Carole Landis

Carole Landis

Carole Landis (born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste; January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was an American actress and singer. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C. from United Artists. She was known as "The Ping Girl" and "The Chest" because of her curvy figure. Landis was reportedly crushed when actor Rex Harrison refused to divorce his wife for her. Unable to cope any longer, on July 5, 1948, she died by suicide in her Pacific Palisades home by taking an overdose of Seconal. From Wikipedia.

  • Title: Carole Landis
  • Popularity: 0.2296
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1918-12-31
  • Place of Birth: Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA
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  • Also Known As: Frances Lillian Mary Ridste
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Carole Landis Movies

  • 1940
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    One Million B.C.

    One Million B.C.

    5.9 1940 HD

    One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.

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  • 1941
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    I Wake Up Screaming

    I Wake Up Screaming

    6.9 1941 HD

    A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

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  • 1937
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    A Star Is Born

    A Star Is Born

    7.163 1937 HD

    Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

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  • 1943
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    Wintertime

    Wintertime

    3.5 1943 HD

    Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.

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  • 1942
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    Orchestra Wives

    Orchestra Wives

    6.292 1942 HD

    Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.

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  • 1941
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    Moon Over Miami

    Moon Over Miami

    6.1 1941 HD

    After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.

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  • 1946
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    Behind Green Lights

    Behind Green Lights

    5.4 1946 HD

    An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.

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  • 1937
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    Broadway Melody of 1938

    Broadway Melody of 1938

    6.2 1937 HD

    Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.

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  • 1938
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    Hollywood Hotel

    Hollywood Hotel

    5.4 1938 HD

    After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.

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  • 1941
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    Topper Returns

    Topper Returns

    6.4 1941 HD

    Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.

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  • 1948
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    Noose

    Noose

    5.094 1948 HD

    Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...

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  • 1944
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    Secret Command

    Secret Command

    6.8 1944 HD

    Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.

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  • 1942
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    It Happened in Flatbush

    It Happened in Flatbush

    4.8 1942 HD

    A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

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  • 1944
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    Four Jills in a Jeep

    Four Jills in a Jeep

    5.7 1944 HD

    Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

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  • 1942
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    My Gal Sal

    My Gal Sal

    5.6 1942 HD

    Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day

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  • 1942
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    A Gentleman at Heart

    A Gentleman at Heart

    6 1942 HD

    After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.

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  • 1939
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    Three Texas Steers

    Three Texas Steers

    4.9 1939 HD

    Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?

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  • 1940
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    Turnabout

    Turnabout

    5.808 1940 HD

    Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.

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  • 1938
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    Gold Diggers in Paris

    Gold Diggers in Paris

    5.7 1938 HD

    When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.

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  • 1941
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    Road Show

    Road Show

    5.3 1941 HD

    Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.

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  • 1946
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    A Scandal in Paris

    A Scandal in Paris

    6.4 1946 HD

    A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

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  • 1937
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    Varsity Show

    Varsity Show

    6.286 1937 HD

    Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.

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  • 1938
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    Blondes at Work

    Blondes at Work

    6.1 1938 HD

    When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

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  • 1945
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    Having Wonderful Crime

    Having Wonderful Crime

    6.3 1945 HD

    Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.

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  • 1946
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    It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

    It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

    5.6 1946 HD

    A pretty blonde with a Doberman pinscher walks into a bar on April Fool's Day and asks for a bag of bones. Thus begins a merry chase in which a newspaper reporter, a drunken policeman and a hand-painted necktie help locate the missing witness in a criminal investigation.

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  • 1948
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    Brass Monkey

    Brass Monkey

    5.5 1948 HD

    Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.

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  • 1939
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    Cowboys from Texas

    Cowboys from Texas

    2 1939 HD

    Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.

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  • 1940
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    Mystery Sea Raider

    Mystery Sea Raider

    3 1940 HD

    June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.

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  • 1939
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    Daredevils of the Red Circle

    Daredevils of the Red Circle

    4 1939 HD

    Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.

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  • 1941
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    Dance Hall

    Dance Hall

    6 1941 HD

    Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.

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  • 1942
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    Manila Calling

    Manila Calling

    7 1942 HD

    During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.

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  • 1938
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    When Were You Born

    When Were You Born

    5.05 1938 HD

    A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.

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  • 1943
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    The Powers Girl

    The Powers Girl

    6.5 1943 HD

    Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.

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  • 1938
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    The Patient in Room 18

    The Patient in Room 18

    4.5 1938 HD

    Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.

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  • 1938
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    The Invisible Menace

    The Invisible Menace

    3.818 1938 HD

    Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.

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  • 1938
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    Boy Meets Girl

    Boy Meets Girl

    6.5 1938 HD

    Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...

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  • 1938
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    Girls on Probation

    Girls on Probation

    5.9 1938 HD

    A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

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  • 1939
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    Reno

    Reno

    6 1939 HD

    A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

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  • 1947
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    Out of the Blue

    Out of the Blue

    6.3 1947 HD

    Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.

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  • 1937
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    She Loved a Fireman

    She Loved a Fireman

    6 1937 HD

    A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.

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    Fly Away Baby

    Fly Away Baby

    6.2 1937 HD

    Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.

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  • 1937
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    The Adventurous Blonde

    The Adventurous Blonde

    5 1937 HD

    The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.

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  • 1938
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    Torchy Blane in Panama

    Torchy Blane in Panama

    5.3 1938 HD

    Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

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  • 1937
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    Over the Goal

    Over the Goal

    3 1937 HD

    The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.

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  • 1938
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    Over the Wall

    Over the Wall

    5 1938 HD

    When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

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  • 1937
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    Missing Witnesses

    Missing Witnesses

    5.5 1937 HD

    A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

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  • 1938
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    A Slight Case of Murder

    A Slight Case of Murder

    6.267 1938 HD

    Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

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  • 1943
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    Show-Business at War

    Show-Business at War

    7 1943 HD

    A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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  • 1938
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    Women Are Like That

    Women Are Like That

    5.7 1938 HD

    Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.

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  • 1938
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    Four's a Crowd

    Four's a Crowd

    4.808 1938 HD

    A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.

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  • 1938
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    Men Are Such Fools

    Men Are Such Fools

    5.6 1938 HD

    Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.

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  • 1938
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    Penrod's Double Trouble

    Penrod's Double Trouble

    6 1938 HD

    When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

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  • 1936
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    Gold Diggers of 1937

    Gold Diggers of 1937

    5.8 1936 HD

    The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.

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  • 1937
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    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    4.688 1937 HD

    Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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  • 1937
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    The King and the Chorus Girl

    The King and the Chorus Girl

    5.5 1937 HD

    A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.

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  • 1937
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    A Day at the Races

    A Day at the Races

    7.096 1937 HD

    Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he actually has a degree in veterinary medicine.

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  • 1938
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    Love, Honor and Behave

    Love, Honor and Behave

    3 1938 HD

    Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.

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  • 1938
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    7.5 1938 HD

    Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

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  • 1937
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    Alcatraz Island

    Alcatraz Island

    4.9 1937 HD

    A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

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  • 1941
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    Cadet Girl

    Cadet Girl

    1 1941 HD

    A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.

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  • 1941
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    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

    6 1941 HD

    Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.

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  • 1936
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

    6 1936 HD

    Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.

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  • 1989
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    Death Scenes

    Death Scenes

    4.143 1989 HD

    Vintage Hollywood themed shockumentary.

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  • 1988
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    Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

    Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

    1 1988 HD

    Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

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