Advance to the Rear 1964  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, Jim Backus, Joan Blondell, Andrew Prine, Alan Hale Jr., Whit Bissell, Michael Pate, Preston Foster
Captain Jared Heath leads a group of inept soldiers who encounter espionage and the loss of their gold shipment, in this above average comedy.
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Adventure 1945  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Thomas Mitchell, Tom Tully, John Qualen, Richard Haydn, Lina Romay, Philip Merivale, Harry Davenport
This film marked Clark Gable's return to the screen following World War II. The story line is weak–a worldly sailor (Clark Gable) marries a prim librarian (Greer Garson). Not even Joan Blondell's comedic talents can help this one.
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Amazing Mr. Williams 1939 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Clarence Kolb, Ruth Donnelly, Edward Brophy, Donald MacBride, Don Beddoe, Jonathan Hale, John Wray, Maude Eburne
Kenny (Melvyn Douglas) is a groom-to-be, but first he must help a woman clear her name, to the chagrin of his fiancee. An amusing comedy/mystery.
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Angel Baby 1961  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: George Hamilton, Salome Jens, Mercedes McCambridge, Joan Blondell, Henry Jones, Burt Reynolds, Roger Clark, R.L. Armstrong, Eddie Firestone, Dudley Remus
This good story follows evangelists as they travel from town to town and "Angel Baby" (Jens) who thinks she was healed by one and thus falls in love with him. Burt Reynolds' film debut.
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Big City Blues 1932  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Inez Courtney, Evalyn Knapp, Humphrey Bogart, Guy Kibbee, Lyle Talbot, Walter Catlett, Grant Mitchell, J. Carrol Naish
When a young boy from the country experiences a three-day visit to NYC, he finds both love and murder on his itinerary.
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Blonde Crazy 1931 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis, Guy Kibbee, Ray Milland, Charles(1) Lane, Maude Eburne, Nat Pendleton, Russell Hopton
Bert and Ann (James Cagney and Joan Blondell) are a couple of con artists who go from town to town cheating people out of their money. After being tricked out of their own money, they plot to get it back. This is sort of an early version of "The Sting."
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Bullets or Ballots 1936 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, Joe King, Dick Purcell, George E. Stone, Louise Beavers, Joseph Crehan, Henry O'Neill, Henry Kolker
An undercover cop (Edward G. Robinson) manages to infiltrate the world of gangsters in an effort to bring an end to their criminal activities.
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 The Champ 1979 PG, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Rick Schroder, Jack Warden, Strother Martin, Arthur Hill, Joan Blondell, Elisha Cook Jr., Randall "Tex" Cobb, Mary Jo Catlett
This emotional drama involves a young son–played by Rick Schroder–who believes his father is a champion boxer on the verge of making a comeback. The father (Jon Voight), however, is an alcoholic/gambling addict who never does get his act together. Remake of the 1931 winner of a tearjerker starring Wallace Beery.
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 The Cincinnati Kid 1965 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann - Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld, Joan Blondell, Rip Torn, Cab Calloway, Jeff Corey, Jack Weston
The Cincinnati Kid (Steve McQueen) is a top-notch poker player who is determined to challenge the titleholder and take over as "King" of Stud Poker.
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Dames 1934 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts, Hugh Herbert, Guy Kibbee, Arthur Vinton, Sammy Fain, Phil Regan, Arthur Aylesworth, Johnny Arthur, Leila Bennett, Berton Churchill
Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce (Hugh Herbert) leads his friends and family in a campagne for "the preservation of America's Morals." Meanwhile, his distant cousin, Jimmy (Dick Powell), is producing a show in what Ezra believes to be "the demon world of the theater" starring Ezra's niece Barbara (Ruby Keeler). Ezra's solution: hire thugs to wreck the show, and mayhem ensues.
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Death at Love House 1976 TV, 74 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Cast: Robert Wagner, Kate Jackson, Sylvia Sidney, Joan Blondell, Dorothy Lamour, John Carradine, Bill Macy, Marianna Hill, Joseph Bernard, Robert Gibbons
Long dead Lorna Love (Marianna Hill) was a movie queen. Her life is being researched by Joel (Robert Wagner)–whose father had an affair with Lorna–and Joel's wife, Donna (Kate Jackson). It turns out that Lorna used many techniques to gain stardom, including witchcraft. Now, Joel's obsession with Lorna results in her return from the dead. Originally made for TV.
