Florence Lake
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Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake, November 27, 1904 – April 11, 1980) was an American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts.
Florence was petite, with a high-pitched speaking voice. She perfected a comical singsong delivery that established her in "dumb" roles. She personified flightiness in the Kennedy shorts, as the scatterbrained Mrs. Kennedy. After the series ended upon Kennedy's death in 1948, she continued to play character roles in films and television. Her best-known TV role was Jenny, the Claverton telephone operator in Lassie. Lake played the role for the entire ten year "farm seasons" of the show (1954–1964), thus becoming the Lassie player with the longest tour of duty on the series.
She played the role of Mama Angel in a 1957 episode of the The Lone Ranger TV series entitled "The Angel and the Outlaw". She also appeared in the first color episode of the TV series Superman in 1957 as a cave woman.
In her later years, Lake appeared as Elvira Norton on an episode of Dragnet entitled "Frauds". She also played a blind date for the character Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode, "Lou's First Date". Her last roles were in the TV series Emergency! and Baretta in 1976.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5027 |
| Birthday | 1904-11-27 |
| Place of Birth | Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
| Also Known As | Florence Silverlake, |
1942
Scattergood Survives a Murder
4.5/3
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
1970
Savage Intruder
5.294/17
An enigmatic young man manipulates his way into working at the decaying mansion of a once prolific, but now reclusive and alcoholic, movie star named...
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Savage Intruder
1973
Time to Run
3.75/4
A conflicted teen lashes out by vandalizing equipment at the nuclear plant where his father works, then hits the road and finds a spiritual path.
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Time to Run
1929
New Year's Eve
0/0
Taking place over 24 hours, "New Year's Eve" is the story of Marjorie Ware, broke and unemployed, who despairs as her ailing younger brother languishe...
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New Year's Eve
1932
Giggle Water
0/0
Edgar Kennedy and family build a boat.
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Giggle Water
1932
Night World
6.667/15
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's st...
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Night World
1930
Romance
6.235/17
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
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Romance
1933
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
4.5/2
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such divers...
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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1933
Art in the Raw
1/2
Aspiring artist Edgar, with family in tow, relocates to Greenwich Village - according to his wife, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law the right environ...
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Art in the Raw
1953
The Flaming Urge
0/0
A pyromaniac tries to fight his obsession with fire. This movie uses the pyromaniac urge as an extraordinarily transparent metaphor for homosexuality...
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The Flaming Urge
1931
Secret Service
6/2
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
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Secret Service
1936
Will Power
0/0
Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a f...
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Will Power
1935
Two-Fisted
7/1
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is...
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Two-Fisted
1934
Wrong Direction
0/0
Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) gets a call from the studio to come in and direct the last scene of a film in production. But, before he can leave the house, hi...
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Wrong Direction
1942
Four Jacks and a Jill
6/3
Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Arega...
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Four Jacks and a Jill
1938
Convicts at Large
0/0
An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.
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Convicts at Large
1938
Condemned Women
6.3/3
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
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Condemned Women
1938
Law of the Underworld
5.5/4
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
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Law of the Underworld
1932
Running Hollywood
0/0
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
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Running Hollywood
1931
The Drums of Jeopardy
5.3/14
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
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The Drums of Jeopardy
1938
Rebellious Daughters
4.5/2
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
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Rebellious Daughters
1946
Riverboat Rhythm
5/2
A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.
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Riverboat Rhythm
1930
The Rogue Song
5.8/5
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
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The Rogue Song
1932
Westward Passage
5.8/5
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
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Westward Passage
1938
I Met My Love Again
5.4/5
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows...
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I Met My Love Again
1938
Next Time I Marry
7/7
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would s...
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Next Time I Marry
1939
Pacific Liner
5.2/12
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the shi...
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Pacific Liner
1936
Women Are Trouble
6/3
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
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Women Are Trouble
1939
Stagecoach
7.6/1212
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the proc...
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Stagecoach
1939
Union Pacific
6.622/78
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp...
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Union Pacific
1939
Fifth Avenue Girl
6.9/24
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
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Fifth Avenue Girl
1939
Bachelor Mother
7.1/75
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, D...
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Bachelor Mother
1934
The Winnah!
0/0
State College is a coeducational school where the athletics are more important than academics. All there are preparing for a big multi-sport match wit...
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The Winnah!
1933
Quiet Please!
2/1
In this comedy of frustration, the fates conspire against gun salesman Edgar Kennedy, and he cannot find peace on the Pullman train he is traveling on...
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Quiet Please!
1936
Gasoloons
0/0
While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it t...
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Gasoloons
1933
Midshipman Jack
6/1
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Midshipman Jack
1967
The Big Mouth
5.207/29
A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster–who is his doppelgänger—and inadvertently takes his place at a resort hotel where he meets...
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The Big Mouth
1934
Shivers
0/0
To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house.
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Shivers
1945
It's Your Move
0/0
Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under h...
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It's Your Move
1936
To Mary - with Love
4.5/2
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin...
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To Mary - with Love
1934
Poisoned Ivory
0/0
Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her brother's photogenic set, mistakenly thinks that she...
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Poisoned Ivory
1935
Edgar Hamlet
0/0
A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.
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Edgar Hamlet
1935
In Love at 40
0/0
Edgar thinks he is in love with another woman while his wife (Florence) and her family are out of town, leading to jealousy when Florence returns and...
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In Love at 40
1952
Fargo
6.5/4
The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill returns to the Fargo country t...
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Fargo
1952
The Maverick
0/0
Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.
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The Maverick
1952
Man from the Black Hills
0/0
As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tr...
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Man from the Black Hills
1974
Welcome to Arrow Beach
4.625/8
A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister. The girl soon begins...
