Alan Ladd
Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film and television producer. Ladd found success in film the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in Westerns and film noirs where he was often paired with Veronica Lake, as she was one of the few Hollywood actresses shorter than he. His popularity diminished in the late 1950s, though he continued to appear in popular films until his death from cerebral edema in January 1964.
Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but later relocated to North Hollywood, California when his mother re-married. He worked briefly as a studio carpenter (as did his stepfather) and for a short time was part of the Universal Pictures studio school for actors. Intent on acting, he found work in small theatres. He had short term stints at MGM and RKO, and eventually started getting steady work on radio. Ladd began by appearing in dozens of films in small roles, including Citizen Kane , before reaching recognition for his 1942 appearance in This Gun for Hire, invigorating Hollywood's desire for gangster-crime features. His cool, unsmiling persona proved popular with wartime audiences, and he was quickly established as one of the top box office stars of the decade.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.879 |
Birthday | 1913-09-03 |
Place of Birth | Hot Springs, Arkansas USA |
Also Known As | Alan Walbridge Ladd, Алан Уолбридж Лэдд, Алан Волбрідж Ледд, Άλαν Λαντ, Алън Уолбридж Лад, |
1999
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
7/1
In the 1942 film "This Gun For Hire," he was only a supporting actor. But his portrayal of a cold, ruthless killer with a core of gentle sadness had a...
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Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
1953
Shane
7.4/585
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
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Shane
1968
The Movie Orgy
6.2/9
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...
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The Movie Orgy
1941
The Reluctant Dragon
6.6/148
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be f...
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The Reluctant Dragon
1950
Appointment with Danger
5.5/28
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S...
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Appointment with Danger
1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.632/378
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1941
Petticoat Politics
0/0
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
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Petticoat Politics
1947
Saigon
5.3/7
After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable fl...
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Saigon
1946
Calcutta
6.2/17
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and...
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Calcutta
1949
Chicago Deadline
6/11
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but c...
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Chicago Deadline
1954
The Black Knight
6.2/10
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeonilan...
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The Black Knight
1941
The Black Cat
6.5/37
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
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The Black Cat
1964
The Carpetbaggers
5.8/34
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruth...
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The Carpetbaggers
1948
Whispering Smith
6.5/18
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go...
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Whispering Smith
1957
Boy on a Dolphin
5.518/28
Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolph...
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Boy on a Dolphin
1946
The Blue Dahlia
6.6/149
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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The Blue Dahlia
1942
Joan of Paris
6.4/11
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hid...
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Joan of Paris
1942
This Gun for Hire
7/167
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss,...
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This Gun for Hire
1959
The Man in the Net
5.2/16
An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt t...
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The Man in the Net
1942
The Glass Key
6.6/114
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Glass Key
1941
Gangs Inc.
5.2/6
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local cr...
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Gangs Inc.
1949
The Great Gatsby
5.5/21
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, th...
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The Great Gatsby
2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself
7.6/51
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
1932
Once in a Lifetime
7/2
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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Once in a Lifetime
1947
My Favorite Brunette
6.7/52
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for...
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My Favorite Brunette
1941
Cadet Girl
0/0
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
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Cadet Girl
1941
Great Guns
5.8/34
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
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Great Guns
1940
Victory
0/0
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
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Victory
1940
The Howards of Virginia
6.3/9
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the...
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The Howards of Virginia
1940
Blame It on Love
2.5/1
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.
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Blame It on Love
1940
The Green Hornet
5.5/10
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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The Green Hornet
1938
The Goldwyn Follies
4.6/10
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.
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The Goldwyn Follies
1937
Hold 'Em Navy
3/1
Two football players fight over the same girl.
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Hold 'Em Navy
1937
Souls at Sea
5.7/6
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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Souls at Sea
1936
Pigskin Parade
5.8/12
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a h...
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Pigskin Parade
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1955
Hell on Frisco Bay
5/12
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
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Hell on Frisco Bay
1953
The Red Beret
6.9/11
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian...
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The Red Beret
1958
The Badlanders
6.2/42
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people i...
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The Badlanders
1946
O.S.S.
6.4/12
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII...
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O.S.S.
1956
A Cry in the Night
5.2/19
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
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A Cry in the Night
1939
Petunia Natural Park
0/0
As a narrator describes the scene, we watch the whole Katzenjammer clan camping in the park of the title, a composite of several national parks in the...
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Petunia Natural Park
1938
Secrets of a Nurse
3/2
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true in...
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Secrets of a Nurse
1938
Freshman Year
0/0
A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.
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Freshman Year
1938
Come On, Leathernecks!
5/1
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.
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Come On, Leathernecks!
1937
All Over Town
7.2/5
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
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All Over Town
1937
The Last Train from Madrid
4.6/8
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
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The Last Train from Madrid
1934
Murder at the Vanities
5.4/10
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading la...
