Lucille Ball
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In 1953, three classic first season I Love Lucy episodes (The Benefit; Breaking the Lease; and The Ballet) were edited together with newly filmed connecting scenes to create a never-before-released feature-length film. Shelved in a mislabeled can, it was lost for nearly half a century, until it was discovered in the Paramount vault in 2001.
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When their spouses are unable to join them on a planned group trip, longtime friends, Larry Gilbert and Kitty Weaver find themselves thrown together and falling in love under the sun in beautiful Acapulco. With their vacation coming to an end, both Larry and Kitty find themselves torn between feeling guilty about the affair and whether or not to end it.
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Julie Hampton (Lucille Ball) can tote a lunch pail and carry a tune. She's a Broadway star who's joined the Rosie the Riveters at Morgan Shipyards. Working with her is aspiring playwright Swanee Swanson, who insists Julie toil among the yard workers before she stars in the play he's written about them.
5) Stone pillow
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The great Lucille Ball plays an elderly bag lady struggling to survive on the streets of New York City. When approached by a young social worker, both women discover a new perspective on their lives.
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Bob Hope owned the crown as King of Comedy on stage, radio, the silver screen and television. In fact, no performer made a more successful and seamless transition into the world of television than Bob Hope. For 50 years, his hilarious TV specials became the showcase for the stars of the day and defined the variety show for a generation of loyal fans. Captures Bob's favorite TV moments, rare vintage clips, outtakes, movie shorts, Christmas specials,...
10) Mame
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She'll coax the blues right out of your heart. Madcap Auntie Mame is suddenly her nephew's guardian in this sparkling adaptation of the Broadway hit.
11) Joy of living
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A wealthy playboy attempts to loosen up a Broadway actress, who he is convinced is being pushed around by her money-grubbing family.
12) Five came back
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Nine passengers from all walks of life and a crew of three take off from Los Angeles, bound for Panama City, but a sudden storm blows them off course and causes the plane to crash in the Amazon jungle.
13) Easy to wed
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The "Morning Star" has a big problem. J.B. Allenbury is a rich and mighty man who will sue the paper for $2 million because of an article which says that his daughter, Connie, is a nymphomaniac and only after married men. Reporter Bill Chandler is sent after Connie to prove that the story is true. The only problem Bill has is that he's not married, at least not yet.
14) Stage door
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The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
15) Without love
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Pat Jamieson is a scientist working on a high-altitude oxygen mask for World War II fighter pilots. He has nowhere to conduct his research until he meets Jamie Rowan, a woman with a large empty country house. She has no hopes of marrying for love but Jamie wants to help the war effort and she likes Pat, so to satisfy the proprieties they agree on a business arrangement: a marriage of convenience and partnership. They happily work on oxygen mixes instead...
16) Fancy pants
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A zany red-head and her mother bring back a bogus butler to frontier New Mexico.
17) Room service
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Room Service: A cash-strapped theatrical troup tries to find a backer and keep from being thrown out of their hotel. At the Circus: The brothers try to keep the cash-strapped circus running by finding a backer.
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Criterion collection volume 1028
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Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the '30s and early '40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama. A behind-the-footlights look at friendship, jealousy, and ambition in the ruthless world of show business, Dance, Girl, Dance follows the intertwining fates of two chorus girls.
19) Lured
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A serial killer terrorizes London by luring women into meeting with him through the personal ads in the newspaper and taunting the police with gruesome poems.
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Lucille Ball and Jack Oakie team up for a double helping of laughter and fun in this uproarious two-film collection featuring the zany misadventures of screen queen Annabel Allison and her publicist Lanny Morgan. In The Affairs of Annabel (1938); Lanny decides to promote Annabel's upcoming film The Man and the Maid by getting her a job as a servant; but the stunt backfires when gangsters take over the household. Lanny's harebrained schemes continue...