
Birthday:
05-25-1884
Deathday:
01-27-1969 (84 years)
Birthplace:
Athens, Wisconsin, USA
Biography
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Charles Winninger (May 26, 1884 – January 27, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, most often cast in comedies or musicals, but equally at home in dramas.
Charles Winninger (May 26, 1884 – January 27, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, most often cast in comedies or musicals, but equally at home in dramas.
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Beyond Tomorrow
Act like Michael O'Brien
event1940 star_border 6
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The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.
Show Boat
Act like Cap'n Andy Hawkes
event1936 star_border 6.7
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Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
The Get-Away
Act like Doctor Josiah Glass
event1941 star_border 5.2
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A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
Babes in Arms
Act like Joe Moran
event1939 star_border 6.4
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Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
State Fair
Act like Abel Frake
event1945 star_border 6.6
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During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
The Miracle of the White Reindeer
Act like Zoo Keeper
event1960
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Xmas-themed kiddie matinee film.
Nothing Sacred
Act like Dr. Enoch Downer
event1937 star_border 6.2
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When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
Little Nellie Kelly
Act like Michael Noonan
event1940 star_border 6
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Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
Destry Rides Again
Act like Washington Dimsdale
event1939 star_border 7.2
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Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Something in the Wind
Act like Uncle Chester Read
event1947 star_border 6.3
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A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
Belle of the Yukon
Act like Pop Candless
event1944 star_border 4.7
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Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
Three Smart Girls
Act like Judson Craig
event1936 star_border 6.4
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The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Act like Judson Craig
event1939 star_border 7.3
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Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
A Lady Takes a Chance
Act like Waco
event1943 star_border 5.7
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A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Pot o' Gold
Act like Charles 'C.J.' Haskell
event1941 star_border 5.5
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Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
My Life with Caroline
Act like Mr. Bliss
event1941 star_border 5.7
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A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
Broadway Rhythm
Act like Sam Demming
event1944 star_border 5.5
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Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.
Night Nurse
Act like Dr. Bell
event1931 star_border 6.8
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Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Act like Doctor Lane
event1945 star_border 5.9
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Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie." She bumps into Michael Kent, an officer and the comic strip's author. He likes her instantly and she dislikes him. He's headed to the Pacific, sees her on the train, gets off in Chicago, and with her father's help, pursues her and hatches a plan to marry her. Meanwhile, she has her own plan to get rid of him with the help of a blond patient. Will the Nixie get into her psyche?
The Sun Shines Bright
Act like William Pittman Priest
event1953 star_border 6.5
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With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
The Canadian
Act like Pop Tyson
event1926 star_border 7
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A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financial woes.
A Perilous Journey
Act like Captain Eph Allan
event1953 star_border 4
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A ship of women embarks on a voyage to California. Director R. G. Springsteen's 1953 adventure drama stars Vera Ralston, David Brian, Virginia Grey, Charles Winninger, Veda Ann Borg and Hope Emerson.
Every Day's a Holiday
Act like Van Reighle Van Pelter Van Doon
event1937 star_border 5.4
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When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
Las Vegas Shakedown
Act like Ernest Raff
event1955 star_border 5.2
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A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster.
The Bad Sister
Act like Mr. Madison
event1931 star_border 5.4
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Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Flesh and Fantasy
Act like King Lamarr (segment 3)
event1943 star_border 6.7
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Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.
Flying High
Act like Dr. Brown
event1931 star_border 4.8
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An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
Living in a Big Way
Act like D. Rutherford Morgan
event1947 star_border 5
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A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.
The Inside Story
Act like Uncle Ed
event1948 star_border 6.5
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A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
Café Metropole
Act like Joseph Ridgeway
event1937 star_border 6.9
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An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Father Is a Bachelor
Act like Professor Mordecai Ford
event1950 star_border 7.4
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Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
My Love Came Back
Act like Julius Malette
event1940 star_border 5.2
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Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple and then son Paul thinks that Tony and Amelia are a couple as he is sending her the money. The worst part is that Amelia might leave classical music for swing music with classmates Dusty, Joy and the band.
Summer Bachelors
Act like Preston Smith
event1926 star_border 1
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Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
Hers to Hold
Act like Judson Craig
event1943 star_border 6.8
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
The Go-Getter
Act like Cappy Ricks
event1937 star_border 5.8
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A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Lover Come Back
Act like Pa Williams
event1946 star_border 6.2
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A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
Goodbye Broadway
Act like Pat Malloy
event1938
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Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
Give My Regards to Broadway
Act like Albert Norwick
event1948 star_border 7
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A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
Barricade
Act like Samuel J. Cady
event1939 star_border 5
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In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
Hard to Get
Act like Benjamin B. Richards
event1938 star_border 6
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When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
Act like Agatha Butterfield
event1944 star_border 6
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A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him and Tessa, the young woman who runs the home.
God's Gift to Women
Act like John Churchill
event1931 star_border 5
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A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
Social Register
Act like Jonesie
event1934 star_border 4.5
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Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it.
You Can't Have Everything
Act like Sam Gordon
event1937 star_border 5.7
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Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Ziegfeld Girl
Act like 'Pop' Gallagher
event1941 star_border 6.5
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Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Woman Chases Man
Act like B.J. Nolan
event1937 star_border 5.6
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A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
White Fang
Act like Doc McFane
event1936 star_border 6
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A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
You're a Sweetheart
Act like Cherokee Charlie
event1937 star_border 4
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A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Act like Photographer
event1931 star_border 5.9
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Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Raymie
Act like R.J. Parsons
event1960
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Raymie, an eight-year-old boy and an avid fisherman, dreams of catching a legendary giant barracuda known as Old Moe.
Children of Dreams
Act like Dr. Joe Thompson
event1931
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One day, Molly Standing is picking apples in her father's apple orchard in California, with her friend Gertie (Marion Byron), when they meet two boys, Tommy Melville and Gus Schultz. Molly falls in love with Tommy while Gertie falls in love with Gus. They plan a double wedding.
Coney Island
Act like Finnigan
event1943 star_border 5.3
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Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Torpedo Alley
Act like Oliver J. Peabody
event1953
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After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for submarine duty. During training he competes with Commander Heywood for the affection of Navy nurse Lt Susan Peabody. Heywood gets a new sub command at the outbreak of the Korean war and Bingham is assigned to his sub.
Friendly Enemies
Act like Karl Pfeiffer
event1942 star_border 5.8
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During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His stubbornness results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.
Gun Smoke
Act like Tack Gillup
event1931 star_border 5.5
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Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
Soup to Nuts
Act like Otto Schmidt
event1930 star_border 5.8
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Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 2: 'Chip Shots'
Act like Himself - Golfer
event1931
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Bobby Jones teaches a group of truant businessman how to improve their chip shots.
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Act like Self
event1940 star_border 6.7
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This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
Champ for a Day
Act like Pa Karlsen
event1953 star_border 6
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An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.
If I Had My Way
Act like Joe Johnson
event1940 star_border 6.4
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Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.
Mr. Gardenia Jones
Act like John Jones
event1942 star_border 4.2
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Documentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing recreational and morale-boosting services for American troops.
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1988 star_border 6
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Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Pied Piper Malone
Act like Louie - The Barber
event1924 star_border 5
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Pied Piper Malone (1924)
The Millionaire
Act like Terrence Costigan (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5
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An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Act like Captain Henry Coffin (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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.
I Love Lucy
Act like Barney Kurtz (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7.9
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Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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