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The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees (1944) more movies like this

directed by Edward Ludwig, Howard Lydecker
featuring John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey

The Fighting Seabees is Republic Pictures' rip-roaring tribute to the US Navy's Construction Batallions (C.B.), without whom no plane would ever have gotten off the ground during WW2. John Wayne stars as Wedge Donovan, head of civilian construction company stationed in a pre-Pearl Harbor South Pacific war area. Despite Donovan's pleas to the Navy ...

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I Love Lucy: Season 01

I Love Lucy: Season 01 (1951) more movies like this

By the time the first 35 episodes of I Love Lucy had been shown on CBS' Monday night lineup, virtually everybody in America loved zany redhead Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball), her Cuban bandleader husband Ricky (Desi Arnaz) and their landlords and best friends, Fred and Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance, William Frawley). The series admirably set up most of ...

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I Love Lucy: Season 02

I Love Lucy: Season 02 (1952) more movies like this

America's third most popular TV show during its first season, I Love Lucy skyrocketed to number one during Season Two -- no small thanks to the fact that the real-life pregnancy of Lucille Ball was brilliantly written into the script (though such was TV censorship at the time that the would "pregnant" could never be spoken). On January 19, 1953, ...

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The Princess Comes Across

The Princess Comes Across (1936) more movies like this

directed by William Howard
featuring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglas Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth, William Frawley

The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the silent-movie era, in which a crafty San Francisco stenographer hoodwinked the Hollywood elite into believing that she was a Spanish princess. Carole Lombard stars as an alluring Swedish beauty who travels under the name of Princess ...

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Mad About Music

Mad About Music (1938) more movies like this

directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Arthur Treacher, Gail Patrick, William Frawley

In this musical comedy, a girl with a lively imagination gets in hot water when she tries to make her tall tales real. Gloria Harkinson (Deanna Durbin) is the teenage daughter of Gwen Taylor (Gail Patrick), a well-known Hollywood actress who has shipped Gloria off to a boarding school in Switzerland to keep the girl out of the public eye, partly ...

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Desire

Desire (1936) more movies like this

directed by Frank Borzage
featuring Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Ernest Cossart

In this frothy romantic adventure, Marlene Dietrich plays Madeleine de Beaupre, a devious jewel thief. After sneaking a valuable string of pearls away from jeweler Aristide Duval (Ernest Cossart), Madeleine attempts to flee Paris, leaving a trail that will instead implicate psychiatrist Dr. Pauquet (Alan Mowbray). While headed for the Spanish ...

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The Babe Ruth Story

The Babe Ruth Story (1948) more movies like this

directed by Roy Del Ruth
featuring William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene, William Frawley

The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics, The Babe Ruth Story is definitely in the "So Bad It's Good" category. An outrageously miscast William Bendix stars as George Herman "Babe" Ruth, who as depicted herein is a childish, misunderstood oaf who happens to be one of the greatest ballplayers of all time. With an almost perverse disregard ...

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Down to Earth

Down to Earth (1947) more movies like this

directed by Alexander Hall
featuring James Burke, Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, Jean Donahue, Roland Culver, James Gleason, William Frawley, Edward Everett Horton, Marc Platt

A semi-sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia's Down to Earth is a camp- and kitsch-lover's delight. More beautiful than ever, Rita Hayworth stars as Terpsichore, the Goddess of Dance. From her perch Up Above, Terpsichore discovers that Broadway producer Danny Miller (Larry Parks) intends to put together a musical satire, lampooning herself and ...

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Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Kane
featuring John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, Virginia Grey

John Wayne is not the title character of Flame of the Barbary Coast: that honor goes to second-billed Ann Dvorak. Wayne plays a Montana cattleman who is lured into a San Francisco gambling joint by dance-hall girl Dvorak. Though Ann at first brings Wayne luck, he ends up losing his shirt to cardshark Joseph Schildkraut. Chastened by the experience ...

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Public Enemies (1941) more movies like this

directed by Albert Rogell
featuring Phillip Terry, Wendy Barrie, Edgar Kennedy, William Frawley, Marc Lawrence

In this drama an eager-beaver reporter loses his job when he prints a false story about a society girl. The unemployed reporter, anxious to redeem himself, then gets involves in a gangster backed smuggling operation. Meanwhile the wronged socialite falls in love with him. Unfortunately, he will not marry her because she is to wealthy. But when the ...

