The Big Broadcast of 1938 1938  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross, Lynne Overman, Bob Hope, Ben Blue, Leif Erickson, Patricia Wlder, Lionel Pape, Russell Hicks, Grace Bradley, Rufe Davis, Virginia Vale, Kirsten Flagstad
The series of "Big Broadcasts" continues. This time around, the setting is aboard an ocean liner, the S.S. Gigantic, that is owned by T. Frothingill Bellows (W.C. Fields). Bellows challenges another ship, the S.S. Challenger to a race while announcer Buzz Fielding (Bob Hopes) hosts shows aboard ship with popular stars of the day. Hope makes his film debut and sings the Academy Award-winning song, "Thanks for the Memories," and Martha Raye, Ben Blue, and Dorothy Lamour add to the humor.
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Broadway Bill 1934  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson, Margaret Hamilton, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn, Lynne Overman, Clara Blandick, Ward Bond
This is a Damon Runyon story about an inveterate gambler who bets everything on his own racehorse.
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Caught in the Draft 1941 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Eddie Bracken, Clarence Kolb, Irving Bacon, Paul Hurst, Ferike Boros, Arthur Loft, Edgar Dearing
Movie star Don Bolton (Bob Hope) decides to evade the draft but ends up–through a comedy of errors–enlisting in the army.
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Dixie 1943 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Marjorie Reynolds, Billy De Wolfe, Lynne Overman, Raymond Walburn, Eddie Foy Jr., Grant Mitchell, Clara Blandick, Olin Howland
This is the biography of Dan Emmett (Bing Crosby), the writer of the title song, "Dixie."
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Edison, the Man 1940 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers, Felix Bressart, Frank Faylen, Byron Foulger, Addison Richards
This sequel to "Young Tom Edison" features Spencer Tracy in the title role of the now-grown Edison who lives in poverty until his light bulb invention proves to be a success.
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Enter Madame 1935 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Elissa Landi, Cary Grant, Lynne Overman, Sharon Lynn, Frank Albertson, Paul Porcasi, Adrian Rosley, Cecilia Parker, Matt McHugh
Gerald Fitzgerald (Cary Grant) marries opera star Lisa della Robbia (Elissa Landi), but his problems adjusting to her temperament and busy schedule threaten their wedded bliss.
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The Forest Rangers 1942 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Action
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Paulette Goddard, Susan Hayward, Albert Dekker, Lynne Overman, Eugene Pallette, Regis Toomey, Rod Cameron, Clem Bevans, James Brown
"I've Got Spurs That Jingle, Jangle, Jingle" was introduced in this film about logging company manager Tana Mason (Susan Hayward) competing for the attentions of forest ranger Don Stuart (Fred MacMurray), even though he has a new bride, Celia (Paulette Goddard).
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Little Miss Marker 1934 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Shirley Temple, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Warren Hymer, Garry Owen, Willie Best, Frank Conroy
This good Damon Runyan story was a perfect vehicle for Shirley Temple. After her father goes into debt to his bookie, Sorrowful Jones (Adolphe Menjou), Miss Marker (Shirley Temple) becomes a ward of the bookie as an I.O.U. Remade in 1949 as "Sorrowful Jones" with Bob Hope, in 1963 as "Forty Pounds of Trouble" with Tony Curtis, and in 1980 with Walter Matthau.
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Men with Wings 1938 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Louise Campbell, Andy Devine, Walter Abel, Virginia Weidler, Donald O'Connor, Lynne Overman, Porter Hall, Kitty Kelly
Look for a young Donald O'Connor as one of the boys shown as the film begins in this story about two fliers (Ray Milland and Fred MacMurray) who both love the same woman (Louise Campbell).
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Midnight 1934  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Call It Murder
Director: Chester Erskine
Cast: Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull, Margaret Wycherly, Humphrey Bogart, Lynne Overman, Richard Whorf, Henry O'Neill, Cora Witherspoon, Granville Bates, Katherine Wilson, Moffat Johnston, Helen Flint
Jury foreman Edward Weldon (O.P. Heggie) will settle for nothing short of death in the sentencing of Ethel Saxon (Helen Flint) on a murder charge for killing her lover. Later, Weldon regrets his responsibility for the verdict when, on the eve of Saxon's execution, Edward's own daughter, Stella (Sidney Fox), kills her lover, gangster Garboni (Humphrey Bogart). Now, Weldon's conscience takes over when his previous verdict is brought so close to home.
