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Before he was an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director, Moss Hart was a poor, stage-struck Brooklyn dreamer who, after years of writing submissions, rejections galore and sheer persistence, finally grasped the brass ring. He chronicled the sweatiness and sweetness of his first success in the colorful 1959 memoir Act One, which quickly became one of the signature books about the theater. Veteran studio head and Sunrise at Campobello author Dore Schary lovingly adapted it for film...

They're just an average pair of suburban families, the Huddleses and the next-door McCoys. Average, blue-collar working stiffs who play professional football, that is. Or as their snide neighbor Pertwee (voice of Paul Lynde) would have it, "Savages, that's what they are." Ed Huddles (voice of Cliff Norton) is quarterback for the the Rhinos and Bubba McCoy (voice of Mel Blanc) is his center, while decidedly above-average wives Marge (voice of Jean Vander Pyl) and Penny (voice of Marie Wilson)...

Edward G. Robinson builds the world's first international news agency in this engrossing true story costarring Edna Best and Eddie Albert. Struggling to establish a system that delivers messages with reliability and speed, Julius Reuter (Robinson) becomes a success when he launches a European telegraph service that transmits news by wire. Competing with a British concern that's out to steal his clients, Reuter lays a line to a remote coastal town that gives him the lead on American news...

Aspiring photographer Susan Weinblatt (Melanie Mayron) and would-be poet Anne Munroe (Anita Skinner) are best friends and roommates in a five-flight walk-up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. But one day Anne decides to marry and move out. When the best friends go their separate ways, Girl Friends focuses on what happens to the one left behind. It's about valuable, delicate and complex ties that bind people -- girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands and lovers. Producer/director Claudia Weill (It's My...

In season two of the animated adult comedy series MIKE TYSON MYSTERIES, the team is back for more mystery solving. Mike Tyson (voiced by series star MIKE TYSON), once the "baddest man on the planet," remains hell-bent on becoming the "goodest man on the planet"...one mystery at a time! But he can't do it alone. Enter the best mystery-solving team in the business: There's Yung Hee, Mike's adopted Korean daughter (voiced by RACHEL RAMRAS); all-around buzzkill Pigeon (voiced by NORM MacDONALD), a...

A man impersonating a woman on stage? Piece of cake. But a woman whose livelihood depends on pretending to be a man who pretends to be a woman? Now you've got problems! You've also got laughs when Julie Andrews plays Victor and Victoria in this clever delight from filmmaker Blake Edwards boasting a marvelous Academy Award -winning* score by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse. Robert Preston plays a cabaret performer who devises the gender-bender stage act. Farcically complicating matters are...

A masterpiece of mood and heroics, this second film in director John Ford's renowned cavalry trilogy (Fort Apache and Rio Grande are the others) features one of John Wayne's most moving performances, as a cavalry officer in his final week of service on the frontier. Under makeup aging him some 20 years, he inhabits the role of a wily veteran who knows the sting of war and vows to make his last mission one of peace. The ritual of outpost life, the sweep of battle, the advance of the patrol...

Supplies are dwindling. Troops are hopelessly outnumbered. But even in defeat there is victory. The defenders of the Philippines -- including PT-boat skippers John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) and Rusty Ryan (John Wayne) -- will give the U.S. war effort time to regroup after the devastation of Pearl Harbor. Director John Ford's World War II tale knows its battle-scarred topic firsthand. Montgomery was himself a Pacific PT-boat commander and a valorous Bronze Star recipient. Ford filmed the...

Both Marion Davies and Billie Dove were one-time Ziegfeld chorus girls, so they became a natural fit as pals and romantic rivals when Davies' chum, two-time Academy Award winner* Frances Marion (with input on dialogue from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes author Anita Loos), fashioned Davies' stories of bygone days into the spicy and reality-laced script for Blondie of the Follies. Practical working girl Blondie McClune (Davies) has her head turned by the world of her showgirl buddy Lottie (Dove) --...

From W. Somerset Maugham's popular 1925 novel about an unloving marriage at a flash point and a selfish adulteress who travels a turbulent path to redemption, this second film version of The Painted Veil fixes Eleanor Parker (of the 1946 Maugham-based Of Human Bondage), Bill Travers and Jean-Pierre Aumont as the points of a fraught romantic triangle in 1949 Hong Kong. When her affair with a married man (Aumont) is discovered by her bacteriologist husband (Travers), an aimless American...

David and Lynn Conway are a two-career New York couple. He (Robert Montgomery) is a shipbuilder whose opportunities have been sparse. She (Virginia Bruce) manages a thriving theatrical agency and has been the major breadwinner for a while. But he's just received a prime out-of-town job offer and becomes a hardheaded chauvinist about his spouse's refusal to quit her gig and become a New Bedford, Massachusetts, housewife. With snappy banter and observant wit, The First Hundred Years is the...

Tally ho! The farcical flair of Robert Montgomery meets its match in the lampooning style of British humorist P.G. Wodehouse in Piccadilly Jim, a blithe and expertly cast concoction from Hollywood's golden age of screwball comedy. Montgomery plays a London-based cartoonist whose caricatures spoil his actor father's (Frank Morgan) marriage plans when they offend the elder man's prospective in-laws. Luckily, the resulting fuss inspires him to create a comic-strip burlesque of the bumptious rich...