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The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Kid from Brooklyn
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Danny Kaye / Virginia Mayo
other title: Preferisco la vacca / Der Held des Tages
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
Incendiary Blonde (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Incendiary Blonde
other title: La rubia de los cabellos de fuego
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
Whispering Smith (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Whispering Smith
director: Leslie Fenton actor: Alan Ladd / Robert Preston
other title: Smith il taciturno / Der Todesverächter
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).
California (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
California
director: John Farrow actor: Ray Milland / Barbara Stanwyck
other title: Californie terre promise / Califórnia
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
The Perils of Pauline (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Perils of Pauline
director: George Marshall actor: Betty Hutton / John Lund
other title: La storia di Pearl White / Pauline, laß das Küssen sein
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
Rangers of Fortune (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rangers of Fortune
director: Sam Wood actor: Fred MacMurray / Patricia Morison
other title: Avéntureros románticos / Le Mystère de Santa Marta
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his young granddaughter. The trio learn that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron, who's endeavoring to push out ranch owners and take over the territory.
The Princess Comes Across (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Princess Comes Across
other title: Resa d'amore / Eine Prinzessin für Amerika
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
My Favorite Blonde (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
My Favorite Blonde
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Bob Hope / Madeleine Carroll
other title: Geliebte Spionin / La Blonde de mes rêves
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
The Milky Way (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Milky Way
director: Leo McCarey actor: Harold Lloyd / Adolphe Menjou
other title: La via lattea / Ausgerechnet Weltmeister
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.