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Welcome Stranger
Academy Award winners Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald re-team in Welcome Stranger - their follow-up film to Best Picture winner Going My Way. Dr. McRory (Fitzgerald) is a crotchety old physician who decides to take his first vacation in years. He requests a substitute doctor and gets Jim Pearson (Crosby), a brash young man who immediately rubs him the wrong way. So Dr. McRory decides to forget the vacation and stay home to protect his practice. This puts the two men at each other’s throats –...
Three-Cornered Moon
Screen legend Claudette Colbert shines in the hilarious screwball-comedy Three-Cornered Moon . After losing their fortune in an unexpected stock market crash, the eccentric Rimplegar family must quickly learn to change their extravagant lifestyles. To make matters worse, the grown children must now get jobs for the first time in their lives! Featuring a great ensemble cast including Mary Boland and Richard Arlen, this unforgettable classic proves that laughter really is the best medicine in...
The Cat and the Canary
The legendary Bob Hope is at his very best in the hilarious comedy thriller The Cat and the Canary. A decade after the death of an eccentric millionaire, his remaining relatives gather for the reading of the will at his abandoned mansion set deep in the Louisiana bayous. Tension builds after his niece Joyce (Paulette Goddard) is named the sole inheritor and it is revealed that one of the other relatives will get everything if the heiress goes insane within the next 30 days. The timid Wally (...
Enter Madame!
Screen legend Cary Grant stars in the romantic comedy Enter Madame! about an American man who finds himself fed up always coming second to his Italian wife's career as a famous opera singer. Gerald Fitzgerald (Grant) meets the love of his life, a beautiful opera singer he's enamored with when a fire sparks on stage and he is there to rescue her. The chance encounter leads to wedding bells and Fitzgerald expressing devout vows of support to further Madam Lisa Della Robbia's (Elissa Landi) career...
Louisiana Purchase / Never Say Die Double Feature
Louisiana PurchaseBob Hope will make your sides ache with laughter. With enchanting songs by Irving Berlin, including "Louisiana Purchase," "You're Lonely and I'm Lonely" and "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow," and based on the hit Broadway musical, Louisiana Purchase is a fun and fierce look at the way politics, and politicians, sometimes spin out of control and into the headlines.Never Say DieA misdiagnosis of a month to live sends Bob Hope into Martha Raye's arms. A deadly widow (Gale Sondergaard...
Love in Bloom
Comedy legends George Burns and Gracie Allen star in Love in Bloom , a lighthearted comedy about a young woman desperate to escape her past. Violet (Dixie Lee), a disillusioned carnival girl eager to leave behind her transient lifestyle, soon finds herself in the big city where she meets a charming songwriter (Joe Morrison) who is determined to sell his music. Just when she thinks her future is brightening, her brother (Burns) and his Turkish-dancer wife (Allen) track her down. It seems the...
Caught in the Draft / Give Me a Sailor Double Feature
Caught in the DraftBob Hope plays gun-shy movie star Don Bolton who, despite his concerted efforts to avoid the draft, nevertheless gets caught in it. Despite being the worst of soldiers, Hope ends up being hailed as a hero and then looks to win the heart of the colonel's daughter, played by the gorgeous Dorothy Lamour.Give Me a SailorSailors Jim and Walter Brewster (Bob Hope and Jack Whiting) are brothers with a yen for the same girl: Nancy (Betty Grable). Her ugly duckling sister Letty (...
Nothing But the Truth
Bob Hope's got his hands full trying to keep track of the truth in the outrageous comedy, Nothing But the Truth . Stockbroker Steve Bennett (Hope) is being pressured to lie to his clients, but his better moral judgment just won't let him. So, when his boss and his partner bet him that no one can go without a falsehood in a 24-hour period, Steve takes on the challenge. He soon finds himself in the company of his boss's attractive niece (Paulette Goddard) as well as a conniving showgirl and some...
Here Comes Cookie / Love in Bloom / Six of a Kind Triple Feature
Here Comes Cookie : The incomparable George Burns and Gracie Allen star in this hilariously clever romp. Burns is a wealthy retiree who surprises everyone by deeding his entire fortune to his ditzy daughter (Allen). But when the newly rich young woman becomes convinced the family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy, it sparks a riotous series of side-splitting complications! Six of a Kind : George Burns and Gracie Allen team up with the legendary W.C. Fields in this hilarious road trip where...
The Claudette Colbert Collection
The Claudette Colbert Collection celebrates the career of one of the most popular and versatile actresses of all time. Equally charming in screwball comedies ( It Happened One Night ), epics ( Cleopatra ) and dramas ( Imitation of Life ), Claudette's striking beauty and captivating talent dazzled audiences around the world. This stunning collection of 6 rare films includes Three-Cornered Moon, Maid of Salem, I Met Him in Paris, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, No Time for Love and The Egg and I . Co-...