Henry Koster
21) Flower drum song
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Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang Ta, a handsome college student living in Chinatown, complications,...
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"With those gams and that voice, High 'C' Susie packs 'em in at a Bowery honkytonk located several blocks and a world away from where her Beantown family thinks she's singing: the grand opera house. Then her prim and disapproving sister comes to town ... and promptly falls in love with singing, dancing and a handsome young man-about-town"--Container.
26) The singing nun
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With lilting melodies and an earnest sense of higher calling, Ann takes her faith where it might not otherwise go - onto the world's airwaves. Her "Dominique" becomes a smash single.
27) Harvey
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"Good-natured Elwood P. Dowd, whose constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall rabbit that only he can see. To his sister, Veta Louise, Elwood's obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in the side of her plans to marry off her daughter. When Veta Louise decides to put Elwood in a mental hospital, a hilarious mix-up occurs and she finds herself committed instead. It's up to Elwood to straighten out the mess with his kindly philosophy, and his 'imaginary'...
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Marcellus is a Roman tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group of men that are assigned to crucify Jesus. After the crucifixion, he becomes drunk and wins Jesus' homespun robe. He becomes tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, but still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.
32) The Virgin queen
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Bette Davis gives her second memorable performance as Queen Elizabeth I in this swashbuckling historical drama.
33) Dear Brigitte
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A college professor discovers that his son not only has a brain that can beat computers, the boy can also compute race track odds for fun and immense profit. But the boy genius, it turns out, has interests beyond mathematics: he'll do anything to meet the woman of his dreams, French actress Brigitte Bardot.
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"The women of a touring symphonic orchestra are a tightly knit group, and they are not about to let the secret they hold slip through the knitting. They'll wait until fragile, pregnant bassist Barbara Ainsworth has her baby before letting her know about a War Dept. telegram that says her husband is missing in action in the WWII Pacific"--Container.
36) My blue heaven
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A popular husband-and-wife entertainer team, making their move from radio to television, believe their lives will be complete when they can start a family. When they decide to adopt, they face problems and disappointments and are ultimately rewarded with an overabundance of babies.
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"A delightful story of an inventive and determined young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The daughter of an unemployed musician, Patricia Cardwell, decides she will persuade conductor Leopold Stokowski to help her launch an orchestra that will employ her father and 99 other out-of-work musicians. Though faced with this seemingly impossible task, Patricia leads her unemployed orchestra to the home of the unsuspecting Stokowski...
39) Elopement
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An industrial designer's daughter falls in love with her college professor. Wanting her to follow in his foot-steps the father tries to stop his daughter's elopement but ends up liking his son-in-law.