RKO Radio Pictures
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Navy seaman Benny Linn is flabbergasted when his pal, Navy seaman Tim Dunnovan, squanders his inheritance on Little Erin, a horse he's never seen. Talking their put-upon superior into granting them five days leave in order to unswindle Dunnovan, Benny sets to shore with purpose and chicanery in mind. Tracking down the horse's trainer, the salts discover their seemingly lame horse has a secret twin - Little Shamrock - owned by lovely carhop Jane Sweet....
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You'll find out: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Peter Lorre scare everyone silly planning murder to nab a young heiress's inheritance in a spoofy, spooky haunted house tale featuring the music and merriment of the popular Kay Kyser and his band.
Zombies on Broadway: Mad scientist Lugosi encounters two lunkheaded Broadway agents looking for a real-life zombie as an opening attraction for a new nightclub.
4) Dixiana
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Two men fight for the love of a beautiful young woman in antebellum New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Starring Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, and Bert Wheeler, this RKO musical includes such songs as 'A Lady Loved A Soldier', and 'A Tear, A Kiss, A Smile'. Movie buffs take note.
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Glory Eden is a radio pitchwoman whose squeaky-clean image hides her true desire to walk on the dark side of life. Her sponsor, the 'Ippsie-Wippsie Wash Cloth' company, needs Glory to be stain-free, so the company decides to set her up with a a sweetheart plucked from her correspondence with her many admirers.
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Portrays the struggles of a Norwegian immigrant family at the turn of the century in San Francisco.
"Mama didn't leave the Old Country and move into the Larkin Street house to become rich. She left because all her siblings and in-laws were already setting down roots in the USA. Family was where Mama always fit best. Right in the heart of things."--Cover
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Goldie is a French teenage transplant to the cloistered confines of suburban New Jersey. Bohemian to the core, Goldie chafes against the small-mindedness of her town and sets out for the big time in Hollywood. Blessed with ample animal cunning, wit and grit, Goldie proves more than a match for the series of male obstacles who get in her way.
10) Holiday affair
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Even though he recently lost his job as a department-store clerk, Steve Mason buys an electric train set for a child he scarcely knows. It must be Christmas time.
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Dorothy Hunter is orphaned by the Titanic and the wealthiest debutante in the world. So wealthy, in fact, that her whereabouts and appearance are a closely guarded secret. So secret that she uses her secretary Sylvia as a stand-in. After yet another abortive romance caused by the sheer magnitude of her wealth (If only you were the second richest girl, that would have been different, her ex explains), Dorothy aims to see if she can snag true love sans...
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Guilty - beyond a reasonable doubt - such is the incontrovertible law which pardons the innocent and condemns the guilty. But just how fallible is the process of law? To what extent can deceit, prejudice and the cruel powers of fate intervene to set a murderer free, or send an innocent man to the electric chair ...
Crusading publisher Austin Spenser wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective...
13) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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A bickering couple discover their marriage isn't legal, and go through the courtship process again.
14) Joan of Paris
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A simple barmaid named Joan sacrifices her own safety to help five fugitive British airmen escape from France. She must devise a means of escape for the men and she finds herself falling in love with the squadron leader.
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"Fred portrays an ace with the highly regarded Flying Tigers squad. On leave in New York City on an eight-day furlough, Fred decides to forego any possible hero worship because of his uniform and dons civilian clothes. It so happens he meets and falls for Joan, a magazine photographer, and sets out to win her heart at all costs. The twist is that Joan is dedicated to the war effort and considers Fred-- who is keeping his military role a secret-- a...
16) Bombardier
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Action-packed excitement when the U.S. Air Force tangles with the Japanese over the Pacific--and an ace fighter pilot tangles with the head of bombardier school over the same woman.
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Out on the Texas frontier, Jim Garry rides into town, quickly getting caught in a simmering confrontation between homesteaders and cattle ranchers. After accepting a job from an old friend, Tate Riling, Garry comes to realize that Riling has been manipulating the tensions between rancher John Lufton and the local settlers in a bid to swindle the Lufton's out of their livestock. Garry becomes torn between his conscience and his greed until he finds...
18) Let's make music
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With the size of her classes dwindling each year, Newton High music teacher Malvina Adams is asked to retire. Trying to prove she's still got it, she composes a school fight song which finds its way into the hands of bandleader Bob Crosby who turns it into an overnight hit. Over the protestations of her stuffy niece Abby, Malvina travels to New York and performs her song with Bob's band and becomes even more popular. The newness of the song fades...
20) Bachelor mother
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Unemployed Polly Parrish impulsively picks up a baby left at orphanage doors at Christmas. Everyone assumes the foundling is hers, including Polly's playboy ex-boss, who offers her a job if she'll live up to her maternal duties. A paycheck would be handy, so Polly complies. Then the boss's tycoon dad assumes the infant is his secret grandson, and things really spin out of control.