George O'Hanlon

George O'Hanlon

Birthday: 1912-11-23

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

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Samuel O'Hanlon (November 23, 1912 – February 11, 1989) was an American actor, comedian, writer and director. He was best known for his role as Joe McDoakes in the Warner Bros.' live-action Joe McDoakes short subjects from 1942 to 1956 and as the voice of George Jetson in Hanna-Barbera's 1962 prime-time animated television series The Jetsons and its 1985 revival.

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Rocky
Rocky

Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate...

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The Movie Orgy
The Movie Orgy

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop...

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Park Row
Park Row

In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It i...

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Kronos
Kronos

Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscra...

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Hollywood Hotel
Hollywood Hotel

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola...

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Jetsons: The Movie
Jetsons: The Movie

George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge of a new f...

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The Spirit of West Point
The Spirit of West Point

The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Milit...

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Secrets of an Actress
Secrets of an Actress

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress....

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Women Are Like That
Women Are Like That

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries h...

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The Tanks Are Coming
The Tanks Are Coming

An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II....

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Two Tickets to London
Two Tickets to London

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find th...

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Zamba
Zamba

Jenny and her six-year-old son, Tommy, are flying over the Belgian Congo when they are forced to bai...

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The Vanishing Duck
The Vanishing Duck

George gives Joan a baby duck for her birthday. While they are out celebrating, Tom goes after the d...

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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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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Resisting Enemy Interrogation

A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germa...

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So You Want to Be a Detective
So You Want to Be a Detective

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars...

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Criminal Investigator
Criminal Investigator

A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging...

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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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Cattle Town
Cattle Town

The governor of Texas sends a cowboy to keep the peace between ranchers and a land baron....

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Heading for Heaven
Heading for Heaven

A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airp...

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So You Want to Be a Bachelor
So You Want to Be a Bachelor

"I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing...

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So You Want to Wear the Pants
So You Want to Wear the Pants

It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes...

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The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters

Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang....

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Man From Headquarters
Man From Headquarters

A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, s...

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Rockin' with Judy Jetson
Rockin' with Judy Jetson

There's intergalactic trouble when the lyrics Judy Jetson wrote for teen heartthrob Sky Rocker are s...

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The Hucksters
The Hucksters

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be...

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Spring Parade
Spring Parade

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card...

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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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So You Want an Apartment
So You Want an Apartment

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting....

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So You Want to Hold Your Wife
So You Want to Hold Your Wife

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes attempts to save his five-year marriage to Alice....

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So You Want to Keep Your Hair
So You Want to Keep Your Hair

Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hai...

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So You Want to Play the Horses
So You Want to Play the Horses

In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winni...

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So You're Going to Be a Father
So You're Going to Be a Father

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father...

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So You Want to Build a House
So You Want to Build a House

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home....

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So You Want to Give Up Smoking
So You Want to Give Up Smoking

A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the h...

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So You Want to Be a Gambler
So You Want to Be a Gambler

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling....

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So You Think You Need Glasses
So You Think You Need Glasses

A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems....

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Once Over Lightly
Once Over Lightly

A short compilation movie similar to When Comedy was King (1960), and The Golden Age of Comedy (1957...

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So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck

Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses....

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Room for One More
Room for One More

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innoce...

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Brother Rat
Brother Rat

Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married an...

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A Child Is Born
A Child Is Born

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward....

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Daughters Courageous
Daughters Courageous

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane,...

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Hell's Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrup...

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Swanee River
Swanee River

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls ...

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Dust Be My Destiny
Dust Be My Destiny

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a ...

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The Fighting 69th
The Fighting 69th

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the ...

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All by Myself
All by Myself

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, ...

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So Your Wife Wants to Work
So Your Wife Wants to Work

Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather sh...

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Charley and the Angel
Charley and the Angel

Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will b...

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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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Saturday's Children
Saturday's Children

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet....

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So You Think You're Allergic
So You Think You're Allergic

Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic....

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So You Want a Model Railroad
So You Want a Model Railroad

Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe. They had given Junior a toy railroad for a ...

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So You Want to Hold Your Husband
So You Want to Hold Your Husband

Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor...

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Your Safety First
Your Safety First

An animated film about the development of the automobile from the perspective of futuristic consumer...

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The Lion and the Horse
The Lion and the Horse

After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared....

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So You're Going on a Vacation
So You're Going on a Vacation

Joe takes his wife on a much-needed vacation, and almost survives....

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Are You With It?
Are You With It?

Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insura...

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Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of ...

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So You're Having In-Law Trouble
So You're Having In-Law Trouble

Joe's in-laws come over, and they suck....

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So You Want to Get Rich Quick
So You Want to Get Rich Quick

Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance....