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 Desk Set 1957  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall, Neva Patterson, Harry Ellerbe, Nicholas Joy, Diane Jergens
Everything is running on an even keel in a television station's research department–until Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) arrives on the scene to computerize the office. 1 User Review
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East Side of Heaven 1939 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Irene Hervey, C. Aubrey Smith, Jerome Cowan, Robert Kent, J. Farrell MacDonald, Arthur Hoyt, Brandon Hurst
Taxi driver Denny (Bing Crosby) discovers a baby abandoned on the back seat of his cab, and he determines to care for the infant with the help of fiancee Mary (Joan Blondell) and his best friend, Nicky (Mischa Auer). Crosby croons, of course.
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Footlight Parade 1933 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Renee Whitney, Ruth Donnelly
This is one of those grand scale musicals that, in this instance, contains some of Busby Berkeley's best work. Chester Kent (James Cagney) is a brash, hustling stage director who faces economic and romantic problems.
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The Glove 1979 R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Blood Mad
The Glove: Lethal Terminator
Lethal Terminator
Director: Ross Hagen
Cast: John Saxon, Roosevelt Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell, Jack Carter, Keenan Wynn, Aldo Ray, Michael Pataki, Howard Honig, Hoke Howell, Misty Bruce, Nicholas Worth
Los Angeles bounty hunter Sam Kellough (John Saxon) needs money and to enhance his financial situation takes on the assignment of tracking down psychotic killer Victor Hale (Roosevelt Grier) who has a $20,000 bounty on his head.
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 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Aline MacMahon, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers, Sterling Holloway, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Billy Barty, Hobart Cavanaugh, Busby Berkeley, Charles(1) Lane, Tammany Young
This musical proved so popular that two sequels were made: one in 1935 and another in 1937. Unemployed showgirls Carol (Joan Blondell), Polly (Ruby Keeler), and Trixie (Aline MacMahon) want to perform in a musical, and IF Polly will play the lead, singer-composer Brad Roberts (Dick Powell) will foot the bill. Brad and Polly are in love, but Brad's wealthy family disapproves and will stop at nothing to break them up–but they fail, and the show goes on. Ginger Rogers sings "We're in the Money" while wearing only silver dollars in one of the great Busby Berkeley production numbers.
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Gold Diggers of 1937 1936 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell, Lee Dixon, Osgood Perkins, Charles D. Brown, Joseph Crehan, William B. Davidson, Olin Howland, Rosalind Marquis, Irene Ware, Charles Halton, Paul Irving, Harry C. Bradley
This is the third–and final–"Gold Diggers" film, and Busby Berkeley, though not in the director's chair for this one, still handled the choreography. This time around, unemployed chorus girls Genevieve Larkin (Glenda Farrell) and Norma Perry (Joan Blondell) are in on a plot to buy insurance from Rosmer Peak (Dick Powell) to insure J.J. Horbart (Victor Moore) in order to make money when he dies. Meanwhile, Horbart's partners lost his money in the stock market, and he has no money to finance his next Broadway show. Now, Genevieve falls in love with Horbart who suffers a breakdown when he learns that he is broke. The only way to restore Horbart's health is to put on the show without financial backing. And the show goes on.
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 Grease 1978  PG, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Randal Kleiser
Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Dinah Manoff, Didi Conn, Jamie Donnelly, Barry Pearl, Kelly Ward, Eve Arden, Michael Tucci, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar
Two high-school gangs of the 1950s, the T-Birds (guys) and the Pink Ladies (girls), are the centerpiece of this film. T-Bird leader Danny (John Travolta) falls for Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) during the summer. When school begins in the fall, Sandy's family has moved to town, and she is the "new girl" on campus–an event that does not go unnoticed by the Pink Ladies. A fun musical look at the 1950s.
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Greeks Had a Word for Them 1932 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Three Broadway Girls
Director: Lowell Sherman
Cast: Madge Evans, Joan Blondell, Ina Claire, David Manners, Lowell Sherman, Phillips Smalley, Sidney Bracey, Betty Grable, Louise Beavers, Ward Bond, Creighton Hale
Three New York City women–Polaire (Madge Evans), Schatze (Joan Blondell), and Jean (Ina Claire)–set out to find wealthy husbands. This story has been made several times, including "How to Marry a Millionaire."
