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The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story (1946) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath

Though legendary entertainer Al Jolson was a highly visible presence on the U.S.O. circuit during World War II, he was generally regarded as a relic of an earlier time until his movie comeback in 1945's Rhapsody in Blue. Showing up 30 minutes into this biopic of George Gershwin, Jolson literally stopped the show with his robust rendition of ...

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The Fabulous Dorseys

The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Sara Allgood, William Bakewell, Charlie Barnet, Janet Blair

Based on the lives of big-band stars Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, this biographical chronicle begins with their childhood in an industrial Pennsylvania town. Encouraged in their musical talents by their father, the Dorsey brothers' sibling rivalry proves to be a stumbling block until the their father's death gives them the momentum they need to rise to ...

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The Jackie Robinson Story

The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, Louise Beavers, Richard Lane

Despite its lack of production values and box-office "names," The Jackie Robinson Story is one of the best and most convincing baseball biopics ever filmed. Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman Jackie Robinson plays himself, and quite well indeed. The film traces Robinson's career from his college days, when he excelled as a track star at Pasadena ...

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Copacabana

Copacabana (1947) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Groucho Marx, Carmen Miranda, Andy Russell, Steve Cochran, Gloria Jean, Ralph Sanford

Groucho Marx made his first solo film appearance away from his brothers in the musical comedy Copacabana. Groucho plays two-bit theatrical agent Lionel Q. Devereaux, whose favorite client--indeed, his only client--is fireball Brazilian entertainer Carmen Novarro (Carmen Miranda). Hoping for a double commission, Devereaux gets Carmen two different ...

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Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Warrick, Ted Donaldson, Bob Haymes, Richard Lane

The year is 1942: Mr. Winkle (Edward G. Robinson), a mild-mannered bank clerk, decides to quit his job and open a fix-it shop in his garage. Winkle's wife Amy (Ruth Warrick) disapproves of this, and orders her husband to move into his little shop. Tired of being browbeaten, Winkle is delighted when his draft notice shows up. Fitted for a uniform, ...

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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Sophie Tucker, C. Aubrey Smith, Ronald Sinclair

Young Roger Calverton (Ronald Sinclair) and his uncle Sir Peter Calverton (Sir C. Aubrey Smith) bring their prize race-horse The Pookah to America, hoping to win a major purse and save their impoverished family estate. They cross paths with Tim Donahue (Mickey Rooney), one of the top young jockeys in the business, and also with Cricket West (Judy ...

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Baby Face

Baby Face (1933) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Arthur Hohl, John Wayne

Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood. Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) works as a barmaid in her father's factory-town saloon where she learns to deal with the unwanted advances of male customers. When her father dies, she moves to New York City with her maid, ...

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Four Faces West

Four Faces West (1948) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford, Joseph Calleia, William Conrad

When the family land is threatened with foreclosure, honest, hard-working rancher Ross McEwen (Joel McCrea) resorts to bank robbery in order to come up with the necessary cash. Although he leaves the bank an I.O.U., Sheriff Pat Garrett (Charles Bickford) is sent out to catch the criminal as he flees to escape capture. This western was originally ...

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Invasion USA

Invasion USA (1952) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Bice, Tom Kennedy

A handful of strangers are suddenly thrown together as America goes face-to-face against the Communist threat in this curious example of Cold War exploitation. A few people are enjoying drinks in a Manhattan cocktail lounge - television reporter Vince Potter (Gerald Mohr), vacationing tractor tycoon George Sylvester (Robert Bice), cattle baron Ed ...

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Shooting High

Shooting High (1940) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Jane Withers, Gene Autry, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery, Kay Aldridge

Singing cowboy Gene Autry makes a rare appearance outside his usual Republic Pictures stamping grounds in 20th Century-Fox's Shooting High. Instead of playing "himself" as he usually does, Autry is cast as Will Carson, whose family is engaged in a decades-long feud with the Pritchard clan. The story shifts into gear when a movie company arrives in ...

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Smart Money

Smart Money (1931) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Edward G. Robinson, Evelyn Knapp, James Cagney, Ralf Harolde, Boris Karloff

Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney were teamed for the only time in their careers in Smart Money. Robinson has the larger part as a small-town barber who fancies himself a big-time gambler. He travels to the Big City in the company of his younger brother Cagney, who wants to make sure that Robinson isn't fleeced by the high-rollers. Unfortunately ...

