Alibi Ike 1935   N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, William Frawley, Ruth Donnelly, Roscoe Karns, Joe King, Paul Harvey, Spencer Charters, Joseph Crehan, Eddie Shubert
This Ring Lardner comedy is about a baseball pitcher (Joe E. Brown) who is the center of many events that go wrong as he continues to persevere. 2 User Reviews
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| | 07/28/2007 | | I HAVE BEEN A PHILLIES FAN FOR 47 YEARS AND I TRULY LOVE THIS MOVIE. IT SHOULD BE PRODUCED ON DVD!!!!!!! |
| | 07/28/2007 | GREAT MOVIE!!!!!!! THIS IS A LONG FORGOTTEN CLASSIC BUT I TAPED IT OFF MY SATELLITE DISH THIS MORNING. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE ELMER THE GREAT AND FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD!!!!!! GOD BLESS JOE E. BROWN!!!!!!!
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 Alice in Wonderland 1933  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, Charles Ruggles, Roscoe Karns, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, Cary Grant, Sterling Holloway, Edward Everett Horton, Leon Errol, Ned Sparks
This is the Lewis Carroll story brought to the screen with Alice (Charlotte Henry) dealing with the offbeat characters in Wonderland. This is the first full-length film of the story.
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Cain and Mabel 1936 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns, Walter Catlett, E.E. Clive, Robert Paige, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ruth Donnelly, William Collier Sr.
A musical star, Mabel O'Dare (Marion Davies), pretends to be in love with a championship fighter, Larry Cain (Clark Gable), as part of a publicity stunt, but the stunt takes on new dimensions when the romance turns serious.
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The Crooked Circle 1932 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Ben Lyon, Zasu Pitts, James Gleason, Irene Purcell, C. Henry Gordon, Raymond Hatton, Roscoe Karns, Berton Churchill, Spencer Charters, Robert Frazer, Frank Reicher, Christian Rub
When amateur detectives track down a secret society of hooded students of the occult and confront them in a haunted house, mayhem ensues.
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Dangerous to Know 1938  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Florey
Cast: Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, Harvey Stephens, Anthony Quinn, Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Hedda Hopper, Eddie Marr
Gangster Stephen Recka (Akim Tamiroff) drops his faithful mistress (Anna May Wong) in favor of a beautiful society girl (Gail Patrick).
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Footsteps in the Dark 1941 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Hale, Lee Patrick, Allen Jenkins, Lucile Watson, William Frawley, Roscoe Karns, Grant Mitchell
While looking for ideas for crime novels, writer Francis Warren (Errol Flynn) heads for the seamy side of the city and ends up solving a real crime.
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Four Hours to Kill 1935 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Helen Mack, Gertrude Michael, Dorothy Tree, Roscoe Karns, Ray Milland, Henry Travers, Paul Harvey, Noel Madison
A murderer eludes his guard and escapes into a theater where the lives of those in attendance are affected by the danger of his presence.
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Front Page Woman 1935 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Roscoe Karns, Wini Shaw, J. Carrol Naish, Joseph Crehan, J. Farrell MacDonald, Addison Richards, Selmer Jackson, Joe King
Newspaper reporters, Ellen (Bette Davis) and Curt (George Brent), are in love with each other, but they are always on the lookout for a chance to be first to file the latest hot news story.
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Gambling Ship 1933  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Louis J. Gasnier, Max Marcin
Cast: Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Roscoe Karns, Glenda Farrell, Jack La Rue, Arthur Vinton, Charles Williams, Edwin Maxwell, Frank Moran, Spencer Charters
This is a limp story of a gambler, Ace (Cary Grant), who poses as a businessman on a train. He meets Eleanor (Benita Hume), who is posing as a socialite but is really the mistress for a man who owns a failing gambling ship. She convinces Ace to buy the ship in order to get business from Pete (Jack La Rue), an enemy of Ace. Some fine moments and LaRue is a great villain.
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Grand Slam 1933 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Loretta Young, Paul Lukas, Frank McHugh, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Roscoe Karns, Walter Byron, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Joseph Cawthorn, Paul Porcasi
After a waiter (Paul Lukas) is called on to make up a fourth during a bridge tournament, he falls in love with one of the players (Loretta Young) in this tongue-in-cheek look at the bridge tournament craze of the 1930s.
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 His Girl Friday 1940   N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Regis Toomey, Ernest Truex, Frank Jenks, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen
Newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) pulls out all stops to prevent the marriage of his star reporter–and ex-wife–Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) to insurance agent Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Walter convinces Hildy to cover one last story about the execution of anarchist Earl Williams (John Qualen). When Williams escapes, with help from Walter and Hildy he hides in the prison press room. Hildy is set to write her big story, while Walter uses their time together to woo her back. A Grant classic, along with great cast and script. 1 User Review
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| | Verbal Comedy Doesn't Get Better Than This | 1fatts 07/23/2007 | Menjou and O'Brian did it in '31. Mathau and Lemmon in '74. Robert Ryan and George Grizzard did it on TV in 1970. And somebody even did it once somewhere as a musical. But this is the one. This one: 1940 with Cary Grant and Roz Russell.
