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Tag Archives: 1950s
Theres No Business Like Show Business (1954) Walter Lang, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O’Connor

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart. Read More »
Canaris (1954) Alfred Weidenmann, O.E. Hasse, Barbara Rütting, Adrian Hoven

Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Read More »
The Blue Veil (1951) Curtis Bernhardt, Busby Berkeley, Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell

Louise Mason is a young widow who fills her empty life with the task of becoming a children’s nurse. Read More »
Miss Robin Crusoe (1954) Eugene Frenke, Amanda Blake, George Nader, Rosalind Hayes

A shipwrecked lass sets up housekeeping on a desert island and rescues female native from certain doom, thereby winning herself a Girl Friday. Read More »
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty

In 1807, Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship the HMS Lydia on a perilous voyage around Cape Horn and into the Pacific. Read More »
Remains to Be Seen (1953) Don Weis, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern

June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. Read More »
The Crimson Pirate (1952) Robert Siodmak, Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. Read More »
Confidentially Connie (1953) Edward Buzzell, Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor Read More »
She Couldn’t Say No (1954) Lloyd Bacon, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt

A wealthy heiress returns to a small Arkansas town to furtively reward the townsfolk who helped to save her life when she was a young girl. Read More »