm
Overview: Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.
Genres: Family Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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Birth of the Blues
Overview: Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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I Dood It
Overview: Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-01
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Swing Fever
Overview: Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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Las Vegas Nights
Overview: A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-28
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Ship Ahoy
Overview: Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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This Is Elvis
Overview: Though several actors portray Elvis Presley at different stages of his life, this documentary is comprised mostly of actual performance footage and interviews with Elvis, his fans and those close to him. This biographical docu-drama features rare footage of Elvis and dramatically recreated scenes from Elvis' life.
Genres: Drama Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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Disc Jockey
Overview: National DJs help a promoter make an unknown girl a star, to prove the power of radio over TV.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-30
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A Night in a Dormitory
Overview: The adventures of a schoolgirl in a nightclub as related by her to her dormitory sisters.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-05
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Overview: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
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The Great Morgan
Overview: Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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Presenting Lily Mars
Overview: Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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Thrill of a Romance
Overview: A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-23
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Swing Fever
Overview: Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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