Biography: Guy Kibbee |
It is possible that when actor Guy Kibbee portrayed newspaper editor Webb in the 1940 film version of Our Town, he harked back to his own father's experiences as a news journalist. The cherubic, pop-eyed Kibbee first performed on Mississippi... more
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Cast: Frances Langford
Tags: Musical
Length: 69min
Ever so slightly, the quality of PRC Pictures' film output improved as the 1940s rolled on. In PRC's Dixie Jamboree, Frances Langford plays Susan Jackson, the daughter of a showboat skipper (Guy Kibbee). Captain Jackson's vessel, the Ellabelle, is the...
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
Cast: Margaret Dumont Jack Benny Raoul Walsh Allyn Joslyn Reginald Gardiner
Tags: Farce Fantasy Comedy Heavenly Comedy Comedy Fantasy
Length: 78min
Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at Midnght, the film is in fact a delightful comedy-fantasy-certainly not Benny's best film, but far from his worst. While dozing off...
Cast: Shirley Temple Peggy Ryan Dickie Moore June Lockhart
Length: 86min
14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular Annie Rooney, the starry-eyed, idealistic daughter of erstwhile --and impoverished--inventor Tim Rooney (William Gargan)....
Cast: Lionel Banks
Length: 64min
What happens when "freedom of the press" is abused in wartime? In Power of the Press, the consequences are nearly catastrophic. Otto Kruger plays ruthless newspaper publisher Howard Rankin, who uses his journalistic privileges to destroy his political...
Cast: Guy Kibbee
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 69min
Cinderella Swings It was the last in a series of RKO programmers based on the popular radio series Scattergood Baines (its original title, Scattergood Swings It, was changed in the light of the poor reception afforded the earlier series entries). Guy...
Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942)
Length: 66min
The title neatly gives away the ending in RKO Radio's Scattergood Survives a Murder. Guy Kibbee once again stars as storekeeper Scattergood Baines, the sage of the small town of Coldriver. The story gets under way when two reclusive spinsters die...
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 65min
RKO Radio's film series based on the popular radio serial Scattergood Baines rolled into 1942 with Scattergood Rides High. Guy Kibbee returns as Scattergood Baines, the grocer-sage of the small town of Coldriver. On this occasion, Baines champions the...
Cast: Ann Rutherford Jimmy Durante
Tags: Comedy
Length: 73min
This Time for Keeps is a followup to 1940's Keeping Company, with Ann Rutherford repeating her role from the earlier film. Rutherford is cast as newlywed Katherine White, at present undergoing a rocky "period of adjustment" with her husband Lee...
Cast: Ava Gardner
Tags: Sports Drama Comedy
Length: 76min
Another graduate of MGM's short-subject department, director David Miller proved he had what it took to helm a feature film for the studio in Sunday Punch. The harmless but diverting story concerns the rivalry, in and out of the ring, between...
Cast: Red Skelton George Bancroft
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Thriller Comedy
Length: 73min
This second entry in MGM's "Whistling" series is more elaborate than the first (Whistling in the Dark) and equally as funny. Red Skelton returns as radio sleuth Wally Benton, aka "The Fox", while Ann Rutherford is back as his ever-patient fiancee...
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