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    Movies

    Call of the Jungle

    A woman (Ann Corio) helps a one-man police force (James Bush) track jewel thieves on a South Seas...

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    People

    Slim Pickens

    Favorite Hollywood cowboy of the 1950s through the 70s; perhaps best known as the B-52 pilot who, at...

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    People

    Rouben Mamoulian

    With the possible exception of Stanley Kubrick, no director who worked in the Hollywood studio...

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    Movies

    Desperate Living (1977)

    A rich housewife enlists her maid's help to murder her husband; they go on the lam and end up in...

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    Movies

    Follies Girl

    Though Wendy Barrie never quite achieved stardom in A pictures, she could always count on top...

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    Movies

    Dangerous Number

    The Dangerous Number of the title is madcap showgirl Elinor (Ann Sothern). Notorious throughout...

  • A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen picture
    Movies

    A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen

    This entry in the detective series follows Queen as he investigates the case of a woman's missing...

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    Movies

    Sarong Girl

    Moving slightly up the poverty-row ladder from PRC to Monogram, Burlesque queen Ann Corio starred in...

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    TV

    Carol Leifer: Gaudy, Bawdy & Blue (1992)

    The comedian portrays a '50s burlesque comic.