The Atomic Kid
The Atomic Kid (1954) starring Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Elaine Devry
The Atomic Kid is a comedy about … surviving an atomic bomb blast? Yes! Surprisingly, it’s very funny!
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Beware of Blondie
Beware of Blondie (1950) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Adele Jergens In Beware of Blondie, an attractive young client is actually a con woman. And… Read More »Beware of Blondie
The Bishop’s Wife
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) starring Cary Grant, David Niven, Loretta Young
The Bishop’s Wife is a delightful Christmas movie, about an overworked bishop, who prays to God for help. And he gets an angelic answer. The answer he needs, not what he expected.
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Father Goose
Father Goose (1964) starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron
Father Goose is a strange, funny, war-of-the-sexes story that turns into a love story. It’s set during World War II, with Cary Grant and Leslie Caron.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) starring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, by Frank Capra
Synopsis of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Small-town innocent Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) heads to New York to collect a $20 million inheritance. There, he ends up a target of ridicule thanks to Babe Bennett (Jean Arthur). She’s a cynical reporter whose demeaning stories have made him the joke of the city. Then, he discovers his sweet and unassuming new girlfriend is actually the hard-boiled Bennett in disguise.
A disillusioned Deeds decides to give his fortune away. But that’s an act of charity his crooked lawyer will stop at nothing to prevent! Winner of the 1936 Academy Award® for Best Director Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is the quintessential screwball comedy.
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The Apartment [Billy Wilder comedy]
The Apartment (1960) starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
In The Apartment, Jack Lemmon is a career-climbing executive who offers his boss the use of his apartment for an extra-marital fling. And he soon gets tangled up with the boss’ flighty and fragile girlfriend (Shirley MacLaine).
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) starring Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre
Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through Arsenic and Old Lace, breezily directed by Frank Capra. Frazzled drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Grant) has:
Batman season 1
Batman season 1. Like a lot of people growing up in the 1960’s, I grew up with the love action Batman series. And, fell in love with the actors, both heroes and villains. It was only years later that I realized they had careers outside the Dynamic Duo! Here’s the first season’s episodes – enjoy!
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Wide Open
Wide Open (1930) starring Edward Everett Horton, Louise Fazenda, E. J. Ratcliffe, Vera Lewis, Louise Beavers
Wide Open is a delightful farce about a timid office worker (Edward Everett Horton). His inventive ideas win him promotion and the boss’ daughter (Patsy Ruth Miller)
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Life with Blondie
Life with Blondie (1945) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake
After Daisy chases a neighbor’s cat up a tree, a reporter finds out that Daisy has been voted the Navy’s pin-up dog …. And the article he writes leads to Daisy becoming a celebrity.
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