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He Was Her Man 1934 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Victor Jory, Frank Craven, Harold Huber, Russell Hopton, Ralf Harolde, John Qualen, Samuel S. Hinds, George Chandler
This weak crime drama concerns a double-crossing safecracker fleeing from the mob. He ends up in a fishing village and falls in love with a fisherman's fiancee. Not exactly one of Cagney's best.
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Millie 1931 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Francis Dillon
Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames, Joan Blondell, John Halliday, James Hall, Anita Louise, Edmund Breese, Frank McHugh, Charlotte Walker, Charles Delaney, Harry Stubbs, Harvey Clark
Millie (Helen Twelvetrees) has been unlucky in love more than a few times over the years, but, unlike her gold digging friends Angie and Helen (Joan Blondell and Lilyan Tashman), Millie has made a living on her own. Now, one of her long-lost suitors, Jimmy (John Halliday), has returned and is pursuing Millie's 16-year-old daughter, Connie (Anita Louise). Millie warns Jimmy to stay away from Connie, he ignores her, and Millie shoots and kills him when she catches him seducing Connie. Millie is acquitted, however, after Connie testifies and tells what really happened the night Jimmy was killed.
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Night Nurse 1931 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Ben Lyon, Charles Winninger, Clark Gable, Edward J. Nugent, Blanche Friderici, Walter McGrail, Ralf Harolde, Vera Lewis, Charlotte Merriam, Marcia Mae Jones, Jed Prouty, Allan Lane, Betty Jane Graham
Student nurse Lora Hart (Barbara Stanwyck) learns of a plot to starve her young patients Nanny (Marcia Mae Jones) and Desney (Betty Jane Graham) who are heirs to a large inheritance. The family chauffeur Nick (Clark Gable) plans to marry the children's mother (Charlotte Merriam), and he wants to take control of the inheritance. Now it is up to Lora's nurse friend B. Maloney (Joan Blondell) and bootlegging boyfriend Mortie (Ben Lyon) to come to Laura's aid and save the children.
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Nightmare Alley 1947 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith, Roy Roberts, James Flavin, Julia Dean
The life of carnival barker Stan Carlisle (Tyrone Power) takes a downward spiral when he becomes involved with mind-reader Zeena (Joan Blondell) and subsequent blackmailing.
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Opening Night 1977 N/R, 144 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cassavetes
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert, Peter Bogdanovich, Laura Johnson, John Finnegan, James Karen
All the backstage drama of an aging actress (Gena Rowlands) is presented in this insightful film written by, directed by, and starring John Cassavetes.
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The Opposite Sex 1956 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: David Miller
Cast: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Agnes Moorehead, Charlotte Greenwood, Joan Blondell, Jim Backus
This remake of 1939's "The Women" features June Allison as the wife who connives to get her wandering husband back. Good, but not quite as good as the earlier version, and is now a musical.
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Other Men's Women 1931 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: James Cagney, Grant Withers, Mary Astor, Regis Toomey, Joan Blondell, Fred Kohler, J. Farrell MacDonald, Walter Long, Lillian Worth, Pat Hartigan, Lucille Ward, Pat Harmon, Kewpie Morgan, Bob Perry, Lee Moran
Passions seethe while Lily (Mary Astor) is at one corner of a love triangle involving railroad workers Bill (Grant Withers) and Jack (Regis Toomey)–and Jack is her husband. The two men fight on a train, Jack falls off the engine, and his injuries leave him permanently blind. Later, a torrential rainstorm hits the area, and a railway bridge is threatened by the swelling waters. Bill tries to save the bridge by stalling a train on the bridge to give it extra weight. But, Jack takes over, throws Bill off the train, and drives the train to the bridge where it crashes into the water, bringing about his demise.
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The Perfect Speciman 1937 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Edward Everett Horton, Dick Foran, May Robson, Beverly Roberts, Allen Jenkins, Dennie Moore, Hugh O'Connell
A wealthy woman (May Robson) shelters her grandson (Errol Flynn) from the outside world until a beautiful woman (Joan Blondell) enters the picture, and the grandmother loses control.
