Jack Carson — Actor (21)
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April Showers (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
April Showers
director: James V. Kern actor: Jack Carson / Ann Sothern …
other title: Olvida tus pesares / Cavalcade d'avril
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
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One More Tomorrow (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
One More Tomorrow
director: Peter Godfrey actor: Ann Sheridan / Dennis Morgan …
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
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The Doughgirls (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Doughgirls
director: James V. Kern actor: Ann Sheridan / Alexis Smith …
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he returns, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet suite Arthur expected. As long as there's anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay and there will be no honeymoon.
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Stand-In (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Stand-In
director: Tay Garnett actor: Leslie Howard / Joan Blondell …
other title: Ed ora... sposiamoci! / Mr. Dodd geht nach Hollywood …
An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
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Night Spot (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Night Spot
director: Christy Cabanne actor: Harry Parke / Allan Lane …
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
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Red Garters (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Red Garters
director: George Marshall actor: Rosemary Clooney / Jack Carson …
A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and decked out with colorfully stylized, Oscar.-nominated sets. Rosemary Clooney heads up the high-kicking, red-gartered girls of the Red Dog Saloon. They can-can. but she won't-won't unless Jason (Jack Carson) asks her to get hitched. Guy Mitchell and Gene Barry are gun-totin' polecats who think they've got a feud to settle. And Frank Faylen and Buddy Ebsen are among the folks who hope the gunslingers get itchy fingered - so they can hold a town barbecue during the funeral!
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The Saint in New York (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Saint in New York
director: Ben Holmes actor: Louis Hayward / Kay Sutton …
other title: Le Saint à New-York / El Santo en Nueva York
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
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The Tattered Dress (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Tattered Dress
director: Jack Arnold actor: Jeff Chandler / Jeanne Crain …
other title: Il vestito strappato / Kreuzverhör
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
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The Strawberry Blonde (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Strawberry Blonde
director: Raoul Walsh actor: James Cagney / Olivia de Havilland …
other title: Bionda fragola / Schönste der Stadt …
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
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Hollywood Canteen (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hollywood Canteen
director: Delmer Daves actor: Robert Hutton / Dane Clark …
other title: Ho baciato una stella / Hollywood-Kantine
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Two Guys from Milwaukee
director: David Butler actor: Dennis Morgan / Jack Carson …
other title: El príncipe se enamora
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.
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Phffft (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Phffft
director: Mark Robson actor: Judy Holliday / Jack Lemmon …
other title: Phffft... e l'amore si sgonfia / Eine glückliche Scheidung …
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
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It's a Great Feeling (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
It's a Great Feeling
director: David Butler actor: Dennis Morgan / Doris Day …
other title: L'amore non può attendere / Mademoiselle Fifi …
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.