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The Hucksters (1947)

A World War II veteran (Clark Gable) rejoins Madison Avenue and plays dirty for a ruthless soap...

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Meet the Navy

Virtually plotless, the British Meet the Navy is not so much a film as a musical revue. Which is as...

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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)

A tipsy comedian (W.C. Fields) has an idea for a movie, in which he falls out of a plane into a...

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Sumurun (1921)

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a...

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Stage Door Canteen

A canteen hostess (Cheryl Walker) and a GI (William Terry) fall in love, as do their friends, amid...

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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

A vaudevillian (Fred Astaire) and his bride (Ginger Rogers) go to Paris and set trends as famous...

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One Good Turn

In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving...

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The Tramps

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Always Leave Them Laughing

A small-time comic (Milton Berle) switches to original material, becomes a hit and gets his own TV...

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The Beautiful Liar

Katherine MacDonald essayed a dual role in the silent romantic romantic comedy Beautiful Liar. It...

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Can You Hear Me Mother?

This comedy features radio-artist and music hall comedian Powell who plays a tough Yorkshireman who...

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Eadie Was a Lady (1945)

New chorus member Eadie Allen (Ann Miller) is the only thing that's good or lively or fresh in a...

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Frontier Marshal (1939)

Wyatt Earp (Randolph Scott) brings order to lawless Tombstone and meets Doc Holliday's (Cesar...

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Gay Love

The plotline of the Audrey and Waveney Carlton play Gay Love was so well known in 1934 that Variety...

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Heavenly Days

Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber...

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Hoots Mon!

In this comedy, the funniest comic in England is dared by "Scotland's Bluebelle," a popular male...

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Let the People Sing

Let the People Sing is an offshoot of J. B. Priestly's earlier show business-based fable The Good...

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London Town

London Town was painstakingly planned as a huge box-office smash--even unto hiring several Hollywood...

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The Loudspeaker

Perhaps the best of Monogram's breezy Ray Walker vehicles, The Loudspeaker casts Walker as Joe...

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Love Thy Neighbor (1940)

Bickering next-door neighbors (John Ritter, Penny Marshall) become suburban lovers after their...

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Maisie Gets Her Man

A stranded chorus-girl (Ann Sothern) helps a would-be comic (Red Skelton) framed by a swindler.

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Man About Town (1939)

Jack Benny goes to London in this frothy musical. He plays a Broadway producer and while in London...

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My Favorite Spy (1951)

A burlesque comic (Bob Hope) doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend (Hedy...

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Never a Dull Moment (1968)

In their last starring film, The Ritz Brothers play the Three Funny Bunnies, a trio of nightclub...

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Once Upon a Time

The British Once Upon a Time demonstrates in humorous fashion that arranged marriages are not solely...

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The Outcast

Two bilked British comics (Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon) become dog-track bookies and back their own...

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Poppy (1936)

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff...

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Pretty Ladies (1925)

This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela...

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See My Lawyer

Bearing little relation to the hit Broadway play on which it was based, See My Lawyer was the last...

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The Show Goes On

The rise of British entertainer Graci Fields from humble mill girl to the most popular and highest...