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 The Public Enemy 1931  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Mae Clarke, Beryl Mercer, Leslie Fenton, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Murray Kinnell, Clark "Buddy" Burroughs, Frankie Darro, Frank Coghlan Jr., Tyrell Davis
This gangster film was the vehicle that catapulted James Cagney to the top as a portrayer of tough guys. Tom Powers (Cagney) rises from the slums of Chicago to become a vicious racketeer only to find that the fall from power is inevitable.
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Ride Beyond Vengeance 1966 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Night of the Tiger
Director: Bernard McEveety
Cast: Chuck Connors, Michael Rennie, Kathryn Hays, Joan Blondell, Gloria Grahame, Gary Merrill, Bill Bixby, Claude Akins, Paul Fix, Harry Harvey, Jamie Farr, Arthur O'Connell
Told in flashbacks by a bartender (Arthur O'Connell), this is the violent tale of Jonas Trapp (Chuck Connors) who returns to his small Texas town, after an 11-year absence, with a fortune made by hunting buffalo. He had originally married Jessie (Kathryn Hays) to have access to her aunt's money. Now, he receives a brutal homecoming from thugs who think he made his money rustling cattle, and they brand Jonas with a "T." Jonas' revenge will be bloody.
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Sinner's Holiday 1930 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Adolfi
Cast: Grant Withers, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Joan Blondell, Lucille La Verne, Noel Madison, Otto Hoffman, Warren Hymer, Hank Mann, Purnell Pratt
In this depressing story (James Cagney's first film), gypsies in an amusement park provide the backdrop for murder.
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The Spy in the Green Hat 1966 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Jack Palance, Janet Leigh, Leo G. Carroll, Leticia Roman, Eduardo Ciannelli, Allen Jenkins, Joan Blondell, Elisha Cook Jr.
This film is a result of splicing together parts of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." TV series and is a watchable James Bond and 1930s gangster film spoof. Jack Palance plays the bad guy who is the target of the U.N.C.L.E. agents.
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Stand-In 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Mowbray, C. Henry Gordon, Jack Carson, Tully Marshall, J.C. Nugent, William V. Mong, Olin Howland
In this satire, Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) goes to Hollywood with a mission–to save a studio.
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Stay Away, Joe 1968  PG, 101 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Cast: Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell, Katy Jurado, Henry Jones, Thomas Gomez, L.Q. Jones, Quentin Dean, Anne Seymour, Douglas Henderson, Angus Duncan, Mike Lane, Warren Vanders, Buck Kartalian
A mixed-blood Indian rodeo champ, Joe Lightcloud (Elvis Presley), convinces a congressman to give him assistance in the form of a bull and twenty heifers so that he can build a herd. Then, Joe throws a party for his Navajo friends, and the bull, instead of a heifer, is slaughtered and barbequed. Joe does manage to get another bull, but that just leads to more problems. By story's end, Joe has romanced Mamie (Quentin Dean) and even manages to borrow a rodeo bull, win a big stake, and invest in a new herd. Along the way, Joe sings "Dominick," "Stay Away, Joe," "Lovely Mamie," and "All I Needed Was the Rain."
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Support Your Local Gunfighter 1971 G, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western
Director: Burt Kennedy
Cast: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Joan Blondell, Harry Morgan, Marie Windsor, John Dehner, Henry Jones, Chuck Connors, Dub Taylor, Kathleen Freeman, Dick Curtis, Willis Bouchey, Walter Burke, Grady Sutton
This is a fun Comedy/Western with James Garner in the role of con artist Latigo who arrives in the mining town of Purgatory. The opportunity presents itself for him to make some money out of a dispute by making people think that he is a gunslinger. Latigo is hired to rid the town of feared gunslinger Jug May (Jack Elam), and the fun begins. Elam, always good, is at his best. Despite the title, director, and cast, this is not a sequel to "Support Your Local Sheriff."
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Three on a Match 1932 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lyle Talbot, Patricia Ellis, Sheila Terry, Grant Mitchell, Clara Blandick, Virginia Davis, Anne Shirley, Betty Carse, Allen Jenkins, Edward Arnold
Schoolmates from the past–actress Mary Keaton (Joan Blondell), high-society matron Vivian Revere (Ann Dvorak), and Ruth Westcott (Bette Davis)–meet at a restaurant and use one match to light their cigarettes. Over the next years, Vivian divorces Henry (Warren William), leaves her baby son with him, and marries gambler Mike (Lyle Talbot). Mary marries Henry, and Ruth works as the baby's governess. By now, Vivian is a drug addict and alcoholic and has become involved in a plot to kidnap her own son when her husband Mike hires "Harve the Mug" (Humphrey Bogart) to perform the kidnapping. During the kidnapping, both Vivian and her son are taken captive, but Vivian jumps out of a window, and the police rescue her son.
