Artists and Models Abroad 1938  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Jack Benny, Joan Bennett, Mary Boland, Charley Grapewin, Joyce Compton, Yacht Club Boys, Fritz Feld, Monty Woolley, G.P. Huntley
In this second of Jack Benny "Artists and Models" musicals, a musical company is stranded in Paris, but the boss (Benny) knows how to bail them out. Light and entertaining, even today.
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 The Awful Truth 1937 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont, Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Mary Forbes, Robert Warwick, Robert Allen
Lucy and Jerry Arriner (Irene Dunne and Cary Grant) divorce after believing each was unfaithful. Lucy was seeing handsome Armand Duvalle (Alex D'Arcy) and now is also dating wealthy neighbor Daniel Leeson (Ralph Bellamy). Meanwhile, Jerry starts dating nightclub singer Dixie Belle Lee (Joyce Compton) and socialite Barbara Vance (Molly Lamont). Their dog seems to be the only thing Lucy and Jerry have in common–until Lucy decides that she wants to resume her marriage to Jerry and starts plotting to get him back. Little does Lucy know that Jerry is still in love with her, and, as they set out to sabotage each other's plans to remarry, the fun begins. Leo McCarey won an Oscar for Best Director, and several other nominations were received, including Best Picture, Actress, and Supporting Actor (Bellamy).
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 Bedtime Story 1941 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley, Allyn Joslyn, Eve Arden, Helen Westley, Joyce Compton, Tim Ryan, Clarence Kolb, Andrew Tombes
Playwright Lucius Drake (Fredric March) and his wife (Loretta Young) have problems: he wants her to star in his next production. Their solutions provide good entertainment.
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Blues in the Night 1941  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson, Wallace Ford, Howard Da Silva, Elia Kazan, Billy Halop, Peter Whitney, Joyce Compton, Herbert Heywood, George Lloyd, Charles C. Wilson, Matt McHugh
"Jigger" Pine (Richard Whorf) forms a jazz band, and the trumpeter Leo's (Jack Carson) wife Ginger "Character" Powell (Priscilla Lane) is their singer. They wait for that big break that doesn't come and spend their time riding the trains from one small gig to another. On one train ride they meet gangster Del Davis (Lloyd Nolan) who offers the band a job at his New Jersey roadhouse. They begin performing for Davis and employ sultry Kay (Betty Field) as their singer–and, too late, learn how mobster's moll Kay can tear the band apart.
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Christmas in Connecticut 1945 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall, Robert Shayne, Una O'Connor, Frank Jenks, Joyce Compton, John Dehner, Dick Elliott, Marie Blake, Walter Baldwin, Emmet Smith, Jack Mower
Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) writes for a homemaker magazine, but, in reality, she does no housework herself. When she is coerced into entertaining a young World War II veteran (Dennis Morgan), Elizabeth must find a phony husband, baby, and house to ensure that her boss (Sydney Greenstreet) does not catch on to her deceptive business practices.
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City for Conquest 1940  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quinn, Frank McHugh, Bob Steele, Jerome Cowan, Lee Patrick, Blanche Yurka, Joyce Compton, Thurston Hall
Gotham truck driver Danny (James Cagney) goes back into the boxing ring to help his kid brother Eddie (Arthur Kennedy) with tuition for music school where he is studying to become a composer. Meanwhile, Danny's girlfriend Peggy (Ann Sheridan), hoping to make a career as a nightclub dancer, breaks off their engagement and goes into partnership with sleazy, professional dancer Murray Burns (Anthony Quinn). Now, Danny accepts a championship bout but ends up blind after resin dust is put on his gloves by his opponent's handlers. Danny and Peggy appear irreconcilable–until Eddie composes a symphony that tells how Peggy and Danny really feel and conducts his first major work at Carnegie Hall. 1 User Review
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| | Mr. Music 11/28/2007 | | Music Score Excellent with strong melodies that were parallel to the drama in good contrapuntal style. |
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Country Gentlemen 1936  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ralph Staub
Cast: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Joyce Compton, Lila Lee, Pierre Watkin, Donald Kirke, Ray Corrigan, Sammy McKim, Wade Boteler, Ivan Miller, Olin Howland, Frank Sheridan
The comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson play con men who fleece residents of a veterans' home by selling stock in a non-producing oil well. The furious vets discover the scam and prepare for a lynching party–until the well, surprisingly, begins gushing oil.