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A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights (1945) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens, Dusty Anderson

Thousand and One Nights is an occasionally strident but generally successful satire of the popular Universal Jon Hall/Maria Montez epics. Cornel Wilde stars as a twentyish Aladdin, whose magic lamp yields two genies: Collosus-like Rex Ingram (repeated the role he played in 1940's Thief of Baghdad) and ravishing redhead Evelyn Keyes (who, like ...

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford
featuring Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Colin Kenny, Joseph J. Dowling, Kate Price, James Marcus

Mary Pickford was at the height of her fame as "America's Sweetheart" when she took on the challenge of playing two roles -- a mother and her young son -- in this silent drama with comic accents. Cedric Fauntleroy (Pickford) is growing up under difficult circumstances in New York City; his father was the son of the Earl of Dorincourt (Claude ...

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Through the Back Door (1921) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford
featuring Mary Pickford, Gertrude Astor, Wilfred Lucas, Adolphe Menjou

For her fourth United Artists picture, Mary Pickford once again plays a poor little rich girl. This one, Jeanne, is so neglected that when her mother, Hortense (Gertrude Astor), remarries, she is pawned off on her Belgian nurse. Five years later, when Hortense returns to fetch Jeanne, the nurse has decided to keep her and claims she has died. But ...

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South of Pago Pago (1940) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna, Gene Lockhart

Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island chieftan, young Kehane (Hall) defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson (Victor McLaglen) to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our hero by introducing him to seductive Ruby (Frances ...

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Ella Cinders (1926) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis, Doria Baker, Emily Gerdes

Silent film star Colleen Moore and Charlie Plumb's comic strip character Ella Cinders had two basic things in common: their dutch-bob haircuts and their winsome, wide-eyed charm. As played by Ms. Moore, Ella is a moviestruck small-town girl who wins a talent contest purportedly sponsored by a film studio. First prize is a trip to Hollywood and a ...

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Dangerous (1935) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge

Not even considered a good film back in 1935, Dangerous is held together by the mesmerizing performance of Bette Davis. The star is cast as alcoholic, self-destructive stage actress Joyce Heath, a character obviously based on Jeanne Eagels. Wealthy architect Don Bellows (Franchot Tone) becomes convinced that Joyce can be rehabilitated with the ...

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The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew, Kent Taylor, Jed Prouty

A longtime fan of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen, "Philo Vance" creator S. S. Van Dyne wrote a tailor-made screenplay for the team, which emerged on-screen as The Gracie Allen Murder Case. The Paramount studio executives decided to dispense with the services of George Burns, leaving scatterbrained Gracie on her own to match wits (?) with ...

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The Girl from Manhattan (1948) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Charles Laughton, Ernest Truex, Hugh Herbert

The Girl From Manhattan is a minor but watchable variation on the old "mortgage-on-the-farm" plot device. The girl of the title is Carol Maynard (Dorothy Lamour), who after several years in the Big Apple returns to her home town, where her uncle, boarding-house manager Homer Purdy (Ernest Truex) faces eviction. The villain of the piece at first ...

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Top Banana (1954) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Phil Silvers, Danny Scholl, Judy Lynn, Jack Albertson

Shot on location in New York City's Winter Garden Theatre, this is essentially a filmed performance of Phil Silver's hit Broadway show in which he plays a moody and egotistical television comic (allegedly patterned after Milton Berle). Trouble begins when the ratings for Jerry Biffle's (Silvers) television show begin to sag. The producer spice up ...

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Sierra (1950) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Audie Murphy, Wanda Hendrix, Dean Jagger, Burl Ives, Richard Rober, Sara Allgood

Audie Murphy and Wanda Hendrix were husband and wife when they co-starred in the Technicolor western Sierra. Murphy plays Ring Hassard, the son of outlaw Jeff Hassard (Dean Jagger), who despite his dad's reputation is basically a good kid. Hendrix portrays Riley Martin, a lady lawyer who hopes to clear Ring's name -- and, eventually, to march him ...

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