A fast-paced play by McArthur and Hecht called "The Front Page" got kicked up several notches when someone decided to turn Hildy Johnson, the bitter, frustrated reporter looking for an escape from the newspaper game into a normal life, into a woman, ex-wife of fast-talking, vicious-but-lovable editor Walter Burns. Cary Grant as burns was never faster or funnier, but his pairing with Roz Russell as Hildy is nothing short of magic. The dialogue zings along, and every second line is a zinger.
But there is more to this than the very real verbal jousting. There is a glimpse into the world of newspapers which is illuminating and more than a little frightening. Anything for the story; it is never about fact, but about the lead, the scoop. Russell's scene with John Qualen's Earl Williams is sharp and tough and cold. The scenes with the veterans in the jailhouse newsroom captures an earlier time and speech pattern, but, one suspects, it has more to say about what media news is really about than All the President's Men could every have hoped to show.
There is an edge to the script that raises it about great comedy into something more important than that.
One of the best things Howard Hawks ever did. Not to be missed. |
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If I Had a Million 1932  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, Frances Dee, Charles Ruggles, W.C. Fields, Mary Boland, Roscoe Karns, Jack Oakie, Wynne Gibson
This film is a series of stories about what happens when an anonymous man picks names at random from the telephone book and gives those chosen gifts of money.
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 It Happened One Night 1934 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, Henry Wadsworth, Claire McDowell, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hoyt, Ward Bond, Milton Kibbee, Jameson Thomas, Blanche Friderici, Charles C. Wilson, Irving Bacon, Bess Flowers
This movie took a clean sweep of the Academy Awards with Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Writer. It relates the romance of a news reporter (Clark Gable) who is out for a story about a spoiled rich girl (Claudette Colbert) who is on the run from her father and fiance. Of course, they fall in love. Clark Gable, "Remember me? I'm the fellow you slept on last night."
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 The Jazz Singer 1927 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Alan Crosland
Cast: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, William Demarest, Roscoe Karns, Myrna Loy, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Robert Gordon, Richard Tucker, Nat Carr, Will Walling
Although this film is considered the first "talkie," in reality it is a silent film with a musical score. Al Jolson plays Jack Robin, the son of a cantor (Warner Oland) who, to his father's regret, finds jazz more appealing than the music of his father's synagogue. Warner Brothers received an Honorary Oscar for this pioneer talkie.
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King of Chinatown 1939 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Grinde
Cast: Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Sidney Toler, Philip Ahn, Anthony Quinn, Roscoe Karns, Richard Denning, Charles Trowbridge, Alex Pollard
Mobster Frank Baturin (Akim Tamiroff) is double-crossed by his own goons, and the course of his life is subsequently altered.
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Laughing Sinners 1931 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau, Guy Kibbee, Cliff Edwards, Roscoe Karns, Johnny Mack Brown
Nightclub performer Ivy (Joan Crawford) is saved from a near suicide by Salvation Army worker Carl (Clark Gable), who convinces her to start life anew–until her past lover, Howard Palmer (Neil Hamilton), appears back on the scene.
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Man's Favorite Sport? 1964 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver, Charlene Holt, Roscoe Karns, Forrest Lewis, Regis Toomey, James Westerfield, Norman Alden, Tyler McVey, Kathie Browne
Star fishing-gear salesman Roger (Rock Hudson) knows nothing about fishing. When publicity director Abigail (Paula Prentiss) talks Roger's boss into entering Roger in a fishing tournament, he wins–with help from a bear– and his troubles begin.
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My Son, the Hero 1943 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Patsy Kelly, Roscoe Karns, Joan Blair, Carol Hughes, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Luis Alberni, Joseph Allen, Lois Collier, Jeni Le Gon, Nick Stewart, Hal Price, Al St. John, Maxine Leslie
Con-man "Big Time" Morgan (Roscoe Karns) has lied to his war correspondent son, Michael (Joseph Allen), by telling him he is a wealthy businessman. Now, Michael is coming to visit his father, and "Big Time"–with help from ex-wife Gerty (Patsy Kelly) and prize fighter Kid Slug (Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom)–gets his hands not only a mansion but a family as well, thus increasing his chances of pulling off the deception.