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Ellis Island 1936  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon, Jack La Rue, Joyce Compton, Bradley Page, Johnny Arthur, George Rosener, Maurice Black, E.H. Calvert, Bryant Washburn, Robert Frazer, Matty Fain
Ted Kedrich (George Rosener) has been released from prison after serving time for bank robbery. He is in the process of deportation at Ellis Island when he is kidnapped by a gang wanting the never-recovered stolen money. Now it falls on the shoulders of immigration officer Gary Curtis (Donald Cook) to lead the search for Ted AND the money.
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I Take This Oath 1940  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Police Rookie
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Gordon Jones, Joyce Compton, Craig Reynolds, J. Farrell MacDonald, Mary Gordon, Robert Homans, Sam Flint, Veda Ann Borg, Guy Usher, Brooks Benedict, Edward Peil Sr., Budd Buster
After a veteran police officer (Robert Homans) is killed by racketeers, his son, rookie cop Steve Hanagan (Gordon Jones), investigates the crime syndicate and comes up with more than a few surprises, some of which are close to home.
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Let 'Em Have It 1935 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: False Faces
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Richard Arlen, Virginia Bruce, Alice Brady, Bruce Cabot, Harvey Stephens, Eric Linden, Joyce Compton, Gordon Jones, J. Farrell MacDonald, Bodil Rosing, Paul Stanton, Hale Hamilton
FBI agents (Richard Arlen, Harvey Stephens, and Gordon Jones) go through the rigors of training and then track down gang leader Joe Keefer (Bruce Cabot) who has resorted to plastic surgery in order to disguise himself. Car chases and gun fights abound.
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Manpower 1941 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, Alan Hale, Walter Catlett, Frank McHugh, Eve Arden, Barton MacLane, Ward Bond, Joyce Compton
Two power-line workers (Edward G. Robinson and George Raft) are attracted to a nightclub hostess (Marlene Dietrich), and their fights for her attention get in the way of their relationship with each other.
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Murder with Pictures 1936 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Lew Ayres, Gail Patrick, Joyce Compton, Paul Kelly, Onslow Stevens, Ernest Cossart, Anthony Nace, Benny Baker, Joe Sawyer, Irving Bacon, Purnell Pratt, Frank Sheridan
Crime boss Nate Girard (Onslw Stevens) beats a murder rap and throws a party for the press during which one of his men is killed while posing for a picture with Nate. Photographer Kent Murdock (Lew Ayres) was at the party where he met a woman (Gail Patrick) who needed to talk with him. Later, she shows up at Kent's apartment and tells him that she is a suspect in the murder. Kent believes her and sets out to find the real killer.
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Scared to Death 1947 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Christy Cabanne
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Douglas Fowley, Joyce Compton, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton, Molly Lamont, Angelo Rossitto, Gladys Blake, Roland Varno, Stanley Andrews, Stanley Price
This story is narrated by the corpse of Laura Van Ee (Molly Lamont) who suffered persecution by her husband and others until the fright proved too much, and she died. Now, from the morgue, the bizarre story of just how she got there is told.
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Silver Spurs 1943 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, John Carradine, Phyllis Brooks, Jerome Cowan, Joyce Compton, Hal Taliaferro, Pat Brady, Tom London, Bob Nolan
Oil-rich lands on a proposed railroad route mean there is a land grabber somewhere around. Rancher Roy Rogers comes to the rescue when the grabber kills for the land.
