 Around the World in 80 Days 1956  G, 178 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Charles Boyer, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Marlene Dietrich, John Carradine, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, John Gielgud
This Best Picture Oscar winner tells the story of Phineas Fogg (David Niven), the indomitable English gentleman, who bets the members of his club that he can circle the globe in less than 80 days. And the race is on as he and his valet, Passepartout (Cantinflas), meet all sorts of characters and adventures along the way. A real winner. Four other Academy Awards were received as well as three nominations, including Best Director.
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B.F.'s Daughter 1948  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Charles Coburn, Richard Hart, Keenan Wynn, Margaret Lindsay, Spring Byington, Marshall Thompson, Barbara Laage, Fred Nurney
Wealthy Polly Fulton (Barbara Stanwyck) marries an economics professor (Van Heflin) and finances his career in Washington D.C. through the power of her fortune.
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Bachelor Mother 1939  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Garson Kanin
Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, E.E. Clive, Ernest Truex, Paul Stanton, Ferike Boros, Leonard Penn, Dennie Moore, Elbert Coplen Jr., Frank M. Thomas, Edna Holland, June Wilkins, Donald Duck
Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is a clerk at Merlin's Department Store who discovers an abandoned baby on her doorstep. She falls in love with the little bundle of joy and decides to adopt the baby. Rumors fly that Polly is really the birth mother, and the store owner, J.B. Merlin (Charles Coburn), sends his son David (David Niven) to get Polly back on the straight-and-narrow path. Now, Polly discovers more than love for the charming infant, she discovers other forms of love, too.
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Colonel Effingham's Raid 1946  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Man of the Hour
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn, Elizabeth Patterson, Donald Meek, Frank Craven, Thurston Hall, Cora Witherspoon, Emory Parnell, Henry Armetta, Stephen Dunne
Col. Effingham (Charles Coburn) retires from the Army to settle down in his Georgia hometown where he writes editorials and uses his military skills to mobilize fellow citizens against crooked politicians.
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The Constant Nymph 1943 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Dame May Whitty, Peter Lorre, Eduardo Ciannelli, Montagu Love, Marcel Dalio
Joan Fontaine received an Academy Award nomination for her role as the 14-year-old Tessa Sanger who is smitten with the sophisticated composer, Lewis Dodd (Charles Boyer).
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The Devil and Miss Jones 1941 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, S.Z. Sakall, William Demarest, Walter Kingsford, Montagu Love, Regis Toomey
In this entertaining comedy, a department store owner, J.P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), pretends to be one of the store's clerks in an effort to solve problems involving the potential for unionization.
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The Doctor and the Girl 1949  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Glenn Ford, Charles Coburn, Gloria DeHaven, Janet Leigh, Warner Anderson, Nancy Davis, Bruce Bennett, Basil Ruysdael, Arthur Franz, Lisa Golm
Problems of class and the generation gap confront the Cordaz family as their patriarch, Doctor John Cordaz (Charles Coburn), is determined to control the lives of his grown children.
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Edison, the Man 1940 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers, Felix Bressart, Frank Faylen, Byron Foulger, Addison Richards
This sequel to "Young Tom Edison" features Spencer Tracy in the title role of the now-grown Edison who lives in poverty until his light bulb invention proves to be a success.
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Everybody Does It 1949 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Celeste Holm, Charles Coburn, Millard Mitchell, Tito Vuolo, Lucile Watson, John Hoyt, Leon Belasco, George Tobias, John Goldsworthy, Robert Emmett Keane, Bess Flowers
While an aspiring young singer (Celeste Holm) plies her trade, her husband (Paul Douglas) is the one who unwittingly ends up with the musical career. Entertaining.
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 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Tommy Noonan, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, George Winslow, Marcel Dalio, Taylor Holmes, Harry Carey Jr., Norma Varden
Marilyn Monroe's and Jane Russell's rendition of "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" highlight this musical comedy about Lorelei Lee's trip to Paris to meet her future rich husband.
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George Washington Slept Here 1942 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride, Hattie McDaniel, William Tracy, Joyce Reynolds, Lee Patrick, Charles Dingle, John Emery, William Tracy
A New York couple (Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan) buys a "fix-me-up" home in Connecticut where they discover a letter that may be evidence that George Washington once slept there.
