
Birthday:
04-02-1891
Deathday:
10-20-1957 (66 years)
Birthplace:
Helensburgh, Scotland, UK
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Limelight
event1936 star_border 8
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A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom.
The Band Wagon
Act like Jeffrey Cordova
event1953 star_border 7.1
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A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
The Happy Ending
Act like Captain Dale Conway
event1925
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A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.
Monte Carlo
Act like Count Rudolph Falliere / Rudy the Hairdresser
event1930 star_border 6.3
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A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
As Long as They're Happy
Act like John Bentley
event1955 star_border 7.7
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The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
Josephine and Men
Act like Charles Luton
event1955 star_border 6
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The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
Come Out of the Pantry
Act like Lord Robert Brent
event1935
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A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
When Knights Were Bold
Act like Sir Guy De Vere
event1936 star_border 5
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Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shirts... except lovely cousin Rowena, who is mad about knighthood and chivalry. Struck in the head by a falling suit of armor, Guy dreams he and Rowena are back in 1400, as the unabashed farce continues...
Elstree Story
Act like Himself
event1952
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Starting in 1927 when the first film, The White Sheik, was made there, Elstree Story features excerpts from over forty productions – including Hitchcock’s Blackmail, the first feature-length British talkie ever shown – with early appearances by some of cinema’s greatest stars; it is a most memorable and evocative journey through the years.
Break the News
Act like Teddy Enton
event1938 star_border 6
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Two small-time song-and-dance men come up with what they believe is a surefire publicity stunt, guaranteed to keep their names in the public eye--one of them will "disappear" in what looks like a murder, and the other will be convicted of the crime. Then the "dead man" will suddenly show up at his partner's murder trial. Unfortunately, things don't quite go as planned. For one thing, no one seems to much care that the "dead man" is missing, and for another thing he's mistaken for the leader of a Balkan revolutionary group and is kidnapped by the other side.
The Gang's All Here
Act like John Forrest
event1939 star_border 5
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John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
Yes, Mr. Brown
Act like Nicholas Baumann
event1933
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The manager of a foreign branch of an American toy company attempts to entertain his visiting American boss to obtain a partnership.
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2005
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Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."
The Middle Watch
Act like Captain Maitland
event1940 star_border 5
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Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, where they have been attending a 'bon voyage' reception. At first it seems that Captain Randall will be able to keep them concealed, but then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea.
That's a Good Girl
Act like Jack Barrow
event1933
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That's a Good Girl is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Buchanan and starring Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and Dorothy Hyson. The film was based on a musical show of the same title that opened at the Lewisham Hippodrome on 19 March 1928, in which Jack Buchanan also starred. The music was written by Joseph Meyer and Phil Charig, with lyrics by Douglas Furber. The film omitted much of music of the original show, but popularised one song in particular, Fancy our Meeting. The song remained a Jack Buchanan favourite and a version of it was also recorded by Al Bowlly shortly after the film's release.
That's Entertainment!
Act like (archive footage)
event1974 star_border 7.3
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Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Bulldog Drummond's Third Round
Act like Captain Hugh Drummond
event1925
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Merchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds.
Jack Buchanan with the Glee Quartet
Act like Himself
event1930
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Early Vitaphone-Warner Bros. short film introduced as part of the Vitaphone Varieties series featuring Jack Buchanan who announces to the audience that he will be replacing a member of the Glee Quartet though he has had little time to rehearse. He doesn't know the lyrics, any of the coordinated movements and is generally out of sync with the others to the point of losing his shoes.
Smash and Grab
Act like John Forrest
event1937 star_border 5.8
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John Forrest, an insurance investigator with a weakness for model railways, is on the trail of a gang of smash-and-grab thieves targeting Europe's most prestigious jewellers. As the chase leads him to Ireland, Forrest finds he needs help and who better to call upon than his impossibly elegant, highly capable wife, Alice?
The Sky’s the Limit
Act like Dave Harber
event1937
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Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
Brewster's Millions
Act like Jack Brewster
event1935 star_border 6
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Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
The French, They Are a Funny Race
Act like Le Major Marmaduke Thompson
event1955 star_border 5
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An Englishman tries to adapt to life in France
Show of Shows
Act like Jack (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 5.5
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Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
That's Entertainment! III
Act like (archive footage)
event1994 star_border 6.9
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Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Settled Out of Court
Act like The Husband
event1925
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A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.
This'll Make You Whistle
Act like Bill Hoppings
event1936
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A filmed version of the stage musical from London's West End, Jack stars in a frothy tale of a bachelor who finds himself engaged to two girls simultaneously. Elsie Randolph, Jack's long standing stage partner co-stars with him, along with Jean Gillie who was rapidly establishing her career in films as a bubbly comic player. Songs include the title song & "There isn't any limit to my love", both quite popular hits in the UK at the time.
Man of Mayfair
Act like Lord William
event1931
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'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
Good Night, Vienna
Act like Captain Maximilian Schletoff
event1932
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Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again
That's Entertainment, Part II
Act like (archive footage)
event1976 star_border 6.8
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Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Paris
Act like Guy Pennell
event1929
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Irène Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr.) Andrew's snobbish mother Cora (Louise Closser Hale) tries to break up the romance. Jack Buchanan likewise makes his talking-picture debut as Guy Pennell, the leading man in Vivienne's revue. No film elements of Paris are known to exist, although the complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone disks. The sound tape reels for this film survives at UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Toni
Act like Toni Marr/Marini
event1928
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Depressive Toni is diagnosed with idlesness by his doctor who recommends more excitement and danger. Another patient, a celebrated detective who bears a striking resemblance to Toni, is diagnosed with exhaustion and told to rest. The two swap places but Toni's first client turns out to be an exiled princess whose jewels are about to be stolen by a ruthless gang and the amateur detective finds more thrills than he bargained for.
The Ed Sullivan Show
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 6.6
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The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows.
In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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