Bess Flowers — Actor (153)
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) [Movie]
The Bad and the Beautiful
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Lana Turner / Kirk Douglas …
other title: Il bruto e la bella / Stadt der Illusionen …
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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White Christmas (1954) [Movie]
White Christmas
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Bing Crosby / Danny Kaye …
other title: Bianco Natale / Natal Branco …
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
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The She-Creature (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The She-Creature
director: Edward L. Cahn actor: Chester Morris / Marla English …
other title: Geschöpf des Schreckens / La criatura …
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
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Guys and Dolls (1955) [Movie]
Guys and Dolls
director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Marlon Brando / Jean Simmons …
other title: Bulli e pupe / Eles e Elas …
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
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Larceny, Inc. (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Larceny, Inc.
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Edward G. Robinson / Jane Wyman …
other title: I tre furfanti / Die fröhliche Gauner GmbH …
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
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The Buccaneer (1958) [Movie]
The Buccaneer
director: Anthony Quinn actor: Yul Brynner / Claire Bloom …
other title: I bucanieri / Piraten …
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.
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My Man Godfrey (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
My Man Godfrey
director: Gregory La Cava actor: William Powell / Carole Lombard …
other title: L'impareggiabile Godfrey / Godfrey ordner alt …
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) [Movie]
The Bad and the Beautiful
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Lana Turner / Kirk Douglas …
other title: Il bruto e la bella / Stadt der Illusionen …
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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The Bigamist (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Bigamist
director: Ida Lupino actor: Joan Fontaine / Ida Lupino …
other title: La grande nebbia / Der Mann mit zwei Frauen …
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
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Written on the Wind (1956) [Movie]
Written on the Wind
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Rock Hudson / Lauren Bacall …
other title: Come le Foglie al Vento / Dårskabens timer …
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
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Sudden Fear (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Sudden Fear
director: David Miller actor: Joan Crawford / Jack Palance …
other title: So che mi ucciderai / Precipícios d'Alma …
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
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Phantom Lady (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Phantom Lady
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Franchot Tone / Ella Raines …
other title: La donna fantasma / Zeuge gesucht …
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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One Hour with You (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
One Hour with You
director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Maurice Chevalier / Jeanette MacDonald …
other title: Un'ora d'amore / Eine Stunde mit Dir …
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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The Major and the Minor (1942) [Movie]
The Major and the Minor
director: Billy Wilder actor: Ginger Rogers / Ray Milland …
other title: Frutto proibito / Der Major und das Mädchen …
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
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Don't Bother to Knock (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Don't Bother to Knock
director: Roy Ward Baker actor: Richard Widmark / Marilyn Monroe …
other title: La tua bocca brucia / Brændende Læber …
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
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Imitation of Life (1959) [Movie]
Imitation of Life
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Lana Turner / John Anthony Golenor …
other title: Lo specchio della vita / Imitação da Vida …
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) [Movie]
Make Way for Tomorrow
director: Leo McCarey actor: Victor Moore / Beulah Bondi …
other title: Cupo tramonto / A Cruz dos Anos …
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
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Let's Live a Little (1948) [Movie] TMDB
Let's Live a Little
director: Richard Wallace actor: Hedy Lamarr / Robert Cummings …
other title: È tempo di vivere / Vivamos un poco
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?
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The Heavenly Body (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Heavenly Body
director: Alexander Hall actor: William Powell / Hedy Lamarr …
other title: Crepi l'astrologo / Le Corps céleste …
The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.