Joan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than... Read full bio →
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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: the LOVE between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
The Glove
A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 - off the record - for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals.
The Champ
The most poignant love-triangle of all - a father, his son, and the woman who came between them
Grease
Grease is the successful cult film based on a Musical of the same name starring Olivia Newton and John Travolta as high school sweethearts in this 60’s musical fairytale. Newton and Travolta actually sun the songs that became a part of America’s pop culture.
Opening Night
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention.
Support Your Local Gunfighter
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
The Phynx
A rock band becomes embroiled in foreign affairs when they're sent to go on tour in Albania as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle held by communist enemies of the USA.
Stay Away, Joe
A mixed-race American Indian rodeo champ returns to the reservation to help his people out.
Waterhole #3
James Coburn is a con man and grifter who comes across a map that leads to a fortune in stolen US Army gold. Carroll O'Connor is the crooked sheriff who stays on Coburn's tail.
The Spy in the Green Hat
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman.
Angel Baby
A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South - she to save souls and heal the sick, he to make as much money as he possibly can.
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick. But she wants something too: he has to pretend to be her new lover.
Desk Set
Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a TV network's research department.
The Blue Veil
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Nightmare Alley
The movie follows the rise and fall of a con man — a story that begins and ends at a seedy travelling carnival. Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) joins the carnival, working with "Mademoiselle Zeena" (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (Ian Keith).
Adventure
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism.
Cry 'Havoc'
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.
Topper Returns
A ghost with the help of Topper - the only one who can see her - try to find her murderer.
Gold Diggers of 1937
When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life.
Bullets or Ballots
A cop goes undercover to crack an influential crime ring.
We're in the Money
Two gold-digging process servers are tasked with subpoenaing one's boyfriend, who has been using a pseudonym to avoid breach-of-promise servings and suits.
Dames
A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show.
Gold Diggers of 1933
A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
Footlight Parade
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
Blondie Johnson
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Three on a Match
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Rich pianist Boris bets gold-digger Jean he can make her fall in love with him. She wins the bet, but he is intrigued by her friend Polaire's piano playing and proposes to be her instructor and lover. Jealous Jean schemes to separate them.
Miss Pinkerton
A nurse, bored with her job, becomes a private detective and becomes embroiled in a complex murder case.
Lawyer Man
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm.
The Public Enemy
James Cagney star's as Tom Powers, a trouble-ridden individual who rises from the position of cheap thug to that of a powerful Prohibition gangster. When his best friend is murdered, Powers self-destructively seeks deadly retaliation.
Other Men's Women
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
Night Nurse
A nurse -- trying to stop the murder of two children -- enlists the help of a criminal.
Illicit
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
Sinners' Holiday
Ma Delano operates a boardwalk penny arcade and resides above it with her sons Harry and Joe and daughter Jennie. Their tale includes rum-running, an accidental killing, and being framed.