Dick Powell
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler play two young hopefuls struggling to make it on Broadway. Even falling in love has its hardships, as Powell's high-brow Eastern family is determined to break them (and the show) up. More complications set in when his brother falls for Keeler's wise-cracking roommate.
Pub. Date
♭2010
Description
42nd Street (1933, 89 min.): The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingňue, all set to a standout musical score.
Gold diggers of 1937 (1936, 101 min.): Rosmer Peck is an insurance agent with musical ambitions who becomes romantically involved with Norma Perry, a showgirl who has given up spangles for a...
Series
Pub. Date
c2011.
Description
A go-getter clerk in a coffee company, is fooled into thinking he's won a $25,000 prize for inventing a sales slogan. When a trio of practical jokers at Maxford Coffee send him a phony congratulatory telegram announcing that he's the contest winner, he and his girlfriend go off on a mammoth Christmas shopping binge, even though it's the middle of July. Suddenly, the head of Maxford Coffee discovers the mistake, and their spending spree turns into...
5) Split second
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Escaped killers led flee a Nevada prison to the ghost town of Yucca Flats, even though a nuclear blast is set to detonate there at 6 a.m. the following morning. Drawing a hapless group of passersby into their circle of desperation, the killers hold court over a night of suspense and terror.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Cagney stars as Chester Kent, a diligent musical comedy director who is continually warding off snoopers hired by his competitors to steal his ideas. When his latest show is cancelled in favor of a talking picture, he turns to staging musical prologues to play before the features in moviehouses.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
"It's summer season at New England's Wentworth Plaza Hotel. And that means it's time for the rich to come out to play--and for gold diggers of every persuasion to try to reel in a sucker or two. Dick Powell heads the cast of this musical romp, playing a desk clerk who agrees to be a gentlemanly escort for the sheltered daughter (Gloria Stuart) of a wealthy widow"--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A Navy officer falls in love in "Seven sinners"; A moonshiner must struggle with his family's past in "The shepherd of the hills"; In a rags-to-riches tale of frindship, love and power are brought together in "Pittsburgh"; In one of his most unusual roles ever, John Wayne portrays Genghis Khan in "The conqueror"; An American Air Force colonel is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Anna in "Jet pilot."
10) Dames
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Three relatives stand to inherit a multi-millionaire's money if they turn against his pet hate, the theater.
11) 42nd Street
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingenue, all set to a standout musical score.
12) Murder, my sweet
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A down-on-his-luck private detective searches for an ex-convict's missing girlfriend and finds himself in a dark world of mayhem and murder.