Tom Ewell
Birthday: 1909-04-29
Place of Birth: Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Biography: Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is noted for having Starred alongside two of Classic Hollywood's Iconic Bombshells, first reprising his stage role in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which he starred Opposite Marilyn Munroe in what is considered one of her most iconic roles and then the following year The Girl Can't Help it (1956) alongside Jayne Mansfield in her breakthrough role. Ewell had 70 credits in film and television.
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The Seven Year Itch
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bache...
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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Holl...
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Adam's Rib
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam...
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State Fair
Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on w...
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The Girl Can't Help It
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star withi...
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They Only Kill Their Masters
An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by th...
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Easy Money
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhea...
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fi...
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The Great American Pastime
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attra...
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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life w...
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Mr. Music
A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a...
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A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank...
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To Find a Man
A boarding-school girl asks the boy next door for help getting an abortion....
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir...
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A Life of Her Own
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modelin...
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby So...
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Up Front
Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "...
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Back at the Front
Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan....
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Terror at Alcatraz
Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, r...
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Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
Patsy Kelly is a baby sitter who has no end of problems dealing with the kids in her charge. When Ha...
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The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Spy spoof about a double agent involved in a phony death plot. Episode of the Wide World of Mystery....
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Tropic of Desire
A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with...
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They Knew What They Wanted
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his...
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Desert Bandit
Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney"...
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Promise Him Anything
A young bachelor using a dating service picks a woman whose information card read "Anything goes." W...
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Lost in Alaska
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mis...
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All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maver...
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The Return of Mod Squad
Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their ...
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Marilyn
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in...
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Tender Is the Night
1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to...
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The World of Abbott and Costello
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Na...
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Concerning a Woman of Sin
An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief fo...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...
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