Dudley Nichols — Playwright (17)
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Carefree (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Carefree
director: Mark Sandrich actor: Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Girandola / Quero Sonhar Contigo …
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.
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Pinky (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Pinky
director: Elia Kazan actor: Jeanne Crain / Ethel Barrymore …
other title: Pinky, la negra bianca / O Que a Carne Herda …
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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The Three Musketeers (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Three Musketeers
director: Rowland V. Lee actor: Walter Abel / Margot Grahame …
other title: Die drei Musketiere / Por la dama y el honor
In 17th century France, young d'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers — Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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This Land Is Mine (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
This Land Is Mine
director: Jean Renoir actor: Charles Laughton / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Questa terra è mia / Dies ist mein Land …
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Heller in Pink Tights (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Heller in Pink Tights
director: George Cukor actor: Sophia Loren / Anthony Quinn …
other title: Il diavolo in calzoncini rosa / O Pistoleiro e Bela Aventureira …
Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lady and the object of his affection, constantly buys clothes. In Cheyenne, they meet with applause, so they hope to stay awhile: the theater owner likes Angela, and she keeps him on a string. She's also the object of the attentions of Mabry, a gunslinger who's owed money by the richest man in Bonanza.
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Stagecoach (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Stagecoach
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Ann-Margret / Red Buttons …
other title: I 9 di Dryfork City / A Última Diligência …
A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a travelling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gun-slinger out for revenge and a young woman going to join her army captain husband. All have secrets but when they are set upon by an Indian war party and then a family of outlaws, they find they must all work together if they are to stay alive.
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The Hangman (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Hangman
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Robert Taylor / Tina Louise …
other title: Il boia / O Carrasco …
A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid capture.
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Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mourning Becomes Electra
director: Dudley Nichols actor: Rosalind Russell / Michael Redgrave …
other title: Il lutto si addice ad Elettra / Le deuil sied à Électre …
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
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The Toast of New York (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Toast of New York
director: Rowland V. Lee actor: Edward Arnold / Cary Grant …
other title: Alla conquista dei dollari / L'Or et la femme …
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.