Shirley Jones

Shirley Jones

Born: March 31, 1934
in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. In her six decades of television, she starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956), and The Music Man (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She is probably best known as Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children in the situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–1974), co-starring her real-life stepson David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.

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Frank and Ava
Title: Frank and Ava
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Frank & Ava joins the wild ride of the tempestuous relationship between icons, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner showing their multi-year love affair and subsequent marriage. In 1949, a downcast Frank, his career on the wane because of a faltering voice, a failing marriage, and a tarnished off-screen reputation falls in love with rising star, Ava, by consensus, the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. While their love was incandescent, they were hapless as a couple; often pursued by reporters such as Hedda Hopper who played them off against each other in the tabloids; casting Frank as an adulterer and Ava as a home wrecker while Frank!s wife, Nancy Barbato, refused to grant him a divorce. Once married in 1951 the tabloids then paraded their sorted affairs whenever their careers separated them. (Often it was Ava who went off to Europe or Africa to make a movie, leaving Frank behind). In the meantime, Frank, career hanging by a thread, is desperately trying to land the acting job that he ...
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The Irresistible Blueberry Farm
Title: The Irresistible Blueberry Farm
Character: Ruth
Released: October 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Ellen Branford, a high-powered attorney, finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life when she sets off on a journey to fulfill her grandmother’s dying wish – to find the hometown boy she once loved and give him her last letter. Based on a book by Mary Simses.
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Looking for Mabel Normand
Title: Looking for Mabel Normand
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 12, 2015
Type: Movie
A documentary on the life and career of silent film star Mabel Normand.
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On the Wing
Title: On the Wing
Character: Mrs. Ryburn
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Four teenage misfits take on Big Oil, the U.S. Government, and one very slick Politician.
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Title: Over the Garden Wall
Character: Beatrice's Mother (voice)
Released: November 3, 2014
Type: TV
Two brothers, Wirt and Greg, find themselves lost in the Unknown; a strange forest adrift in time. With the help of a wise old Woodsman and a foul-tempered bluebird named Beatrice, Wirt and Greg must travel across this strange land, in hope of finding their way home. Join them as they encounter surprises and obstacles on their journey through the wood.
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Title: Over the Garden Wall
Character: Beatrice's Mother / Additional Voices (voice)
Released: November 3, 2014
Type: TV
Two brothers, Wirt and Greg, find themselves lost in the Unknown; a strange forest adrift in time. With the help of a wise old Woodsman and a foul-tempered bluebird named Beatrice, Wirt and Greg must travel across this strange land, in hope of finding their way home. Join them as they encounter surprises and obstacles on their journey through the wood.
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Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
Title: Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
Character: Broadway Diva
Released: April 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Two entertainers destined for the big time are mismatched in a casting office from two very different online contests. Tony, a stripper from New York, is cast in an Off-Broadway musical and needs to trade in his tear-away trunks for tap shoes and tights. Anthony, a naive musical theatre enthusiast from Montana, needs to decide if he can strip all the way down just to stay in town. Hilarity ensues as they realize that "to make it" they're gonna have to learn some new tricks.
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Miracle at Gate 213
Title: Miracle at Gate 213
Character: Rita Goodrich
Released: December 10, 2013
Type: Movie
It's Christmas Eve and an unexpected delay at the airport has left everyone stranded. Young Joy (Savannah Page Ray from NBC's Parenthood) is traveling on her own to visit family for the holidays, so a retired flight attendant at the airport (Shirley Jones) becomes her travel companion. As they wait with their fellow travelers, they soon learn that everyone can use a Christmas Miracle, especially a young man trying to escape his past, and they join together to help. Allow your spirit to be lifted and your heart to be warned as you watch each person receive their Miracle at Gate 213
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Zombie Night
Title: Zombie Night
Character: Nana
Released: October 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Zombies come out at night and two families must survive until morning.
