11 May 1944 Drama, War 13 mins
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
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Alan Ladd as Harry W. Average
Betty Hutton as Emily Average
William Bendix as Herb Miller
Susan Hayward as Molly Miller
Charles Brackett Director
United States 11 May 1944
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22 June 1944
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01 April 1944
A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
06 March 1944
Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father.
01 December 1944
Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.
31 March 1944
Mamsie catches Lulu making a mess of the kitchen, so she punishes Lulu. When Lulu asks, "How do you know that I made this mess?", the maid says sarcastically, "A little bird told me!" Angered that the bird outside her home snitched to the family's maid, Lulu goes after the bird with her slingshot.
05 November 1944
Carolina Cotton Yodeling with the Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang.
30 December 1944
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother.
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04 November 1944
Dan Stanton and Condon are foreclosing on a group of ranchers in order to gain a land-monopoly. They have one of the ranchers, whose property supplies the others with water, killed.
25 August 1944
A little dog tries to steal some bones from a pile of wartime scrap bones (intended for a victory drive) that's being guarded by a big, mean bulldog.
01 January 1944
With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941's "White Eagle", Columbia's 24th serial (following "The Desert Hawk-1944" and ahead of 1945's "Brenda Starr, Reporter"), "Black Arrow" finds carpet-baggers Jake Jackson and Buck Sherman arriving in Blue Mesa in search of gold.
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