Jerome Cowan

Jerome Cowan

Birthday: 1897-10-03

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Jerome Palmer Cowan (October 6, 1897 – January 24, 1972) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

Movies

Pocketful of Miracles
Pocketful of Miracles

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...

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The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...

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Blondie Knows Best
Blondie Knows Best

Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while ...

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Blondie in the Dough
Blondie in the Dough

BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so...

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Blondie's Anniversary
Blondie's Anniversary

Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surpr...

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Blondie's Big Moment
Blondie's Big Moment

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in t...

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Blondie's Holiday
Blondie's Holiday

Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount...

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Blondie's Reward
Blondie's Reward

After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by...

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Blondie's Secret
Blondie's Secret

Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised t...

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Blondie Hits the Jackpot
Blondie Hits the Jackpot

Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a constructi...

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Blondie's Big Deal
Blondie's Big Deal

Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he ...

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Critic's Choice
Critic's Choice

Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be ver...

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Black Zoo
Black Zoo

Michael Conrad, owner of a group of strange animals, trains his beasts to obey him, unleashing them ...

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City for Conquest
City for Conquest

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug...

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Shall We Dance
Shall We Dance

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical sta...

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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite...

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The Gnome-Mobile
The Gnome-Mobile

An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes wh...

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Miracle on 34th Street
Miracle on 34th Street

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at M...

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Riff-Raff
Riff-Raff

A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while ...

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Castle on the Hudson
Castle on the Hudson

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....

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Out of the Fog
Out of the Fog

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen ...

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Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Night Has a Thousand Eyes

When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship wit...

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High Sierra
High Sierra

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort....

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Young Man with a Horn
Young Man with a Horn

Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jaz...

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Deadline at Dawn
Deadline at Dawn

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of m...

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Fog Island
Fog Island

Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of h...

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Have Rocket, Will Travel
Have Rocket, Will Travel

The Stooges are janitors working at a space center who accidentally blast off to Venus. They encount...

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Guest in the House
Guest in the House

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. T...

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Street of Chance
Street of Chance

In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling constr...

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Moontide
Moontide

After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man....

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Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth...

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Cry Wolf
Cry Wolf

A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family....

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Beloved Enemy
Beloved Enemy

In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks....

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Criminal Lawyer
Criminal Lawyer

A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case....

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The Old Maid
The Old Maid

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child....

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Scene of the Crime
Scene of the Crime

A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activ...

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The System
The System

A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of...

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Who Done It?
Who Done It?

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio stat...

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The Saint Strikes Back
The Saint Strikes Back

Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman wh...

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The Fat Man
The Fat Man

A innocent dentist is murdered and the only apparent motive seems to be to steal a set of dental x-r...

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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
The Gracie Allen Murder Case

Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to s...

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You Only Live Once
You Only Live Once

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a bre...

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The West Point Story
The West Point Story

A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assort...

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The Unfaithful
The Unfaithful

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defen...

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Find the Blackmailer
Find the Blackmailer

A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems tha...

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The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist....

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The Crime Doctor's Courage
The Crime Doctor's Courage

A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower....

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Torrid Zone
Torrid Zone

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl....

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The Hurricane
The Hurricane

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself a...

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The Fuller Brush Girl
The Fuller Brush Girl

A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation....

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Sing a Jingle
Sing a Jingle

In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant ...

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Dangerous Years
Dangerous Years

Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up...

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So This Is New York
So This Is New York

A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they...

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Always Leave Them Laughing
Always Leave Them Laughing

A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success....

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Driftwood
Driftwood

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely o...

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Joan of Ozark
Joan of Ozark

An uninhibited Arkansas farmgirl discovers a group of Nazis operating in the United States. Director...

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My Reputation
My Reputation

Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems...

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Murder in the Music Hall
Murder in the Music Hall

An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder....

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June Bride
June Bride

A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which g...

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Framed
Framed

A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder....

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The Kid from Brooklyn
The Kid from Brooklyn

Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who ...

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Deadline for Murder
Deadline for Murder

A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a mi...

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Vogues of 1938
Vogues of 1938

An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reis...

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Crime by Night
Crime by Night

A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy....

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Ladies' Day
Ladies' Day

A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie...

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Divorce
Divorce

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she pro...

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Night in Paradise
Night in Paradise

Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold....

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Wolf of New York
Wolf of New York

A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a pol...

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Wallflower
Wallflower

Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy....

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Penelope
Penelope

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay mu...

