Biography: Jerome Cowan |
From vaudeville and stock companies, actor Jerome Cowan graduated to Broadway in the now-forgotten farce We've Gotta Have Money. While starring in the 1935 Broadway hit Boy Meets Girl, Cowan was spotted by movie producer Sam Goldwyn, who cast Cowan as... more
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Cast: Michael Gough
Length: 88min
This violent, gore-filled, effective horror tale by director Robert Gordon is about a totally wacko private zoo keeper, Michael Conrad (Michael Gough) whose literal worship of the animals he tends -- especially the cat species -- starkly contrasts...
Cast: Leslie Stevens
Length: 79min
An unusual psychological drama for its time, Private Property by director Leslie Stevens revolves around a different kind of triangle. Ann (Kate Manx) is a frustrated housewife whose complaint is almost universal: her husband takes her for granted....
Tags: Musical
Length: 75min
When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline concerns the misadventures of Texan Gerald Durham (Jerome Courtland), who arrives in the Big City to learn the ropes of the music...
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950)
Cast: Leon Errol Jean Yarbrough
Tags: Sports Comedy Comedy
Length: 65min
In Ham Fisher's original Joe Palooka comic strip, Joe's pal Humphrey Pennyworth was a blimp of a man. In Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey, Mr. Pennyworth is played by Robert Coogan, a slim, athletic chap who was then starring as TV's Captain Video. At least...
Blondie Hits the Jackpot (1949)
Cast: Arthur Lake Penny Singleton
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy Screwball Comedy
Length: 66min
The "Blondie" series reaches Number 25 with Blondie Hits the Jackpot. Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood (Arthur Lake) takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm. He is rescued from penury when Blondie (Penny Singleton)...
Tags: Domestic Comedy Comedy Farce
Length: 66min
Blondie's Big Deal was the 24th entry in Columbia's popular "Blondie" series. Since the actors were getting a bit too long-in-tooth to be thoroughly convincing in their characterizations, Big Deal is for the most part played on a farcical level. This...
Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959)
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Science Fiction
Length: 76min
Joe De Rita makes his debut as the third Stooge in this rollicking slapstick comedy that has the three bunglers accidentally locking themselves into a rocket ship and blasting off to Venus. Once on the second planet they find fantastic life forms,...
Cast: Larry Simms
Tags: Comedy Workplace Comedy Domestic Comedy Screwball Comedy
Length: 68min
This 23rd entry in the "Blondie" film series stars, as ever, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake as Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead respectively. It all begins as Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe (Jerome...
Cast: Natalie Wood Edmund Gwenn Maureen O'Hara George Seaton
Tags: Holiday Film Fantasy Children's Fantasy Family
Length: 97min
Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken Santa who was to have led Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is offered a job as a Macy's toy-department...
Cast: Jerome Cowan Richard Crane Malcolm St. Clair Ann E. Todd
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 63min
Pity poor James Clark (Richard Crane). Wed to the lovely Margaret (Lois Collier), Arthur is forced to keep the marriage a secret from Margaret's social-climbing mother (Barbara Brown)-which, of course, results in separate sleeping quarters. Coming to...
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