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Song lyrics to Did I Get Stinkin’ At the Savoy, sung by Virginia O’Brien in Panama Hattie, music by Walter Donaldson, lyrics E.Y. Harburg
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August 7, 2019 user
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Too Many Girls (1940), starring Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Desi Arnaz, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken, Frances Langford, Hal Le Roy Synopsis Spoiled heiress Connie Casey (Lucille Ball) goes off to college. Unknown to her, her father secretly sends along four Ivy League football stars as her bodyguards. In...
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July 16, 2019 user
Musical
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Song lyrics to The Last Time I Saw Paris (1940), performed by Ann Sothern in Lady Be Good, (1940) – Music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II The lady known as Paris, romantic and charming, Has left her old companions And faded from view Lonely men...
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November 25, 2018 user
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Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) starring Lucille Ball, Maureen O’Hara Dance, Girl, Dance is the story of hard-working ballet dancer Judy O’Brien (Maureen O’Hara). She and her street-wise gal-pal Bubbles (Lucille Ball) work as members of a small-time dance troupe operated by Madame Basilova (Maria Ouspenskaya). The story begins...
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October 19, 2018 user
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Boom Town (1940), starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Chill Wills Synopsis of Boom Town Boom Town stars Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy as competitive oil prospectors who strike it rich in oil and romance. With screen legend Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, and Oscar-nominee Frank Morgan.
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August 17, 2018 user
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I Love You Again (1940) starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh Synopsis of I Love You Again In I Love You Again, William Powell and Myrna Loy star in this comedy about a seemingly staid married businessman whose recovery from amnesia exposes his past existence as a...
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August 5, 2018 user
Comedy
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Flight Command (1940) starring Robert Taylor, Walter Pidgeon, Ruth Hussey, Red Skelton I originally watched Flight Command because it was one of Red Skelton‘s earliest movie roles — which is technically true; Red’s in the film as part of the Hellcats squadron, acting as the class clown, but...
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February 4, 2018 user
Patriotic
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The Mummy’s Hand (1940) starring Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, Peggy Moran If there’s one deadly sin committed by The Mummy’s Hand, it’s that it’s too slow–and I’m not talking about the shambling movement of Kharis the living mummy. The titular mummy doesn’t make his first appearance until an...
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May 21, 2017 user
Horror movies
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The Invisible Man Returns (1940) starring Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Cedric Hardwicke, Cecil Kellaway The Invisible Man Returns is an excellent movie, due to no small degree to the acting skills of Vincent Price. Vincent Price is Geoffrey Radcliffe, the proverbial “man convicted of a murder that he didn’t...
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May 13, 2017 user
Horror movies
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois is one of the best movie biographies that I’ve ever seen, bar none – a riveting biography, with excellent acting by Raymond Massey, who literally becomes the title character – highly recommended.
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April 19, 2015 user
Historical movie
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