Jesse White
Also Known As: Cagey Calhoun, Jessie White, Jess White, Jesse Marc Weidenfeld
Biography: Jesse White (January 4, 1917 – January 9, 1997) was an American television, film, and stage character actor. He is best remembered for portraying the Maytag repairman in television commercials, a role he played from 1967 to 1988. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York, USA
Birthday: January 03, 1917
Deathday: January 09, 1997
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Gender: Male
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Matinee
Overview: A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-29
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Harvey
Overview: Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in her plans to marry off her daughter. However, when she decides to put Elwood in a mental institution, a mix-up occurs, and she finds herself committed instead. It's now up to Elwood and "Harvey" to straighten out the mess.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Designing Woman
Overview: A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-16
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Marjorie Morningstar
Overview: While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-24
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Hell's Half Acre
Overview: A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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It's Only Money
Overview: Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-20
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The Bad Seed
Overview: Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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The Spirit Is Willing
Overview: When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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The Reluctant Astronaut
Overview: Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is as a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a layperson into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Overview: Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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Bedtime for Bonzo
Overview: College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-05
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Witness to Murder
Overview: A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-15
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The Come On
Overview: A con woman tries to swindle her partner-in-crime husband with the help of one of her former marks. But is she to be trusted?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-16
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Back from Eternity
Overview: A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-07
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Sail A Crooked Ship
Overview: A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Nashville Girl
Overview: A Kentucky-born maiden realizes her dream of becoming a country music star. However, she discovers that her single-minded determination has caused her to lose things far more precious than fame or money when she gets involved with a group of corrupt music executives.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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Pajama Party
Overview: A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Callaway Went Thataway
Overview: Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is in demand. Unfortunately no one can find him. When a lookalike sends in a photo, the marketing team hires him to impersonate Callaway. Things get sticky when the real Callaway eventually shows up.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Not as a Stranger
Overview: Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Overview: A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
Genres: Music Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-06
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Brothers O'Toole
Overview: The O'Toole Brothers are Eastern con men, exceptionally good at talking their way out of tight situations. When they ride into Molybdenum, Colorado, not suspecting the riches beneath the streets, they turn the sleepy mining town upside-down for their search for the gold. High-spirited hijinks ensue, with the brothers involved in everything from stolen gambling equipment to a "belchin', cussin' and spittin' " contest.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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Katie Did It
Overview: Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist, Peter Van Arden. The romance blossoms until Katie falls victim of some false information, and becomes convinced that Peter is already married and the father of two children.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-26
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He Laughed Last
Overview: A 1920s chorus girl inherits a slain gangster's empire.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-12
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Forever Female
Overview: An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-28
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Three Blondes In His Life
Overview: Tough insurance investigator Mahoney goes to LA to look into the murder of a fellow investigator. It's found that the murdered man knew three different women — all blondes — and with each he had had a love affair. What is their connection to the crime? And will Mahoney bed all of them as well?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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Looking for Love
Overview: An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-05
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The Girl in White
Overview: The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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A House Is Not a Home
Overview: Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-12
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Johnny Trouble
Overview: An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never met.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-24
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The Right Approach
Overview: An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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Francis Goes to the Races
Overview: In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They end up saving it from financial ruin when Francis, who has the inside track with the racehorses, provides Peter with names of the winners before the races are run. Sure enough Peter finds himself with a fistful of cash and uses it to buy a racehorse for the farm. Unfortunately, the horse he chooses is suffering from a debilitating lack of confidence. When not dealing with the mare, Peter finds time to court the horse breeder's niece and trying to avoid the gangsters who want in on the winnings.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-01
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Overview: Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-16
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Guilty Bystander
Overview: A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-20
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Monster in the Closet
Overview: After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and mass panic.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-15
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The Big Night
Overview: Big money means big crime in this noir drama following the exploits of Frankie (Randy Sparks), a young man who stumbles on a stash of cash and finds himself way in over his head during the course of one sordid evening filled with greed, lust and violence. The stolen money creates friction between Frankie and his girlfriend, Ellie (Venetia Stevenson), while Frankie must deal with school, his job and the true crooks on his tail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-17
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Tomboy and the Champ
Overview: A young Texas cowgirl raises a prize-winning calf, whose presence helps her recover from polio.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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Night of 100 Stars III
Overview: A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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Harvey
Overview: The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-04
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Dad... Can I Borrow the Car?
