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Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street (1947) more movies like this

directed by George Seaton
featuring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, Harry Antrim, Jerome Cowan, William Forrest, Herbert Heyes, Gene Lockhart

Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken Santa who was to have led Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is offered a job as a Macy's toy-department Santa. Supervisor Maureen O'Hara soon begins having second thoughts about hiring Kris: it's bad ...

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The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1946) more movies like this

directed by Edmund Goulding
featuring Demetrius Alexis, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Walter Bonn, Anne Baxter, Eugene Borden, Clifton Webb

After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in The Razor's Edge. Power is appropriately cast as disillusioned World War I vet Larry Darrell, who returns from hostilities questioning his old values. To find himself, Larry joins several other members of the Lost ...

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To the Shores of Tripoli

To the Shores of Tripoli (1942) more movies like this

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
featuring John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, William Tracy

One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WW2, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli was filmed with full the cooperation of the US Marine Corps. John Payne plays Chris Winters, a wealthy, wise-lipped young Marine recruit who learns the true meaning of "Semper Fidelis" the hard way, courtesy of tough-as ...

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Weekend in Havana

Weekend in Havana (1941) more movies like this

directed by Walter Lang
featuring Alice Faye, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, Cobina Wright, Jr.

In this musical, the cruise that salesgirl Nan Spencer (Alice Faye) worked so hard to pay for is cut tragically short when the ship is damaged. In recompense for the failed cruise, Nan is treated to a tour of Havana, guided by a shipping company officer, Jay Williams (John Payne). Once in Havana, Nan becomes the center of attention when both Jay ...

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Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential (1952) more movies like this

directed by Phil Karlson
featuring John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston S. Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand

Kansas City Confidential, Phil Karlson's low ( low ) budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy Foster (Preston S. Foster). Foster devises an outrageous scheme: he will recruit three of the most vicious and unrelenting criminals he can find (screen heavies Lee Van ...

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Springtime in the Rockies

Springtime in the Rockies (1942) more movies like this

directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, Charlotte Greenwood

A musical remake of the 1936 comedy Second Honeymoon and the starring debut of Betty Grable, Springtime in the Rockies tells the not unfamiliar story of Vicky Lane (Grable, a Broadway dancer despairing over the tardiness of her partner Dan Christy (John Payne) who, as it turns out, has instead been busily engaged in a bit of extracurricular ...

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The Dolly Sisters

The Dolly Sisters (1945) more movies like this

directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver, S.Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner

The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took Broadway by storm in the early 1900s. Betty Grable plays Jennie and June Haver plays Rosie; their uncle is the inevitable "funny foreigner" S.Z. Sakall, who manages their career from childhood. Passing an important audition for ...

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Hello, Frisco, Hello

Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) more movies like this

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
featuring Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Lynn Bari, Laird Cregar

Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John Payne plays Johnny Cornell, a sharp wheeler-dealer operating on the Barbary Coast at the turn of the century. With the help of his songstress girlfriend Trudy Evans (Alice Faye), Johnny gains a reputation as a first-class ...

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Footlight Serenade

Footlight Serenade (1942) more movies like this

directed by Gregory Ratoff
featuring John Payne, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jane Wyman, Phil Silvers, James Gleason

Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar Betty Grable, who's secretly married to actor John Payne. Unwilling to make public her marriage lest it adversely affect her career, Grable is unsuccessful in fending off Mature's advance, which causes her hubby's blood to ...

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Tin Pan Alley (1940) more movies like this

directed by Walter Lang
featuring Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Allen Jenkins

To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if not close buddies), 20th Century-Fox cast both ladies in their 1940 "inventory" musical Tin Pan Alley. Set in the years just prior to and during WW1, the film casts Faye and Grable as Katie and Lily Blaine, a singing-sister ...

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Passage West (1951) more movies like this

directed by Lewis R. Foster
featuring John Payne, Dennis O'Keefe, Arleen Whelan, Frank Faylen, Mary Anderson

Somewhat similar to John Ford's Wagon Master (1950), Passage West deals with a band of religious pioneers, led by a peace-loving minister (Dennis O'Keefe), heading across the desert. Along the trail, the travellers are forced to accompany with six escaped convicts who join the wagon train. The criminals range from basically decent to homicidal, ...

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Iceland

Iceland (1942) more movies like this

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
featuring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Felix Bressart, Osa Massen

When the US marines land in Iceland during WW2, camp lothario John Payne wastes no time scoping out the local female population. He makes a casual pass at skating champ Sonja Henie, only to discover that she has taken his attentions as a marriage proposal! Unable to weasel out of his situation thanks to the rigidity of Icelandic customs, Payne ...

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Tennessee's Partner (1954) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring John Payne, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Coleen Gray, Anthony Caruso

Another winning collaboration between producer Benedict Bogeaus and director Allan Dwan, Tennessee's Partner is the third film version of the same-named Bret Harte story. The plotline is motivated by the curious friendship between slick gambler Tennessee (John Payne) and gunslinging Cowpoke (Ronald Reagan). Setting up shop in California gold-rush ...

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Silver Lode (1954) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring John Payne, Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea, Dolores Moran, Emile G. Meyer, Frank Sully

Next to Slightly Scarlet, Silver Lode is the best of the many 1950s collaborations between producer Benedict Bogaeus and director Allan Dwan. Clearly inspired by High Noon, the story covers three hours in the lives of a group of westerners. As the townsfolk prepare for the Fourth of July celebration, stranger Dan Duryea rides into view, followed ...

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Slightly Scarlet (1956) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Rhonda Fleming, Kent Taylor, Ted de Corsia

This little film noir is freely adapted from James M. Cain's novel Love's Lovely Counterfeit, the story of a gangster working for a powerful Don who is fighting to retain control of the city's criminal activities when an honest mayoral candidate launches a strong anti-crime campaign. In a desperate attempt to derail his career, the Don assigns the ...

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Hats Off (1937) more movies like this

directed by Boris Petroff
featuring Mae Clarke, John Payne, Helen Lynd

The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates throughout the film's short running time). To throw ...

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