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Welcome to Arrow Beach
1954
The Desperado
6.6/5
"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fug...
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The Desperado
1929
Waltzing Around
0/0
Two zany transients get jobs as vendors at a sports arena. One of them accidently knocks out one of the fighters, and must take his place, with his pa...
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Waltzing Around
1932
Ladies of the Jury
6.4/8
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her r...
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Ladies of the Jury
1929
Thru Different Eyes
0/0
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the...
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Thru Different Eyes
1936
Dummy Ache
5.1/7
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Mis...
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Dummy Ache
1934
Love on a Ladder
1/2
Florence wants to recapture the romance in her marriage and talks a reluctant Edgar into redonning his navy uniform and serenading her.
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Love on a Ladder
1938
Ears of Experience
0/0
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting...
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Ears of Experience
1936
Muss 'em Up
5.5/4
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attrac...
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Muss 'em Up
1944
Her Primitive Man
6/1
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
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Her Primitive Man
1954
She Couldn't Say No
5.6/16
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
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She Couldn't Say No
1932
Fish Feathers
0/0
Edgar's mother-in-law claims that Edgar can't fish. Edgar is determined to prove her wrong.
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Fish Feathers
1935
Brick-a-Brac
0/0
Edgar becomes increasingly frustrated by his wife's obsession with collecting cheap, useless trinkets known as "bric-a-brac". The household tension es...
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Brick-a-Brac
1974
Live Again, Die Again
8/2
After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old man and her children older than she is. Her daughter...
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Live Again, Die Again
1942
Duck Soup
0/0
Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.
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Duck Soup
1943
Crash Dive
6.3/25
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new...
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Crash Dive
1944
Feather Your Nest
0/0
Edgar is so anxious to get brother out of the house that when a prospective fiancée arrives on the scene, Edgar reluctantly pays for an engagement rin...
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Feather Your Nest
1944
Radio Rampage
0/0
When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house d...
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Radio Rampage
1975
Long Way Home
0/0
The Holvak family house the escaped convict named Craw that the son befriends. Reverend Holvak's faith is tested and young Ramey faces a choice betwee...
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Long Way Home
1937
Edgar & Goliath
0/0
Edgar is offered $150 by a nurseryman for a tree on his property, and he plans to remove it with the tractor he won at the county fair. But his neighb...
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Edgar & Goliath
1933
Only Yesterday
6.8/5
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his...
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Only Yesterday
1975
The Day of the Locust
6.4/107
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with...
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The Day of the Locust
1945
What, No Cigarettes
6/1
There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and reluctantly with Florence's mother and brother. Without E...
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What, No Cigarettes
1944
Goin' to Town
0/0
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
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Goin' to Town
1946
Little Giant
5.1/20
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thum...
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Little Giant
1945
You Drive Me Crazy
0/0
Edgar’s day goes from bad to catastrophic after he lends his brother-in-law his car — mistake number one. When the car breaks down, Edgar borrows his...
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You Drive Me Crazy
1945
The Big Beef
0/0
Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman does arrives and this causes Edgar a few problems...
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The Big Beef
1944
San Diego I Love You
6.2/4
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
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San Diego I Love You
1937
Quality Street
5.8/20
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
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Quality Street
1946
Trouble or Nothing
0/0
Edgar's brother-in-law persuades Edgar to indulge in a little betting at the race track, and Edgar loses $900. While entertaining a banker to get on a...
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Trouble or Nothing
1946
Motor Maniacs
0/0
Edgar learns that an old, rich, oil-man flame (Tom Kennedy) of his mother-in-law (Dot Farley) is coming to claim his bride. Meanwhile, his brother-in-...
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Motor Maniacs
1946
I'll Build It Myself
0/0
Edgar Kennedy, never the one to spend money on a project when he can do it himself and spend twice the money with disastrous results, forgoes hiring a...
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I'll Build It Myself
1947
Do or Diet
0/0
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired fo...
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Do or Diet
1973
The Girl Most Likely To...
6.6/42
An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.
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The Girl Most Likely To...
1948
Contest Crazy
0/0
Florence (Florence Lake) has entered and won a radio contest sponsored by the company Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) works for, but the contest has a rule agai...
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Contest Crazy
1948
Brother Knows Best
0/0
Edgar, not willing to admit to Florence (Florence Lake) that they are broke, is forced by her to give Brother (Jack Rice) a $1000 check. Edgar, in an...
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Brother Knows Best
1948
Dig That Gold
9.5/1
Edgar has an argument with his next door neighbor concerning a spite fence the neighbor is building between the two properties, Then Edgar gets the id...
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Dig That Gold
1974
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
4.8/4
As her 25th anniversary approaches, Norma Michaels realizes that her marriage to her dentist husband Malcolm has become boring. Seeking independence,...
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Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1933
What Fur
0/0
Part of the Average Man series. Edgar becomes the victim of a blackmail scheme. He receives a compromising photograph showing himself with a young lad...
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What Fur
1971
Banyon
0/0
Miles C. Banyon is a private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. In this TV movie—which served as the pilot episode for the short-lived TV show—Banyon'...
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Banyon
1931
Hollywood Halfbacks
0/0
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could...
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Hollywood Halfbacks
1973
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
5.7/3
A telepathic lion teaches an awkward zoologist how to love.
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Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1934
A Blasted Event
0/0
Mrs. Kennedy tries to convince Edgar that he would make a good father.
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A Blasted Event
1937
Love in a Bungalow
0/0
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Hum...
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Love in a Bungalow
1944
Hi, Beautiful
9.5/1
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bunga...
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Hi, Beautiful
1952
As We Forgive
0/0
Fighting juvenile delinquency the Family Films way!
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As We Forgive
1939
When Tomorrow Comes
5.156/16
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.
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