Melba Moore
Also Known As: Melba Hill
Biography: Beatrice Melba Smith (born October 29, 1945), known by her stage name, Melba Moore is an American disco, R&B singer and actress. She is the daughter of saxophonist Teddy Hill and R&B singer Bonnie Davis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melba Moore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Birthday: October 29, 1945
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Gender: Female
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All Dogs Go to Heaven
Overview: When a casino-owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy, to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles onto an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares of what's waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.
Genres: Drama Animation Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Overview: Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom over the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-20
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The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker
Overview: After a young man graduates from a prestigious college, he rebels by preferring a carefree existence rather than the life of fighting the rungs within the treacherous American corporate ladder. For his means of survival he becomes a New York cab driver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Lost in the Stars
Overview: A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-08
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Hair
Overview: Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-15
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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Overview: At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-25
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Flamingo Road
Overview: A carnival drifter marries into an aristocratic family and unwillingly takes on a ruthless sheriff who fancies himself a political kingmaker in this pilot film to the later series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-12
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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Seasonal Differences
Overview: The separation of church and state is examined when a Christmas Nativity scene, being displayed at a high school, sparks debate and protest from the student body.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-02
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A Bing Crosby Christmas
Overview: The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public television that was originally called «A Bing Crosby Christmas: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know» that was narrated by Gene Kelly and hosted by Bing's widow, Kathryn Crosby. The program itself features clips from fifteen of Bing's classic television specials, concentrating on the period from the early 1960s onwards when he included Kathryn and their three children in the programs.
Genres: Music Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Some Kind of a Nut
Overview: A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-14
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Purlie
Overview: Purlie is a musical based on Ossie Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious. In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who will shake things up and bring freedom to his people. This 1981 television adaptation won a CableACE Award.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-12
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The Beatrice Arthur Special
Overview: The Beatrice Arthur Special was a prime time U.S. television special broadcast on CBS on January 19, 1980. The production centered around Bea Arthur, who was joined by guest stars Rock Hudson, Melba Moore and ventriloquist Wayland Flowers with his puppet Madame in a series of musical numbers and comedy sketches.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-19
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The Fighting Temptations
Overview: Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him. But before Darrin can collect the money, he must fulfill his aunt's final wish -- to create a local choir.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Mother's Day
Overview: A young black man is arrested for a crime. Now the police and the D.A. are convinced that he is guilty, but his mother doesn't believe this and sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-13
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The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf
Overview: Adolescent werewolf Walt Cribbens finds himself transforming into a wolf-boy form for two minutes at a time. He has no idea why he is a werewolf, so he decides to seek answers with the help of his best friend Cindy, who witnessed his very first transformation. This quest is complicated by a series of local robberies that throw suspicion on Walt.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-23
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Def by Temptation
Overview: An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.
Genres: Horror Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-23
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Show of Titles
Overview: An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.
Genres: Music Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-13
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