Biography: Hugh Herbert |
Hugh Herbert was a stage and vaudeville performer and playwright before coming to Hollywood as a dialogue director in the early talkie era. Signed as an actor at RKO Radio, Herbert played a variety of comic and noncomic roles in films like Hook Line... more
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Length: 77min
Estelita Rodriguez, Republic's south-of-the-border answer to their own Judy Canova, stars in Havana Rose. Rodriguez plays Estelita DeMarco, the daughter of foreign Ambassador DeMarco (Fortunio Bonanova), who is looking for a way to raise 5,000,000 for...
Cast: James Stewart Dorothy Lamour Henry Fonda George Stevens Fred MacMurray King Vidor Paulette Goddard
Length: 107min
Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It is Meredith's job to interview several people, asking them what effect children have had on their lives. First he checks with...
The Girl from Manhattan (1948)
Cast: Charles Laughton
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 81min
The Girl From Manhattan is a minor but watchable variation on the old "mortgage-on-the-farm" plot device. The girl of the title is Carol Maynard (Dorothy Lamour), who after several years in the Big Apple returns to her home town, where her uncle,...
Length: 83min
In this comedy, a Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles. Their agent then appears and tells them they have a 1,000 per week assignment in...
Cast: Danny Kaye Howard Hawks Virginia Mayo Billy Wilder Samuel Goldwyn
Tags: Musical Musical Comedy
Length: 113min
A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director (Howard Hawks) at the helm. It will be recalled that the original film, co-scripted by Billy Wilder, was an amusing spin on "Snow...
Cast: Ronald Colman Marlene Dietrich
Tags: Romantic Adventure Action Adventure Fantasy
Length: 100min
Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in the days of the Arabian Nights. Posing as a prince, Colman woos Marlene Dietrich, the favorite wife of the evil Wazir (Edward...
Cast: Arthur Lake Penny Singleton Larry Simms
Tags: Domestic Comedy Comedy Farce Slapstick
Length: 75min
When the profits of their various film series began slumping in the mid-1940s, Columbia Pictures tried to broaden the appeal of these films by disguing the fact that they were indeed series entries. Thus it was that Columbia's 12th "Blondie" picture...
Length: 74min
The exciting world of the cosmetic industry provides the basis of this lively low-budget musical comedy that centers on the attempts of a young inventor to market a new kind of nonstaining lipstick at the American Beauty Association Show. When a...
Cast: Mischa Auer
Tags: Backstage Musical Musical Musical Comedy Romantic Comedy Absurd Comedy Comedy
Length: 84min
Hellzapoppin' is the film version of the "anything goes" Broadway hit starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. The original production was part musical comedy, part "blackout" revue, with wild sight gags, zany props, audience participation sequences,...
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
Tags: Family Drama Drama Melodrama
Length: 80min
So far as W.C. Fields fans are concerned, Ann Hegan Rice's sentimental 1901 novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was definitively filmed in 1934. After seven reels' worth of a lachrymose plot about the impoverished Mrs. Wiggs (Pauline Lord) holding...
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