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Carefree (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Carefree
director: Mark Sandrich actor: Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Girandola / Quero Sonhar Contigo …
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.
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The Great Moment (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Great Moment
director: Preston Sturges actor: Joel McCrea / Betty Field …
other title: El gran momento
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
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Easy Living (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Easy Living
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Jean Arthur / Edward Arnold …
other title: Un colpo di fortuna / Mein Leben in Luxus …
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Calendar Girl (1947) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Calendar Girl
director: Allan Dwan actor: Jane Frazee / William Marshall …
other title: Musique aux étoiles
Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities; but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler; and she turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely
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Swing High, Swing Low (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Swing High, Swing Low
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Carole Lombard / Fred MacMurray …
other title: Comenzó en el trópico / Trompette Blues …
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship with Maggie and his career.
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The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Horn Blows at Midnight
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Jack Benny / Alexis Smith …
other title: La tromba squilla a mezzanotte / Der Engel mit der Trompete …
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
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Professional Sweetheart (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Professional Sweetheart
director: William A. Seiter actor: Ginger Rogers / Norman Foster …
other title: Novia profesional
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
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Topper Takes a Trip (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Topper Takes a Trip
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Constance Bennett / Roland Young …
other title: Viaggio nell'impossibile / Topper ta'r på tur …
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
director: Preston Sturges actor: Harold Lloyd / Jimmy Conlin …
other title: Meglio un mercoledì da leone / En tosset onsdag …
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
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Stage Door (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Stage Door
director: Gregory La Cava actor: Katharine Hepburn / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Palcoscenico / No Teatro da Vida …
A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.
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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hail the Conquering Hero
director: Preston Sturges actor: Eddie Bracken / Ella Raines …
other title: Evviva il nostro eroe / Heil dem siegreichen Helden …
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
director: Edward F. Cline actor: W.C. Fields / Gloria Jean …
other title: Lad tåberne tabe / Gib einem Trottel keine Chance …
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.