Overview: A live-action short, using many avant-garde film techniques, that looks at American car culture in the late 1960s. The main section deals with the many trials and obstacles a teenager must face on the path to being able to drive. Surviving the driver's education class is only the first step, as the teenager must then pass his driving test, and then finally get permission to borrow the family car.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-30
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God Is My Partner
Overview: A retired surgeon starts giving away money to religious causes and his family tries to file suit, claiming that he's incompetent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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George M!
Overview: Based on the semi-hit Broadway musical of 1968 and starring original stage star Joel Grey, this TV version has been re-fashioned in significant ways. The premise here is that a small group of modern-day performers have gotten together in a rehearsal studio to celebrate George M. Cohan's life and work. Bernadette Peters also returns from the original cast, along with a cohort of movie, television and stage stars as the other cast members.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-12
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Death of a Salesman
Overview: Willy Loman is an aging salesman who was recently fired from his job. Dealing with feelings of failure, Willy begins to relive events from the past that involve his older son, Biff, and his wife, Linda. Willy tries to learn from past mistakes and works to make amends with his family, but his biggest struggle is to make peace with himself over a failed dream of financial success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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The Cat from Outer Space
Overview: A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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The Girl Rush
Overview: When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single gal Kim Halliday jumps at a caller's claim that she's part-owner of a Las Vegas "hotel." But hilarity ensues when she flies to Sin City to see it. While a wealthy casino owner eyes her dilapidated property, she takes a chance and tries to sell it to an hotelier's wealthy son.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-16
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A Fever in the Blood
Overview: A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next governor--attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their own political ambitions. Director Vincent Sherman's 1961 drama stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Don Ameche, Jack Kelly, Angie Dickinson, Herbert Marshall, Jesse White, Parley Baer, Carroll O'Connor, Ray Danton, Andra Martin, Rhodes Reason and Louise Lorimer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-28
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The Yellow Canary
Overview: Andy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On the same night he starts a job at a theater in Los Angeles his infant son is kidnapped. Despite requests from the lead police officer on the case, Lieutenant Bonner, Paxton plays along with the kidnappers as they string him along even though they are willing to kill.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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Kiss of Death
Overview: An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-27
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The Return of Gentleman Jim
Overview: Gentleman Jim Corbett (George Montgomery) returns in 1947 to fight Joe Louis (played by Louis himself) to settle the debate of who is the better fighter. However, the fight will be off if Jim falls in love on Earth and a country girl presents a problem.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-05
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Million Dollar Mermaid
Overview: After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-04
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Bless the Beasts & Children
Overview: A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-01
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Gunsmoke
Overview: Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation. Kittrige wins Saxon's ranch with a cut of the cards but Saxon has other reasons for loosing the gamble. Telford and Lake try everything from bushwacking to setting a wildfire to stop the Saxon/Kittridge herd of cattle from reaching the railhead.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-04
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Togetherness
Overview: Nina, a gorgeous blonde communist, attracts the attention of two wealthy bon vivants. Prince Solomon and Jack attempt to impress the young woman and win out over their rival, surrounded by the stunning scenery of Greece.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-13
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Champ for a Day
Overview: An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-15
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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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Return to Campus
Overview: A 55-year-old former high school football player finally gets to fulfill his life-long dream and play in the big game in this autobiographical fantasy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-01
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It's Showtime
Overview: A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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On the Double
Overview: American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-19
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Las Vegas Lady
Overview: In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women could be a weak link in a scheme that has to be flawless: Lucky's boyfriend is a security officer at the casino, Lisa is a trapeze artist who's now plagued with vertigo, and Carol is in debt to a nasty thug - plus, as a Black woman, she's subject to additional harassment. Can the gals pull off the heist, or is the plan, with it's mysterious organizer, too complicated to succeed?
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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Of Thee I Sing
Overview: CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing in then-current CBS television series.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-24
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Overview: A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-26
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A Bob Hope Comedy Special
Overview: Hosted by Jack Benny and Bing Crosby, as Bob Hope was unable to perform due to an eye surgery to remove a blood clot. Hope appeared in pre-recorded pieces with a Benny monologue and Crosby singing.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-27
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