Robert Cummings
Birthday: 1910-06-09
Place of Birth: Joplin, Missouri, USA
Biography: Effective light comedian of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV series, Robert Cummings was renowned for his eternally youthful looks (which he attributed to a strict vitamin and health-food diet). He was educated at Carnegie Tech and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Deciding that Broadway producers would be more interested in an upper-crust Englishman than a kid from Joplin, Missouri, Cummings passed himself off as Blade Stanhope Conway, British actor. The ploy was successful. Cummings decided that if it worked on Broadway, it would work in Hollywood, so he journeyed west and assumed the identity of a rich Texan named Bruce Hutchens. The plan worked once more, and he began securing small parts in films. He soon reverted to his real name and became a popular leading man in light comedies, usually playing well-meaning, pleasant but somewhat bumbling young men. He achieved much more success, however, in his own television series in the '50s, The Bob Cummings Show (1955) and My Living Doll (1964). Cummings was born June 10, 1910, in Joplin, Missouri, and he died of kidney failure December 2, 1990, in Woodland Hills, California. He is interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Sanctity.
Movies
Dial M for Murder
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder he...
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Sophie Lang Goes West
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a...
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Three on a Date
The adventures and mishaps of four couples, winners on a TV game show, along with their young chaper...
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What a Way to Go!
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich ...
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Saboteur
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of sta...
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Princess O'Rourke
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States....
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It Started with Eve
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last mo...
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Beach Party
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits ...
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Lucky Me
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy ...
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Reign of Terror
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacob...
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Rio
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he i...
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Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud betw...
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The Chase
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's f...
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One Night in the Tropics
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'lov...
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The Accused
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense....
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The Carpetbaggers
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around...
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My Geisha
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, L...
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Souls at Sea
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave tra...
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Moon Over Miami
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a...
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The Devil and Miss Jones
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. O...
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until ...
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Paid in Full
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have ...
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Stagecoach
A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They i...
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The Lost Moment
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19...
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Kings Row
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin the...
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Sleep, My Love
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got the...
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Five Golden Dragons
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal n...
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Promise Her Anything
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll b...
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Heaven Only Knows
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-...
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For Heaven's Sake
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their ch...
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The Texans
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpe...
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The Accusing Finger
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly c...
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Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil...
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The Petty Girl
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and prop...
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Everything Happens at Night
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter....
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Flesh and Fantasy
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New O...
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You and Me
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in...
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Desert Gold
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He ...
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The Bride Wore Boots
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife....
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Gidget Grows Up
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to Californi...
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Spring Parade
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card...
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Tell It to the Judge
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opp...
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The Last Train from Madrid
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War....
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who i...
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So Red the Rose
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to re...
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You Came Along
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chapero...
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Bomber's Moon
A hard-hearted Colonel loses many men in his group's bombing missions over World War Two Germany, bu...
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The Barefoot Mailman
Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrov...
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Let's Live a Little
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a s...
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I Stand Accused
Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland...
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Free For All
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young invent...
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The Great American Beauty Contest
The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which...
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Holiday Time at Disneyland
We see numerous Disneyland attractions over the early years of Disneyland that were opened on, or ar...
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Sons of the Desert
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when t...
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Seasoned Greetings
The owner of an unsuccessful greeting cards store decides to sell 'talking' greeting cards in the fo...
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The Under-Pup
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy...
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Arizona Mahoney
When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cat...
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How To Be Very, Very Popular
Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical ...
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Hollywood Boulevard
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of ...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist....
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Touchdown, Army
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters W...
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Free and Easy
This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington p...
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Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series....
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Between Us Girls
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mothe...
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Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral ...
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Marry Me Again
Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart,...
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Border Flight
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming...
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Hideaway Girl
An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical....
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Gala Day at Disneyland
The gala dedication ceremonies at the opening of three new major attractions at Disneyland—Matterhor...
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Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast
Relive the magic with hosts Art Linkletter, Bob Cummings and Ronald Reagan at the live opening day c...
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Private Affairs
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love...
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Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
This special celebration of Disneyland's 35th anniversary, bursting at the seams with celebrity came...
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Disneyland '59
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consis...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
Seeing Hollywood, intimate glimpses of your favorite stars, at home, at work, and at play....
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Partners in Crime
A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750...
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Breakdowns of 1942
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942....
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Forgotten Faces
Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good...
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Millions in the Air
The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it...
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