Dana Andrews

Dana Andrews

Born: January 1, 1909
Died: December 17, 1992
in Covington County, Mississippi, USA
Carver Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American actor. A leading man during the 1940s, he continued acting in less prestigious roles and character parts into the 1980s. He is best known for his portrayal of obsessed police detective Mark McPherson in the noir Laura (1944) and his critically acclaimed performance as World War II veteran Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

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Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Title: Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 7, 2001
Type: Movie
The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this classy documentary created for the PBS American Masters series. Based on A. Scott Berg's acclaimed biography, the film includes new interviews with Goldwyn's surviving family members as well as vintage interviews with such luminaries as Bette Davis, John Huston, Laurence Olivier and others.
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Title: Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character: Det. Lt. Mark McPherson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1991
Type: Movie
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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Prince Jack
Title: Prince Jack
Character: The Cardinal
Released: December 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
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The Horror of It All
Title: The Horror of It All
Character: Self
Released: February 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
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Showbiz Goes to War
Title: Showbiz Goes to War
Character: (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
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Title: Falcon Crest
Character: Elliot McKay
Released: December 4, 1981
Type: TV
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
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The Pilot
Title: The Pilot
Character: Randolph Evers
Released: November 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.
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Title: Ike
Character: Gen. George C. Marshall
Released: May 3, 1979
Type: TV
Made-for-TV biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Ike
Title: Ike
Character: Gen. George C. Marshall
Released: May 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
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Born Again
Title: Born Again
Character: Tom Phillips
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
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Title: The American Girls
Character: Phillips
Released: September 23, 1978
Type: TV
The American Girls is an American drama series that aired on CBS on Saturday night from September 23, 1978 to November 10, 1978.
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Good Guys Wear Black
Title: Good Guys Wear Black
Character: Edgar Harolds
Released: June 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.
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A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud
Title: A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud
Character: The Man
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud is a short film
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Roger Shanley
Released: November 16, 1977
Type: Movie
The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Mr. Paul Gerber
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Title: The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Character: Townley
Released: January 30, 1977
Type: TV
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew.
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The Last Tycoon
Title: The Last Tycoon
Character: Red Ridingwood
Released: November 18, 1976
Type: Movie
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
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Take a Hard Ride
Title: Take a Hard Ride
Character: Morgan
Released: October 29, 1975
Type: Movie
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Senora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
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Title: Ellery Queen
Character: Lewis Marshall
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: TV
Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Title: The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Character: Dr. Hutchins
Released: May 13, 1975
Type: Movie
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
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Shadow in the Street
Title: Shadow in the Street
Character: Len Raeburn
Released: January 28, 1975
Type: Movie
An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental project to help former inmates.
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Airport 1975
Title: Airport 1975
Character: Scott Freeman
Released: October 18, 1974
Type: Movie
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
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Title: Get Christie Love!
Character: Sarge
Released: January 22, 1974
Type: TV
Adventures of sexy & sassy black undercover cop Christie Love.
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Title: The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 1973
Type: TV
In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.
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Innocent Bystanders
Title: Innocent Bystanders
Character: Blake
Released: September 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
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The Failing of Raymond
Title: The Failing of Raymond
Character: Allan McDonald
Released: September 27, 1971
Type: Movie
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
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Title: Night Gallery
Character: Paul Koch (segment "The Different Ones")
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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Title: Bright Promise
Character: Thomas Boswell
Released: September 29, 1969
Type: TV
Bright Promise is an American daytime soap opera that ran on NBC from September 29, 1969 to March 31, 1972. It aired weekdays at 3:30 PM Eastern/2:30 PM Central.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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The Devil's Brigade
Title: The Devil's Brigade
Character: Brig. Gen. Walter Naylor
Released: May 15, 1968
Type: Movie
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.