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A Strange Brand of Happy
Title: A Strange Brand of Happy
Character: Mildred
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: Movie
An aimless bachelor loses his job and finds himself chasing the same girl (his new life coach) that his manipulative ex-boss is after as well. The boys are spurred on by a rag tag group of retirees in need of some action.
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Family Weekend
Title: Family Weekend
Character: GG
Released: March 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
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Title: Raising Hope
Character: Burt's Mom
Released: September 21, 2010
Type: TV
James "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball but well-intentioned family for support in raising the child.
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Title: Hot in Cleveland
Character: Sophie
Released: June 16, 2010
Type: TV
Three fabulous, eccentric, LA best friends of a certain age have their lives changed forever when their plane unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in this new "promised land."
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Title: Good Luck Charlie
Character: Linda Duncan
Released: April 4, 2010
Type: TV
Teens PJ and Teddy and tween brother Gabe are typical kids -- that is, until their mother has another baby. The arrival of their new sister completely upends the entire household. When their mother heads back to work after Charlie's birth, it's up to the kids and their dad to keep the home fires burning -- and to keep Charlie out of trouble as she learns to sit up, crawl, walk and run. Teddy, as the older sister, makes a personalized video diary for Charlie, in each episode adding a nugget of wisdom for her baby sibling.
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Title: Celebrity Ghost Stories
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2009
Type: TV
Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal.
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Title: Childrens Hospital
Character: Grandma Shirley
Released: December 8, 2008
Type: TV
A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Title: Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Character: Self - Hostess
Released: October 14, 2008
Type: Movie
The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.
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Title: The Cleaner
Released: July 15, 2008
Type: TV
After hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions during the birth of his twins, William Banks strikes a tentative deal with God. In exchange for a second chance, he vows to kick his addictions and dedicate his life to helping others. Now, along with his unconventional team, he helps people get clean from their own addictions of sex, drugs, alcohol and gambling by any means necessary.
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Christmas Is Here Again
Title: Christmas Is Here Again
Character: Victoria Claus (voice)
Released: October 20, 2007
Type: Movie
When the evil Krad steals Santa's toy bag, he crushes the holiday spirit- and over time, the world's children forget all about Christmas. Now, a wide-eyed orphan and her band of friends will embark on the polar adventure of a lifetime, as they try to stop Krad from destroying Christmas once and for all!
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Dick Van Dyke In Rare Form
Title: Dick Van Dyke In Rare Form
Character: Self
Released: March 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A vintage collection of Dick Van Dyke performances highlighting classic monologues, extraordinary pantomime and delightful song & dance routines in this early peek at a legend in the making" from clips from the Pat Boone Chevy Showroom and an episode of the TV panel show, Laugh Line.
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Title: Monarch Cove
Character: Grace Foster
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
Monarch Cove is a prime time telenovela that premiered on Lifetime Television on November 4, 2006. It ran for 14 episodes, ending on December 16, 2006.
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The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park
Title: The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park
Character: Charlotte
Released: March 27, 2006
Type: Movie
The Caucasian Doug (Steve Hedden) and the Afro-American Donnie (Andre Ware) simultaneously receive a letter with a surprising inheritance of lands. They travel and arrive in a trailer park that belonged to their unknown mother. Both losers and racists, they have difficulties to accept each other. But when a gore killer creature attacks them, they have to join forces to save their lives.
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Grandma's Boy
Title: Grandma's Boy
Character: Grace
Released: January 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But when he gets kicked out of his apartment, he's forced to move in with his grandmother.
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Hidden Places
Title: Hidden Places
Character: Aunt Batty
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A drama about a young widow who finds a guardian angel in the form of a hobo who comes to her rural community looking for work.
