Bess Flowers — Actor (153)
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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] IMDb 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] IMDb TMDB
The Lodger
director: John Brahm actor: Merle Oberon / Charlie Hall …
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] IMDb TMDB
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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The Mummy's Ghost (1944) [Movie] IMDb 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]
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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You Can't Take It with You (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
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.
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The Fly (1958) [Movie]
The Fly
7.6 (5 ratings) director: Kurt Neumann actor: David Hedison / Patricia Owens …
other title: L'esperimento del dottor K. / Fluen …
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre, who tells him that she has just killed her husband, André. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that André invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber during the matter transference.
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The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The Absent-Minded Professor
director: Robert Stevenson actor: Fred MacMurray / Nancy Olson …
other title: Un professore fra le nuvole / Hop med professoren …
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
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Babes in Toyland (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Babes in Toyland
director: Austen Jewell / Jack Donohue actor: Ray Bolger / Tommy Sands …
other title: Aufruhr im Spielzeugland / Le Pays des jouets …
All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses! The "March Of The Wooden Soldiers" helps put Barnaby in his place, and ensures a "happily ever after" for Tom and Mary!
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Angel Face (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Angel Face
director: Otto Preminger actor: Robert Mitchum / Jean Simmons …
other title: Seduzione mortale / Blindt begær …
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Danny Kaye / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Sogni proibiti / Das Doppelleben des Herrn Mitty …
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) [Movie]
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
director: Frank Capra actor: Gary Cooper / Jean Arthur …
other title: È arrivata la felicità / En gentleman kommer til byen …
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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I Married a Witch (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
I Married a Witch
director: René Clair actor: Fredric March / Veronica Lake …
other title: Ho sposato una strega / Casei-me com uma Feiticeira …
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
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Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Around the World in Eighty Days
director: Michael Anderson actor: David Niven / Andy Devine …
other title: Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni / Jorden rundt i 80 dage …
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Undercurrent (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Undercurrent
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Katharine Hepburn / Robert Taylor …
other title: Tragico segreto / Understrøm …
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
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Calamity Jane (1953) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Calamity Jane
director: David Butler actor: Doris Day / Howard Keel …
other title: Non sparare, baciami! / Vestens vildkat …
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.