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No Diamonds for Ursula
Title: No Diamonds for Ursula
Character: Il gioielliere
Released: August 6, 1967
Type: Movie
A beautiful, but naive, young woman kills a rapist in self defense. But her degenerate, crippled uncle, senses an opportunity and weaves a complex web of blackmail around her to steal a stash of diamonds.
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Title: Ironside
Character: Courtenay Eliot
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: TV
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
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The Cobra
Title: The Cobra
Character: Capt. Kelly
Released: March 25, 1967
Type: Movie
A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium and turning everyone into addicts. Along the way he manages to bed junkie Lou, get into various fights and destroy the refinery that is ending out the drugs.
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The Ten Million Dollar Grab
Title: The Ten Million Dollar Grab
Character: George Kimmins
Released: February 9, 1967
Type: Movie
A thief fakes his death in order to steal a 10 million dollar Diamond from his former employer. He has the gem then he looses it and gets it back through various ploys around Europe
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Hot Rods to Hell
Title: Hot Rods to Hell
Character: Tom Phillips
Released: January 27, 1967
Type: Movie
While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom survives the accident with a severe chronic back injury which results in him not being able to continue with his current business. The Phillips' buy a motel in the California desert and Tom with his wife Peg and their two children, Tina and Jamie make the long road trip to their new home. As they approach their destination they are terrorized by reckless teenage hot-rodders looking for kicks.
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The Frozen Dead
Title: The Frozen Dead
Character: Dr. Norberg
Released: October 15, 1966
Type: Movie
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.
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Title: Family Affair
Character: Harv Mullen
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French, also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy and the 6-year-old twins, Jody and Buffy. The show ran for 138 episodes. Family Affair was created and produced by Don Fedderson, also known for My Three Sons and The Millionaire.
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Johnny Reno
Title: Johnny Reno
Character: Johnny Reno
Released: March 9, 1966
Type: Movie
The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.
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Battle of the Bulge
Title: Battle of the Bulge
Character: Colonel Pritchard
Released: December 16, 1965
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
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The Loved One
Title: The Loved One
Character: Gen. Buck Brinkman
Released: October 11, 1965
Type: Movie
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
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Spy in Your Eye
Title: Spy in Your Eye
Character: Col. Lancaster
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: Movie
A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who discovered a valuable formula.
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Town Tamer
Title: Town Tamer
Character: Tom Rosser
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
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Brainstorm
Title: Brainstorm
Character: Cort Benson
Released: May 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
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Crack in the World
Title: Crack in the World
Character: Dr. Stephen Sorenson
Released: April 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
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In Harm's Way
Title: In Harm's Way
Character: Admiral Broderick
Released: April 6, 1965
Type: Movie
A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
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The Satan Bug
Title: The Satan Bug
Character: Gen. Williams
Released: March 26, 1965
Type: Movie
A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character: Douglas Vinson
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: Ben Casey
Character: Dr. Ernest Farrow
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Title: The Dick Powell Show
Character: Paul Oakland
Released: September 26, 1961
Type: TV
The Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer on January 2, 1963, then by a series of guest hosts until the series ended. The first of these was Gregory Peck, who began the January 8 program with a tribute to Powell, recognizing him as "a great and good friend to our industry." Peck was followed by fellow actors such as Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, Jackie Cooper, Rock Hudson, Milton Berle, Jack Lemmon, Dean Martin, Robert Taylor, Steve McQueen, David Niven, Danny Thomas, Robert Wagner and John Wayne.
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Title: The Dick Powell Show
Character: Nat Keough
Released: September 26, 1961
Type: TV
The Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer on January 2, 1963, then by a series of guest hosts until the series ended. The first of these was Gregory Peck, who began the January 8 program with a tribute to Powell, recognizing him as "a great and good friend to our industry." Peck was followed by fellow actors such as Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, Jackie Cooper, Rock Hudson, Milton Berle, Jack Lemmon, Dean Martin, Robert Taylor, Steve McQueen, David Niven, Danny Thomas, Robert Wagner and John Wayne.
