 The Apartment 1960  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, David Lewis, Jack Kruschen, Joan Shawlee, Edie Adams, Joyce Jameson, Willard Waterman, Hope Holiday, Naomi Stevens, David White
Winner of five Oscars including Best Picture and Director, this film tells the story of a clerk, C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) trying to get ahead by lending his apartment to philandering executives. Matters become complicated when he falls in love with his boss Jeff D. Sheldrake's (Fred MacMurray) current lover Fran (Shirley MacLaine). Hilarious satire by the director of "Some Like It Hot." Academy Award nominations included Best Actor (Jack Lemon), Actress (Shirley MacLaine), and Supporting Actor (Jack Kruschen).
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 The Best Man 1964  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Margaret Leighton, Lee Tracy, Edie Adams, Shelley Berman, Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Kevin McCarthy, Richard Arlen, Mahalia Jackson, Howard K. Smith, John Henry Faulk, George Kirgo, Tyler McVey
The President of the United States Art Hockstader (Lee Tracy) is dying, and political infighting peaks as two Presidential hopefuls William Russell and Joe Cartwell (Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson) seek the President's blessing. They try so hard to outdo each other that, in the process, they do themselves in. Lee Tracy received an Academy Award nomination for his Supporting Actor's Role.
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Call Me Bwana 1963  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries, Arnold Palmer, Percy Herbert, Paul Carpenter
A writer of safari tales, Matt Merriwether (Bob Hope), is sent to the African jungle to recover a downed American space capsule. In truth, he only writes about the area and knows very little about survival in the region.
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 Cinderella 1957  TV, 76 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
Director: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Julie Andrews, Jon Cypher, Howard Lindsay, Dorothy Stickney, Ilka Chase, Kaye Ballard, Alice Ghostley, Edie Adams, Robert Penn, Alexander Clark, Iggie Wolfington, David F. Perkins
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein wrote this musical especially for Julie Andrews, and it was performed live on TV to a record audience (for that time). (Andrews was also performing in "My Fair Lady" on Broadway at the time.) It is the rags-to-riches story of Cinderella who is oppressed by her mean-spirited stepmother (Ilka Chase) and stepsisters Portia and Joy (Kaye Ballard and Alice Ghostley) until she meets Prince Christopher (Jon Cypher).
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The Honey Pot 1967  N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: It Comes Up Murder
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Capucine, Edie Adams, Maggie Smith, Adolfo Celi, Hugh Manning, David Dodimead, Mimmo Poli, Luigi Scavran
Although he is in perfect health, Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) feigns a fatal disease and sends his personal secretary William McFly (Cliff Robertson) to invite three of Cecil's previous mistresses–Merle McGill (Edie Adams), Princess Dominique (Capucine), and the very wealthy Mrs. Sheridan (Susan Hayward)–to visit his home. The women come, but Cecil's game proves deadly when Mrs. Sheridan is found murdered. The plot thickens as Inspector Rizzi (Adolfo Celi) arrives on the scene to investigate.
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 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 N/R, 188 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Jim Backus, Carl Reiner, Jerry Lewis, Dick Shawn, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
Buried treasure is the goal of a large group of people who madly race around chasing each other in pursuit of the $350,000 prize. An all-star cast of comedians participates in the chase.
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Jake Spanner, Private Eye 1989 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ernest Borgnine, John Mitchum, James Mitchum, Dick Van Patten, Edie Adams, Terry Moore, Sheree North, Stella Stevens, Clive Revill
Based on the L.A. Morse book "The Old Dick," this film stars Robert Mitchum as the retired detective who comes out of retirement to find the kidnapped daughter of an old ex-mobster pal. He uses senior citizens to help in his quest.
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Love with the Proper Stranger 1963 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Herschel Bernardi, Edie Adams, Tom Bosley, Harvey Lembeck, Penny Santon, Virginia Vincent, Val Avery, Richard Mulligan
A love affair BEGINS with a pregnancy following a one-night stand. Slowly, the couple (Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen) learns to communicate and fall in love. Natalie Wood received an Oscar nomination, and the film had four other nominations.
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 Lover Come Back 1961 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie, Jack Kruschen, Ann B. Davis, Joe Flynn, Howard St. John, Jack Albertson
Jerry Webster (Rock Hudson) and Carol Templeton (Doris Day) are busy executives at the top of their professions. The plot twists and turns into a happy ending after they meet and fall in love.
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Made in Paris 1966  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Boris Sagal
Cast: Ann - Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Edie Adams, Chad Everett, John McGiver, Marcel Dalio, Count Basie, Marcel Hillaire, Reta Shaw
Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret) is a fashion buyer who heads to Paris where she contends with the amorous advances of Marc Fontaine (Louis Jourdan).
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The Oscar 1966  N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Russell Rouse
Cast: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Jill St. John, Joseph Cotten, Edie Adams, Ernest Borgnine, Ed Begley, Walter Brennan
In spite of a good cast, this story–about Frank Fane's (Stephen Boyd) climb to the top of Hollywood's success ladder–falls flat. Many guest stars.
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Under the Yum Yum Tree 1963 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Swift
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca, Paul Lynde, Robert Lansing, Bill Bixby, Bill Erwin, Cliff Carnell, Irene Tsu, Joy Harmon, Celeste Yarnall, Lyn Edgington
A young couple, Robin (Carol Lynley) and David (Dean Jones), rent an apartment–not knowing that their landlord, the rakish Hogan (Jack Lemmon) has plans to seduce Robin.
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Up in Smoke 1978 R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lou Adler
Cast: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Edie Adams, Stacy Keach, Strother Martin, Tom Skerritt, Louisa Moritz, Zane Buzby, Karl Johnson, Val Avery
This is truly Cheech and Chong at their crazy best dodging the cops while pursuing "quality" marijuana.
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| 1. The Apartment (1960)
2. The Best Man (1964)
3. Call Me Bwana (1963)
4. Cinderella (1957)
5. The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980)
6. The Honey Pot (1967)
aka: It Comes Up Murder
7. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
8. Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989)
9. Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
10. Lover Come Back (1961)
11. Made in Paris (1966)
12. The Oscar (1966)
13. Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
14. Up in Smoke (1978)
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