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Fun loving Pearl White, (played by Betty Hutton) working in a garment shop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play with a comedy act. Her brief stage career leads her into the "new" moving pictures, where she comes to love the world of silent films, becoming queen of the movie serials. But the consequences of movie stardom are more than her leading man can take.
2) Damn Yankees
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A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the pennant. Gwen Verdon is a total delight as Lola, the temptress used by the devil (Ray Walston) to lure Joe Hardy (Tab Hunter) from going back to his wife & breaking his satanic deal in which middle-aged Joe becomes a 22-year-old baseball star catapulting the Senators to 1st place
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What do you do when you have a beautiful house, two great children and a Marriage on the Rocks? If you're bored Val Edwards (Deborah Kerr), you swap your fuddy-duddy hubby Dan (Frank Sinatra) for his swinging-bachelor best friend Ernie (Dean Martin)–and watch the sparks fly. Joining Ol' Blue Eyes in this romantic romp are frequent costars Martin, Cesar Romero and Tony Bill, plus daughter Nancy Sinatra and From Here to Eternity castmate Kerr. The...
5) Doll Face
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Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll (Vivian Blaine) is dismissed from an audition for a Broadway show because she's considered unrefined. Her manager, Mike (Dennis O'Keefe), decides she can acquire some polish and also get plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. The ghost writer and Doll Face might have more than a book on their minds.
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Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
8) Fiesta
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Cholita (Anne Ayars), after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho & everyone expects her to marry her childhood sweetheart José (George Negrete). Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando (George Givot), her fiancé! This makes José & Cholita's uncle (Antonio Moreno) the head of the town, very upset...Songs & Dances galore!
9) Yentl
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Barbra Streisand stars in this beautifully portrayed story of a young independent woman who is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to pursue her love of knowledge. Amy Irving and Mandy Patinkin co-star.
10) Forces Of Nature
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It's only two days before his wedding when Ben's (Ben Affleck)plane skids out of control, leaving him stranded in New York with no way home to his nervous fiancée in Savannah. Against his better judgment, the reliable groom-to-be hitches a ride with free spirited traveler Sarah (Sandra Bullock) - setting off a riotous road trip. At first, these two opposites attract nothing but trouble in a sidesplitting series of comic mishaps and unnatural disasters....
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An Experimental pilot testing a rocket powered craft flies into the future and lands at the now deserted airbase he left. He ends up in a city with people who are suspicious he is a spy and who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because most of the inhabitants are sterile. He manages to escape and return to his own time with consequences.
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Starring Academy Award® winners* HUMPHREY BOGART and KATHARINE HEPBURN, The African Queen tells the timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause - and finding love along the way. The story chronicles the burgeoning romance between Bogie’s river rat Charlie Allnut and Hepburn’s missionary Rose Sayer, as they reluctantly join forces to torpedo a German gunboat in war-torn East Africa. Directed by Academy Award® winner**...
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