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Desk Set

user — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Desk Set (1957), starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn In Desk Set, a TV-network researcher with an amazing memory humors an efficiency expert. He’s been sent to improve her department – and lay off her staff? This is progress? Product Description The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves…

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The Amazing Mr. Williams

user — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 01:23:15 +0000

The Amazing Mr. Williams is a very different, very good detective film, with ongoing romantic complications. Which does he love more – his fiancé or his work as a homicide detective? The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939) starring Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell Maxine Carroll: I think I’ll wear my pink dress tonight. The one with the…

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Three Broadway Girls

user — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:10:00 +0000

Three Broadway Girls – a comedy about a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, to difficult and untrustworthy. Set in the age of jazz, the…

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The Public Enemy

user — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:37:41 +0000

The Public Enemy (1931), starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke Synopsis of The Public Enemy In The Public Enemy, Oscar-winner James Cagney (“Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Angels with Dirty Faces“) became a superstar with his gritty performance as a prohibition-era Irish-American street punk who tries to make it big in Chicago’s organized crime world. Features…

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Topper Returns

user — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 11:42:00 +0000

Topper Returns (1941), starring Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke, George Zucco, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson Synopsis of Topper Returns Topper Returns is possibly the best of the Topper trilogy. Thanks to the sassy presence of Joan Blondell. Hollywood’s favorite wisecracker who plays Gail Richards. She’s a woman accidentally murdered while staying at the…

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The Office Wife [Lewis Stone]

user — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:44:00 +0000

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…

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The Cincinnati Kid

user — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:00:25 +0000

The Cincinnati Kid, starring Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Rip Torn, Joan Blondell Synopsis of The Cincinnati Kid The Cincinnati Kid is to poker what The Hustler was to pool, a fascinating suspense study of masters at work. Steve McQueen brings his cool fire to the role of Cincinnati Kid, a small-timer eager to…

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Bullets or Ballots

user — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 06:00:46 +0000

Bullets or Ballots, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh Synopsis of Bullets or Ballots A tough New York cop goes undercover to crack an influential crime ring in this well-done gangster movie starring Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart. Product description of Bullets or Ballots “They rule by the fear of their guns.…

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Nightmare Alley

user — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:04:38 +0000

Nightmare Alley (1947), starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray Movie review of the classic film noir, Nightmare Alley, possibly Tyrone Power’s best role as a carny hustler who becomes a mentalist, then a spiritualist, then begins his downfall as guilt eats away at him This is in short, an excellent film. It deals…

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