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Earthworm Tractors (1936) starring Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Guy Kibbe, Dick Foran, Gene Lockhart

Earthworm Tractors

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In Earthworm Tractors, high-pressure tractor salesman Joe E. Brown is out to land his most difficult sale yet, to timberman Guy Kibbee, and pulls out all the stops in this ground-shaking comedy. With June Travis, Dick Foran. 69 min.

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Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) starring Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Victor Moore

Star Spangled Rhythm

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Star Spangled Rhythm is a patriotic WWII musical comedy featuring all the biggest Paramount Studio stars of the era. Musical mayhem ensues when an attendant at Paramount (Victor Moore) tries to impress his navy son (Eddie Bracken) … by claiming that he is a studio mogul!

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Blondie for Victory (1942) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake

Blondie for Victory

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Buy from Amazon In Blondie for Victory, Blondie organizes the Housewives of America to support the war effort. But that leaves all the housework to the husbands! And they don’t like it!

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Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake

Blondie Plays Cupid

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Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake

In Blondie Plays Cupid, the Bumsteads are off to visit relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.

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A Girl a Guy and a Gob (1941) starring George Murphy, Lucille Ball, Edmond O’Brien

A Girl a Guy and a Gob

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A Girl a Guy and a Gob (1941) starring George Murphy, Lucille Ball, Edmond O’Brien

A Girl a Guy and a Gob is a comedy romantic triangle. Hijinks ensue when a pert stenography is pursued by both her stuffy boss and a foot-loose sailor.

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Blondie in Society (1941) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake

Blondie in Society

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In Blondie in Society, Dagwood borrows fifty dollars to an old friend — and gets repaid with a pedigreed Great Dane, “Champion Chin Up White Tie for Dinner”. A dog that eats everything in sight, but can’t win a dog show to save its’ life.

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A Star is Born (1954) starring Judy Garland, James Mason

A Star is Born

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A Star is Born (1954) starring Judy Garland, James Mason

As a band singer guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, Judy Garland performs one superb song after another (most by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin) in a production – also starring James Mason and directed by George Cukor – that exhilarates with its craft and style even as it moves toward a heartbreaking finale. Shortened after its 1954 premiere and reconstructed to near its original length in 1983, A Star Is Born endures as one of Hollywood’s supreme triumphs.

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