April in Paris 1952   N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin, Eve Miller, Paul Harvey, George Givot, Herbert Farjeon, Raymond Largay, John Alvin, Wilson Millar, Jack Lomas, Eugene Borden, Don Brodie, Nestor Paiva, Donald Kerr
The title song is a big highlight of this film about chorus girl Dynamite Jackson (Doris Day) who finds romance with businessman S. Winthrop Putnam (Ray Bolger) while sailing to Europe to attend a Parisian Arts Festival. It turns out that Winthrop is already married to Marcia (Eve Miller), but when it is discovered that the marriage is illegal, the path is cleared for Winthrop and Dynamite to live happily ever after.
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The Big Trees 1952 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Western
Director: Felix E. Feist
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale Jr., Roy Roberts, Ellen Corby, Charles Meredith, Harry Cording, Lane Chandler, Frank Hagney, William Challee
Set around 1900, this remake of "Valley of the Giants" features Kirk Douglas as greedy lumberjack Jim Fallon who wants to use California's Redwood Forest for his own profit. Confronted by Quaker environmentalists, Fallon is finally convinced to save the trees.
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Kansas Pacific 1953  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ray Nazarro
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Tom Fadden, Reed Hadley, Douglas Fowley, Irving Bacon, Robert Keys, Myron Healey
Just before the start of the Civil War, the Kansas Pacific Railroad is expanding west, and Southern sympathizers attempt to stop the expansion. Army Captain Nelson (Sterling Hayden) is tasked to keep the construction going.
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She's Working Her Way Through College 1952 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, Gene Nelson, Don DeFore, Phyllis Thaxter, Patrice Wymore, Roland Winters, Raymond Greenleaf, George Meader, Eve Miller
Wanting to improve herself intellectually, burlesque dancer Angela Gardner (Virginia Mayo) heads for college and upsets the campus in this musical remake of "The Male Animal."
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The Story of Will Rogers 1952  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Will Rogers Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid, Eve Miller, James Gleason, Slim Pickens, Noah Beery Jr., Mary Wickes, Eddie Cantor, Steve Brodie
Will Rogers Jr. plays his witty, politically astute father in this film biography of the famous entertainer's life.
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The Winning Team 1952 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Miller, Russ Tamblyn, James Millican, Gordon Jones, Hugh Sanders, Frank Ferguson, Walter Baldwin
This film is loosely based on the biography of baseball great, Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan). The story emphasis is on Alexander's marriage to Aimee (Doris Day) and his problems with alcohol.
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| 1. April in Paris (1952)
2. The Big Trees (1952)
3. Kansas Pacific (1953)
4. She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)
5. The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
6. The Winning Team (1952)
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