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Title: The DuPont Show of the Week
Character: Cdr. Jason Vanning
Released: September 17, 1961
Type: TV
The DuPont Show of the Week is an American anthology drama series which aired for three seasons on NBC from September 17, 1961 to August 30, 1964.
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Title: The DuPont Show of the Week
Character: Narrator
Released: September 17, 1961
Type: TV
The DuPont Show of the Week is an American anthology drama series which aired for three seasons on NBC from September 17, 1961 to August 30, 1964.
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Title: Kraft Mystery Theatre
Released: June 14, 1961
Type: TV
Kraft Mystery Theatre is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from June 17, 1961 to September 25, 1963.
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Madison Avenue
Title: Madison Avenue
Character: Clint Lorimer
Released: April 13, 1961
Type: Movie
An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.
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Title: The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character: Clint Evans
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
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Title: Checkmate
Character: Judge Leland McIntyre
Released: September 17, 1960
Type: TV
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.
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The Crowded Sky
Title: The Crowded Sky
Character: Dick Barnett
Released: September 2, 1960
Type: Movie
When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Heading straight for a commercial jet piloted by Dick Barnett, whose plane is full of passengers, Heath can't tell which way to turn in order to avoid a catastrophe.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Paul Driscoll
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Enchanted Island
Title: Enchanted Island
Character: Abner "Ab" Bedford
Released: November 8, 1958
Type: Movie
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
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The Fearmakers
Title: The Fearmakers
Character: Alan Eaton
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth.
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Zero Hour!
Title: Zero Hour!
Character: Lt. Ted Stryker
Released: November 13, 1957
Type: Movie
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
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Night of the Demon
Title: Night of the Demon
Character: Dr. John Holden
Released: November 9, 1957
Type: Movie
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
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Spring Reunion
Title: Spring Reunion
Character: Fred Davis
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
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Armored Attack!
Title: Armored Attack!
Character: Kolya Simonov
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive references to Soviet Union and include narration about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
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Title: Playhouse 90
Character: Leo Bass
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: TV
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
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Title: Playhouse 90
Character: Mark Bragg
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: TV
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Title: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Character: Tom Garrett
Released: September 13, 1956
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
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While the City Sleeps
Title: While the City Sleeps
Character: Edward Mobley
Released: April 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
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Comanche
Title: Comanche
Character: Jim Read
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted Indian Commissioner.
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Strange Lady in Town
Title: Strange Lady in Town
Character: Dr. Rourke O'Brien
Released: April 12, 1955
Type: Movie
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.
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Smoke Signal
Title: Smoke Signal
Character: Brett Halliday
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. With capture imminent, the only chance for the surviving men (and one woman) is to boat down a wild, uncharted river, where Harper and Halliday must pull together, like it or not.
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Three Hours to Kill
Title: Three Hours to Kill
Character: Jim Guthrie
Released: November 4, 1954
Type: Movie
After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but then escaped from the lynch mob just as he was about to be hung. Tired of running, he has returned to find the real killer and the Sheriff has given him just three hours to do it.
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Duel in the Jungle
Title: Duel in the Jungle
Character: Scott Walters
Released: June 30, 1954
Type: Movie
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
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Elephant Walk
Title: Elephant Walk
Character: Dick Carver
Released: April 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Carl Anderson
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Assignment: Paris
Title: Assignment: Paris
Character: Jimmy Race
Released: September 4, 1952
Type: Movie
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Roger Shanley
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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I Want You
Title: I Want You
Character: Martin Greer
Released: December 22, 1951
Type: Movie
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy.
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Sealed Cargo
Title: Sealed Cargo
Character: Pat Bannon
Released: May 19, 1951
Type: Movie
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.
