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Tag Archives: Sidney Lanfield
Always Goodbye (1938) Sidney Lanfield, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Ian Hunter
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Read More »
Wake Up and Live (1937) Sidney Lanfield, Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell. Read More »
Moulin Rouge (1934) Sidney Lanfield, Constance Bennett, Franchot Tone, Tullio Carminati
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. Read More »
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) Sidney Lanfield, Frank Tashlin, Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally steers Moose Moran’s girl away from a winning bet, he is forced to come up with $10,000 to repay the angry gangster. Read More »
Broadway Bad (1933) Sidney Lanfield, Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Drama
Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing. Read More »
Skirts Ahoy! (1952) Sidney Lanfield, Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine, Comedy, Musical
Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn’t long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.
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The Trouble with Women (1947) Sidney Lanfield, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy, Comedy
Milland is charming as Gilbert Sedley, an innocent professor – he’s apparently been isolated working in the Orient too long – who is baffled by his strong reactions to a young newspaper reporter, Kate Farrell (Teresa Wright). Why does he think of Niagara Falls whenever he’s around her?
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Sing, Baby, Sing (1936) Sidney Lanfield, Alice Faye, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Musical
Nightclub singer Joan Warren’s agent Nicky puts her into situations designed to advance her career.
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The Princess and the Pirate (1944) David Butler, Sidney Lanfield, Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king’s ransom. Little do the cutthroats know that she will be rescued by that unlikeliest of knights errant, Sylvester the Great, who will lead them on a merry, and madcap, chase.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Sidney Lanfield, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
On his uncle’s death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a plot to have Sir Henry murdered by a terrible trained hound. First casting of Rathbone and Bruce as Holmes and Watson.
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The Meanest Man in the World (1943) Sidney Lanfield, Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson
Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend’s advice and tries to convince the world he’s a ruthless heel. Suddenly he’s the most popular lawyer in town — but he could lose his fiancée.
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