Tom Ewell

Tom Ewell

Born: April 29, 1909
Died: September 12, 1994
in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Tom Ewell (born Samuel Yewell Tompkins) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is noted for having Starred alongside two of Classic Hollywood's Iconic Bombshells, first reprising his stage role in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which he starred Opposite Marilyn Munroe in what is considered one of her most iconic roles and then the following year The Girl Can't Help it (1956) alongside Jayne Mansfield in her breakthrough role. Ewell had 70 credits in film and television.

Movies for Tom Ewell...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Title: Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 27, 2018
Type: Movie
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
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All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Title: All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Character: Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.
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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Title: Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of the worlds brightest stars are hiding deep, dark secrets that - once revealed show a life of unhappiness, heartbreak and torment that has been so carefully hidden behind the glamour and glitter of the big screen. See the true lives behind some of Hollywoods most iconic stars and learn why, for some, it was as if the act of dying itself was a final performance.
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Title: Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Character: Self (from The Seven Year Itch [1955]) (archive footage)
Released: April 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Josh Corbin
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: Scrappleton
Released: August 19, 1983
Type: Movie
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
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Terror at Alcatraz
Title: Terror at Alcatraz
Character: Johnson
Released: July 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, respectively, involved in the race to find the buried treasure of Al Capone on Alcatraz Island at the former prison where he was imprisoned.
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Title: Best of the West
Character: Jerome Kullens
Released: September 10, 1981
Type: TV
The Wild West misadventures of a mild-mannered store owner turned town Marshal, Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982.
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Title: Trapper John, M.D.
Released: September 23, 1979
Type: TV
Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.
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Title: Eischied
Released: September 21, 1979
Type: TV
Eischied is an American crime drama broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1979 to January 20, 1980. It was based on the starring character from the 1978 miniseries To Kill a Cop, which was based on the novel by Robert Daley.
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Tropic of Desire
Title: Tropic of Desire
Character: Hadley Crabtree
Released: June 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various political intrigues.
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The Return of Mod Squad
Title: The Return of Mod Squad
Character: Cook
Released: May 18, 1979
Type: Movie
Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss. But the three soon discover that they themselves are the intended targets of a gunman who lives in their old "flower child" world of the 1960s.
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Title: Flying High
Released: September 29, 1978
Type: TV
Flying High is an American comedy-drama series that aired on CBS from August 28, 1978 until January 23, 1979. Created by Dawn Aldredge and Martin Cohan, the series stars Connie Sellecca, Pat Klous, and Kathryn Witt.
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Title: Taxi
Character: Dr. Richmond
Released: September 12, 1978
Type: TV
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
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Promise Him Anything
Title: Promise Him Anything
Character: Judge
Released: May 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A young bachelor using a dating service picks a woman whose information card read "Anything goes." When he takes her out and finds out that she didn't live up to her description, he sues her for breach of contract.
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Title: Baretta
Released: January 17, 1975
Type: TV
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Character: Mourner (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1974
Type: Movie
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
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The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Title: The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
Character: Lubow
Released: January 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Spy spoof about a double agent involcved in a phony death plot.
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They Only Kill Their Masters
Title: They Only Kill Their Masters
Character: Walter
Released: November 22, 1972
Type: Movie
An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relationships centering on the victim; the scattered trail of evidence ranges from a mysterious photograph to the victim's own dog. During the investigation, the sheriff meets and becomes romantically involved with a woman whose connection to the murder is ambiguous.
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Title: Temperatures Rising
Character: Harry Butler
Released: September 12, 1972
Type: TV
Temperatures Rising is an American television sitcom that ran from September 12, 1972 to August 29, 1974 on the ABC network. The network had a good deal of faith in the low-rated series, which went through three cast changes, two different formats, and two time slots during its run.
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To Find a Man
Title: To Find a Man
Character: Dr. Hargrove
Released: January 20, 1972
Type: Movie
A boarding-school girl asks the boy next door for help getting an abortion.
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Title: Alias Smith and Jones
Released: January 5, 1971
Type: TV
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Title: Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Character: Billy Joe Davis
Released: September 11, 1970
Type: Movie