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Something to Sing About

Something to Sing About (1936) more movies like this

directed by Victor Schertzinger
featuring James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart

Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a New York bandleader who heads to Hollywood when he is offered a movie contract. The down-to-Earth Rooney resists the "star treatment," an attitude misinterpreted by movie executive Bennett O. Regan (Gene Lockhart) as ...

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Strike Me Pink (1936) more movies like this

directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Sally Eilers, William Frawley, Brian Donlevy

Musical comedy star Eddie Cantor stars in this story, well suited to his talents, as Eddie Pink, a meek gentleman who works as a tailor and has a terrible crush on Joyce (Ethel Merman), a nightclub singer. Eddie buys a book (through the mail, of course) called Man or Mouse: What Are You?. Taking its advice, he tries to become more confident and ...

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Rose of Washington Square (1939) more movies like this

directed by Gregory Ratoff
featuring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley, Joyce Compton

This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of character, a case which was settled out of court. Alice Faye plays Rose Sargent, a New York singer of the 1920s who falls for handsome, cocky wheeler-dealer Bart Clinton (Tyrone Power in a role patterned on Brice's troubled real ...

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Safe at Home (1962) more movies like this

directed by Walter Doniger
featuring Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, William Frawley, Patricia Barry, Don Collier, Ralph Houk, Whitey Ford

Released in April of 1962 to take advantage of the new baseball season and the enthusiasm surrounding some of its better-known players, this sports-oriented children's story by Walter Doniger centers around some ill-advised bragging by a young Little Leaguer. Hutch Lawton (Brian Russell) has just told his friends that he and his Dad are good ...

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Rhubarb (1951) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, Gene Lockhart, William Frawley, Elsie Holmes

Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J. Banner (Gene Lockhart), multimillionaire owner of the Brooklyn baseball team, passes away, he wills the team -- and his $30 million estate -- to his pugnacious pet cat Rhubarb. Banner's press agent Eric Yeagar (Ray Milland) ...

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The Inner Circle (1946) more movies like this

directed by Philip Ford
featuring Adele Mara, Warren Douglas, William Frawley, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Christine

In this mystery, a private detective is falsely accused of murder by his secretary who wants to protect her little sister who has been formally charged with the crime. The detective must solve the crime before it is too late. To do so, he gathers all the suspects at a radio student and reenacts the crime. The killer is revealed. Sandra Brennan, ...

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Harmony Lane (1935) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Santley
featuring Douglass Montgomery, Evelyn Venable, Adrienne Ames, Joseph Cawthorn, William Frawley

Produced on a reasonably lavish scale by the usually parsimonious Mascot Pictures, Harmony Lane was the first of three filmed biographies of 19th-century songwriter Stephen Foster (the others were Fox's Swanee River [1939] and 1952's I Dream of Jeannie, produced by Mascot's successor, Republic Pictures). Douglass Montgomery stars as Foster, with ...

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Wildcat (1942) more movies like this

directed by Frank McDonald
featuring Richard Arlen, Arline Judge, William Frawley, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Arthur Hunnicutt

One of the most frequently revived of the Pine-Thomas productions of the 1940s, Wildcat is set amongst the oil fields of Oklahoma. With the help of his pal Chicopee Nevins (Elisha Cook Jr.), foresighted oil speculator Johnny Maverick (Richard Arlen) buys up a great deal of property in hopes of coming up with a gusher. Maverick's business practices ...

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I Love Lucy: Season 03 (1953) more movies like this

Though it was hard to top the "pregnancy" throughline that permeated the second season of I Love Lucy, the series maintained its ranking as America's favorite TV program throughout its third year on the air. Back for more fun and laughter were Lucille Ball as wacky housewife Lucy Ricardo, Desi Arnaz as her long-suffering Cuban bandleader husband ...

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I Love Lucy: Season 04 (1954) more movies like this

Even though I Love Lucy was still America's top-rated series as it entered its fourth season, the producers -- including Desi Arnaz, who also starred as Cuban bandleader Ricky Ricardo -- decided it was time to freshen up the format a bit with a change of scenery. Thus, Ricky, his zany wife Lucy (Lucille Ball) and their friends Ethel and Fred Mertz ...

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I Love Lucy: Season 05 (1955) more movies like this

I Love Lucy boasted a new sponsor (General Foods, taking over from Philip Morris Cigarettes), a new director, and new addition to its writing staff for its fifth season on the air. Otherwise, it's the same old zany redhead Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) making life hilariously chaotic for her Cuban bandleader husband, Ricky (Desi Arnaz), and the ...

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