Mel Tormé
Also Known As: Melvin Howard Tormé, The Velvet Fog
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: September 13, 1925
Deathday: June 05, 1999
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Good News
Overview: At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-04
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The Comedian
Overview: Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-14
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Girls Town
Overview: Chip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes with the law she's sent to Girls Town, a home for young women in trouble with the law which is run by nuns. Silver is rebellious and causes trouble at the school, and her friend Sarafina totters near the brink of self-destruction because of an infatuation with a young singer. Meanwhile Chip's father hires a detective to find out the truth, and Chip's friend Fred gets Silver's sister in trouble at a drag race. Silver has a lot of problems all right.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-05
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Higher and Higher
Overview: A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss's fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-31
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Legendary Christmas Entertainers
Overview: Here are all your favorite holiday entertainers on one delightful DVD! Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Mel Tormé and more, in vintage television performances, singing all your favorite Christmas songs - plus - Bob Hope in some hilarious holiday sketches. You'll surely give thanks for all of these memories! Highlights include: Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Frank Sinatra) It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Frank Sinatra) Christmas Waltz (Bing Crosby) White Christmas (Bing Crosby) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland) The Christmas Song (Judy garland & Mel Tormé)
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-04
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Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
Overview: In this feature-length film combining footage from classic Warner Brothers cartoon shorts with newly animated bridging sequences, Daffy Duck, after having induced laughter in an ailing millionaire and forestalled the millionaire's death for a time (as chronicled in Daffy Dilly (1948), is the beneficiary for the deceased millionaire's assets. But the millionaire's will clearly stipulates that Daffy must use the money for the common good, by providing a service, and should Daffy think of pursuing selfish aims, the millionaire's ghost will "repossess" his millions by making them disappear from Earthly existence. Under the pretense of community service, Daffy opens an exorcism agency and employs Porky Pig, Sylvester Cat, and Bugs Bunny to track and eliminate ghosts, ghouls, and other monsters, while Daffy secretly schemes to use his learned "ghost-busting" talents to rid himself of the millionaire's nagging spirit.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-24
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Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time
Overview: Mel Tormé hosts this retrospective of the most prolific period of Frank Sinatra’s career from the beginning to mid-60s. Told through interviews with colleagues and entertainment experts along with clips from live performances, film and TV.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Land of No Return
Overview: Zak O'Brien is an animal trainer for the popular television series "Caesar and Romulus", which has been selected for a "Patsy" Award to be presented in Burbank, Californa. Zak, Caesar and Romulus board his Cherokee Arrow in Denver for the flight there, but en route at night over the Utah wastelands they encounter a sudden blizzard. Zak's radio fails, and then engine trouble ensues and he guides the craft down to a crash landing. All survive, but the plane is destroyed and now a struggle for survival begins.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-01
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Overview: A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
Overview: A modern couple dream that they are Adam and Eve.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-20
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The Big Operator
Overview: A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Jay North, Vampira, Charles Chaplin Jr., Jackie Coogan and Norman Grabowski.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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A Man Called Adam
Overview: A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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Words and Music
Overview: Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits
Overview: Some marvelous late-fifties memories of the one and only Nat King Cole. Singing (and occasionally playing) all-time Cole classics, like When I Fall In Love, The Christmas Song, Sweet Lorraine, and A Blossom Fell. Plus, there is a stellar list of other top tunes - including Stardust, Autumn Leaves, and Makin' Whoopee - each bearing his unmistakeable imprint. Nat, in solo performance, of course, but assisted, on occasion, by fellow greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, Peggy Lee - and even the legendary Jazz at the Philharmonic.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
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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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The Fearmakers
Overview: A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Dance, Baby, Dance (Tantze Babele)
Overview: Mel Tormé and the Mel-Tones sing the title song in this 1945 Soundie (a short film produced to be played on jukebox-like Panoram machines).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-15
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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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Walk Like a Dragon
Overview: California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Overview: Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-28
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Duchess of Idaho
Overview: Ellen Hallit is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but is too timid to do anything about it. To help her, her roommate Chris decides to step in, and devises a plan. Chris follows Morrison on his trip to Sun Valley, Idaho and plays the overattentive female, hoping that he will send for Ellen (who often played his "fiancée" when he had a female he couldn't discourage otherwise.) Complications arise when Chris catches the eye of band leader Dick Layne, and finds herself caught in a triangle between the two men.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-14
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Night and Day
Overview: When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-02
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Judy Garland Duets
Overview: Judy performs beloved musical numbers with Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, and more in this series of classic duets from The Judy Garland Show.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-04
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Ghost Catchers
Overview: Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.
Genres: Comedy Horror Music Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-16
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The Night of the Living Duck
Overview: After indulging in horror comic book reading, Daffy has a dream where he is singing in a nightclub for monsters.
Genres: Animation Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Junior Miss
Overview: A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-16
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Movieland Magic
Overview: Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely holds the WB house record for a 20-minute film containing footage from the most different titles in their inventory. It's theme of a singing guided tour of the lot (and some of the footage) is from 1944's "Musical Movieland", the former title holder, and it contains clips from 1939's "Quiet, Please" and "Royal Rodeo"; "Sunday Roundup" from 1936 and 1940's "The Singing Dude." Pieces from "Out Where the Stars Begin" and "Swingtime in the Movies" may also be used, but it's hard to tell since they all tend to run together and show up in a lot of places during the 1940's Warner shorts. Its title of "Movieland Magic" is most apt considering the sleight-of-hand performed by the WB Shorts and Sales departments in once again selling the same film clips for the 3rd, 4th or more times.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-09
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Bugs Bunny's Creature Features
Overview: "The Duxorcist", "Night of the Living Duck" and "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers" are combined to form this TV special.
Genres: Animation TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-01
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The Judy Garland Christmas Show
Overview: 1963 Christmas show of the short-lived The Judy Garland Show
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-13
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The Return of Spinal Tap
Overview: Spinal Tap is back in a whole new feature-length rockumentary. Go behind the scenes and find out where the somewhat-less-than-fab three are now -- and where it all began in Squatney, England. Also, catch up with director Marty DiBergi, ex-Polymer marketing whiz Artie Fufkin, and Jeanine, who now owns a shop specializing in itchy Irish clothing.
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-31
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Pardon My Rhythm
Overview: A high school bandleader captures the interest of a popular co-ed.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-01
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Hugh Hefner: American Playboy
Overview: With his magazine Hugh Hefner changed the face of publishing, combining titillation with hard-edged reporting and serving up nudity with taste. His swinging bachelor ways also made him an icon for the straight males for whom his publication was tailor-made. Join Richard Kiley in this documentary about the quintessential ladies' man. Includes footage, photos and interviews with Camille Paglia, Mel Torme, Tony Curtis and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-18
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Story of the Christmas Toys
Overview: One Christmas Eve, Santa makes a big mistake. He leaves a little girl's doll and stuffed cat at the house of the little boy down the street, and the boy's soldiers at the girl's house. The toys come to life and sort it all out, but not before getting into a little mischief. Narrated by Mel Torme, famous singer of The Christmas Song -"Chestnuts roasting by an open fire..."
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-24
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Let's Go Steady
Overview: After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled colleagues and use creative methods to promote their music.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-04
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Pray TV
Overview: A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities servicing his community's spiritual needs and his power wielded as a TV celebrity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-01
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