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Murder at the Vanities
1952
The Iron Mistress
4.5/10
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse'...
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The Iron Mistress
1958
The Proud Rebel
5.9/38
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned...
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The Proud Rebel
1958
The Deep Six
5.4/11
The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker wh...
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The Deep Six
1955
The McConnell Story
6.3/3
Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every ste...
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The McConnell Story
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
5.9/8
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...
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Star Spangled Rhythm
1948
Beyond Glory
7.3/3
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls f...
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Beyond Glory
1954
Hell Below Zero
6/2
Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through, partly to help Judie Nordhall find her father. Rumor ha...
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Hell Below Zero
1945
Salty O'Rourke
5.2/7
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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Salty O'Rourke
1954
Drum Beat
6.1/31
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy...
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Drum Beat
1940
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
5.7/3
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1957
The Big Land
6.2/16
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranch...
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The Big Land
1947
Variety Girl
6.1/9
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful...
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Variety Girl
1950
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
5.5/15
Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webs...
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Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1944
And Now Tomorrow
5.7/3
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't...
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And Now Tomorrow
1951
Red Mountain
6.1/13
Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospec...
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Red Mountain
1954
Saskatchewan
5.9/19
Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great...
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Saskatchewan
1960
All the Young Men
6.2/8
During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon's sergeant, who's...
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All the Young Men
1960
One Foot in Hell
5.3/19
Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitc...
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One Foot in Hell
1962
13 West Street
5.5/8
Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previ...
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13 West Street
1942
Lucky Jordan
6/3
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie...
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Lucky Jordan
1943
China
6.8/13
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the s...
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China
1950
Branded
5.7/20
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as...
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Branded
1952
Botany Bay
6.5/19
Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving...
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Botany Bay
1952
Thunder in the East
4.9/6
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifi...
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Thunder in the East
1961
Duel of Champions
5/5
A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agre...
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Duel of Champions
1956
Santiago
5.1/7
Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba....
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Santiago
1953
Desert Legion
6/6
A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.
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Desert Legion
1960
Guns of the Timberland
6.1/13
Logger Jim Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for new forest to cut. They locate a prime prospect outside the town of Deep Wells. The resident...
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Guns of the Timberland
1946
Two Years Before the Mast
6.2/8
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ship...
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Two Years Before the Mast
1944
Skirmish on the Home Front
0/0
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
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Skirmish on the Home Front
2022
Rat Pack
9/2
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bish...
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Rat Pack
1941
Citizen Kane
8.008/5452
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, ty...
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Citizen Kane
1940
Those Were the Days!
0/0
At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.
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Those Were the Days!
1939
The Mysterious Miss X
5.3/5
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
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The Mysterious Miss X
1940
American Portrait
0/0
This movie's preamble explains the importance of salesmanship after the great depression The industrial revolution has created a life of modern conven...
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American Portrait
1940
Her First Romance
6.5/1
A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin, she...
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Her First Romance
1945
Duffy's Tavern
6.1/7
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
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Duffy's Tavern
1940
Brother Rat and a Baby
5.2/3
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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Brother Rat and a Baby
1940
In Old Missouri
5.5/1
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son a...
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In Old Missouri
1940
Captain Caution
5.3/7
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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Captain Caution
1939
Hitler: Beast of Berlin
4.3/10
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl...
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
1932
Tom Brown of Culver
5.2/2
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
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Tom Brown of Culver
1940
Light of Western Stars
4/1
Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back...
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Light of Western Stars
1940
Cross-Country Romance
6.4/5
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
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Cross-Country Romance
1947
Wild Harvest
0/0
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money...
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Wild Harvest
1941
I Look at You
7.5/2
Alan Ladd was discovered by Sue Carol for his incredible voice in radio. And then she married him. In I Look At You, he is sweet and graceful. And at...
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I Look at You
1945
Hollywood Victory Caravan
4.9/8
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
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Hollywood Victory Caravan
1940
Meat and Romance
4/1
A young doctor and his home economics expert sister teach us about the benefits of meat.
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Meat and Romance
1940
Meet the Missus
0/0
Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.
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Meet the Missus
1933
Saturday's Millions
0/0
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainte...
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Saturday's Millions
1954
A Star Is Born World Premiere
8/2
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
1940
Sauce for the Gander
5/1
Working stiff Tom Tupper is stopped by a 'man on the spot' reporter during his daily commute. Asked for his opinion on male/female relations, Tom tell...
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Sauce for the Gander
1943
Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation
3/1
When naval Lieutenant Phil Bowen encounters his friend, Air Forces Captain Grover, he inquires as to what Grover's aerial reconnaissance team is doing...
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Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation
2004
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
8.8/6
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a doci...
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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
5.4/11
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1939
Rulers of the Sea
6.5/2
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...
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