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Green Grass of Wyoming 1948 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Western
Director: Louis King
Cast: Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn, Robert Arthur, Lloyd Nolan, Burl Ives, Robert Adler, Will Wright, Geraldine Wall, Charles Tannen, Richard Garrick, Marcella Becker, Herbert Heywood, Marilyn Monroe
In this sequel to "My Friend Flicka" and "Thunderhead-Son of Flicka," the story continues, but this time around the plot concentrates on rival horse-breeding Greenway (Peggy Cummins and Charles Coburn) and Mclaughlin (Robert Arthur, Lloyd Nolan, and Geraldine Wall) families.
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The Green Years 1946 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper, Dean Stockwell, Jessica Tandy, Richard Haydn, Andy Clyde, Wallace Ford
This is a saga of a boy growing into manhood. Following the death of his parents, Robert Shannon (Dean Stockwell and later Tom Drake) goes to Scotland where he lives with his great-grandfather (Charles Coburn). Of note in this film is the casting of Jessica Tandy as Kate Leckie, the daughter of Papa Leckie (Hume Cronyn).
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal? 1952 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau, Lynn Bari, Larry Gates, William Reynolds, Skip Homeier, Paul Harvey, Frank Ferguson, Forrest Lewis, Gloria Holden, Fred Nurney, Helen Wallace, James Dean
Aging millionaire Samuel Fulton (Charles Coburn) has no family of his own and wants to leave his fortune to the Vermont family of the woman who long ago turned down his marriage proposal. But first, he wants to test them. He poses as a poor artist, rents a room from them, and anonymously gifts the family $100,000. The mother, Harriet (Lynn Bari), wants to move the family to a mansion and tells her daughter Millicent (Piper Laurie) that she should break up with her boyfriend Dan (Rock Hudson) and find a wealthy man. They run into problems along the way, but, by story's end, lessons are learned, and the family regains its senses and returns to its old lifestyle. Playing a customer at the drug store, James Dean makes his first film appearance.
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 Heaven Can Wait 1943 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn, Eugene Pallette, Signe Hasso, Louis Calhern, Tod Andrews, Helene Reynolds, Aubrey Mather, Scotty Beckett, Clara Blandick
Having lived a life of sin, Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) presents himself to His Excellency (Laird Cregar) at the gates of Hades. However, His Excellency is not sure that he wants to accept Henry, so Henry recalls his 70-year life in an attempt to gain access. His life has been filled with misadventures, romantic infidelities, and even one true love who was Martha (Gene Tierney)–his wife of 25 years. After relating his story, His Excellency tells Henry that his only sin was living life to the fullest and that he is not welcome in Hades. He takes Henry to the elevator and tells him that it may be difficult to get through the Pearly Gates but that if he succeeds he will join Martha. An excellent film based on Ladislaus Bus-Fekete's play, "Birthdays." Oscar nominations were received for Best Picture and Director.
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How to Be Very, Very Popular 1955 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Sheree North, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Orson Bean, Tommy Noonan, Charlotte Austin, Rhys Williams
In this remake of 1934's "She Loves Me Not" and 1942's "True to the Army," two dancers (Betty Grable and Sheree North) witness a Mob killing and then hide out on a college campus. This was Grable's last movie–"musicals" was her thing, but musicals were NOT the thing by the mid-1950s.
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Idiot's Delight 1939 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut, Burgess Meredith, Virginia Grey, Laura Hope Crews, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Fritz Feld
Set in the early days of World War II, this is the film adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood's play about vaudevillians Irene (Norma Shearer) and Harry (Clark Gable) who meet years after their brief affair when both are guests at a European hotel. Gable steals the show in his performance of "Puttin' on the Ritz."
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Impact 1949 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Anna May Wong, Clarence Kolb, Will Wright, Mae Marsh, Robert Warwick, Philip Ahn
Walter's (Brian Donlevy) wife (Helen Walker) is cheating on him, and she and her lover plan his demise. But, Walter survives the plot, and the lover is killed (in Walter's car and burned beyond recognition). Walter recuperates, and his memory returns–but he is presumed dead, and his wife has been charged with his murder.
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In Name Only 1939 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn, Peggy Ann Garner, Helen Vinson, Katharine Alexander, Jonathan Hale, Frank Puglia, Nella Walker
Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Alec Walker (Cary Grant) meets and falls in love with a beautiful widow, Julie Eden (Carole Lombard), but their plans for the future depend on his current wife (Kay Francis) granting the divorce.
