19 January 1946 History 10 mins
This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
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John Nesbitt as Narrator (voice)
Paul Langton as John Walker (uncredited)
Jacqueline White as Mrs. John Walker (uncredited)
Passing Parade No. 57: Magic on a Stick Trailer
United States 19 January 1946
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In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while rehearsing a scene.
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An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
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A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name.
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A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer.
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Andy Panda is very fond of apples and he eats a bushel of green apples, falls asleep and has a nightmare in which the devil is trying to entice him into Hades and stuffs him full of apple juice, applesauce and more apples.
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