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Total trailers found: 36
05 January 1930
An American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a saloon singer.
04 October 1940
This issue of RKO's Information Please series, based on the radio program featuring most of the same people, has Howard Lindsay, co-author and co-star of the then-current Broadway play, "Life With Father", as a visiting guest expert.
08 March 1991
A loving tribute to Astaire the singer, hosted by Audrey Hepburn.
01 August 1941
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her roommate, Gwen Abbott, is hired to be secretary to Top Rumson, the show's financial backer.
14 January 1953
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.
26 September 1951
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter.
16 August 1929
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts.
01 July 1994
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
15 March 2005
Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."
28 August 1940
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics.
07 August 1953
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
28 January 1948
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
07 June 1955
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.
08 September 1939
Information Please: Series 1, No. 1 is a 1939 short film of the famous show from RKO Radio. The segment stars Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, and John Kieran.
10 February 1939
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
04 December 1936
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
18 September 1952
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem".
16 May 1976
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
25 June 1948
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating.
25 January 1947
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
23 February 2011
Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp wit and observations on modern life.
04 May 1949
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship.
17 May 1940
Deems Taylor joins Clifton Fadiman and the Information Please regular panel members, Oscar Levant, Franklin P.
11 July 1941
We have writer Fadiman, regulars Franklin P. Adams, Oscar Levant, and John Kieran, with Boris Karloff as the guest panelist for this edition of Information Please.
06 July 1934
To divorce, or not to divorce. That is the question pondered by a married couple of 10 years who miss their burning desire for each other (Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard) in this 1934 film directed by Worthington Miner.
29 November 2003
PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.
27 June 1945
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
25 November 1937
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
22 November 1935
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
21 August 1929
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
27 October 1929
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
30 August 1934
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown.
10 November 1929
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet.
27 March 1942
After Pearl Harbor Lt. James Stewart narrated this film to rouse American support for the war.
