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The Youngest Profession (1943) IMDb TMDB
The Youngest Profession
director: Edward Buzzell actor: Virginia Weidler / Edward Arnold …
Best friends Joan and Patricia are teenage autograph seekers who spend most of their day bumping into and having tea with movie stars like Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on disinformation from a meddling governess, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents.
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Wabash Avenue (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Wabash Avenue
director: Henry Koster actor: Betty Grable / Victor Mature …
other title: La Venere di Chicago / Varieté-Prinzessin …
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
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Can-Can (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Can-Can
director: Walter Lang actor: Frank Sinatra / Shirley MacLaine …
other title: Can-can
A Parisian nightclub owner known for her performances of the can-can attracts the ire of a self-righteous judge. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to the chagrin of her lawyer boyfriend.
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Love Crazy (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Love Crazy
director: Jack Conway actor: William Powell / Myrna Loy …
other title: Innamorato pazzo / Mi marido está loco …
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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I Was a Male War Bride (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I Was a Male War Bride
director: Howard Hawks actor: Cary Grant / Ann Sheridan …
other title: Ero uno sposo di guerra / Fizeram-me Passar por Mulher …
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
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I Love You Again (1940) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I Love You Again
director: W.S. Van Dyke actor: William Powell / Myrna Loy …
other title: Ti amo ancora / Liebling, du hast dich verändert …
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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The Thing from Another World (1951) IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The Thing from Another World
director: Christian Nyby actor: Kenneth Tobey / Margaret Sheridan …
other title: La cosa da un altro mondo / Manden fra Mars …
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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Comrade X (1940) IMDb TMDB
Comrade X
director: King Vidor actor: Clark Gable / Hedy Lamarr …
other title: Corrispondente X / Camarade X …
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Monkey Business (1952) IMDb TMDB
Monkey Business
director: Howard Hawks actor: Cary Grant / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Il magnifico scherzo / Liebling, ich werde jünger …
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
★ 8.1 (8 ratings) director: Howard Hawks actor: Jane Russell / Marilyn Monroe …
other title: Gli uomini preferiscono le bionde / Gentlemen foretrækker blondiner …
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
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His Girl Friday (1940)
His Girl Friday
★ 6.3 (9 ratings) director: Howard Hawks actor: Cary Grant / Rosalind Russell …
other title: La signora del venerdì / Sensationen …
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.