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The Navy Way 1944  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Berke
Cast: Robert Lowery, Jean Parker, William Henry, Roscoe Karns, Sharon Douglas, Robert Armstrong, Tom Keene, Larry Nunn, Mary Treen, Joseph Crehan
Disgruntled boxer Johnny (Robert Lowery) has a tough time adjusting to regimented life as he learns the "Navy Way" during boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. But he finally sees the need for teamwork in one of a series of World War II propaganda films.
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Night After Night 1932 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Mae West, Alison Skipworth, Roscoe Karns, Louis Calhern, Bradley Page, Al Hill, Harry Wallace, George Templeton, Marty Martyn, Tom Kennedy
Retired boxer Joe Anton (George Raft) owns a New York speakeasy when he decides that marriage to socialite Miss Jerry Healy (Constance Cummings) will provide his entrance into society. But, complications arise when his old flame Maudie (Mae West) appears on the scene. While catching a glimpse of Maudie's diamonds, a hatcheck girl shouts, "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds." Maudie replies, "Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie."
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Night of Mystery 1937 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Ewald Andre Dupont
Cast: Grant Richards, Roscoe Karns, Helen Burgess, Ruth Coleman, Elizabeth Patterson, Harvey Stephens, June Martel, Ellen Drew, Purnell Pratt, Colin Tapley, James Bush, Ivan F. Simpson
This remake of 1929's "The Greene Murder Case" brings yet another actor (Grant Richards) to the scene as the suave, master detective Philo Vance. Vance investigates the murder of a NY millionaire as greedy relatives seek a portion of the inheritance. After a few suspects are murdered, Vance comes up with the killer. Richards certainly was not the best Philo Vance.
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Old Acquaintance 1943 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, John Loder, Gig Young, Dolores Moran, Philip Reed, Roscoe Karns, Anne Revere, Esther Dale, Joseph Crehan, Ann Doran, Abigail Adams, Jack Mower, Frank Mayo, Jimmy Conlin
Best selling author Kitty Marlow (Bette Davis) returns to her home town and reunites with her childhood friend Millie (Miriam Hopkins) who is now happily married to Preston Drake (John Loder) and pregnant. Millie envies Kitty's success and wants to become a successful author, also. Kitty provides contacts at her publishing company, and Millie's book is published and becomes a best seller–as do her future books. Millie becomes even more successful than Kitty, and that leads to a long-standing feud between the women that will extend for years and include Millie believing that Kitty is trying to steal Preston and results in the end of Millie's marriage. Years later, the feud extends to Millie's daughter Deirdre (Dolores Moran) who is in love with Kitty's fiance Rudd (Gig Young). Kitty gives up Rudd to Deirdre, and the women end their rift and become inseparable old acquaintances.
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One Way Passage 1932 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Kay Francis, William Powell, Aline MacMahon, Warren Hymer, Frank McHugh, Herbert Mundin, Frederick Burton, Douglas Gerrard, Roscoe Karns, Dewey Robinson
A dying socialite (Kay Francis) finds love in the person of a condemned convict (William Powell) while both are passengers on an ocean liner. Remade in 1940 as "Til We Meet Again."
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Onionhead 1958 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Joe Mantell, Ray Danton, James Gregory, Joey Bishop, Roscoe Karns, Claude Akins
Al Woods (Andy Griffith) serves as a cook on a Coast Guard buoy tender where Red Wilder (Walter Matthau) serves as his mentor.
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Speed to Spare 1948 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: William Berke
Cast: Richard Arlen, Jean Rogers, Richard Travis, Roscoe Karns, Nanette Parks, Pat Phelan, Ian MacDonald, Paul Harvey, George Eldredge, Roy Gordon
Stunt car driver Cliff Jordan (Richard Arlen) decides to take a less dangerous job as truck driver for a friend's company. But trouble looms on the road.
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Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven 1948 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Girl from Texas
Director: William Castle
Cast: Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, James Dunn, Lionel Stander, Florence Bates, Michael Chekhov, Margaret Hamilton, Moyna MacGill, Irene Ryan, Colin(2) Campbell, Clem Bevans, William Frawley, Roscoe Karns, Erskine Sanford
Texas cowboy Eddie Taylor (Guy Madison) and city-girl Perry Dunklin (Diana Lynn) arrive in New York for fun, adventure, and fortune. But when Eddie falls in love with Perry, she does not return his affections. And while they do buy a Brooklyn riding academy, Eddie spends much of his time keeping Perry out of trouble.
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Thanks for the Memory 1938 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Archainbaud
Cast: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charles Butterworth, Otto Kruger, Hedda Hopper, Laura Hope Crews, Roscoe Karns, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, William Collier Sr., Emma Dunn, Edward Gargan, Jack Norton, Patricia Wilder, Barney Dean, Pat West
Young newlyweds Steve (Bob Hope) and Anne Merrick (Shirley Ross) have much to work out during their rocky start at marriage. As they settle into their New York apartment, Anne goes off to work every day as a fashion model, and aspiring author Steve stays home devoting his time to writing. This arrangement leads to their temporary break-up. But, by story's end, they are reunited and living happily ever after.