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New York Town 1941 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, Eric Blore, Fuzzy Knight, Cecil Kellaway, Monte Blue, Edward McNamara
Musician Victor Ballard (Fred MacMurray) helps Alexandra Curtis (Mary Martin) who is also poor. Love begins to develop, and she must decide between kindhearted but struggling Victor and wealthy Paul Bryson Jr. (Robert Preston).
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Poppy 1936 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: W.C. Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell, Granville Bates, Catharine Doucet, Lynne Overman, Maude Eburne, Bill Wolfe, Adrian Morris, Rosalind Keith, Wade Boteler, Ralph Remley, Frank Sully, Dewey Robinson, Dell Henderson
Poppy (Rochelle Hudson), the daughter of carnival con-man Professor McGargle (W.C. Fields), falls in love with Mayor Farnsworth's (Granville Bates) son Billy (Richard Cromwell). Meanwhile, McGargle is wooing "Countess" Maggie Tubbs De Puizzi (Catharine Doucet) who is a phony claimant to the valuable Putnam estate. McGargle plots with Attorney E.G. Whiffen (Lynne Overman) to pass Poppy off as the real heir. By story's end, it is learned that Poppy was adopted by McGargle and, in fact, really is the heir to the Putnam estate. Now, Poppy plans to marry Billy and live happily ever after.
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Reap the Wild Wind 1942 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford, Hedda Hopper, Lynne Overman, Walter Hampden
Set among the shipping and salvage world off the Georgia coast, this is the story of Jack Martin (John Wayne) and the owner of a shipping company (Ray Milland) who vie for the attentions of Loxi Claiborne (Paulette Goddard).
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Roxie Hart 1942 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, William Frawley, Spring Byington, George Chandler, Sara Allgood
Based on Nunnally Johnson's play, this story is set in the 1920s. Dancer Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers) commits murder and then hires Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) to defend her. Flynn and his protege, Homer Howard (George Montgomery), publicize her story, and mayhem reigns in this farce.
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Safari 1940 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Edward H. Griffith
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll, Tullio Carminati, Lynne Overman, Muriel Angelus, Billy Gilbert, Thomas Louden, Frank Godoy, Jack Carr, Frederick Vogeding
Good lead players and OK scenery enhance this run-of-the-mill jungle story.
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She Loves Me Not 1934 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Kitty Carlisle, Edward J. Nugent, Henry Stephenson, Warren Hymer, Lynne Overman, George Barbier, Henry Kolker, Judith Allen
After witnessing a murder, Curly Flagg (Miriam Hopkins), hides out at a men's college where she tries to evade the Mob. This film was remade as "True to the Army" and "How to be Very, Very Popular."
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Spawn of the North 1938 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Barrymore, Lynne Overman, Fuzzy Knight, Vladimir Sokoloff, Duncan Renaldo, Louise Platt
Set in the 1890s, this is the story of Alaskan fishermen and their struggles against Russian pirates who steal their traps. Good action-filled entry.
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True Confession 1937  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel, Porter Hall, Edgar Kennedy, Lynne Overman, Fritz Feld, Hattie McDaniel, Irving Bacon
After being accused of a murder she did not commit, Helen Bartlett (Carole Lombard) confesses, and her lawyer husband Kenneth (Fred MacMurray) defends her. The film was remade as "Cross My Heart."
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Typhoon 1940 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Director: Louis King
Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish, Chief Thundercloud, Frank Reicher, Paul Harvey, Jack Carson, Al Kikume, John Rogers
Adventure mixed with comedy prevails when sailors discover Dea (Dorothy Lamour) living alone on a tropical island where, since childhood, she has survived in isolation from the outside world.
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Union Pacific 1939 N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy, Anthony Quinn, Regis Toomey, Fuzzy Knight, Lon Chaney Jr.
This is a great action film about the building of America's first continental railroad; bigger than life in typical Cecil B. DeMille style.
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| 1. The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
2. Broadway Bill (1934)
3. Caught in the Draft (1941)
4. Dixie (1943)
5. Edison, the Man (1940)
6. Enter Madame (1935)
7. The Forest Rangers (1942)
8. Her Jungle Love (1938)
9. The Jungle Princess (1936)
10. Little Miss Marker (1934)
11. Men with Wings (1938)
12. Midnight (1934)
aka: Call It Murder
13. New York Town (1941)
14. Poppy (1936)
15. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
16. Roxie Hart (1942)
17. Safari (1940)
18. She Loves Me Not (1934)
19. Spawn of the North (1938)
20. True Confession (1937)
21. Typhoon (1940)
22. Union Pacific (1939)
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