Biography: Bill Goodwin |
It is misleading to label film-actor Bill Goodwin as a "former radio announcer," since he never truly left announcing. Signed on the basis of his radio credentials to a Paramount movie contract in 1942, Goodwin seldom rose above "hero's best friend"... more
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Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 79min
Singer Molly Bee once commented ruefully that her films were shown only to captive audiences in jails and reformatories. One suspects that Ms. Bee's Going Steady had a few paying customers, since no Sam Katzman production of the 1950s ever lost money....
Cast: James Gleason William Bendix
Tags: Workplace Comedy Romance Comedy Comedy of Manners
Length: 88min
This comedy is based on the enduring radio series and chronicles the attempts of an airplane riveter to find a better paying, less physically taxing job. Chester A. Riley gets his chance when his employer's son falls in love with Riley's daughter....
Cast: Edward G. Robinson Gary Cooper Joan Crawford Michael Curtiz Errol Flynn Doris Day Danny Kaye
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 85min
Billy Wilder's future partner I.A.L. Diamond concocted the storyline for this Dennis Morgan/Jack Carson/Doris Day tunefest. Morgan and Carson, Warner Bros.' answer to Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, appear as themselves. Attempting to line up a director for...
Cast: Mickey Rooney
Tags: Comedy Science Fiction
Length: 86min
The Atomic Kid strives mightily to wring laughs from the otherwise humorless topic of atomic radiation. Mickey Rooney (who also produced the film) and Robert Strauss play a couple of brainless prospectors who stumble upon a A-bomb testing site. Led to...
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 87min
Not a remake of the 1917 Mabel Normand vehicle of the same name, Mickey was based on Clementine, a novel by Peggy Goodin. The tomboyish title character is played by redheaded Lois Butler, whom Eagle-Lion Studios was trying to build into a major name....
Cast: Frank Tashlin Robert Cummings
Tags: Comedy
Length: 89min
Former cartoonist and gag man Frank Tashlin made his directorial debut with 1952's The First Time. The story concerns Joe and Betsey Bennet (Robert Cummings, Barbara Hale) a young married couple anxiously awaiting the arrival of their first child....
Cast: William Demarest Larry Parks
Tags: Musical Biopic Docudrama
Length: 96min
This Technicolor follow-up to Columbia's 1946 blockbuster The Jolson Story again stars Larry Parks as legendary entertainer Al Jolson--and Jolson himself, as Parks' singing voice. The story concentrates on Jolson's tireless activities entertaining the...
Cast: Leo Gorcey Henry Morgan
Tags: Comedy Urban Comedy
Length: 79min
Radio humorist Henry Morgan made his film debut in So This is New York. Based on -The Big Town, a collection of stories by Ring Lardner, the film traces country bumpkin Morgan's progress as he uses an inheritance to take a trip with his wife (Virginia...
Tags: Hybrid Western Fantasy Western
Length: 95min
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel...
Cast: Al Jolson
Tags: Docudrama Biopic Musical
Length: 128min
Though legendary entertainer Al Jolson was a highly visible presence on the U.S.O. circuit during World War II, he was generally regarded as a relic of an earlier time until his movie comeback in 1945's Rhapsody in Blue. Showing up 30 minutes into...
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