Gene Lockhart — Actor (43)
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Find the Blackmailer (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Find the Blackmailer
director: D. Ross Lederman actor: Jerome Cowan / Faye Emerson …
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
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Confidentially Connie (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Confidentially Connie
director: Edward Buzzell actor: Van Johnson / Janet Leigh …
other title: La Petite Constance / Cuando llega la cigüeña …
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
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Apartment for Peggy (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Apartment for Peggy
director: George Seaton actor: Jeanne Crain / William Holden …
other title: Amore sotto i tetti / Eine Dachkammer für zwei …
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
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Wedding Present (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Wedding Present
director: Richard Wallace actor: Joan Bennett / Cary Grant …
other title: Cadeau de mariage / Cásate conmigo... si puedes …
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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The Inspector General (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Inspector General
director: Henry Koster actor: Danny Kaye / Walter Slezak …
other title: L'ispettore generale / Generalinspektøren …
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
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All That Money Can Buy (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
All That Money Can Buy
director: William Dieterle actor: Edward Arnold / Walter Huston …
other title: L'oro del demonio / Der Teufel und Daniel Webster …
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
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Rhubarb (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rhubarb
director: Arthur Lubin actor: Ray Milland / Jan Sterling …
other title: Il gatto milionario / Los millones de Ruibarbo
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
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A Christmas Carol (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Christmas Carol
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: Reginald Owen / Gene Lockhart …
other title: Cuento de Navidad / Un conte de Noël
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Androcles and the Lion (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Androcles and the Lion
director: Chester Erskine actor: Victor Mature / Jean Simmons …
other title: Androclo e il leone / Androkles und der Löwe …
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
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Northern Pursuit (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Northern Pursuit
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Errol Flynn / Julie Bishop …
other title: L'ostaggio / Blutiger Schnee …
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Jeanne Eagels (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Jeanne Eagels
director: George Sidney actor: Kim Novak / Jeff Chandler …
other title: Un solo grande amore / Ein Herzschlag bis zur Ewigkeit …
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
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Meet John Doe (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Meet John Doe
director: Frank Capra actor: Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Arriva John Doe! / Vi Behøver Hinanden …
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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Edison, the Man (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Edison, the Man
director: Clarence Brown actor: Spencer Tracy / Charles Coburn …
other title: Il romanzo di una vita / Edison, o Mago da Luz …
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Carousel (1956) [Movie] TMDB
Carousel
director: Henry King actor: Gordon MacRae / Shirley Jones …
other title: Carrossel / Karussell …
Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met. He would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying the problem; but before he may go, he has to get permission from the gatekeeper by telling him his story. Adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical.
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The Strange Woman (1946) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
The Strange Woman
director: Edgar G. Ulmer actor: Hedy Lamarr / George Sanders …
other title: Venere peccatrice / Flor do Mal …
In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.
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Going My Way (1944) [Movie] TMDB
Going My Way
director: Leo McCarey actor: Bing Crosby / Barry Fitzgerald …
other title: La mia via / O Bom Pastor …
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Miracle on 34th Street
director: George Seaton actor: Maureen O'Hara / John Payne …
other title: Il miracolo della 34ª strada / Miraklet på Manhattan …
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.