Copacabana 1947  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Groucho Marx, Carmen Miranda, Andy Russell, Steve Cochran, Gloria Jean, Louis Sobol, Abel Green, Earl Wilson
Talent agent Lionel Q. Deveraux (Groucho Marx) has only one client, Carmen Novarro (Carmen Miranda), but he tricks a nightclub owner (Steve Cochran) into believing that Carmen is actually two entertainers. The ploy works until Carmen is assigned to perform roles simultaneously.
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Ghost Catchers 1944  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Gloria Jean, Martha O'Driscoll, Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Lon Chaney Jr., Kirby Grant, Walter Catlett, Henry Armetta, Frank Mitchell
A good and Johnson comedy as they help a Southern colonel and his daughters rid their home of ghosts.
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If I Had My Way 1940  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: David Butler
Cast: Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, El Brendel, Allyn Joslyn, Claire Dodd, Donald Woods, Moroni Olsen, Nana Bryant, Brandon Hurst
When a young girl is orphaned, her deceased father's friends come to her aid as Buzz Blackwell (Bing Crosby) takes Patricia (Gloria Jean) on a train trip to live with her great uncle (Charles Winninger).
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The Ladies' Man 1961 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jerry Lewis
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Helen Traubel, Kathleen Freeman, Pat Stanley, George Raft, Harry James, Marty Ingels, Gloria Jean, Roscoe Ates, Jack Kruschen
A handyman for a girls' school, Herbert H. Helbert (Jerry Lewis), encounters more than a little trouble for his efforts.
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 1941 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Dumont, Leon Errol, Leon Belasco, Anne Nagel, Mona Barrie, Irving Bacon, Claud Allister, Billy Lenhart, Kenneth Brown, Susan Miller, Charles Lang, Minerva Urecal
W.C. Fields plays himself going through a day trying to sell a story to Esoteric Studios' producer Franklin Pangborn. The script reading becomes the story of Uncle Bill (Fields) and his niece (Gloria Jean) flying to Mexico to sell wooden nutmegs. Along the way, Uncle Bill dives out of an airplane to retrieve a whiskey bottle–and survives! He lands on a mountain where he meets and woos Mrs. Hemogloben (Margaret Dumont) who eats men. Many funny gags and moments.
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| 1. Copacabana (1947)
2. Ghost Catchers (1944)
3. If I Had My Way (1940)
4. The Ladies' Man (1961)
5. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
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