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Tag Archives: Richard Whorf
Love From a Stranger (1947) Richard Whorf, John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. Read More »
The Hidden Eye (1945) Richard Whorf, Edward Arnold, Frances Rafferty, Ray Collins
Blind detective Duncan Maclaine relies on his working senses to piece together an assortment of clues to solve a case of murder. Read More »
The Groom Wore Spurs (1951) Richard Whorf, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Joan Davis
An attorney is hired to keep a dumb cowboy out of trouble. Read More »
The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945) Richard Whorf, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Hume Cronyn
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a servicemen’s canteen and meets a USO hostess. Read More »
Christmas Holiday (1944) Robert Siodmak, Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf
A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the wealthy man she married is an incorrigible wastrel. Read More »
Champagne for Caesar (1950) Richard Whorf, Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price
What happens when the man who knows everything goes on a quiz show that doubles your cash prize Read More »
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) Richard Whorf, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. Read More »
Juke Girl (1942) Curtis Bernhardt, Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf
Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Read More »
Blonde Fever (1944) Richard Whorf, Philip Dorn, Mary Astor, Felix Bressart, Comedy, Drama
The Impostor (1944) Julien Duvivier, Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Drama, War
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) Richard Whorf, Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Lucille Bremer, Biography, Musical
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists Read More »
Keeper of the Flame (1942) George Cukor, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Drama, Mystery
Journalist Steve O’Malley wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Read More »
Blues in the Night (1941) Anatole Litvak, Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Crime, Drama, Music
“Jigger’ Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger ‘Character’ Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powelll, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play ‘blues’ music. The dedication isn’t paying off in money and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend a gangster named Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former ‘real-good friend’ of Davis. But when Powell learns that ‘Character’ is about to have a baby, he returns to her. “Jigger” tries to make Kay the band’s singer and, when this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing to show for him except a nervous breakdown.Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him and plans to take back up with “Jigger”, who knows better but just can’t help himself. While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in …
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