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Raising Genius
Title: Raising Genius
Character: Aunt Sis
Released: March 10, 2004
Type: Movie
The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
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Manna from Heaven
Title: Manna from Heaven
Character: Bunny
Released: September 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in Buffalo, NY is mysteriously showered with 20 dollar bills. Theresa, a young girl who everyone thinks is a saint, doesn't have much trouble convincing her loose-knit "family" that the money is a gift from Heaven. Years later, Theresa, who has become a nun, has an epiphany that it is time to pay the money back, so she calls the eccentric group together to repay the "loan." The problem is, nobody wants to give back the money, nobody has the money, they don't know to whom it belongs, and most of them can't stand each other. Along the way, the characters learn about family, romance, reconciliation and redemption, and by working together they begin to realize their full potential.
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Ping!
Title: Ping!
Character: Ethel Jeffries
Released: September 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Ping is a chihuahua rescued from the pound by nearsighted Ethel, who thinks he's a cat. When a pair of bumbling thieves try to break into Ethel's house to steal the money they think she has stashed away, only Ping can foil their plans.
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Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth
Character: Nurse Kervorkian
Released: October 17, 2000
Type: Movie
In this horror parody, a masked serial killer menaces the town of Bulimia Falls with various sharp objects. Attention-seeking television personality Hagitha Utslay is soon on the scene, reporting on the ever-growing body count. Former mall security guard Doughy shows up to protect the teenage population, but he's clearly not much help, allowing the murderer to pick off even more hapless kids as numerous scary movies are referenced.
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Frank Sinatra Memorial
Title: Frank Sinatra Memorial
Character: Self
Released: May 16, 2000
Type: Movie
Frank Sinatra, the greatest entertainer of the 20th century, is remembered by some of the brightest stars in Hollywood in this television memorial which celebrates his life and mourns his passing. Exclusive flashback interviews with Sinatra, his friends and his family, reveal little known facts about his overwhelming generosity and the sensationalized image created by the press. * In-depth interviews with those who knew him best... Ed McMahon, Tommy Sands, Shecky Green, Phyllis McGuire, Quincy Jones, & Betty Garrett, among others. * See highlights from some of Sinatra’s last films and farewell perfomances.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Felicity Bradshaw
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Gideon
Title: Gideon
Character: Elly Morton
Released: October 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Gideon Dobbs is young, simple-minded man who has never stopped dreaming. He checks into a retirement home where he finds the residents have lost their lust for life. Through his innocence he changes their lives and teaches them that each day is a precious gift. They get back their self-esteem and their lust for life.
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Title: That '70s Show
Character: Shirley Jones
Released: August 23, 1998
Type: TV
Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric’s basement, life in the ‘70s isn’t always so groovy. But between trying to figure out the meaning of life, avoiding their parents, and dealing with out-of-control hormones, they’ve learned one thing for sure: they’ll always get by with a little help from their friends.
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Dog's Best Friend
Title: Dog's Best Friend
Character: Ethel
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: Movie
Animals communicate with a boy while he's staying at his grandparents' farm and warn him about an impending foreclosure.
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Title: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Character: Lydia
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: TV
On her sixteenth birthday, Sabrina Spellman discovers she has magical powers. She lives with her 600-year-old aunts Hilda and Zelda as well as talking cat Salem in the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts.
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Title: E! True Hollywood Story
Released: August 21, 1996
Type: TV
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.
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Title: The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 10, 1996
Type: TV
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies
Title: Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies
Character: Host
Released: April 7, 1996
Type: Movie
TV Documentary about Rodgers & Hammerstein's Films - Host Shirley Jones
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Title: The Drew Carey Show
Character: Celia
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: TV
Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.
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Title: Women of the House
Released: January 4, 1995
Type: TV
Women of the House is an American situation comedy television series. It is a spin-off of Designing Women and stars Delta Burke, who had reconciled with producers after a bitter, highly publicized, off-screen battle.
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Cops n Roberts
Title: Cops n Roberts
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Barbara Manchester
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: TV
Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Barbara Mansfield
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: TV
Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.
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Title: Intimate Portrait
Character: Self
Released: November 14, 1993
Type: TV
Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews with each subject. Among the people profiled were Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Carly Simon, Jackie Kennedy, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Tanya Tucker, and Marla Maples.