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In This Our Life 1942 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Charles Coburn, Billie Burke, Hattie McDaniel, William Forrest, Frank Craven, Lee Patrick, Mary Servoss, Ernest Anderson, Edward Fielding, William B. Davidson, John Hamilton
Two sisters, Stanley (Bette Davis) and Roy (Olivia de Havilland), are in love with the same man, Craig (George Brent). Although Roy and Craig are married, he decides to leave his wife for Stanley.
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John Paul Jones 1959 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Farrow
Cast: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Macdonald Carey, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Peter Cushing, Bruce Cabot, Bette Davis, David Farrar
The life of U.S. Naval hero John Paul Jones, the first American naval officer to set a tradition of victory, is depicted in this biographical spectacle.
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Kings Row 1942 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Claude Rains, Charles Coburn, Judith Anderson, Betty Field, Nancy Coleman, Kaaren Verne, Maria Ouspenskaya
This is an eye-opening drama about life in a small American town in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is interesting that, while times change, human nature remains the same. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Director, and Cinematography.
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Knickerbocker Holiday 1944  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Harry Joe Brown
Cast: Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Shelley Winters, Ernest Cossart, Percy Kilbride, Otto Kruger, Chester Conklin, Fritz Feld
Relief from the pressures of politicians is what singing newspaper publisher Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy) wants in this period film that features Charles Coburn as Peter Stuyvesant. The classic song, "September Song" was introduced in this musical.
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The Lady Eve 1941  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Preston Sturges
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, Martha O'Driscoll, Luis Alberni, Robert Greig, Janet Beecher, Dora Clement, Al Bridge, Eddie Hall, Bess Flowers
This not-to-be-missed comedy pits Charles Pike (Henry Fonda) and Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) as the romantic couple who meets aboard ship. Very rich Charles rejects Jean who in turn plots to get him back by posing as Lady Eve Sidwich. A fun ride.
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Louisa 1950 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, Piper Laurie, Scotty Beckett, Willard Waterman, Jimmy Hunt, Connie Gilchrist
Louisa Norton (Spring Byington) is elderly in years but not in mind and spirit. When she moves in with her son and daughter-in-law (Ronald Reagan and Ruth Hussey), the fun begins.
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Lured 1947 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Personal Column
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Alan Mowbray, Cedric Hardwicke, Boris Karloff, George Zucco, Joseph Calleia, Alan Napier, Robert Coote
Lucille Ball plays a chorus girl who police enlist as bait for a serial killer–a psychopath who uses the personal columns when contemplating his next murder.
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Made for Each Other 1939 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson, Eddie Quillan, Ruth Weston, Donald Briggs, Harry Davenport, Ward Bond, Esther Dale, Alma Kruger, Irving Bacon, Louise Beavers, Edgar Dearing, Mary Field
Having rushed into marriage, a young married couple–Jane and Johnny Mason (Carole Lombard and James Stewart)–finds many problems from all sides. First, Johnny's boss Judge Joseph Doolittle (Charles Coburn) is displeased because he wanted Johnny to marry his daughter (Ruth Weston) and calls him back to work immediately as a trial lawyer. Thus, the honeymoon must be skipped. Johnny's mother (Lucile Watson) moves in with the couple and is hypocritical of everything Jane does. Later, when their baby is born, more problems rise to the fore, and the marriage appears doomed. Then, on New Years Eve, their baby son becomes ill with pneumonia. Johnny appeals to Judge Doolittle for help in obtaining the needed medicine, and he comes to their aid–saving both the baby and the marriage as well.
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 Monkey Business 1952 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal, Robert Cornthwaite, Larry Keating, Harry Carey Jr., Douglas Spencer
Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant) is a chemist-genius who has been working on a formula to prevent aging. A monkey accidentally mixes the correct proportions into the elixir, which ends up in the Fulton's drinking water. After Barnaby and his wife, Edwina (Ginger Rogers), start drinking the tainted water, they revert to childhood.
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The More the Merrier 1943 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines, Bruce Bennett, Frank Sully, Clyde Fillmore, Stanley Clements, Donald Douglas, Ann Savage
During World War II when there was a housing shortage in Washington D.C., Connie (Jean Arthur) shares an apartment with Mr. Dingle (Charles Coburn) who, in turn, sublets to an army sergeant, Joe (Joel McCrea). The dialogue is funny, and the movie is entertaining. Charles Coburn took home the Oscar for his supporting role in this film. There were five other nominations, including Best Picture, Actress, and Director.
