Xavier Cugat
Also Known As: Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deulofeu, The Rumba King
Biography: Xavier Cugat was a popular Spanish-American bandleader. He made many appearances in Hollywood films and on television throughout the decades, from 1921.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Birthday: January 01, 1900
Deathday: October 27, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Neptune's Daughter
Overview: Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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On an Island with You
Overview: A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend is just one of those disagreeing.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-03
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You Were Never Lovelier
Overview: An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-19
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Bathing Beauty
Overview: After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-27
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The Phynx
Overview: A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-06
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The Bachelor
Overview: Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Overview: Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-04
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A Date with Judy
Overview: Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie, Judy suspects that her father is having an affair with a beautiful dance instructor. The two girls team up to expose Judy's father -- who is only taking innocent dance lessons.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-29
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Holiday in Mexico
Overview: Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl and that she has fully matured into adulthood. Eager to make her mark in the sophisticated world of foreign diplomats living in Mexico, Christine appoints herself as organizer of her father's social activities and takes over the planning of a big garden party he will be hosting. Because he loves his daughter,
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-15
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Two Girls and a Sailor
Overview: A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-14
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The Monitors
Overview: Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-08
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Nunca en horas de clase
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-11-03
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Chicago Syndicate
Overview: An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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This Time for Keeps
Overview: An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-17
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That's Entertainment!
Overview: Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Genres: Documentary Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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A Rose in the Wind
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Sex, Maracas & Chihuahuas
Overview: A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ballrooms. The soundtracks of the great musical films and TV shows. Sex and romance, gangsters, luxury cars and palm trees. From Barcelona to New York, with a stop in Cuba. The birth of Las Vegas. The sound of the maracas. Chihuahuas everywhere. The incredible life story of Xavier Cugat (1900-90).
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-05-02
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The Eddy Duchin Story
Overview: The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-02
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That's Entertainment! III
Overview: Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Luxury Liner
Overview: Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio de Janeiro. Anxious to become a singer herself, Bradford's young daughter, Polly, decides to skip out on school and sneak onto the ship before it departs. Angry that his daughter disobeyed him, Bradford puts her to work on the ship for punishment, but Polly has her own ideas about how to spend the trip.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-09
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Overview: Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-06
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The Merry Widow
Overview: When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-27
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The Lash
Overview: A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-14
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Go West Young Man
Overview: Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-18
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Donatella
Overview: Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-03
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Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City
Overview: This film visits many of the neighborhoods and landmarks on Manhattan Island and occasionally includes a history lesson. The neighborhoods include the Bowery, Chinatown, Herald Square, and Times Square. Some of the architectural highlights are the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library, Temple Emanuel, the Central Park Zoo, and the Rockefeller Center complex. The film ends with a visit to a dining room in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the Xavier Cugat Orchestra entertains.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-30
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Susanna and Me
Overview: An expulsive star of a variety theatre cannot decide between the love of an honest archaeology professor and the love of an extravagant official who turns himself into a cabaret comedian in his sparetime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-03-11
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The Heat's On
Overview: Broadway star Fay Lawrence (West) is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer (Gaxton) to star in his latest production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-02
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