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Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
Title: Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
Character: Herself
Released: May 14, 1993
Type: Movie
An insider's account of Jack Warner, a founding father of the American film industry. This feature length documentary provides the rags to riches story of the man whose studio - Warner Bros - created many of Hollywood's most classic films. Includes extensive interviews with family members and friends, film clips, rare home movies and unique location footage.
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Title: Melrose Place
Released: July 8, 1992
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Title: James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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There Were Times, Dear
Title: There Were Times, Dear
Character: Susanne Millard
Released: June 3, 1987
Type: Movie
Bob and Susanne Millard deal with the onset of Bob's Alzheimer's disease.
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It's Ho-Ho Hope's Jolly Christmas Hour
Title: It's Ho-Ho Hope's Jolly Christmas Hour
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 1984
Type: Movie
Bob Hope's 1984 NBC Christmas Special.
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Betsy
Title: Betsy
Released: October 10, 1984
Type: Movie
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Kathleen Lane
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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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Ann Owens Arden
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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Tank
Title: Tank
Character: LaDonna
Released: March 16, 1984
Type: Movie
After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey butts heads with the local sheriff. Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when the sheriff goes after Zack's son, it's time for Zack to roll out the Sherman tank and wage a little war of his own.
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All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
Title: All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1983
Type: Movie
A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests.
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Title: Hotel
Released: August 21, 1982
Type: TV
Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.
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Inmates: A Love Story
Title: Inmates: A Love Story
Character: E.F. Crown
Released: February 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a revision of his judgment. Meanwhile he has to adapt to a life in jail - which works out quite well, especially when he meets the self-conscious convicted thief Jane and falls in love. He starts to woo her. But then, while working in the prison's accounting department, he discovers that the prisoners' accounts are not properly kept. The director tries to keep him in her prison as long as possible.
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The Children of An Lac
Title: The Children of An Lac
Character: Betty Tisdale
Released: October 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
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Visions of Christmas Past
Title: Visions of Christmas Past
Character: Shirley Miller
Released: December 28, 1979
Type: Movie
A 95-minute TV movie spin-off from the short-lived TV series Shirley (1979), starring Shirley Jones. Shirley is caught up in memories of her late husband as she sets off in a snow storm to buy a Christmas tree for her family.
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Title: Shirley
Character: Shirley Miller
Released: October 26, 1979
Type: TV
Shirley is an American comedy-drama television series that aired from October 26, 1979 until January 25, 1980.
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Title: Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Character: Nurse Gina Rowe
Released: May 18, 1979
Type: Movie
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
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A Last Cry for Help
Title: A Last Cry for Help
Character: Joan Muir
Released: January 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Sharon appears to be a normal 17-year-old girl with good grades, many friends, and a wonderful personality - hardly someone you think would be considering suicide. But her home life is constrained by the pressures and expectations of her parents. She slowly spirals downward, her mother at one point telling her that she has no business being unhappy. So, she gulps down a bottle of sleeping pills. She is saved, but for how long?
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Who'll Save Our Children?
Title: Who'll Save Our Children?
Character: Sarah Laver
Released: December 16, 1978
Type: Movie
A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable court battle.
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Evening in Byzantium
Title: Evening in Byzantium
Character: Constance Dobson
Released: August 14, 1978
Type: Movie
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
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Yesterday's Child
Title: Yesterday's Child
Character: Laura Talbot
Released: February 3, 1977
Type: Movie
A young couple's three-year-old daughter is kidnapped and no trace is ever found of her. Fourteen years later, a young woman claiming to be that girl shows up at the parents' house.
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The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Title: The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Character: Jenny Dolan
Released: October 27, 1975
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
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Winner Take All
Title: Winner Take All
Character: Eleanor Anderson
Released: March 3, 1975
Type: Movie
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
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The Family Nobody Wanted
Title: The Family Nobody Wanted
Character: Helen Doss
Released: February 19, 1975
Type: Movie
A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.