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Kisses for Breakfast
Kisses for Breakfast

A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife....

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Melody Ranch
Melody Ranch

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Ce...

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Private Property
Private Property

A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend....

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The Great Victor Herbert
The Great Victor Herbert

In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in ...

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She Married a Cop
She Married a Cop

This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation amo...

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Claudia and David
Claudia and David

The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles...

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Flight to Nowhere
Flight to Nowhere

A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets....

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Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Kiss the Boys Goodbye

New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Br...

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Hitchhike to Happiness
Hitchhike to Happiness

An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of g...

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Exile Express
Exile Express

When her scientist-employer is murdered, a female legal immigrant suddenly finds herself being depor...

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There's Always a Woman
There's Always a Woman

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, ...

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Silver Spurs
Silver Spurs

Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying...

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Singapore Woman
Singapore Woman

A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama....

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One Way to Love
One Way to Love

A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's fathe...

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Frisco Lil
Frisco Lil

Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her fat...

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The Jungle Captive
The Jungle Captive

Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured...

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Meet the Wildcat
Meet the Wildcat

Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod W...

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Frankie and Johnny
Frankie and Johnny

Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a fortune-teller tells Johnny h...

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New Faces of 1937
New Faces of 1937

A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple pa...

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Mr. Ace
Mr. Ace

A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election....

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The Song of Bernadette
The Song of Bernadette

In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Mas...

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East Side of Heaven
East Side of Heaven

A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbul...

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Affectionately Yours
Affectionately Yours

A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to ...

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Getting Gertie's Garter
Getting Gertie's Garter

Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exot...

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Rags to Riches
Rags to Riches

A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend....

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Victory
Victory

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats....

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One Exciting Week
One Exciting Week

The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, ...

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The Girl from Jones Beach
The Girl from Jones Beach

Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Rando...

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The Great Lie
The Great Lie

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his af...

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Blonde Ransom
Blonde Ransom

Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyf...

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Behind City Lights
Behind City Lights

This Republic programmer stars Lynne Roberts as a country gal who is slickered by a couple of city-f...

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A Gentleman at Heart
A Gentleman at Heart

After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decid...

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Street of Memories
Street of Memories

Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marr...

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The Quarterback
The Quarterback

A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin...

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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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Minstrel Man
Minstrel Man

Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents ...

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Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!

In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss M...

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Too Many Blondes
Too Many Blondes

The plot centers on a husband-wife radio team, Dick (Rudy Vallee) and Virginia (Helen Parrish). When...

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Hi'ya, Sailor
Hi'ya, Sailor

Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written...

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G.I. Honeymoon
G.I. Honeymoon

In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their ma...

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Thru Different Eyes
Thru Different Eyes

A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder ...

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St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the ski...

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When You're Smiling
When You're Smiling

When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The w...

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Peggy
Peggy

Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. T...

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The Roundup
The Roundup

A woman's believed-dead cowhand beau shows up on her wedding day to cause trouble....

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Breakdowns of 1944
Breakdowns of 1944

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944....

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Blow-Ups of 1946
Blow-Ups of 1946

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946....

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The Perfect Marriage
The Perfect Marriage

A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court....

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Dallas
Dallas

After the Civil War, Confederate soldier Blayde Hollister travels to Dallas to avenge the savage mur...

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The Bugle Sounds
The Bugle Sounds

An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post....

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Arthur Takes Over
Arthur Takes Over

A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now m...

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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by...

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Mission to Moscow
Mission to Moscow

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...

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South of Dixie
South of Dixie

To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-st...

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Disc Jockey
Disc Jockey

National DJs help a promoter make an unknown girl a star, to prove the power of radio over TV....

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The Girl from Alaska
The Girl from Alaska

A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but fall...

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The Comic
The Comic

An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his fune...

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The Goldwyn Follies
The Goldwyn Follies

Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from...

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Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey

Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennywo...

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Mr. and Mrs. North
Mr. and Mrs. North

Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects...

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Visit to a Small Planet
Visit to a Small Planet

The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien w...

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All in a Night's Work
All in a Night's Work

After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine a...

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One Foot in Heaven
One Foot in Heaven

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another....

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The Farmer's Daughter
The Farmer's Daughter

Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursi...

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Prima Donna
Prima Donna

A famous singer discovers a newsboy with vocal talent, but he would rather play baseball than develo...

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Around the World with Nellie Bly
Around the World with Nellie Bly

Made-for-TV musical inspired by the real-life travels of a celebrated 1800s female newspaper columni...

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