Tom Ewell

Tender Is the Night (1961)

Cast: Jason Robards, Jr. Joan Fontaine Bernard Herrmann Henry King Jennifer Jones   

Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama Romance 

Length: 146min

David O. Selznick had intended to film an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's -Tender is the Night as a vehicle for his wife Jennifer Jones. But financial difficulties compelled Selznick to sell the property (including Ms. Jones' services) to 20th...

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State Fair (1962)

Cast: Ann-Margret José Ferrer Pat Boone Wally Cox Bobby Darin   

Tags: Americana Musical Comedy Musical 

Length: 118min

This is the third time around for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The action takes place in urban Texas instead of the traditional setting in rural Iowa. This film version contains five extra songs written exclusively by Richard Rodgers. Box...

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The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

Cast: Jayne Mansfield Julie London Frank Tashlin James B. Clark Henry Jones   

Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Rock Musical 

Length: 99min

The inimitable writer-director Frank Tashlin once more aims his satiric barbs at modern culture (modern 1950s culture, that is) in The Girl Can't Help It. Much of the film is dominated by Edmond O'Brien as mob boss Murdock, who while serving a term in...

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The Great American Pastime (1956)

Cast: Ann Miller Dean Jones Anne Francis Tom Ewell Ruby Dee   

Tags: Comedy Sports Comedy 

Length: 89min

Tom Ewell plays a busy attorney who wishes to be closer to his son. To do this, he becomes manager of the boy's little league team, much to the dismay of his wife (Anne Francis), who can't stand baseball. Ewell finds that he must contend with pushy...

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Lost in Alaska (1952)

Cast: Lou Costello Bruce Cabot Henry Mancini Bud Abbott Tom Ewell   

Tags: Adventure Comedy Slapstick Comedy 

Length: 87min

One reviewer of Abbott & Costello's Lost in Alaska summed up the proceeding in three pithy words: "Lost is right." While not A&C's worst film, it's several miles removed from their best. Cast as firemen in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Bud and...

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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)

Cast: Rita Moreno Frank Tashlin Rick Jason Tom Ewell Sheree North   

Tags: Slapstick Farce Military Comedy Comedy 

Length: 99min

Frank Tashlin directed this comedy about a man whose marriage hits the skids when his wife gets caught in the draft. Gregory Whitcomb (Tom Ewell) served with distinction in the Army during WWII, but he now makes his living as a television writer....

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Back at the Front (1952)

Cast: Henry Mancini Mari Blanchard Harvey Lembeck Russell Johnson Tom Ewell   

Tags: Spy Film Military Comedy Action Comedy 

Length: 87min

Back at the Front is the second of two film comedies based on the wartime cartoons of Bill Mauldin. As in Up Front, the principal characters are woebegone GIs Willie and Joe: Tom Ewell is back as Willie, but Harvey Lembeck replaces David Wayne as Joe....

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The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Cast: Marilyn Monroe Billy Wilder George W. Davis Robert Strauss Evelyn Keyes   

Tags: Sex Comedy Romance Urban Comedy Romantic Comedy Comedy 

Length: 105min

Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife (Evelyn Keyes) and children off to summer vacation, staying behind to work at the office. This particular summer, the lonely Ewell begins fantasizing about the many women he'd...

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Up Front (1951)

Cast: David Wayne Richard Egan Tom Ewell Bernard Herzbrun Russell Metty   

Tags: War Drama Comedy War 

Length: 92min

Up Front is based on the wartime newspaper cartoons by Stars and Stripes contributor Bill Mauldin. Tom Ewell and David Wayne play Willie and Joe, the mud-caked, unshaven, war-weary protagonists of Mauldin's classic panels. The film is on the right...

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