Biography: Louise Allbritton |
In a kinder world, vivacious film actress Louise Allbritton would have inherited the "screwball comedy" mantle vacated by the late Carole Lombard. Alas, Louise went straight from Pasadena Playhouse to the "B" mills of Universal Pictures, a studio... more
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The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
Cast: Randolph Scott
Tags: Docudrama Biopic Western
Length: 90min
Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the legendary Western outlaws. When the Dalton gang is ambushed by U.S. Marshals, Bill Doolin (Scott), the last surviving member,...
Cast: Ed Begley, Sr. Clifton Webb Robert Young Maureen O'Hara
Tags: Comedy Comedy of Manners Domestic Comedy
Length: 84min
Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the job of baby-sitting the troublesome children of Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara; he wins the job by calmly dumping a bowl of...
Cast: Louis Hayward Raymond Burr
Tags: Spy Film Melodrama Action Drama Mystery
Length: 91min
Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s cycle of documentary-style crime dramas. FBI agent Dan O'Hara (Dennis O'Keefe) and Scotland Yard operative Philip Grayson (Louis...
Tags: Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 90min
An Innocent Affair was the original release title for the tame marital comedy Don't Trust Your Husband. Making her first film appearance in six years, Madeleine Carroll plays Paula Doane, the wife of ad executive Vincent Doane (Fred MacMurray). For...
Cast: Maria Montez
Tags: Drama
Length: 76min
A rare black-and-white Maria Montez vehicle, Tangier can be described as a second-echelon Casablanca. Montez plays a Spanish dancer named Rita, who is determined to bring Nazi collaborator Colonel Jose Artiego (Preston Foster) to justice. Artiego is...
Cast: Claudette Colbert Marjorie Main Fred MacMurray Percy Kilbride
Tags: Romance Domestic Comedy Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 104min
Based on the humorous autobiographical book by Betty McDonald, The Egg & I casts Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray as Manhattan-dwelling newlyweds. When MacMurray enthusiastically purchases an upstate farm in the hopes of cleaning up in the egg...
Cast: Jon Hall Edward Everett Horton
Tags: Romantic Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy
Length: 83min
Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family. Papa (Edward Everett Horton) is an erstwhile inventor working on a collapsible life raft, which Allbritton tries to promote to a...
Cast: Peggy Ryan
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 73min
In 1912, John Bunny and Flora Finch starred in the one-reel farce The New Secretary, wherein Bunny's wife hires a homely stenographer to keep her hubby from straying. 33 years later, this old chestnut was reheated for The Men in Her Diary. The...
Cast: Donald O'Connor
Length: 85min
In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more sophisticated man. When the older gent goes to New York, she follows as does her younger suitor. While in the Big Apple, the soldier...
Cast: Buster Keaton Franchot Tone
Length: 84min
In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is...
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