Frederick de Cordova
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Entering films as a dialogue director in 1944, American director Frederick De Cordova quickly established himself as a man who made films quickly, inexpensively and entertainingly. A cursory glance at the list of De Cordova's films would lead one to... more
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Cast: Frederick de Cordova Elvis Presley Dave Willock Robert Strauss Sue Ane Langdon   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Musical Comedy Musical Romance 
Length: 88min
Not a remake of the 1934 Helen Morgan vehicle of the same title, Frankie and Johnny stars Elvis Presley as Johnny, a Mississippi gambler, and Beverly Hillbillies regular Donna Douglas as his girl friend Frankie. In keeping with the old ballad, the...

Cast: Bob Hope Frederick de Cordova Tuesday Weld Jeremy Slate Dina Merrill   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Musical Comedy Comedy Romance 
Length: 96min
Bob Holcomb (Bob Hope) is a widower who worries about his teenage daughter JoJo (Tuesday Weld) in this light romantic comedy. He doesn't care much for JoJo's boyfriend Kenny (Frankie Avalon) because the smooth operator has a motorcycle and some money....

Cast: Frederick de Cordova Maureen O'Sullivan Edmund Gwenn Irene Ryan Bernard Herzbrun   
Tags: Animal Picture Comedy Family 
Length: 78min
Bonzo Goes to College is the one that Ronald Reagan isn't in. The focus, of course, is on brainy chimpanzee Bonzo, who escapes a seedy sideshow and hides out on a college campus. Here he is adopted by Betsy Drew (Gigi Perreau), the daughter of...

Cast: Frederick de Cordova Dennis Weaver Audie Murphy Henry Mancini Robert Sterling   
Tags: Action Drama Western Cavalry Film 
Length: 85min
Audie Murphy is suitably cast as cavalry lieutenant Jed Sayre in Universal's Column South. Stationed in Navajo country, Sayre has a pretty good understanding of, and rapport with, the local Indians, but his new CO Lee Whitlock (Robert Sterling) is of...

Cast: Frederick de Cordova Walter Slezak Jesse White Diana Lynn Ronald Reagan   
Tags: Animal Picture Comedy 
Length: 83min
Forget what you've been led to believe: Bedtime for Bonzo is a most enjoyable film, and Ronald Reagan is not outacted by the chimpanzee. Reagan is cast as psychology professor whose reputation is sullied by the fact that his father was a convict. To...

Cast: Rock Hudson Frederick de Cordova Harriet Nelson Sheldon Leonard Gale Gordon   
Tags: Adventure Comedy Crime Domestic Comedy 
Length: 76min
Fresh from radio and TV, "America's Favorite Family" stars in Here Come the Nelsons. That's right: this harmless little comedy is purely a vehicle for Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky. Since there must be a plot, the scriptwriters contrive to have...

Cast: Frederick de Cordova Cecil Kellaway Jesse White Mark Stevens Ann Blyth   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy 
Length: 81min
Katherine "Katie" Standish (Ann Blyth) has been raised in a restrictive small town by her prudish Aunt Priscilla (Elizabeth Patterson). When Katie heads to New York to help out her improvident Uncle Nathaniel (Cecil Kellaway), she experiences an...

Cast: Frederick de Cordova June Allyson Van Johnson Robert Z. Leonard Gig Young   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance 
Length: 91min
Can it be that June Allyson is Too Young to Kiss in this bit of MGM fluff? Well, not really. Pianist Cynthia Potter (Allyson) is well into her 20s, but she's posing as a 14-year-old musical prodigy. It's part of her desperate effort to become a client...

Cast: Frederick de Cordova David Janssen Jeff Chandler Joseph Calleia Scott Brady   
Tags: Swashbuckler Adventure 
Length: 86min
The innate dignity of leading-man Jeff Chandler lends credibility to the swashbuckling proceedings of Yankee Buccaneer. Set during the early 19th century, the film casts Chandler as David Porter, commander of a U.S. frigate sent to the Caribbean to...

Cast: Frederick de Cordova Rhonda Fleming Mark Stevens Fritz Feld Bernard Herzbrun   
Tags: Biopic Drama Showbiz Comedy 
Length: 82min
Little Egypt is a lighthearted "biopic" all about the hootchie-kootchie dancer who created a sensation at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. An incongruously redheaded Rhonda Fleming plays Izora, a cabaret dancer in old Cairo. American impresario Cyrus...

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