Frances Langford Trailers
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Frances Langford won fame on radio (primarily as Bob Hope's vocalist, later sparring comically with Don Ameche as "The Bickersons"), via recordings and in the movies. In spite of the fact that she played mostly in minor musicals (plus appearing occasionally in "A" productions, including Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), This Is the Army (1943) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954)), she introduced major songs like "I'm in the Mood for Love" in Every Night at Eight (1935), "You are My Lucky Star" and "Broadway Rhythm" in Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), Cole Porter's "Easy to Love" in Born to Dance (1936) and "Hooray for Hollywood" in Hollywood Hotel (1937).
Date of Birth 4 April 1913, Lakeland, Florida
Date of Death 11 July 2005, Jensen Beach, Florida (congestive heart failure)
Most Popular Frances Langford Trailers
Total trailers found: 43
26 April 1937
Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status.
07 November 1941
In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her.
19 November 1943
Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
17 April 1942
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
14 October 1940
In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station.
28 October 1949
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
18 November 2003
A look at everyone's favorite Disney characters as they explore the joys of Christmas.
05 June 1936
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
11 January 1936
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs.
29 May 1942
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
29 December 2017
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment.
30 September 1940
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.
27 May 1948
A short segment of the feature film Melody Time, re-released as a separate entity five years afterwards.
14 August 1943
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer.
03 August 1949
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.
15 August 1944
A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.
13 March 1987
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
27 May 1948
In the grand tradition of Disney's great musical classics, Melody Time features seven timeless stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettable characters.
21 October 1944
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.
11 June 1955
Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Oh
31 December 1935
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
04 January 1954
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
27 November 1936
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.
19 February 1947
Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
01 August 1945
A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air.
11 January 1946
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station.
16 May 1988
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
18 January 1985
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from its origins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, up to the break dance and music videos from the 80s.
15 January 1938
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere.
20 September 1935
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent.
08 October 1940
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards.
12 November 1951
A trio of singers entertaining hospitalized soldiers during WWII encourage a wounded soldier in his love for a nurse.
01 January 1943
Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.
15 July 1946
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific.
01 January 2002
When the United States entered World War II, President Roosevelt exempted Bob Hope from military service because of the need for entertainers.
21 May 1943
Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
31 October 1941
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them.
10 August 1944
Documentary short film extolling the virtues of the American Community Chest charity program and its value to the Allied war effort.
28 September 1954
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
11 January 1944
Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting.
02 August 1935
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired.
07 June 1933
The Happines Boys Billy Jones and Earnie Hare are invited to a party, but separate themselves from the rest of the guests, so they can not be urged to perform.
01 April 1943
A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.