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The Three Sisters 1930 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Sloane
Cast: Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola, Kenneth MacKenna, Joyce Compton, June Collyer, Addie McPhail, Cliff Saum, Sidney De Gray, Paul Porcasi, John St. Polis, Herman Bing
This film is about three Italian sisters, Carlotta (Joyce Compton), Elena (June Collyer), and Antonia (Addie McPhail), who head in separate directions after World War I and leave their mother (Louise Dresser) behind.
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 Thunder Birds 1942 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton, Jack Holt, Dame May Whitty, George Barbier, Richard Haydn, Reginald Denny, Iris Adrian, Ted North, C. Montague Shaw, Joyce Compton
Set during World War II, this is the story of a love triangle between Kay Saunders (Gene Tierney), air cadet Steve Britt (Preston Foster), and his trainer Peter Stackhouse (John Sutton).
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Trade Winds 1938 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern, Sidney Blackmer, Thomas Mitchell, Robert Elliott, Joyce Compton, Phyllis Barry, Dorothy Tree
Smooth ladies' man, detective Sam Wye (Fredric March), and his sidekick, Ben (Ralph Bellamy), chase murder suspect Kay (Joan Bennett) throughout Asia, and Sam falls in love with her in the process. When he catches up with her, he helps establish her innocence. Good performances throughout, especially Joan Bennett and Ann Sothern.
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Trapped by Television 1936 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Del Lord
Cast: Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, Nat Pendleton, Joyce Compton, Thurston Hall, Henry Mollison, Wyrley Birch, Robert Strange, Marc Lawrence, Russell Hicks
After Fred Dennis (Lyle Talbot) invents a two-way television device, he looks for backing and unwisely chooses a crooked investor and gets involved with thieves who want to steal his invention.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her 1940 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: Hugh Herbert, Anita Louise, Alan Mowbray, Buster Keaton, Joyce Compton, Richard Cromwell, Billy Gilbert, Margaret Hamilton, Franklin Pangborn, William Farnum, Charles Judels, Walter Tetley
In this spoof of the popular stage melodrama "The Drunkard," Edward the Hero (Richard Cromwell) is lured by Cribbs the Villain (Alan Mowbray) into drinking rum, which plunges poor Edward into the gutter. Gribb's goal is to win the affections of Edward's long-suffering wife, Mary (Anita Louise), but along comes the real hero, Frederick (Hugh Herbert), who foils Cribbs' plan. Despite the presence of Buster Keaton (who has some good lines), the joke is on the audience.
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Wild Company 1930 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Frank Albertson, H.B. Warner, Sharon Lynn, Joyce Compton, Claire McDowell, Bela Lugosi, George Fawcett, Richard Keene, Frances McCoy, Kenneth Thomson
Following an argument with his girlfriend, Larry Grayson (Frank Albertson) heads for a nightclub where he meets Sally who proves to be the last thing he needs.
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Women of All Nations 1931 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Greta Nissen, El Brendel, Humphrey Bogart, Fifi D'Orsay, Bela Lugosi, Joyce Compton, Charles Judels, T. Roy Barnes
The sultan's harem is the centerpiece for this dog of a film.
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| 1. Artists and Models Abroad (1938)
2. The Awful Truth (1937)
3. Bedtime Story (1941)
4. Blues in the Night (1941)
5. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
6. City for Conquest (1940)
7. Country Gentlemen (1936)
8. Dark Alibi (1946)
9. Ellis Island (1936)
10. I Take This Oath (1940)
aka: Police Rookie
11. Let 'Em Have It (1935)
aka: False Faces
12. Manpower (1941)
13. Murder with Pictures (1936)
14. Scared to Death (1947)
15. Silver Spurs (1943)
16. The Three Sisters (1930)
17. Thunder Birds (1942)
18. Trade Winds (1938)
19. Trapped by Television (1936)
20. The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)
21. Wild Company (1930)
22. The Wild Party (1929)
23. Women of All Nations (1931)
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