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Mr. Music 1950 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Richard Haydn
Cast: Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Robert Stack, Tom Ewell, Marge & Gower Champion, Groucho Marx, Peggy Lee, Donald Woods
Although he prefers golf to song writing, Paul Merrick (Bing Crosby), is coerced by Katherine Holbrook (Nancy Olson) into composing a musical score.
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Of Human Hearts 1938 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Gene Reynolds, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Charles Coburn, John Carradine, Ann Rutherford, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Life for a 19th-century preacher (Walter Huston) and his son (James Stewart) is not always easy as they struggle to settle their differences as well as the Midwest. John Carradine is in the final scene as Abraham Lincoln giving advice on the values of family.
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The Paradine Case 1947 N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Alida Valli, Leo G. Carroll, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Joan Tetzel, Isobel Elsom, Edgar Norton, John Goldsworthy, Lester Matthews, Lumsden Hare, Patrick Aherne
This courtroom drama involves the case of Maddelena Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) who is on trial for murdering her wealthy husband. Defense attorney Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck), although married to Gay (Ann Todd), falls in love with his beautiful client, fails to see the blatant facts of the case, and believes that she is innocent. Meanwhile, Judge Lord Thomas Horfield (Charles Laughton) sees through Anna's facade, and the prosecuting attorney, Sir Joseph (Leo G. Carroll), is determined to find her guilty. Despite Anna's protests, Keane calls her lover, stableman Andre Latour (Louis Jourdan), to the stand and tries to prove that he is the murderer. After being disgraced, Latour commits suicide. Finally, Anna admits that she killed her husband and blames Keane for Latour's death. The story ends with a stunned Keane leaving the courtroom. Ethel Barrymore received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in her role as Lady Sophie Horfield, the judge's loony wife.
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Princess O'Rourke 1943 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Krasna
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Harry Davenport, Gladys Cooper, Minor Watson, Curt Bois, Nana Bryant
Eddie O'Rourke (Bob Cummings) is a pilot who falls in love with Maria (Olivia de Havilland) and then discovers that she is a real-life princess. Krasna won the Best Screenplay Oscar.
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker 1959 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Levin
Cast: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Charles Coburn, Jill St. John, Ron Ely, Ray Stricklyn, David(1) Nelson, Richard Deacon, Dorothy Stickney, Larry Gates
This is a dated story about Mr. "Pa" Pennypacker (Clifton Webb), a Pennsylvania businessman, who is married to two different women and is raising families (17 children) in two different towns. Judge Judy would have a field day with this case!
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Rhapsody in Blue 1945 N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Julie Bishop, Albert Bassermann, Morris Carnovsky, Rosemary DeCamp, Ira Gershwin, Darryl Hickman
Robert Alda stars in this well-made biography of the composer George Gershwin who is determined to succeed. The story may be short on actual facts, but it is certainly long on entertainment value.
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 Road to Singapore 1940 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Victor Schertzinger
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Charles Coburn, Judith Barrett, Anthony Quinn, Jerry Colonna, Miles Mander, Pierre Watkin, Steve Pendleton
This is the first "Road" film; it proved so popular that six more films followed. Josh (Bing Crosby) and Ace (Bob Hope) sail the Pacific Ocean to a tropical island where they meet and vie for the attention of a lovely lady (Dorothy Lamour).
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A Royal Scandal 1945 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Anne Baxter, Charles Coburn, William Eythe, Vincent Price, Mischa Auer, Sig Ruman, Vladimir Sokoloff, Mikhail Rasumny, Grady Sutton, Eva Gabor, Egon Brecher, Donald Douglas, Michael Visaroff, Wilton Graff
Russia's Czarina, Catherine the Great (Tallulah Bankhead), is threatened with an overthrow, but her sexual appetite pays off as her lover, Alexi (William Eythe), comes to her aid and outfoxes the rebels.
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Stanley and Livingstone 1939 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Henry King
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Miles Mander, Paul Harvey
Reporter Henry M. Stanley (Spencer Tracy) travels to Africa to locate missing explorer Doctor David Livingstone (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After conquering many obstacles in the jungle, Stanley finally espies the good doctor and greets him with: "Doctor Livingstone, I presume."
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell 1939 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Alexander Graham Bell
The Modern Miracle
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, Gene Lockhart, Sally Blane, Polly Ann Young, Jonathan Hale, Harry Davenport
This classic film tells the story of Alexander Graham Bell's (Don Ameche) struggles to invent the telephone and then his subsequent fight to keep the patent rights to his invention.
