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Getting Gertie's Garter (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Getting Gertie's Garter
director: Allan Dwan actor: Dennis O'Keefe / Marie McDonald
other title: 香閨秘艷 / La liga de Gertie
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an expensive, jeweled garter given to her by O'Keefe in his bachelor days. McDonald intends to show the garter to O'Keefe's suspicious wife, so Our Hero must retrieve the embarrassing accouterment without tipping off the missus.
She Married a Cop (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
She Married a Cop
director: Sidney Salkow actor: Phil Regan / Jean Parker
other title: 她嫁了个警察 / 她嫁了個警察
This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Policeman's Ball. For a long time, they have been looking for a voice for their new cartoon feature, "Paddy the Pig," and the cop is just perfect. The policeman is tickled pink at the prospect of being a star and begins telling all his friends about his good fortune (he has no idea what they plan to do with his voice). Eventually he ends up marrying one of the producers, who still hasn't told him the truth. Suddenly the night of the big premiere finally arrives and all of the policeman's old friends and colleagues are there. As it begins, the policeman is appalled and humiliated to see that he has been mocked and has become a laughing stock. He immediately spurns his new wife and goes back to the police force. Time passes, and fortunately, the two reunite and settle their differences.
Blondie in the Dough (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blondie in the Dough
director: Abby Berlin actor: Penny Singleton / Arthur Lake
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
Minstrel Man (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Minstrel Man
other title: 流浪藝人 / Le Troubadour de Broadway
Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boy's wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show, leaving the baby to be raised by his showbiz pals Mae and Lasses White (Gladys George, Roscoe Karns). The kid grows up to be an attractive young woman named Caroline (Judy Clark), who follows in her dad's footsteps by billing herself as-that's right-Dixie Girl Johnson. This leads to a tearful reunion between Caroline and the father she'd long assumed to be dead. If Minstrel Man seems at times to be a dress rehearsal for Columbia's The Jolson Story (1946), it shouldn't surprising: the PRC film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Jolson Story's musical highlights.
The Great Victor Herbert (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Great Victor Herbert
director: Andrew L. Stone actor: Allan Jones / Mary Martin
other title: Dreivierteltakt am Broadway / 了不起的维克多·赫伯特
In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity of cold hard facts); instead, the writers allow the famed composer's works to speak for themselves. In the tradition of one of his own operettas, Herbert spends most of his time patching up the shaky marriage between tenor John Ramsey (Allan Jones) and Louise Hall (Mary Martin). Many of Herbert's most famous compositions are well in evidence, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "March of the Toys" and "Kiss Me Again", the latter performed con brio by teenaged coloratura Susanna Foster. Evidently, the producers were able to secure the film rights for the Herbert songs, but not for the stage productions in which they appeared, which may explain such bizarre interpolations as having a song from Naughty Marietta.
Blondie Knows Best (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blondie Knows Best
director: Abby Berlin actor: Penny Singleton / Arthur Lake
Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.
Blondie's Big Deal (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blondie's Big Deal
director: Edward Bernds actor: Penny Singleton / Arthur Lake
other title: Blondie’s Big Deal
Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, Dagwood paints Radcliffe's house with it and is disgraced when the house burns down!
Visit to a Small Planet (1960) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Visit to a Small Planet
other title: Besuch auf einem kleinen Planeten / Mince de Planète
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.
The Gnome-Mobile (1967) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Gnome-Mobile
other title: 난쟁이 왕국 / Abenteuerliche Reise ins Zwergenland
An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! He's committed, and the niece and nephew and the gnomes have to find him and free him.
Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Have Rocket -- Will Travel
director: David Lowell Rich actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine
other title: 三傻大闹金星 / Have Rocket -- Will Travel
The Stooges are janitors working at a space center who accidentally blast off to Venus. They encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula, and an alien computer who has destroyed all human life on the planet and creates three evil duplicates of the Stooges. When the boys return home triumphant, they are given a hero's welcome.