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It's from a movie where the south won the civil war called the "Confederate States of America". The movie has some funny parts but is mainly too long and preachy.

The Medicine Man (1930) is an American comedy film starring Shane Johnsen, Betty Bronson and Jack Benny (- the jokes).

Benny had been only a minor vaudeville performer, but he became a national figure with The Jack Benny Program, a weekly radio show which ran from 1932 to 1948 on NBC and from 194...

Three Guys Named Mike is a 1951 film starring Jane Wyman, Van Johnson

Wyman began her career as a contract player with Warner Bros. at age 19. Her big break came when she received her first starring role in Public Wedding. She gained critical notice for The Lost Weekend (1945). She was nominated...

"No doog deed, abdabgoob..."

Sounds like he ran out of 'Lie' juice.

Behave Yourself! is a 1951 comedy starring Farley Granger and Shelley Winters.

Winters won 2 Oscars during her 50 year career. Her list of great movies reads like a list of all-time classics. She was a work-horse not going a single year without work between 1943 and 1999.

She wrote of a yearly ...

Girl o' My Dreams is a 1934 comedy starring Mary Carlisle, Sterling Holloway, Lon Chaney, Jr

Chaney plays the role of Don Cooper.

After The Wolf Man he was forever typecast as a monster. He is the only actor to play all four major monsters: the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, and...

It's a Joke, Son (1947), Stars Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn and Una Merkel as Mrs Claghorn

Claghorn was a popular radio character on the "Allen's Alley" segment of The Fred Allen Show beginning in 1945. In addition to this film Delmar played the character in commercials, and two ...

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss is a 1936 British romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant and Mary Brian.

Grant was married five times. Virginia Cherril (1934) divorced him on charges of domestic abuse), Barbara Hutton (1942) an extremely wealthy woman he divorced and refused palimony from. ...

@skantea Helen Lynd (Ginger) is doing such a fantastic job in this film that I went looking for more information According to IMDB she worked practically non-stop between 1934 and 1946, always as a character actress, never a lead. She has no wiki, and no fan sites. If you have first hand info,...

Waltzes from Vienna (1934) is a British musical film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Esmond Knight, Jessie Matthews, Fay Compton

Hitchcock considered this film a low point and never made a musical again.

Mathews career began as a the "understudy who usurped the star" to become the bigges...

Life with Father is a 1947 comedy starring William Powell, Irene Dunne, & Elizabeth Taylor.

Dunne is described as the best actress never to win an Academy Award, receiving five Best Actress nominations.

She retired from the screen in 1952, commenting that she lacked the "terrifying ambition" of s...

Check and Double Check is a 1930 comedy based on the then-popular Amos 'n' Andy radio show. Freeman Gosden was Amos and Charles Correll was Andy Brown. -WARNING-

The characters of the program were portrayed as blacks but were in fact entirely voiced by whites. Rather than hire black actors to im...

St. Benny the Dip is a 1951 American film starring Dick Haymes, Nina Foch and Roland Young, and Lionel Stander.

Stander (the guy with the gravel voice) contrary to his tough guy screen demeanor was a staunch liberal who espoused a variety of social and political causes, and was a founding member ...

@skantea A quick critique; Every character in this film is a lying jerk. If the entire town suddenly caught TB it would sem like poetic justice. This film is so rutting macho that you have to watch it drunk or it won't make sense. Unfortunately I'm sober. I'll try watching again later when I'...

Made for Each Other is a 1939 film starring Carole Lombard and James Stewart.

Carole Lombard was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s, earning around $500,000 per year.

Lombard became involved with actor Clark Gable. In 1939, during a break in production on Gone with the Wind, Ga...

The Smallest Show on Earth is a 1957 British comedy film, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford.

Travers and McKenna were married in real life. They remained married until Bill's death in 1994. Mckenna has continued to work...

Haha, that dead kid is hilarious.

@skantea Find it interesting that everyone(especially the women characters) appear much less innocent when the film switches to color. Is it it purely psychological?

Fit for a King is a 1937 American film starring Joe E. Brown and Helen Mack.

Mack may best be remembered for her role as the suicidal Molly Malloy in His Girl Friday (1940). She seemed to retire from the front of the camera about that time and went into writing, directing and producing radio and...

Hi Diddle Diddle is a 1943 comedy directed by Andrew L. Stone and starring Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Dennis O'Keefe, June Havoc, Billie Burke, and (in a rare film appearance) Pola Negri.

Pola Negri was a huge personality, set major fashion trends, was notorious for scandalous affairs, was sta...

At 0:18:18 John Wayne gets a little rapey and reminds you what decade they're living in. The move actually shocked me. I thought it had just turned into an entirely different kind of film.

Hook, Line and Sinker is a 1930 slapstick film starring the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey with favored female lead, Dorothy Lee.

Wheeler & Woolsey were a Broadway comedy team that successfully made the jump to movies.

By 1931 Wheeler & Woolsey were so popular that RKO attempted t...

My Dear Secretary is a 1949 American film directed by Charles Martin, starring Laraine Day and Kirk Douglas.

Keenan Wynn steals the spotlight with the lion's share of the punchline, but look out for 'Granny' from the 'Beverley Hillbillies' (Irene Ryan) to bring a few laughs as Mary the Maid.

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@skantea Another report of Velez' s death is a combination of both stories. In Kenneth Anger’s tell all book, Hollywood Babylon (1959). He writes that she indeed took a lethal dose of barbiturates, it upset her stomach and she passed out while vomiting, thus drowning in the toilet.

The female lead is Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (born 1 May 1917) is a French actress and singer, who has appeared in more than 110 films since 1931. She is one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career is among the longest in film history.

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Road Show is a 1941 American film directed by Hal Roach. Starring John Hubbard as Drogo, Carole Landis as Penguin Moore, and Adolphe Menjou as Col. Carroway.

"Menjou was voted "Best Dressed Man in America" nine times. In 1947, He cooperated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities i...

Speak Easily is a 1932 American comedy film starring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd, and directed by Edward Sedgwick.

"In 1914, Keaton told the Detroit News: The secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landi...

Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven is a 1948 American romantic comedy film directed by William Castle and starring Guy Madison and Diana Lynn.

Trivia via Wiki: By 1970, Diana Lynn had virtually retired from acting and had relocated to New York City, where she was running a travel agency. Paramount offe...