Lee Patrick
Also Known As: Lee Salome Patrick
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lee Patrick (November 22, 1901 – November 21, 1982) was an American actress whose career began in 1922 on the New York stage with her role in The Bunch and Judy which headlined Adele Astaire and featured Adele's brother Fred Astaire. Patrick continued to perform in dozens of roles on the stage for the next decade, frequently in musicals and comedies, but also in dramatic parts like her 1931 performance as Meg in Little Women. She began to branch out into films in 1929. For half a century she created a credible body of cinematic work, her most memorable being in 1941 as Sam Spade's assistant Effie in The Maltese Falcon, and her reprise of the role in the George Segal 1975 comedy sequel The Black Bird. Her talents were showcased in comedies such as the 1942 Jack Benny film George Washington Slept Here and in 1958 as one of the foils of Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame. Dramatic parts such as an asylum inmate in the 1948 The Snake Pit and as Pamela Tiffin's mother in the 1961 Summer and Smoke were another facet of her repertoire. She made numerous guest roles in American television, but became a staple for that medium during the two-year run of Topper. As Henrietta Topper, her comedic timing played well against Leo G. Carroll as her husband, and against that of the two ghosts played by Robert Sterling and Anne Jeffreys. Patrick lent her voice to various animated characters of The Alvin Show in the early 1960s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Patrick (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 22, 1901
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 21, 1982
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Vertigo
Overview: A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-28
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The Maltese Falcon
Overview: A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-18
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Mildred Pierce
Overview: A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-20
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There's No Business Like Show Business
Overview: Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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City for Conquest
Overview: The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-21
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Now, Voyager
Overview: A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-22
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George Washington Slept Here
Overview: New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Caged
Overview: A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-19
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Overview: An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.
Genres: Fantasy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-18
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Tomorrow Is Another Day
Overview: A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-08
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In This Our Life
Overview: An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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The Snake Pit
Overview: Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-04
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Footsteps in the Dark
Overview: A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-08
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Auntie Mame
Overview: Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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The Lawless
Overview: A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-01
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Inner Sanctum
Overview: A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-15
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Somewhere I'll Find You
Overview: Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-27
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Mrs. Parkington
Overview: In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Dangerously They Live
Overview: A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
Genres: Romance War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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The Smiling Ghost
Overview: Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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The Black Bird
Overview: The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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A Night to Remember
Overview: A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-10
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Million Dollar Baby
Overview: A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-31
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The Fuller Brush Girl
Overview: A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Summer and Smoke
Overview: In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-16
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Overview: A PI investigates a priest's murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-07
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Mother Wore Tights
Overview: In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Overview: Compilation of several episodes of the TV series Pistols 'n' Petticoats.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
Overview: When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-27
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Take Me to Town
Overview: Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Meanwhile, the three sons of widower Will Hall come to town in search of a wife for their dad. Vermilion needs to lay low to escape the marshal, so she accepts the boys' offer to visit pioneer community Pine Grove. Once there, she annoys local Mrs. Grundys but eventually starts to fit in.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-19
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Father Is A Prince
Overview: Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he doesn't want his children going, either. His daughter Connie is afraid to break the news of her engagement to Gary Lee, especially since not only is Gary a lawyer and a college grad, but his father owns a vacuum-cleaner company, too.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-18
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Saturday's Children
Overview: An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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Hello Out There
Overview: Director James Whale's last film, it was supposed to be part of an anthology film but was never released. A down on his luck gambler ends up in jail in a small Texan town where he meets and falls in love with Emily. They make plans to go to San Francisco but may not get the opportunity.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Crashing Hollywood
Overview: A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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Border Cafe
Overview: The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
Genres: Western Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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Law of the Underworld
Overview: A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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A Girl Named Tamiko
Overview: A photographer based in Tokyo, who's in love with local beauty Tamiko, begins to court an embassy official so she can help him gain entry into the United States.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-27
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The Nurse's Secret
Overview: An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-24
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Kisses for Breakfast
Overview: A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-05
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Condemned Women
Overview: A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Keep Your Powder Dry
Overview: A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-01
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Fisherman's Wharf
Overview: Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
Genres: Adventure Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-03
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Maid's Night Out
Overview: A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Money and the Woman
Overview: An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-17
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Ladies Must Live
Overview: A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-27
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Wake Up and Dream
Overview: Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-02
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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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Gambler's Choice
Overview: The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-27
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Night Spot
Overview: A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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Danger Patrol
Overview: An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-18
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South of Suez
Overview: Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-16
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Honeymoon for Three
Overview: Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-18
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Moon Over Las Vegas
Overview: A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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Nobody's Darling
Overview: Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-27
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Faces in the Fog
Overview: Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-30
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The Sisters
Overview: Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Pillow Talk
Overview: Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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Larceny with Music
Overview: A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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Music for Madame
Overview: An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Singin' Spurs
Overview: In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertising campaign, and the only way they can get it is to borrow it from a wealthy local woman, who has made it clear that she won't give them the money until Hezzie marries her.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-22
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Strange Journey
Overview: Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-03
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Strange Cargo
Overview: On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-31
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See My Lawyer
Overview: Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-09
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Over 21
Overview: A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-08
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Goodbye Again
Overview: Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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The Backbone of America
Overview: An account executive tries to find the perfect American family to use in a forthcoming advertising campaign.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-29
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Invisible Stripes
Overview: A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-30
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Visit to a Small Planet
Overview: The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-04
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Wives and Lovers
Overview: Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that she's sold his book to a publisher, including the rights to turn it into a Broadway play. A new house in Connecticut is the first way to celebrate. But during the long hours Bill is away working on the play, Bertie befriends hard-drinking neighbor Fran Cabrell and her boyfriend Wylie, who plant seeds of suspicion in Bertie's mind that Bill and his beautiful agent might be more than just business partners. Bertie jealously retaliates by flirting with Gar Aldrich, an actor who will be in her husband's play. Bill goes to Connecticut for a heart-to-heart talk, finds Gar there and punches him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-29
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The New Interns
Overview: Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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