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The Story of Mankind 1957 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irwin Allen
Cast: Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Charles Coburn
This film is a mini-view of moments in the history of the world. Filled with stars, events are presented in scenes where the actors are there for the impact of recognizing who they are as they represent characters of history.
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Three Faces West 1940 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spencer Charters, Roland Varno, Trevor Bardette, Wade Boteler, Sonny Bupp, Russell Simpson, Charles Waldron
Dr. Braun (Charles Coburn) moves his family to America and finds that his new countrymen are facing terrible odds in the Dust Bowl. One of the neighboring farmers (John Wayne) refuses to give up during the lack of rain and encourages his fellow farmers to have patience.
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Trouble Along the Way 1953 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn, Tom Tully, Sherry Jackson, Marie Windsor, Leif Erickson, Chuck Connors, Bill Radovich, Ned Glass
When a Roman Catholic college decides to devote funds to a winning football team, coach Steve Williams (John Wayne) comes out of retirement to turn a hapless group into champions.
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Vivacious Lady 1938  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn, Jack Carson, Franklin Pangborn, Lloyd Ingraham, Hattie McDaniel, Grady Sutton
After their romantic fling, a young professor (James Stewart) marries a beautiful singer (Ginger Rogers) and finds his small-town college community is not quite ready to accept its newest citizen. 1 User Review
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| | Marnie 12/15/2007 | | A very young Jimmy Stewart, and Ginger Rogers. This movie has an endearing quality, I hated to see it end. Ginger Rogers was especially fabulous as the street smart, wise cracking new young bride to Jimmy Stewart, who comes from a background of fuddy duddy professors. His background is so straightlaced, they are afraid to tell his parents (especially Jimmy's grumpy professor father) that they're married! Then the fun really begins. Ginger sparks it up a bit, with her gammon quality, charm, and slapstick antics, as she is ready to punch her husband's 'girlfriend' in the nose during a formal party attended by the small town elite. The girlfriend has her own problems, and then there is Jimmy's friend that finds Ginger VERY charming. Ginger dances a little bit, but her gift of comedy really shines here. I love her dancing movies, but I really loved this movie, because you saw more of the woman's funny wit, charm, and charactor, and less fru fru Hollywood. For those who like to see their favorite stars step 'out of the box' once in a while, this is a must see! My only regret is I cannot buy this movie in DVD. |
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Wilson 1944 N/R, 154 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Sidney Blackmer, Eddie Foy Jr., Francis X. Bushman, Ruth Nelson
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, five of which were winners, this is the biography of President Woodrow Wilson (Alexander Knox) who dreamed of world peace through the League of Nations. The story follows his professional life from president of Princeton, to governor, to president as well as his personal defeats and accomplishments. Geraldine Fitzgerald gains high marks for her depiction of Wilson's second wife, Edith. The nominations included Best Picture, Actor (Knox), and Director.
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1. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
2. B.F.'s Daughter (1948)
3. Bachelor Mother (1939)
4. Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
aka: Man of the Hour
5. The Constant Nymph (1943)
6. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
7. The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
8. Edison, the Man (1940)
9. Everybody Does It (1949)
10. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
11. George Washington Slept Here (1942)
12. Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
13. The Green Years (1946)
14. Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
15. Heaven Can Wait (1943)
16. How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
17. Idiot's Delight (1939)
18. Impact (1949)
19. In Name Only (1939)
20. In This Our Life (1942)
21. John Paul Jones (1959)
22. Kings Row (1942)
23. Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
24. The Lady Eve (1941)
25. The Long Wait (1954)
26. Lord Jeff (1938)
27. Louisa (1950)
28. Lured (1947)
aka: Personal Column
29. Made for Each Other (1939)
30. Monkey Business (1952)
31. The More the Merrier (1943)
32. Mr. Music (1950)
33. Of Human Hearts (1938)
34. The Paradine Case (1947)
35. Princess O'Rourke (1943)
36. The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959)
37. Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
38. Road to Singapore (1940)
39. A Royal Scandal (1945)
40. Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
41. The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
aka: Alexander Graham Bell
aka: The Modern Miracle
42. The Story of Mankind (1957)
43. Three Faces West (1940)
44. Trouble Along the Way (1953)
45. Vivacious Lady (1938)
46. Wilson (1944)
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