War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries to keep the peace. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a stereotypical dumb hick sheriff who's quick to call in the local militia. Tony Curtis plays a skirt-chasing sergeant who can't stay out of trouble and soon lands in jail. Brian Keith borrows a tank to release his friend from jail. Things get more chaotic after that.
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The World of Abbott and Costello
Title: The World of Abbott and Costello
Character: Nugget Joe McDermott in Lost In Alaska (archive footage)
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Mexican Hayride, Hold That Ghost, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Little Giant, In Society, Ride 'Em Cowboy, The Naughty Nineties, Buck Privates Come Home, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, Lost in Alaska, Comin' Round the Mountain, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. - Written by Tom Weaver
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Leander Clement
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Marilyn
Title: Marilyn
Character: Self ("The Seven Year Itch") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1963
Type: Movie
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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State Fair
Title: State Fair
Character: Abel Frake
Released: March 9, 1962
Type: Movie
Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on winning the competitions for livestock and cooking. However, their restless daughter Margy and her brother Wayne meet attractive new love interests.
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Tender Is the Night
Title: Tender Is the Night
Character: Abe North
Released: January 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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Title: The Tom Ewell Show
Released: September 27, 1960
Type: TV
The Tom Ewell Show is an American television situation comedy that aired on CBS during the 1960-61 television season.
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A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Title: A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Character: Max Rutgers
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.
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The Girl Can't Help It
Title: The Girl Can't Help It
Character: Tom Miller
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within 6 weeks.
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The Great American Pastime
Title: The Great American Pastime
Character: Bruce Hallerton
Released: November 28, 1956
Type: Movie
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Title: The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Character: Gregory Whitcomb
Released: January 11, 1956
Type: Movie
TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life with a young wife, Katy. A letter from the war department arrives that Katy believes is calling Greg back to active duty from the Air Force reserve, but she hides it during a party celebrating their wedding anniversary.
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Title: Playwrights '56
Released: October 4, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Albert Pelham
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Seven Year Itch
Title: The Seven Year Itch
Character: Richard Sherman
Released: June 3, 1955
Type: Movie
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they soon start spending time together—maybe a little too much time!
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: John Emmet Owens
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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Back at the Front
Title: Back at the Front
Character: Willie
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan.
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Lost in Alaska
Title: Lost in Alaska
Character: Nugget Joe McDermott
Released: August 13, 1952
Type: Movie
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
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Finders Keepers
Title: Finders Keepers
Character: Tiger Kipps
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot
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Up Front
Title: Up Front
Character: Willie
Released: March 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "Willie" and "Joe".
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Mr. Music
Title: Mr. Music
Character: 'Cupcake' Haggerty
Released: December 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Title: American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Character: Jim Mitchell
Released: November 8, 1950
Type: Movie
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.
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A Life of Her Own
Title: A Life of Her Own
Character: Tom Caraway
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
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Title: Your Show of Shows
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: TV
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
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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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Character: Tom Howard
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Adam's Rib
Title: Adam's Rib
Character: Warren Attinger
Released: November 18, 1949
Type: Movie
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win the case and Adam gets mad about it. As a result, their perfect marriage is disturbed by everyday quarrels.
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Title: Lights Out
Released: July 19, 1949
Type: TV
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.
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Concerning a Woman of Sin
Title: Concerning a Woman of Sin
Released: March 24, 1949
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief for big money. But he has to conceal the fact that the writer is only nine years old.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Willie Mason
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
Title: Paramount Pacemaker: Babies, They're Wonderful
Released: November 14, 1947
Type: Movie
Patsy Kelly is a baby sitter who has no end of problems dealing with the kids in her charge. When Harold and Genevieve sit down in the moonlight for some billing and cooing, Patsy comes along and explains to them that marriage equates to kids and kids equate to trouble.
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Desert Bandit
Title: Desert Bandit
Character: Texas Ranger Ordway
Released: May 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall's "disgrace" was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.
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They Knew What They Wanted
Title: They Knew What They Wanted
Character: New Hired Hand (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.