Bess Flowers — Actor (143)
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Written on the Wind (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
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] TMDB IMDb
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
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] TMDB
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] TMDB IMDb
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] TMDB IMDb
Imitation of Life
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Lana Turner / John Gavin …
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] TMDB Skybridge NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
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] 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.
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Ziegfeld Girl (1941) [Movie] TMDB
Ziegfeld Girl
director: Busby Berkeley / Robert Z. Leonard actor: James Stewart / Judy Garland …
other title: Le fanciulle delle follie / Mädchen im Rampenlicht …
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Boom Town (1940) [Movie] TMDB
Boom Town
director: Jack Conway actor: Clark Gable / Spencer Tracy …
other title: La febbre del petrolio / Der Draufgänger …
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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The Lodger (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Lodger
director: John Brahm actor: Merle Oberon / Laird Cregar …
other title: Il pensionante / Scotland Yard greift ein …
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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Blue Hawaii (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Blue Hawaii
director: Norman Taurog actor: Elvis Presley / Joan Blackman …
other title: Feitiço Havaiano / Blaues Hawaii …
Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies and his girlfriend.
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G.I. Blues (1960) [Movie] TMDB
G.I. Blues
director: Norman Taurog actor: Elvis Presley / Juliet Prowse …
other title: Cafè Europa / Saudades de um Pracinha …
Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open up a nightclub when he gets out of the army. Tulsa may lack the capital for such a venture, but a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili (Juliet Prowse) is a notorious ice queen, and Tulsa bets everything he has that a friend of his can earn her affections. But, when that friend is dispatched to Alaska, it's up to Tulsa to melt Lili's heart.
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A Star Is Born (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Star Is Born
director: George Cukor actor: Judy Garland / James Mason …
other title: È nata una stella / En stjerne fødes …
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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The Mummy's Ghost (1944) [Movie] TMDB
The Mummy's Ghost
director: Reginald Le Borg actor: Lon Chaney Jr. / John Carradine …
other title: Le fantôme de la momie / El fantasma de la momia
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
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An American in Paris (1951) [Movie] Skybridge TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
An American in Paris
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Gene Kelly / Leslie Caron …
other title: Un americano a Parigi / En amerikaner i Paris …
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
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Grand Hotel (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Grand Hotel
director: Edmund Goulding actor: Greta Garbo / John Barrymore …
other title: Grande Hotel / Menschen im Hotel …
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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You Can't Take It with You (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
You Can't Take It with You
director: Frank Capra actor: Jean Arthur / James Stewart …
other title: L'eterna illusione / Não o Levarás Contigo …
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.