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The Good Fairy (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Good Fairy
other title: Le vie della fortuna / Die Fee
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
Easy Living (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Easy Living
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Jean Arthur / Edward Arnold
other title: Un colpo di fortuna / Mein Leben in Luxus
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Alan Ladd / Wanda Hendrix
other title: La spia del lago / Le Dénonciateur
Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey, the mission causes the deaths of many bystanders -- among them, Carey believes, his Italian girlfriend, Giulia de Graffi. Back home, Carey stumbles across evidence that might uncover the identity of the informant. But, when he returns to Italy to get even, Carey is stunned by what he finds.
She Knew All the Answers (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
She Knew All the Answers
director: Richard Wallace actor: Joan Bennett / Franchot Tone
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't approve of his sweetheart. She decides to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side, but complications ensue.
Naughty but Nice (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Naughty but Nice
director: Ray Enright actor: Ann Sheridan / Dick Powell
other title: Cuatro tías y un sobrino / Fausses Notes
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
World Premiere (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
World Premiere
other title: Weltpremiere
A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies also present!
The Gilded Lily (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Gilded Lily
other title: Il giglio d'oro / Das Mädchen, das den Lord nicht wollte
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged Charles has hurt Marilyn, he fabricates an article casting her as the "No Girl" who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Marilyn unexpected fame, and Charles returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.