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Topper Returns 1941 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Mystery / Romance
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke, Dennis O'Keefe, Patsy Kelly, H.B. Warner, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, George Zucco, Donald MacBride, Trevor Bardette, Rafaela Ottiano, George Lloyd, Duke York, Eddy Chandler
Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) is back in this final episode of the series. The fun-loving ghost of Gail Richards (Joan Blondell) seeks the aid of Cosmo in finding her killer before the killer finds her friend who was the intended victim. The search ends up in a dark, old house with all the creepy attributes. Some very funny scenes. A Special Effects Academy Award nomination was received.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason, Ruth Nelson, John Alexander, Ferike Boros, Ted Donaldson, B.S. Pully, Al Bridge, Virginia Brissac, Charles Halton, J. Farrell McDonald
Financial worries of her parents, Katie and Johnny Nolan (Dorothy McGuire and James Dunn), affect the happiness of teenager Francie (Peggy Ann Garner) at the end of the 19th century. Growing up in a tenement existence, Francie wants a better life but struggles just to survive. A tree that survives the seasons is visible from their tenement and is her family's symbol of survival. This film is the first directorial effort of Elia Kazan. Dunn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Garner was presented an Honorary Oscar as Outstanding Child Actress.
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Waterhole #3 1967 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western
Director: William A. Graham
Cast: James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor, Margaret Blye, Claude Akins, Bruce Dern, Joan Blondell, James Whitmore, Robert Cornthwaite, Timothy Carey, Roy Jenson, Harry Davis, Jim Boles, Steve Whittaker, Ted Markland, Rupert Crosse
During the 1880s, Cavalry Sergeant Henry J. Foggers (Claude Akins), with help from Hilb (Timothy Carey), robs gold from the Army and buries it in a waterhole in the middle of a desert. Lewton Cole (James Coburn) wants to get his hands on the treasure map showing where the gold is buried. He steals Sheriff Copperude's (Carroll O'Connor) horse and makes love to Copperude's daughter Billee (Margaret Blye). Billee tells her father that she was raped, and they follow Cole to bring him to justice. They catch up with Cole, but then Foggers arrives and takes the gold. Later, a shootout ensues, and Billee finds where the gold is hidden. But, Cole also arrives, takes the gold and Billee's clothing, and rides off to Mexico.
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 1957 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Mickey Hargitay, Groucho Marx, Ann McCrea
The TV advertising world is satirized in this story about Rockwell Hunter's (Tony Randall) promotion for "Stay-Put" lipstick. The sexy model, Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield), is the spokesperson, but Rockwell's fiancee Jenny (Betsy Drake) has major problems accepting this.
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| 1. Advance to the Rear (1964)
2. Adventure (1945)
3. Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
4. Angel Baby (1961)
5. Big City Blues (1932)
6. Blonde Crazy (1931)
7. Bullets or Ballots (1936)
8. The Champ (1979)
9. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
10. The Crowd Roars (1932)
11. Dames (1934)
12. Death at Love House (1976)
13. Desk Set (1957)
14. East Side of Heaven (1939)
15. Footlight Parade (1933)
16. The Glove (1979)
aka: Blood Mad
aka: The Glove: Lethal Terminator
aka: Lethal Terminator
17. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
18. Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
19. Grease (1978)
20. Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
aka: Three Broadway Girls
21. He Was Her Man (1934)
22. Illicit (1931)
23. Lady for a Night (1941)
24. Millie (1931)
25. Night Nurse (1931)
26. Nightmare Alley (1947)
27. Opening Night (1977)
28. The Opposite Sex (1956)
29. Other Men's Women (1931)
30. The Perfect Speciman (1937)
31. The Public Enemy (1931)
32. Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)
aka: Night of the Tiger
33. Sinner's Holiday (1930)
34. The Spy in the Green Hat (1966)
35. Stand-In (1937)
36. Stay Away, Joe (1968)
37. Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
38. Three on a Match (1932)
39. Topper Returns (1941)
40. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
41. Waterhole #3 (1967)
42. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
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