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They Drive by Night 1940 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Hale, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Gale Page, Roscoe Karns, John Litel, Henry O'Neill, George Tobias, Eddie Acuff
After Paul (Humphrey Bogart) loses his arm in a truck accident, his brother Joe (George Raft) goes to work for Ed's (Alan Hale) trucking firm and runs into trouble via Ed's bitchy wife, Lana (Ida Lupino). Brothers Paul and Joe make a good team as they truck along the highways.
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This Thing Called Love 1929 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul L. Stein
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Roscoe Karns, Zasu Pitts, Carmelita Geraghty, John Roche, Stuart Erwin, Ruth Taylor, Wilson Benge, Jean Harlow
Robert Collings (Edmund Lowe) returns home after making a fortune in Peru with the intent of buying a house and finding a wife. But when he goes to his real estate agent's house for dinner and sees the bickering, he decides that marriage is out but still would like to share his house with someone. He meets Ann (Constance Bennett), she moves in, and fulfills the duties of a wife in most respects–except they can each date others. Of course they fall in love. Jean Harlow makes an early film appearance in a bit part.
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Today We Live 1933 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Roscoe Karns, Robert Young, Louise Closser Hale, Rollo Lloyd, Hilda Vaughn, C. Montague Shaw, Frank Marlowe
Set during World War I, this story is about three soldiers (Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, and Robert Young), their mutual interest in the beautiful Diana (Joan Crawford), and how their lives change through the effect of battle.
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Twentieth Century 1934 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Ralph Forbes, Etienne Girardot, Dale Fuller, Herman Bing, James P. Burtis, Edgar Kennedy
The title of this film refers to the name of a New York to California passenger train that forms the centerpiece for this funny story about a movie producer (John Barrymore) and a fledgling star (Carole Lombard) who is trying to fly out of the nest.
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 Wings 1927 N/R, 139 min.
Genre: Action
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Tucker, Henry B. Walthall, Roscoe Karns, Julia Swayne Gordon
"Wings" won the first Academy Award for Best Picture. It is a silent film that depicts the World War I Air Corps aerial flight sequences and an anti-war statement that tells of buddies who fly in the face of danger.
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Wings in the Dark 1935 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Flood
Cast: Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Roscoe Karns, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dean Jagger, Bert Hanlon, James P. Burtis, Russell Hopton, Samuel S. Hinds, Matt McHugh
Skywriting pilot Sheila Mason (Myrna Loy) falls in love with, and encourages, a blind ex-pilot (Cary Grant) to publish stories about his flying experiences.
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 Woman of the Year 1942 N/R, 141 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, William Bendix, Reginald Owen, Roscoe Karns, Minor Watson, Gladys Blake, Dan Tobin, William Tannen, Ludwig Stossel, Sara Haden, Edith Evanson, George Kezas, Ann Codee
This was the first time Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn appeared together on the screen. They play sports columnist Sam (Tracy) and political reporter Tess (Hepburn) who carry on a feud through their columns. They finally meet when their editor Clayton (Reginald Owen) introduces them to try to make peace. They seem to have nothing in common–except love–but they marry. The marriage is filled with problems, and after Tess is named "Woman of the Year," Sam walks out. Now, Tess tries to mend her ways in order to win Sam back. Hepburn was nominated for an Oscar, and an Oscar was won for Best Original Screenplay.
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| 1. Alibi Ike (1935)
2. Alice in Wonderland (1933)
3. Avalanche (1946)
4. Beggars of Life (1928)
5. Cain and Mabel (1936)
6. The Crooked Circle (1932)
7. Dangerous to Know (1938)
8. Devil's Cargo (1948)
9. Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
10. Four Hours to Kill (1935)
11. Front Page Woman (1935)
12. Gambling Ship (1933)
13. Grand Slam (1933)
14. His Girl Friday (1940)
15. If I Had a Million (1932)
16. It Happened One Night (1934)
17. The Jazz Singer (1927)
18. King of Chinatown (1939)
19. Laughing Sinners (1931)
20. Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
21. My Son, the Hero (1943)
22. The Navy Way (1944)
23. Night After Night (1932)
24. Night of Mystery (1937)
25. Old Acquaintance (1943)
26. One Way Passage (1932)
27. Onionhead (1958)
28. Speed to Spare (1948)
29. Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven (1948)
aka: The Girl from Texas
30. Thanks for the Memory (1938)
31. They Drive by Night (1940)
32. This Thing Called Love (1929)
33. Today We Live (1933)
34. Twentieth Century (1934)
35. Wings (1927)
36. Wings in the Dark (1935)
37. Woman of the Year (1942)
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