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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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Car 54 Where Are You? Season 1 - starring Fred Gwynne, Joe E. Ross

Car 54 Where Are You? Season 1

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Car 54 Where Are You? Season 1 – starring Fred Gwynne, Joe E. Ross

Car 54 Where Are You? chronicles the misadventures of two of New York’s finest in the 53rd precinct in the Bronx. Toody, the short, stocky, extrovert and dim-witted one, either saves the day or messes things up. Much to the chagrin of his partner Muldoon, the tall, lanky, introverted and smart one.

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Showboat (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner

Show Boat

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Show Boat (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner

Product description of Show Boat

buy-from-amazon One of the greatest Broadway musicals comes to the screen in this tale of music, racial bigotry and enduring love as outsized as the American heartland set aboard a Mississippi River Show Boat. Magnolia Brown has grown up onboard a sailing theater, plying the river from town to town to entertain people, and she has always dreamed of a life on stage. When the star’s, Julie LaVerne part African American ancestry is revealed and she is forced to leave, Magnolia steps in to take Julie’s place on stage.

Magnolia soon falls in love with her leading man, the handsome gambler and rogue, Gaylord Ravenal (Howard KeelKiss Me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), and the two marry, have a daughter and live happily–for a while. But Ravenal’s gambling debts force Magnolia to find a job, and Julie LaVerne again leaves her starring role–this time voluntarily–to give Magnolia the break she needs, an opportunity that leads to stardom.

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Eleven Men And A Girl (1930) starring Joe E. Brown, Joan Bennett, James Hall

Eleven Men And A Girl

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Eleven Men And A Girl (1930) starring Joe E. Brown, Joan Bennett, James Hall

Eleven Men and a Girl is a frolic on the college campus, with the president’s job depending on winning the football trophy. With a little help from his daughter (Joan Bennett) and her boyfriend (Joe E. Brown) …

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Fireman Save My Child (1932) starring Joe E. Brown, Evalyn Knapp, Lilian Bond, Guy Kibbee

Fireman Save My Child

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Fireman Save My Child (1932) starring Joe E. Brown, Evalyn Knapp, Lilian Bond, Guy Kibbee

In Fireman Save My Child, Firefighter Joe E. Brown has a gift for baseball, but his only passion is his new firefighting device … And his fiancée, who talks him into joining Major League baseball, to fund his invention. But then he runs into a a pretty gold digger …

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You Said a Mouthful

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You Said a Mouthful (1932) starring Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers

Synopsis

In You Said a Mouthful, shipping clerk Joe Holt (Joe E. Brown) invents an unsinkable swimsuit. But he’s unsuccessful in selling it. A socialite (Ginger Rogers) mistakes him for a famous swimmer with the same name and enters him in a 20-mile race. But Joe doesn’t even know how to swim!

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Elmer the Great starring Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis

Elmer the Great

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Elmer the Great (1933) starring Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis

Synopsis of Elmer the Great

Elmer the Great starring Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis

In Elmer the Great, a country bumpkin with an incredible batting average becomes an unlikely baseball star. 

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The Comedy of Terrors (1963), starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Joyce Jameson

The Comedy of Terrors

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The Comedy of Terrors (1963), starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Joyce Jameson

Synopsis of The Comedy of Terrors

The Comedy of Terrors is a hilarious horror spoof.  A funeral director, who is in arrears on his rent, aggressively pursues customers to bolster his business …  And the fact that they haven’t died yet doesn’t bother him at all!

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Alibi Ike (1935), starring Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Haviland

Alibi Ike

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Alibi Ike (1935), starring Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Haviland

Synopsis of Alibi Ike

Alibi Ike, a Rookie Pitcher comes out of nowhere to help the Cubs go for the pennant. His alibis for everything drive his manager & fiancee crazy!

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