The Apartment 1960 N/R, 125 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, David Lewis, Jack Kruschen, Joan Shawlee, Edie Adams, Joyce Jameson, Willard Waterman, Hope Holiday, Naomi Stevens, David White
Winner of five Oscars including Best Picture and Director, this film tells the story of a clerk, C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) trying to get ahead by lending his apartment to philandering executives. Matters become complicated when he falls in love with his boss Jeff D. Sheldrake's (Fred MacMurray) current lover Fran (Shirley MacLaine). Hilarious satire by the director of "Some Like It Hot." Academy Award nominations included Best Actor (Jack Lemon), Actress (Shirley MacLaine), and Supporting Actor (Jack Kruschen).
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Auntie Mame 1958 N/R, 143 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Morton DaCosta Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Jan Handzlik, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass, Joanna Barnes, Willard Waterman
Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell) takes over the guardianship of her orphaned nephew, Patrick (Jan Handzlik as the boy/Roger Smith as the adult). It is love at first sight when Mame introduces Patrick to her madcap world of N.Y.C. sophistication in the Jazz Age. Academy Award nominations include Best Picture, Actress (Russell), and Supporting Actress (Peggy Cass).
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Hollywood or Bust 1956 N/R, 95 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin Cast: Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Pat Crowley, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Willard Waterman, Anita Ekberg, Ben Welden, Frank Wilcox, Michael Ross, Kathryn Card
This is Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' last film together. The story involves Steve and Malcolm (Martin and Lewis) fulfilling their dream of meeting Anita Ekberg and the misadventures they encounter in the process.
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Louisa 1950 N/R, 89 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexander Hall Cast: Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, Piper Laurie, Scotty Beckett, Willard Waterman, Jimmy Hunt, Connie Gilchrist
Louisa Norton (Spring Byington) is elderly in years but not in mind and spirit. When she moves in with her son and daughter-in-law (Ronald Reagan and Ruth Hussey), the fun begins.
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Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone 1950 N/R, 69 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Taurog Cast: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak, Phyllis Kirk, Fred Clark, Dorothy Malone, Willard Waterman, Don Porter, Clinton Sandberg, Douglas Fowley
When lawyer John J. Malone's (James Whitmore) client is murdered, he teams up with Hattie O'Malley (Marjorie Main), and, together, they solve the crime.
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Mystery Street 1950 N/R, 93 min. Genre: Mystery
Director: John Sturges Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan, Betsy Blair, Wally Maher, Willard Waterman
Boston detective Lieutenant Peter Morales (Ricardo Montalban) and forensic expert Dr. McAdoo (Bruce Bennett) work tirelessly to track down a killer by using skeletal remains of the victim as their clues to reconstructing the crime.
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Rhubarb 1951 N/R, 94 min. Genre: Family / Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin Cast: Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, Gene Lockhart, Elsie Holmes, William Frawley, Leonard Nimoy, Taylor Holmes, Donald MacBride, Strother Martin, Willard Waterman, Henry Slate, James Griffith, Jim Hayward, Tristram Coffin, James Flavin
Rhubarb is a cat that is willed to a baseball team–as the owner! Eric Yeager (Ray Milland) is appointed guardian of Rhubarb, and it becomes immediately apparent that Rhubarb brings good luck to the team, and the fun begins. Based on H. Allen Smith's best-selling novel.
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Three Coins in the Fountain 1954 N/R, 101 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Negulesco Cast: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Maggie McNamara, Rossano Brazzi, Howard St. John, Cathleen Nesbitt, Willard Waterman, Kathryn Givney
Three American women working in Rome throw coins into the Fountain of Trevi and wish for future happiness. Among the kudos awarded this movie were Academy Awards for Best Song ("Three Coins in the Fountain") and Best Cinematography; a nomination was received for Best Picture.
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Three for the Show 1955 N/R, 93 min. Genre: Musical
Director: H.C. Potter Cast: Betty Grable, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon, Myron McCormick, Paul Harvey, Willard Waterman, Hal K. Dawson, Gene Wesson, Eugene Borden, Bess Flowers, Aileen Carlyle, Rudy Lee, Henry Slate, Robert Williams
Musical comedy star Julie (Betty Grable) is married to her dancing partner Vernon (Gower Champion) when–out of the blue–her "dead" husband Marty Stewart (Jack Lemmon) returns home from World War II. Now, Julie has two husbands, begins to like the idea, and chooses to stay with both while she decides which one she is more in love with.
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| 1. The Apartment (1960)
2. Auntie Mame (1958)
3. Hollywood or Bust (1956)
4. Louisa (1950)
5. Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
6. Mystery Street (1950)
7. Rhubarb (1951)
8. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
9. Three for the Show (1955)
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