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Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944) Gregory Ratoff, Monty Woolley, June Haver, Dick Haymes
This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Read More »
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942) Irving Pichel, Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas Read More »
Night and Day (1946) Michael Curtiz, Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley
The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s. Read More »
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) William Keighley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside slips on the ice on his way into the home of a prominent Ohio family. Read More »
The Pied Piper (1942) Irving Pichel, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Drama
Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing vacation in southern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Read More »
Holy Matrimony (1943) John M. Stahl
Famed English painter Priam Farll has spent the last 25 years living in various remote locations with only his trusted manservant, Henry Leek, for company. While Farll is summoned to London to receive a knighthood, Leek falls ill and dies. Wishing to avoid the ostentation knighthood ceremony, the reclusive painter assumes his valet’s identity. Farll, posing as Leek, soon receives a letter from Alice Chalice, a widow who has been corresponding with Leek through a marriage bureau and is expecting to finally meet her beloved in person…
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As Young as You Feel (1951) Harmon Jones, Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne
When a gentleman (Monty Woolley) is forced to retire at age 65, he’ll do just about anything to beat the system. Dying his hair black, he poses as the president of his former employer’s holding company. Suddenly free to air his views on everything from company policy to national economics, comic craziness ensues when he meets not only the firm’s top executives, but someone equally impressive – a beautiful secretary, played by Marilyn Monroe, in one of her first and funniest roles.
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