Dreaming Out Loud 1940 N/R, 81 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Harold Young Cast: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Frances Langford, Frank Craven, Bobs Watson, Irving Bacon, Clara Blandick, Robert Wilcox, Donald Briggs, Robert McKenzie, Phil Harris
This movie marks the film debut of radio comedians Lum (Chester Lauck) and Abner (Norris Goff). The plot involves their misadventures as Lum and Abner engage in fund raising as a means for bringing progress to their town of Pine Ridge, Arkansas.
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Fit for a King 1937 N/R, 73 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Sedgwick Cast: Joe E. Brown, Helen Mack, Paul Kelly, Harry Davenport, Halliwell Hobbes, John Qualen, Donald Briggs, Frank Reicher, Russell Hicks, Charles Trowbridge, Robert Warwick, Charles(1) Lane
Cub reporter Virgil Jones (Joe E. Brown) is assigned to write a story about Archduke Julio (Harry Davenport) and, in the process, falls in love with a princess (Helen Mack). In a comedy of errors, Virgil uncovers a plot to kill the archduke and princess, foils the plot, and wins the heart of the princess who is now a queen.
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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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Men Are Such Fools 1938 N/R, 70 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Busby Berkeley Cast: Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Hugh Herbert, Johnnie Davis, Penny Singleton, Mona Barrie, Donald Briggs, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
A secretary (Priscilla Lane) at an advertising agency is out to climb the ladder of success, but her boyfriend (Wayne Morris) wants her to quit and get married. When she invents a cure for hangovers, she is on her way and love triangles abound. Will she get the aggressive Harry (Humphrey Bogart) or stay with her solid boyfriend? One of Berkeley's few non-musicals.
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| 1. Dreaming Out Loud (1940)
2. Fit for a King (1937)
3. Made for Each Other (1939)
4. Men Are Such Fools (1938)
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