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The Frogmen
Title: The Frogmen
Character: Jake Flannigan
Released: January 25, 1951
Type: Movie
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
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Edge of Doom
Title: Edge of Doom
Character: Thomas Roth
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Title: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Character: Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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My Foolish Heart
Title: My Foolish Heart
Character: Walt Dreiser
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
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The Art Director
Title: The Art Director
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1949
Type: Movie
A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors' responsibilities and the demands on their talents. They read a script carefully and design a set to capture the time and place, the social strata, and the mood. They must be scholars of the history of architecture, furnishings, and fashion. They choose the colors on a set in anticipation of the lighting and the mood. Their work also sets styles, from Art Deco in the 20's to 30s modernism. Then it's on to the next project. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Sword in the Desert
Title: Sword in the Desert
Character: Mike Dillon
Released: August 24, 1949
Type: Movie
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
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The Forbidden Street
Title: The Forbidden Street
Character: Henry Lambert / Gilbert Lauderdale
Released: March 31, 1949
Type: Movie
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.
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No Minor Vices
Title: No Minor Vices
Character: Perry Ashwell
Released: November 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter of convention, and April Ashwell is extremely attractive.
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Deep Waters
Title: Deep Waters
Character: Hod Stillwell
Released: July 22, 1948
Type: Movie
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
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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The Iron Curtain
Title: The Iron Curtain
Character: Igor Gouzenko
Released: June 16, 1948
Type: Movie
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.
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Night Song
Title: Night Song
Character: Dan Evans
Released: January 20, 1948
Type: Movie
A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
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Daisy Kenyon
Title: Daisy Kenyon
Character: Dan O'Mara
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
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Boomerang!
Title: Boomerang!
Character: State's Attorney Henry L. Harvey
Released: February 28, 1947
Type: Movie
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Fred Derry
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Canyon Passage
Title: Canyon Passage
Character: Logan Stuart
Released: July 17, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
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A Walk in the Sun
Title: A Walk in the Sun
Character: Sgt. Bill Tyne
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
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Fallen Angel
Title: Fallen Angel
Character: Eric Stanton
Released: November 15, 1945
Type: Movie
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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State Fair
Title: State Fair
Character: Pat Gilbert
Released: August 29, 1945
Type: Movie
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.
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Your Job in Germany
Title: Your Job in Germany
Released: April 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Your Job In Germany is a short film made for the United States War Department in 1945 just before Victory in Europe Day (VE). It was shown to US soldiers about to go on occupation duty in Germany. The film was made by the military film unit commanded by Frank Capra and was written by Theodor Geisel, better known by his pen name Dr. Seuss.
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Laura
Title: Laura
Character: Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
Released: October 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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The Purple Heart
Title: The Purple Heart
Character: Capt. Harvey Ross
Released: February 25, 1944
Type: Movie
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
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Up in Arms
Title: Up in Arms
Character: Joe Nelson
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
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Wing and a Prayer
Title: Wing and a Prayer
Character: Edward Moulton
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.
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The North Star
Title: The North Star
Character: Kolya Simonov
Released: November 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
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Crash Dive
Title: Crash Dive
Character: Lt. Cdr. Dewey Connors
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Title: The Ox-Bow Incident
Character: Donald Martin
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
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December 7th
Title: December 7th
Character: Ghost of US sailor killed at Pearl Harbor
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
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Berlin Correspondent
Title: Berlin Correspondent
Character: Bill Roberts
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen (Virginia Gilmore) to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father (Erwin Kaiser) is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: Joe Lilac
Released: December 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Swamp Water
Title: Swamp Water
Character: Ben Ragan
Released: November 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
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Belle Starr
Title: Belle Starr
Character: Thomas Crail
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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Tobacco Road
Title: Tobacco Road
Character: Capt. Tim Harmon
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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The Westerner
Title: The Westerner
Character: Hod Johnson
Released: September 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
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Kit Carson
Title: Kit Carson
Character: Captain John C. Fremont
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Scrappy Wilson
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Sergeant Dunn
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.