Hans Conried
Bus Stop
Bus Stop (1956) starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray
Bus Stop is a comic drama is about a rancher who falls for a nightclub singer while stranded at a bus stop in a blizzard. Based on the Broadway hit by William Inge.
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Sleeping Beauty (1959) starring Mary Costa, Bill Shirley
Synopsis of Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty is Disney’s classic fairy tale. The evil witch, Maleficent, is one of animation’s most spectacular villains. She sends the kingdom’s beloved Princess Aurora into an enchanted sleep. Good Fairies arm the brave Prince Phillip to defeat a fearsome fire-breathing dragon and rescue Aurora. But success in battle may not be enough. For the only way to awaken the Princess is with true love’s kiss!
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Summer Stock (1950), starring Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Phil Silvers
Summer Stock is an enjoyable musical with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. It’s the story of two mismatched romances, a family farm facing foreclosure, and an acting troupe that shows up unannounced …
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Blondie’s Blessed Event (1942) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Hans Conried
In Blondie’s Blessed Event, playwright George Wickley helps Dagwood out with a speech in Chicago …. And later follows him home, where the Bumsteads have just had their baby daughter, Cookie. And Blondie doesn’t want any company!
Read More »Blondie’s Blessed EventTippy Tippy Toe – song lyrics
Song lyrics to Tippy Tippy Toe as sung on the I Love Lucy TV episode, Lucy Hires an English Tutor
The Cat from Outer Space
The Cat from Outer Space (1978) starring Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, McLean Stevenson, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall, Jesse White, Hans Conried
Editorial review of The Cat from Outer Space courtesy of Amazon.com
Here’s today’s trivia question: What Disney movie costars both colonels from television’s M*A*S*H–that is, Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) and Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan)? Heck, that’s easy: 1978’s The Cat from Outer Space, a family comedy about a feline extraterrestrial named Jake (voiced by actor Ronnie Schell, who also plays Sergeant Duffy). Eerily similar to the plot of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, released four years later, Cat finds Jake stuck on Earth and in danger of being trapped here forever if his fellow space kitties can’t rendezvous with him soon.
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