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Royal Wedding
(1951)
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directed by
Stanley Donen
featuring
Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill, Keenan Wynn
Two real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of Fred Astaire's sister Adele to a British nobleman had occurred years earlier; the other, the wedding of England's Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip was only four years in the past. MGM would probably have gotten Royal Wedding out ...
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Easter Parade
(1948)
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directed by
Charles Walters
featuring
Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin
Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the film's leading role when its original star Gene Kelly became incapacitated. The thinnish plot, which finds Astaire trying to turn chorus girl Judy Garland into a star in order to show up his former partner Ann Miller, is hardly ...
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That's Entertainment!
(1974)
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directed by
Jack Haley, Jr.
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Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Donald O'Connor, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, James Stewart, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Peter Lawford
It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off artifacts from past movie triumphs, enjoyed one of its biggest box-office hits with That's Entertainment, a compilation of musical highlights from the studio's golden days. Onscreen hosts Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, ...
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Little Women
(1949)
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directed by
Mervyn LeRoy
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June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh
Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New England during the Civil War, the film relates the various adventures of the March sisters: Jo (June Allyson), Beth (Margaret O'Brien), Amy (Elizabeth Taylor) and Meg (Janet Leigh). Jo emerges as the main character, as she ...
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Exodus
(1960)
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directed by
Otto Preminger
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Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb
Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The film is concerned with the emergence of Israel as an independent nation in 1947. Its first half focuses on the efforts of 611 holocaust survivors to defy the blockade of the occupying British government and sail to ...
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The Canterville Ghost
(1944)
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directed by
Jules Dassin
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Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, Peter Lawford, William Gargan, Reginald Owen, Una O'Connor
The whimsical Oscar Wilde fantasy yarn The Canterville Ghost is updated to WW2 in this economical but attractively produced MGM filmization. Charles Laughton plays Sir Simon de Canterville, a feckless 17th century British aristocrat who, after proving himself a coward on the field of honor, is walled up alive in his own castle by his unforgiving ...
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Ocean's Eleven
(1960)
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directed by
Lewis Milestone
featuring
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson
During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) to rip off four Las Vegas casinos just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. Playboy Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford) joins in the scheme because he's sick of needing his oft-married mother's money, ...
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Never So Few
(1959)
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directed by
John Sturges
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Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson
Action director John Sturges had a few good films behind him (Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) and a few more to come (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven) when he put together this colorful story of wartime romance. In addition to his talents as a director, this saga of an American Captain stationed with his Allied command ...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
(1945)
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directed by
Albert Lewin
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George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford
The Picture of Dorian Gray was writer/director Albert E. Lewin's fascinating follow-up to his expressive-esoterica masterpiece The Moon and Sixpence. Hurd Hatfield essays the title character, a London aristocrat who would sell his soul to remain handsome and young--and, in a manner of speaking, he does just that. Under the influence of his ...
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Son of Lassie
(1945)
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directed by
S. Sylvan Simon
featuring
Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce, Nils Asther, William Severn
Son of Lassie is about a courageous collie named Laddie, played by a dog named "Pal". A sequel to Lassie Come Home, the film stars Peter Lawford and June Lockhart as the grown-up counterparts of the characters played in the earlier film by Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor. When WW2 breaks out, young Yorkshireman Joe Carraclough (Lawford) signs ...
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On an Island with You
(1948)
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directed by
Richard Thorpe
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Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban, Jimmy Durante, Cyd Charisse
The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a movie star (what an innovation!), Rosalind Reynolds, who is on location in Hawaii to shoot a picture. Peter Lawford plays the film's naval technical advisor, Lt. Lawrence Y. Kingslee, who naturally falls deeply in love with ...
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It Happened in Brooklyn
(1947)
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directed by
Richard Whorf
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Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame
It Happened in Brooklyn was released at a time when the mere mention of the eponymous New York borough elicited loud laughter and extended applause. Frank Sinatra stars as ex-GI Danny Webson Miller, who makes a sentimental journey to the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. Danny moves in with an old pal, high school janitor Nick Lombardi ...
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It Should Happen to You
(1954)
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directed by
George Cukor
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Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon, Michael O'Shea, Vaughan Taylor
Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a world of good. She gets that publicity by renting a billboard in the middle of Manhattan, emblazoned with her name and photograph. As a result, Gladys is showered with endorsement by (Peter Lawford). He becomes enamored ...
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Dead Ringer
(1964)
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directed by
Paul Henreid
featuring
Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey, Jean Hagen
Though he's most famous for his portrayal of Victor Laszlo in 1942's Casablanca, actor Paul Henreid took a few turns behind the camera as evidenced by this 1964 thriller starring Bette Davis as twins Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips. After landing the beau they both sought after by falsely claiming she was pregnant, Margaret lives a life of ...
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The April Fools
(1969)
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directed by
Stuart Rosenberg
featuring
Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Myrna Loy
Virtually the first third of The April Fools takes place at a trendy party held by sharkish executive Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford). It is here that Howard Brubaker (Jack Lemmon), one of Gunther's employees, makes the acquaintance of the boss' lovely young trophy wife Catherine (Catherine Deneuve). It happens that Brubaker is unhappily wed to ...
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Body and Soul
(1981)
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directed by
George Bowers
featuring
Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Peter Lawford, Perry Lang
A medical student decides to enter the world of boxing and dives into a life of superficial values and corruption in this remake of the 1947 classic. Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
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Sergeants 3
(1962)
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directed by
John Sturges
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Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
The 1939 adventure classic Gunga Din is transferred from British India to the American West, courtesy of Frank Sinatra's "Clan." Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford play three cavalry officers, always ready for a brawl but willing to die for each other if need be. Sammy Davis Jr. a cavalry bugler who has aspirations of being a combat soldier. ...
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One More Time
(1970)
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directed by
Jerry Lewis
featuring
Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Esther Anderson, Maggie Wright, Leslie Sands
Rat-pack pals Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford reprise their roles of Charlie Salt and Chris Pepper, respectively, in this film that marks the directorial debut of comedian/writer Jerry Lewis. Lawford also plays Lord Sydney Pepper, the twin brother of Charlie who is a murder victim. Salt and Pepper investigate the crime in this uneven comedy ...
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Just This Once
(1952)
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directed by
Don Weis
featuring
Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone, Marilyn Erskine, Richard Anderson
Peter Lawford goes through his standard "rich, spoiled young playboy" paces in the MGM comedy Just This Once. In danger of squandering his entire fortune, the wastrelly Mark MacLene (Peter Lawford) is put on a strict allowance by an old family friend, Judge Samuel Coulter (Lewis Stone). To make certain that Mark stays within his weekly budget, ...
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Kangaroo
(1952)
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directed by
Lewis Milestone
featuring
Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford, Finlay Currie, Richard Boone, Chips Rafferty
Besotted by alcohol, Australian cattle-station owner Michael McGuire (Finlay Currie) is led to believe that crooked gambler Richard Connor (Peter Lawford) is his long-lost son. Connor and his partner-in-crime Gamble (Richard Boone) go along with the gag, convincing McGuire's daughter Dell (Maureen O'Hara) that they've arrived to help the old man ...
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The Red Danube
(1949)
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directed by
George Sidney
featuring
Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh
One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube. Janet Leigh plays Maria Buhlen, an Eastern Bloc ballerina who seeks political asylum in the British-occupied zone of Vienna. Maria's plight turns into a political tug-of-war involving a British colonel (Walter Pidgeon) and a ...
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