Jack and the Beanstalk 1952  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Ford, Barbara Brown, Buddy Baer, William Farnum, Joe Kirk, David Stollery, Shaye Cogan, James Alexander, Johnny Conrad, Mel Blanc, Arthur Shields, Jack Shea, Almira Sessions
While babysitting for young Donald (David Stollery), Jack (Lou Costello) reads the story "Jack and the Beanstalk" to Donald and falls asleep. Jack enters a fairytale world inhabited by real people in his life. Mr. Dinklepuss (Bud Abbott) talks Jack into selling his cow for magic beans. The beans grow into a beanstalk, which Dinklepuss and Jack climb and run into the Giant (Buddy Baer) who captures them and puts them in prison with a prince (James Alexander) and princess (Shaye Cogan). Now, Jack and Dinklepuss plot their escape and the rescue of the prince and princess.
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 Sullivan's Travels 1941  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Preston Sturges
Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Byron Foulger, Margaret Hayes, Robert Greig, Eric Blore, Torben Meyer, Victor Potel, Richard Webb, Charles R. Moore, Almira Sessions
This spoof on the Hollywood scene has Joel McCrea playing movie director John L. Sullivan who wants to put meaning into his films. To that end, he sets out to meet real people, and with only 10 cents in his pocket, he begins his journey across America and into the real world.
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Sun Valley Serenade 1941  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle, Lynn Bari, Joan Davis, Dorothy Dandridge, William B. Davidson, Almira Sessions, Mel Ruick, Nicholas Brothers, Ralph Dunn, Chester Clute, Ann Doran
Phil Corey's (Glenn Miller) band has sponsored Norwegian refugee Karen (skating star Sonja Henie), and now the band has an engagement at Sun Valley, Idaho. When jealousy enters the picture, and the band's soloist Vivian (Lynn Bari) quits, Karen steps in and stages a fantastic ice show for a delighted audience.
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| 1. Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
2. Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
3. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
4. Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
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