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The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones

Elroy Jetson invents a time machine that takes him back to prehistoric times, where he meets the Fli...

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New Wine
New Wine

The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schun...

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So You Want to Be on the Radio
So You Want to Be on the Radio

Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfe...

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So You're Going to Have an Operation
So You're Going to Have an Operation

A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes....

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The Death Kiss
The Death Kiss

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to ...

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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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So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger
So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger

Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife....

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So You Want to Be a Plumber
So You Want to Be a Plumber

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber....

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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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So You're Having Neighbor Trouble
So You're Having Neighbor Trouble

Joe starts having trouble with an obnoxious neighbor....

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So You Think You Can't Sleep
So You Think You Can't Sleep

Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia....

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So You Think the Grass Is Greener
So You Think the Grass Is Greener

When he gets to his office after a usual morning of nagging by his wife, Alice, Joe McDoakes starts ...

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So You Want to Go to a Convention
So You Want to Go to a Convention

Joe has to find a way to go to a convention....

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So You Never Tell a Lie
So You Never Tell a Lie

When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe M...

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So You Want to Be an Heir
So You Want to Be an Heir

Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the...

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So You Want to Be a Handyman
So You Want to Be a Handyman

Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, bu...

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So You Want to Be a V.P.
So You Want to Be a V.P.

Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the...

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So You Want to Be a Policeman
So You Want to Be a Policeman

Joe McDoakes is a shy, rookie motorcycle cop....

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So You Want to Be a Musician
So You Want to Be a Musician

Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument....

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So You Want a Raise
So You Want a Raise

Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run t...

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So You Want a Television Set
So You Want a Television Set

Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop ...

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So You Love Your Dog
So You Love Your Dog

Despite the fact that during the war, Joe McDoake's dog Dusty did everything wrong including giving ...

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So You Want to Be Pretty
So You Want to Be Pretty

In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better....

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So You Want to Get It Wholesale
So You Want to Get It Wholesale

Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible....

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So You Want to Enjoy Life
So You Want to Enjoy Life

Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest ...

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So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restau...

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So You're Taking in a Roomer
So You're Taking in a Roomer

Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato...

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So You Want to Go to a Nightclub
So You Want to Go to a Nightclub

In this Joe McDoakes Comedy, Alice insists they go to a night club, although Joe is both tired and b...

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So You Don't Trust Your Wife
So You Don't Trust Your Wife

When his wife Alice questions Joe as to whether his insurance policy is paid up, he begins to see a ...

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So You're Going to the Dentist
So You're Going to the Dentist

Joe McDoakes' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him ...

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So You Want to Be a Cowboy
So You Want to Be a Cowboy

Joe McDoakes and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie show...

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So You Want to Be a Banker
So You Want to Be a Banker

Joe McDoakes graduates from Potash University and gets a job in a bank run by Harrington Arrington F...

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So You Want to Know Your Relatives
So You Want to Know Your Relatives

Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many...

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So You Want to Learn to Dance
So You Want to Learn to Dance

Joe McDoakes is invited by his boss to a swanky dance. Joe admits he can't dance and the boss gives ...

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So You Want to Be on a Jury
So You Want to Be on a Jury

Joe and Homer are both on a jury trying an accident case involving their boss and a gangster. Interf...

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So You Want to Throw a Party
So You Want to Throw a Party

Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with...

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So You Want to Be a Gladiator
So You Want to Be a Gladiator

Joe thinks he's back in the gladiator days, and finds himself sentenced to be thrown to the Coliseum...

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So You Want to Play the Piano
So You Want to Play the Piano

Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Fla...

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So You Want to Be Popular
So You Want to Be Popular

Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox...

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So You Want to Be a Salesman
So You Want to Be a Salesman

Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any....

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Action in the North Atlantic
Action in the North Atlantic

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged wi...

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The Million Dollar Duck
The Million Dollar Duck

Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds...

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Reconnaissance Pilot
Reconnaissance Pilot

Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World...

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Corvette K-225
Corvette K-225

The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....

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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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Battle Stations
Battle Stations

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet....

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Sailor's Lady
Sailor's Lady

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose...

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Bop Girl Goes Calypso
Bop Girl Goes Calypso

Bop Girl Goes Calypso is a 1957 American United Artists film directed by Howard W. Koch and starring...

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Hollywood Wonderland
Hollywood Wonderland

Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios....

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Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big ...

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Nearly Eighteen
Nearly Eighteen

A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school....

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So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter
So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter

Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter....

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So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man

Joe wants to be a muscle man....

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So You Want to Be in Politics
So You Want to Be in Politics

Joe McDoakes becomes enmeshed in a corrupt political election....

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The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton
The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton

A 13-year-old brainiac invents an ingenious listening device, which he uses to bring a crooked city ...

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