Biography: William Frawley |
American actor William Frawley had hopes of becoming a newspaperman but was sidetracked by a series of meat-and-potatoes jobs. At 21, he found himself in the chorus of a musical comedy in Chicago; his mother forced him to quit, but Frawley had already... more
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Tags: Comedy Drama Sports Drama
Length: 83min
Released in April of 1962 to take advantage of the new baseball season and the enthusiasm surrounding some of its better-known players, this sports-oriented children's story by Walter Doniger centers around some ill-advised bragging by a young Little...
Cast: Marlene Dietrich Fritz Lang
Tags: Crime Thriller Hybrid Western Western
Length: 89min
The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack allad (written by Ken Darby) which unifies the plotline, à la High Noon. Frontiersman Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy) wanders throughout the West in...
Cast: Edmund Gwenn
Length: 95min
Best known to posterity as the third wife of Cary Grant, Betsy Drake enjoyed a substantial film career during the postwar era. In Pretty Baby, Drake plays Patsy Douglas, an enterprising young lady who always assures herself a seat on the subway by...
The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949)
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 60min
When a priceless diamond is stolen from a museum exhibition all suspicion falls upon the notorious Lone Wolf, a former jewel thief who became a reporter. It doesn't help that he was in the museum to write a story on the gem at the time of its theft....
Cast: Ray Milland
Tags: Comedy Sports Drama
Length: 95min
Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J. Banner (Gene Lockhart), multimillionaire owner of the Brooklyn baseball team, passes away, he wills the team -- and his 30...
Cast: Claire Trevor William Bendix
Tags: Biopic Drama Sports Drama
Length: 107min
The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics, The Babe Ruth Story is definitely in the "So Bad It's Good" category. An outrageously miscast William Bendix stars as George Herman "Babe" Ruth, who as depicted herein is a childish, misunderstood oaf...
Cast: Eddie Albert
Tags: Romance Musical Musical Drama
Length: 90min
In this musical, the fourth entry in a five-film series, three singers come together to form a nightclub act. Their songwriter falls for the female. They become a hit and are soon signed to appear in Hollywood musicals, but when the female becomes a...
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948)
Tags: Comedy Sports Comedy
Length: 64min
Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one, soft-hearted boxer Joe (Joe Kirkwood) is approached by a trio of gamblers, who want him to throw an upcoming bout. Naturally he...
Cast: Virginia Christine
Tags: Whodunit Mystery Detective Film
Length: 57min
In this mystery, a private detective is falsely accused of murder by his secretary who wants to protect her little sister who has been formally charged with the crime. The detective must solve the crime before it is too late. To do so, he gathers all...
Cast: Rita Hayworth James Gleason Edward Everett Horton
Tags: Parody/Spoof Satire Fantasy Musical
Length: 101min
A semi-sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia's Down to Earth is a camp- and kitsch-lover's delight. More beautiful than ever, Rita Hayworth stars as Terpsichore, the Goddess of Dance. From her perch Up Above, Terpsichore discovers that Broadway...
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