The Adventures of Mark Twain 1944  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Fredric March, Nana Bryant, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine, Percy Kilbride, Thurston Hall, Monte Blue, William Henry, Robert Barrat, Walter Hampden, Joyce Reynolds, Whitford Kane
This biography of Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, stars Fredric March as the teller of tales about mid-19th-century America whose work reflects concerns with how human beings relate to one another. During his early years, he works as a navigator on the Mississippi River, and then moves out West and heads for the California Gold Rush. He writes "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," and his successful career as a writer begins. The film also chronicles his professional and personal life, including his marriage to Olivia Langdon (Alexis Smith) and continues on to his death at age 75.
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Always Together 1948   N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frederick De Cordova
Cast: Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Ernest Truex, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Carson, Alexis Smith, Errol Flynn, Janis Paige, Dennis Morgan, Don McGuire, Ransom M. Sherman, Douglas Kennedy, Barbara Bates, Ralph Brooks
Jane Barker (Joyce Reynolds) inherits $1,000,000 when millionaire Jonathan Turner (Cecil Kellaway) believes that he is dying. Just when Jane and her husband Donn (Robert Hutton) begin plans to enjoy their newfound wealth, the benefactor recovers–and wants his $1,000,000 back! Throughout her problems, Jane imagines that her experiences are movies, and real actors are part of her imagination.
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George Washington Slept Here 1942   N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride, Hattie McDaniel, William Tracy, Joyce Reynolds, Lee Patrick, Charles Dingle, John Emery, William Tracy
A New York couple (Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan) buys a "fix-me-up" home in Connecticut where they discover a letter that may be evidence that George Washington once slept there. 2 User Reviews
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| | Loved this movie | Anonymous 02/25/2010 | | Humorous look into life 'the way it used to be'. |
| | Loved this movie | Anonymous 02/25/2010 | | Humorous look into life 'the way it used to be'. |
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Janie 1944 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Robert Benchley, Joyce Reynolds, Alan Hale, Hattie McDaniel, Barbara Brown, Richard Erdman, Jackie Moran, John Forrest
When teenager Janie (Joyce Reynolds) falls for a GI (Robert Hutton) stationed at a nearby army camp, her father goes into action to stop the romance.
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| 1. The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
2. Always Together (1948)
3. George Washington Slept Here (1942)
4. Janie (1944)
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