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Title: The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 1973
Type: TV
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean Martin from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin would periodically "roast" a celebrity. These roasts were patterned after the roasts held at the New York Friars' Club in New York City. The format would have the celebrity guest seated at a banquet table, and one by one the guest of honor was affectionately chided or insulted about his career by his fellow celebrity friends. In 1973, The Dean Martin Show was declining in popularity. The final season of his variety show would be retooled into one of celebrity roasts, requiring less of Martin's involvement. For the 1973–1974 season, a new feature called “Man of the Week Celebrity Roast" was added to try to pick up the ratings. The roasts seemed to be popular among television audiences and are often marketed in post-issues as part of the official Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts and not The Dean Martin Show. After The Dean Martin Show was cancelled in 1974, NBC drew up a contract with Martin to do several specials and do more roast specials. Starting with Bob Hope in 1974, the roast was taped in California and turned out to be a hit, leading to many other roasts to follow.
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The Girls of Huntington House
Title: The Girls of Huntington House
Character: Anne Baldwin
Released: February 15, 1973
Type: Movie
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Self
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Title: The Pet Set
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1971
Type: TV
Each episode of this part talk show, part docuseries begins with animal-loving celebrities showcasing their pets. The showcase transitions into a documentary segment on the species previously showcased, followed by a discussion with an animal expert, and concluding with host Betty White and sometimes her guest stars outside with a wild animal.
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But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Title: But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Character: Evelyn Harris
Released: October 6, 1970
Type: Movie
An accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him.
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Title: The Partridge Family
Character: Shirley Renfrew Partridge
Released: September 25, 1970
Type: TV
The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career.
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The Cheyenne Social Club
Title: The Cheyenne Social Club
Character: Jenny
Released: June 12, 1970
Type: Movie
Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.
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The Happy Ending
Title: The Happy Ending
Character: Flo Harrigan
Released: December 21, 1969
Type: Movie
The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers.
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Silent Night, Lonely Night
Title: Silent Night, Lonely Night
Character: Katherine Johnson
Released: December 16, 1969
Type: Movie
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a mental patient at the university, and she is there visiting her son, who is a student, after discovering her husband's infidelity.
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El golfo
Title: El golfo
Character: María O'Hara
Released: October 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.
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Title: The Jim Nabors Hour
Released: September 25, 1969
Type: TV
The Jim Nabors Hour is an American variety television series hosted by Jim Nabors that aired on the CBS television network from 1969 to 1971. Fresh from his success with Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., which put his backwoods "Gomer Pyle" character from The Andy Griffith Show in a military context, the show not only built on that success, including Ronnie Schell and Frank Sutton, two of Nabors' old co-stars, but also displayed his baritone singing voice, which had been used on the Pyle show on occasion and had gotten Nabors several gold records in the late 1960s. The show was consistently in the top thirty and performed strongly in its time slot, but fell victim to the infamous CBS "rural purge" and was axed by the network.
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Title: This Is Tom Jones
Released: February 7, 1969
Type: TV
An ATV variety series starring Tom Jones, featuring many show business legends of the time, which ran from 1969 to 1971. It was exported to the United States by ITC Entertainment and was networked there by ABC, earning Jones a nomination at the Golden Globes. The show also featured comedy sketches by the Ace Trucking Company improvisational group, featuring Fred Willard and Patti Deutsch, among others.
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Title: The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1969
Type: TV
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme song of the show. The show was one of the few rural-oriented shows to survive CBS's rural purge of 1971.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Jackie Harding
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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Title: The Carol Burnett Show
Character: Self - Guest / Various Characters
Released: September 11, 1967
Type: TV
The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33. The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards, was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002 and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."
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The Secret of My Success
Title: The Secret of My Success
Character: Marigold Marado
Released: September 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Women (Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens) and his mother help an English constable (James Booth) rise to ruler of a banana republic.
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Fluffy
Title: Fluffy
Character: Janice Claridge
Released: June 27, 1965
Type: Movie
A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.
