Biography: Irving Cummings |
A stage actor in the 1900s, Cummings began acting in films in 1909. He appeared in such notable films as Cecil B. De Mille's Don't Change Your Husband and the comedy The Saphead with Buster Keaton. Cummings switched to directing in the early '20s and... more
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Cast: Groucho Marx Frank Sinatra Jane Russell
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 80min
One man's good luck leaves a very bad impression in this comedy. Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) and Mildred Goodhug (Jane Russell) are two tellers working at the same bank who have fallen in love and want to get married. However, neither is making much...
Cast: Jean Arthur Charles Coburn Edgar Buchanan
Tags: Romance
Length: 91min
In this domestic comedy, a housewife nervously awaits the return of her husband from military service. They married after a brief, passionate courtship and now she does not know if she really loves him. Sure enough, sparks fly upon his return and the...
Length: 75min
In this semi-remake of Love is News (37), Betty Grable stars as a Gay-Nineties Bowery saloon singer. Ever seeking an opportunity for advancement, Grable heads to London, becomes a highbrow musical comedy "artiste", and concocts a scheme to land a...
Cast: Rosalind Russell
Tags: Comedy
Length: 94min
In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen other big-business comedies, but a pleasant and zany time-killer." Once again, Rosalind Russell is cast as a high-pressure...
Cast: S.Z. Sakall
Tags: Romance Musical Comedy Showbiz Drama Biopic
Length: 114min
The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took Broadway by storm in the early 1900s. Betty Grable plays Jennie and June Haver plays Rosie; their uncle is the inevitable "funny...
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
Cast: Betty Grable Charlotte Greenwood Cesar Romero Jackie Gleason Carmen Miranda
Tags: Musical Musical Romance Musical Comedy
Length: 91min
A musical remake of the 1936 comedy Second Honeymoon and the starring debut of Betty Grable, Springtime in the Rockies tells the not unfamiliar story of Vicky Lane (Grable, a Broadway dancer despairing over the tardiness of her partner Dan Christy...
Cast: Rita Hayworth Victor Mature
Length: 103min
A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the studio borrowed from Columbia. Hayworth plays the highly fictitious Sally Elliott of the title, a musical star teaming up with...
Cast: Bob Hope
Tags: Musical Comedy Political Satire Comedy Musical
Length: 95min
The Irving Berlin-Morrie Ryskind Broadway musical hit Louisiana Purchase came to the screen with surprisingly few emendations in 1941. Bob Hope replaces Broadway's William Gaxton in the role of innocent political flunkey Jim Taylor, set up to take the...
Cast: Gene Tierney
Tags: Adventure Drama Period Film Biopic Adventure Drama
Length: 87min
20th Century-Fox mixed together elements of its own Jesse James and Selznick's Gone with the Wind, and the resultant brew was Belle Starr. Looking precisely nothing like the real Belle, Gene Tierney plays the title role, whom the screenplay suggests...
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Musical
Length: 95min
That Night in Rio is a musical remake of 1934's Folies Bergère. Don Ameche plays a dual role as a middle-aged Brazilian industrialist, and a young Rio de Janeiro cabaret performer who looks just like him. The highlight of the entertainer's act is an...
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