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Finian's Rainbow (1968) starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn

Finian’s Rainbow

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Finian’s Rainbow (1968) starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn

Fred Astaire sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian’s Rainbow, director Francis Ford Coppola’s movie of the 1947 Broadway hit. Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter (Petula Clark), a lovestruck leprechaun (Tommy Steele) and a bigoted Southern senator (Keenan Wynn) transformed by misbegotten magic.

Finian’s Rainbow
Cesar Romero as The Joker in "The Joker is Wild" - Batman season 1

The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled

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The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled – Batman season 1

The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled – Cesar Romero’s first appearance as the Joker on the live action Batman series. And he’s at he’s gleeful best!

The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled
The Corpse Vanishes  (1942) starring Bela Lugosi, Angelo Rossitto

The Corpse Vanishes

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The Corpse Vanishes  (1942) starring Bela Lugosi, Angelo Rossitto

Synopsis of The Corpse Vanishes.

The Corpse Vanishes is one of Bela Lugosi’s better Monogram efforts. He plays a mad scientist who uses a sadistic dwarf (Rossitto of Freaks) to help him kill virgin brides …. And then extract their spinal fluid to keep his ancient wife young and beautiful.

The Corpse Vanishes
The Apartment (1960) starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

The Apartment [Billy Wilder comedy]

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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).

The Apartment [Billy Wilder comedy]
Song lyrics to Dancing in the Dark (1931), danced by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon, music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz

Dancing in the Dark [song lyrics]

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Song lyrics to Dancing in the Dark (1931), danced by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon, music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz

Dancin’ in the dark ’til the tune ends
We’re dancin’ in the dark and it soon ends
We’re waltzin’ in the wonder of why we’re here
Time hurries by, we’re here, and gone

Dancing in the Dark [song lyrics]
Burgess Meredith as The Penguin in "The Penguin's a Jinx" - Batman season 1

Fine Feathered Finks / The Penquin’s a Jinx

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Batman season 1 – Fine Feathered Finks / The Penquin’s a Jinx

Fine Feathered Finks – Burgess Meredith’s first appearance as The Penguin. Where he plans to con the Batman into plotting his crimes for him!

Fine Feathered Finks / The Penquin’s a Jinx
12 to the Moon (1959) starring Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway, John Wengraf, Robert Montgomery Jr.

12 to the Moon

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12 to the Moon (1959) starring Ken Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway, John Wengraf, Robert Montgomery Jr.

12 to the Moon – a 1959 science fiction film about an international crew attempting the first voyage to the moon. But the moon people may have something to say about that!

12 to the Moon
Mother Wore Tights (1947) starring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall

Mother Wore Tights

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Mother Wore Tights (1947) starring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall

Dan Dailey and Betty Grable star as a young man and woman, whom team up as performers during the age of vaudeville and soon fall in love. Mother Wore Tights story of their rise to fame, and the subsequent professional and personal setbacks, is told in flashback and set against a rousing musical score.

Mother Wore Tights
Song lyrics to How are things in Glocca Mora? (1945) music by Burton Lane, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. Written for the 1947 musical, Finnian's Rainbow.

How are things in Glocca Mora?

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Song lyrics to How are things in Glocca Mora? (1945) music by Burton Lane, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. Written for the 1947 musical, Finian’s Rainbow.

How are things in Glocca Mora?
Jill St. John as The Riddler's new assistant in the very first Batman TV series episode - Hey Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Riddle

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Hi Diddle Riddle / Smack in the Middle – Batman season 1

Hi Diddle Riddle – January 11 1966

The very first live action Batman episodes are Hi Diddle Diddle and Smack in the Middle is. With Frank Gorshin playing the Riddler with absolute glee!

Jill St. John as The Riddler's new assistant in the very first Batman TV series episode - Hey Diddle Diddle
Hi Diddle Riddle
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