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Bedtime Story
Title: Bedtime Story
Character: Janet Walker
Released: June 10, 1964
Type: Movie
Benson, is a Casanova who tricks women into having sex with him before leaving them. He is content with his game until he meets Jamison, a real operator who poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to give him money to help him fund his supposed counter-revolution.
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Dark Purpose
Title: Dark Purpose
Character: Karen Williams
Released: February 5, 1964
Type: Movie
An American woman in Italy falls in love with a man, unaware that he has an insane wife hidden in the attic.
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Title: The Danny Kaye Show
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: TV
The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert Scheerer, the show premiered in black-and-white, but later switched to color broadcasts. At the time, Kaye was at the height of his popularity, having starred in a string of successful films in the 1940s and '50's, made successful personal appearances at such venues as the London Palladium, and appeared many times on television. His most recent films had been considered disappointing, but the television specials he starred in were triumphant, leading to this series. Prior to his television and film career, Kaye had made a name for himself with his own radio show, and numerous other guest appearances on other shows.
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A Ticklish Affair
Title: A Ticklish Affair
Character: Amy Martin
Released: August 18, 1963
Type: Movie
A young widow Amy Martin with three young boys is investigated by the Navy after one of her children inadvertently sends out a distress signal in Morse code by the blinds on his upstairs bedroom window. Commander Weedon and crew observe the signal from their ship and investigates. He falls for the young mother and proposes marriage. However, she is reluctant to have her family live out of a suitcase and initially declines. Gramps tries to bring her on board to sail the sea of love with the commander.
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Title: The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Character: Elizabeth Marten
Released: March 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
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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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The Music Man
Title: The Music Man
Character: Marian Paroo
Released: June 19, 1962
Type: Movie
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
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Two Rode Together
Title: Two Rode Together
Character: Marty Purcell
Released: July 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
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Pepe
Title: Pepe
Character: Suzie Murphy
Released: December 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
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Elmer Gantry
Title: Elmer Gantry
Character: Lulu Bains
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
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Bobbikins
Title: Bobbikins
Character: Betty Barnaby
Released: July 28, 1959
Type: Movie
Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult.
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Never Steal Anything Small
Title: Never Steal Anything Small
Character: Linda Cabot
Released: February 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his union's presidency.
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April Love
Title: April Love
Character: Liz Templeton
Released: November 27, 1957
Type: Movie
A teenager, recently in trouble with the police, is sent to live with his aunt and uncle on their Kentucky farm in order to rediscover life's values.
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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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Carousel
Title: Carousel
Character: Julie Jordan
Released: February 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met. He would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying the problem; but before he may go, he has to get permission from the gatekeeper by telling him his story. Adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical.
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Oklahoma!
Title: Oklahoma!
Character: Laurey Williams
Released: October 10, 1955
Type: Movie
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Aunt Polly Harrington
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Self
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Judith Traherne
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Title: The Bob Hope Show
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1950
Type: TV
The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.
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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: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Character: Self
Released: November 25, 1948
Type: TV
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S. chain store business Macy's. The tradition started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit, with both parades four years younger than the 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia. The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. EST on Thanksgiving Day.
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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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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Singer
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 Adventures of Cinderella's Daughter
Title: The Adventures of Cinderella's Daughter
Character: Fairy Godmother
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Cindy, daughter of Queen Cinderella, grew up as a typical teen never believing in fairy godmothers. That is, until the night she wished to attend the village jamboree in order to meet the cutest boy in the village. From then on she was landed with Fred, her very own Fairy Godbrother there at her every beck and call. With Fred's help against jealous cousins, stuck-up princes, and discovering the whole story behind her parents'romance, Cindy will search for her own happily ever after.
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
Title: Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
Character: Host
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The 1920s was a time of great change in Hollywood. This program tells the story of the advent of sound technology for movies and the emergence of talkies and musicals in Hollywood. While audiences cried out for more, the movie industry struggled to adapt to the strange new technology. The result was an explosion of movie musicals by the end of the decade.