Having Wonderful Time
Having Wonderful Time (1938) starring Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. – Red Skelton’s film debut as camp social director. He does his famous Dunking donuts routine, amongst the romance and conflict …
My Gal Sal [Rita Hayworth]
My Gal Sal (1942) starring Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature
A gorgeous movie musical, My Gal Sal is a musical biography of Gay Nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser. The ever-lovely Rita Hayworth is the eponymous Sal, a stage star who helps Dresser to become the toast of Tin Pan Alley.
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It Was a Very Good Year [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to It Was a Very Good Year, composed by Ervin Drake in 1961 and originally recorded by Bob Shane with the Kingston Trio
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The Office Wife [Lewis Stone]
The Office Wife (1930) starring Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead, Joan Blondell
The Office Wife is a drama about a married executive, who shortly after his marriage to a younger woman, hires a new secretary. The secretary is determined to be all business … But she unexpectedly falls in love with the older man anyway.
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Justice League 2017 [Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman]
Justice League (2017) starring Henry Cavill, Ben Afleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Ezra Miller
The formation of the Justice League, to prevent Darkseid’s minion, Steppenwolf from finding & joining three mother boxes. If he succeeds, he’ll literally recreate the hellish landscape of Darkseid’s world on Earth. Killing us all in the process.
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The Invisible Man [Claude Rains]
The Invisible Man (1933), starring Claude Rains, directed by James Whale
The signature adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man stars Claude Rains as a scientist who discovers a serum that makes him invisible. Covered by bandages and dark glasses, the scientist arrives at a small English village and attempts to reverse his discovery.
However, the same drug that renders him invisible is slowly driving him insane … And capable of committing acts of terror. Directed by James Whale, the horror classic features groundbreaking special effects by John P. Fulton.
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One of Those Songs
Song lyrics to One of Those Songs, Songwriters: Alain Albert Boublil, Robert Fourrey, Gerard Calvi
Well, this is one of those songs that you hear now and then,
You don’t know just where and you don’t know just when.
It’s one of those songs that are over and then,
It’s one of those songs that start playin’ again.
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King of the Roaring Twenties
King of the Roaring ’20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) starring David Janssen, Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster
King of the Roaring Twenties. Moving from one scam to another Arnold Rothstein quickly becomes rich, and settles into the life of owning big-town gambling joints. Along the way he falls in loves and marries, makes a life-long enemy of a cop on the take, and gradually becomes hardened even to his closest friends.
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The Way Of Love [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to The Way Of Love, lyrics by Al Stillman, music by Jacques Dieval
The Way of Love was originally written by Jack Diéval with French lyrics by Michel Rivgauche. It was performed on Belgium’s BRT radio station. In June 1965 the English rendering entitled “The Way of Love” was issued in the UK as a single by Kathy Kirby. It became a regional hit in the United States reaching #88 nationally.
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Johnny One Note [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to Johnny One Note (1937), words by Lorenz Hart, music by Richard Rodgers
Johnny One Note is a 1937 show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms. Judy Garland sang it in the Rodgers & Hart musical biography, Words and Music (1948).
