Vera Vague
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American actress Vera Vague (born Barbara Jo Allen in New York City) usually played ditzy pals to the female lead in many 1940s musicals, but sometimes she played the lead. She was best known as a radio comic and also appeared on-stage. ~ Sandra... more
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Cast: Maury Gertsman Hugo Haas Billie Bird Robert Foulk Jacqueline Fontaine
Tags: Romantic Comedy Romance
Length: 82min
Director Hugo Haas reprises the theme of romantic love in this routine yet innocent story of matchmaking. The setting is an overcrowded tenement building in which the residents seem to live beyond the reach of muggers or drug dealers or trigger-happy...
Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946)
Cast: Harold Arlen Edward Everett Horton Bill Goodwin Jule Styne Sammy Cahn
Tags: Musical
Length: 90min
Though Republic had decided to forego plans for an annual film edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, their reciprocal deal with the Broadway impresario was still very much in effect in 1946: Hence the creation of the musical extravaganza Earl Carroll...
Cast: Robert Benchley Conrad Janis Marcia Mae Jones Stephen Goosson Kathleen Howard
Tags: Comedy
Length: 82min
There were some theatres in 1946 that refused to display the anagramatic title of this film on their marquees: it was, after all, no secret that the letters S.N.A.F.U. did not precisely stand for "Situation Normal, All Fouled Up" as the studio...
Cast: Robert Mitchum Frances Langford James Gleason Albert S. D'Agostino Gordon M. Douglas
Tags: Comedy Western Comedy Musical
Length: 65min
Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown is cast as fast-talking Jerry Miles and Carney plays slow-witted Mike Strager. This time, Jerry and Mike are travelling...
Cast: William Frawley Roy Rogers Eugene Pallette Robert Livingston John Hamilton
Length: 85min
In this musical romance, an ice skater comes to America to represent her country at a Lake Placid carnival. Unfortunately, while she is there the war breaks out and she is unable to go home. While in America, she is cared for by her rich uncle. She...
Cast: Jean Yarbrough Anne Gwynne Clyde Bruckman Joe Sawyer Claire Whitney
Length: 65min
In this musical romance, a young couple is still in love, but find themselves facing insurmountable turmoil in their relationship. They separate and head for Vegas for a quickie divorce. The wife is counseled by another that to save the union, she...
Cast: Jane Frazee Lloyd Corrigan Frank Jenks Joseph Santley Frank Albertson
Length: 75min
In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making due because there is a housing shortage....
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
Cast: Hans Dreier Hugh Herbert Ralph Murphy Sol C. Siegel Fay Bainter
Tags: Melodrama Drama Family Drama
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...
Cast: Jerry Colonna Ann Miller Jule Styne Sol C. Siegel Frank Loesser
Tags: Musical
Length: 79min
Very much a product of its times, Priorities on Parade was disliked by everyone but the public when it was first released in 1942. The story takes place in a wartime aircraft plant, where a group of entertainers secure jobs putting on shows for the...
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