Janet Blair
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Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this high-spirited film biography that follows the brothers from their early days all the way to their greatest successes. Director Alfred E. Green (The Jolson Story) uses the film as a showcase for some great music, including I'm Getting Sentimental Over You and Marie. Jazz buffs will notice cameos by greats such as bandleader Paul Whiteman and pianist Art Tatum. In fact, look for a special jam session featuring...
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Disc 1: If you could only cook: A down-on-her-luck cook charms a millionaire into playing along as her husband so they can get work. Too many husbands: A woman finds herself legally wed to two men.
Disc 2: My sister Eileen: A writer, who has a pretty, younger sister, brings a host of eccentrics through their Greenwich Village apartment. She wouldn't say yes: A button-down psychiatrist battles her patient's impulses while suppressing her own.
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Sir Richard Shelton is a young man returning home from the War of Roses. When his ruthless uncle Sir Daniel Brackley informs him of his father's recent murder at the hands of a rival family, Shelton immediately sets out to discover the truth behind the accusation. He uncovers a trail of deception and intrigue that leads him straight to his own unscrupulous uncle.
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A hapless door-to-door salesman becomes a prime suspect when one of his clients is murdered. Now, he and his girl have to outwit the murderer and the cops 'til they can prove he's innocent! If this all sounds familiar, Columbia released a similarly plotted picture just two years later, swapping another famous redhead into the lead, Lucille Ball in The Fuller Brush Girl! But this is the original. Newly remastered.
10) Boys' night out
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"Bowling? Nope. Another round of beers? Yawn. Three married men and their divorced buddy want to try something more intriguing on their boys' night out: a boy's night in with a blonde tootsie in a secret love pad. Unknown to them, the tootsie is really a doctoral student researching the love life of the suburban male. And she proves her smarts by keeping all four relationships strictly platonic, despite the boys' boasting to the contrary"--Container....
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Oscar winner Henry Fonda stars as Sergeant Chad Smith, a Los Angeles police officer, husband, and father to three (including a teen son played by a young Ron Howard). This lost gem of a series (1971-72) offers a refreshingly light-hearted version of life as a police officer--with the Smith family inevitably becoming involved in the good detective's cases. Contains 39 episodes.
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Music and movie fans alike cheered this Hollywood adaptation of the real-life tale of brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and its top-drawer musical numbers. Starring as themselves with actors filling out the remaining roles, these two icons of Big Band, Jazz, and Swing recount the rise and fall of their careers, and the long-running feud that threatened to keep them from ever performing together again.