Ralph Sanford

Ralph Sanford

Birthday: 1899-05-20

Place of Birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ralph Sanford (May 21, 1899 – June 20, 1963) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 200 films between 1930 and 1960, mostly bit parts or supporting roles. Sanford frequently appeared in Westerns and often portrayed "tough guys". He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died in Los Angeles, California.

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Grounds for Murder
Grounds for Murder

A husband becomes infuriated when his wife and household staff abandon him as a result of their fixa...

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Rogue River
Rogue River

The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windf...

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Count the Hours!
Count the Hours!

A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial....

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Who's a Dummy?
Who's a Dummy?

Mrs. Errol, rehearsing for a play but keeping it a secret from Leon, forces him to take a taxi, as s...

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Union Station
Union Station

Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station....

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They Made Me a Killer
They Made Me a Killer

A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder ...

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Rancho Notorious
Rancho Notorious

A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, A...

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Danger Zone
Danger Zone

A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party....

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Missing Women
Missing Women

A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoo...

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Submarine Alert
Submarine Alert

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an ...

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Sioux City Sue
Sioux City Sue

A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled....

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So You Want to Move
So You Want to Move

Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how....

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Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka

A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to...

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In the Dough
In the Dough

A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and c...

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Wilson
Wilson

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post ...

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Minesweeper
Minesweeper

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II b...

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River of No Return
River of No Return

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged hu...

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Hi-Jacked
Hi-Jacked

A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involveme...

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Men of the Timberland
Men of the Timberland

Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of...

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Cattle Queen of Montana
Cattle Queen of Montana

Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers....

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Springfield Rifle
Springfield Rifle

Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go ...

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Rhythm Inn
Rhythm Inn

A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an a...

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No Hands on the Clock
No Hands on the Clock

A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case....

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Quiet, Please
Quiet, Please

A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production....

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Kissing Time
Kissing Time

An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutena...

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It's a Joke, Son!
It's a Joke, Son!

Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a ...

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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Adventures of Kitty O'Day

A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police....

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What Price Pants
What Price Pants

The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal s...

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Fort Defiance
Fort Defiance

It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill...

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The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...

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Undercover Agent
Undercover Agent

A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring....

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Sea Racketeers
Sea Racketeers

J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling...

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I Live on Danger
I Live on Danger

A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss....

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Wildcat
Wildcat

Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person wh...

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The Patient in Room 18
The Patient in Room 18

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warn...

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Kentucky Jubilee
Kentucky Jubilee

A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he...

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Aerial Gunner
Aerial Gunner

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman....

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A Night for Crime
A Night for Crime

A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fas...

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Smashing the Money Ring
Smashing the Money Ring

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in ...

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Alaska Highway
Alaska Highway

Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway...

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Girls on Probation
Girls on Probation

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart....

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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from...

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Dodge City
Dodge City

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a r...

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Kid Nightingale
Kid Nightingale

A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees t...

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High Powered
High Powered

Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in wh...

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Carolina Moon
Carolina Moon

A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a...

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That Brennan Girl
That Brennan Girl

Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hus...

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In the Good Old Summertime
In the Good Old Summertime

Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an...

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The Big Country
The Big Country

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud ...

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Linda, Be Good
Linda, Be Good

A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business....

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I Was a Burlesque Queen
I Was a Burlesque Queen

1947 film "Linda, Be Good" with added 3-D scenes with chorus girls....

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Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll....

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French Leave
French Leave

Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles...

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There Goes Kelly
There Goes Kelly

Musical turned murder mystery set at a radio station....

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While the Cat's Away
While the Cat's Away

Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home....

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Gaucho Serenade
Gaucho Serenade

Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in...

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Torpedo Alley
Torpedo Alley

After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for subm...

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Copacabana
Copacabana

A talent agent sells his girlfriend to a nightclub – as two separate acts. The deception and constan...

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Friendly Persuasion
Friendly Persuasion

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...

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Dance, Girl, Dance
Dance, Girl, Dance

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash man...

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East of the River
East of the River

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing co...

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They Drive by Night
They Drive by Night

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b...

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The Heiress
The Heiress

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end...

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Cross-Country Romance
Cross-Country Romance

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco....

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Stranger on the Third Floor
Stranger on the Third Floor

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has s...

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Champion
Champion

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who help...

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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of h...

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Let's Make It Legal
Let's Make It Legal

A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much....

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The Damned Don't Cry
The Damned Don't Cry

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

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Never Say Goodbye
Never Say Goodbye

Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very un...

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Web of Danger
Web of Danger

Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew work...

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Lucky Legs
Lucky Legs

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Pro...

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Up In Smoke
Up In Smoke

In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to...

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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder....

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My Pal Trigger
My Pal Trigger

Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's hors...

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Four Mothers
Four Mothers

Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together....

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Down in San Diego
Down in San Diego

A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego,...

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Come on Danger
Come on Danger

When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder....

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Beginning of the End
Beginning of the End

An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a ...

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Mystery of the Riverboat
Mystery of the Riverboat

A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ...

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The Forty-Niners
The Forty-Niners

1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a...

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Shotgun
Shotgun

Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory'...

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The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail

In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He h...

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Blonde Inspiration
Blonde Inspiration

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for....

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Lost in a Harem
Lost in a Harem

Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic unc...

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Obliging Young Lady
Obliging Young Lady

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor...

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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various way...

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Tear Gas Squad
Tear Gas Squad

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman....

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Take It or Leave It
Take It or Leave It

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant...

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Salt Water Daffy
Salt Water Daffy

In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor....

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Footsteps in the Night
Footsteps in the Night

Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like....

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So You Think You're Not Guilty
So You Think You're Not Guilty

Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setba...

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Appointment with Danger
Appointment with Danger

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to ar...

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Blondes at Work
Blondes at Work

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself a...

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No Place for a Lady
No Place for a Lady

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, ...

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Father's Wild Game
Father's Wild Game

The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for...

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Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot....

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If I Were King
If I Were King

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his ...

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So You Want to Be in Pictures
So You Want to Be in Pictures

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand...

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High Explosive
High Explosive

Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell...

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Sea Tiger
Sea Tiger

Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold ing...

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Two Sisters from Boston
Two Sisters from Boston

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New...

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Rhubarb
Rhubarb

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The...

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Blondie Goes Latin
Blondie Goes Latin

Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the femal...

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The Policy Girl
The Policy Girl

An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrit...

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Torpedo Boat
Torpedo Boat

Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a light...

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Maisie Goes to Reno
Maisie Goes to Reno

A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife....

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Meet the Stewarts
Meet the Stewarts

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget....

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The Radio Murder Mystery
The Radio Murder Mystery

This short, introduced and closed by Louis Sobol, features Richard Gordon as ‘Sherlock Holmes of the...

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Let's Live Again
Let's Live Again

The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to pr...

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So You Want to Be an Actor
So You Want to Be an Actor

Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees a...

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Easter Parade
Easter Parade

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affec...

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Give Me a Sailor
Give Me a Sailor

Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they g...

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Nearly Naked
Nearly Naked

Eddie is forced to join a nudist cult to win over the girl he loves, Vera Marshe. When Vera is near,...

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Melody for Three
Melody for Three

Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music t...

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The Turning Point
The Turning Point

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop fath...

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