Monte Brice — Playwright (5)

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Beautiful But Broke (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Beautiful But Broke
director: Charles Barton actor: Joan Davis / Jane Frazee …
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.

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Sing Your Worries Away (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sing Your Worries Away
director: A. Edward Sutherland actor: Bert Lahr / June Havoc …
This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket. Brown has information that Chow Brewster and his cousin have inherited $3,000,000. The owner of the Inn intends to keep Brown under wraps until they can drive Chow to suicide. He will then marry Chow's cousin before she finds out about her inheritance.

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Now We're in the Air (1927) IMDb Douban
Now We're in the Air
director: 弗兰克·R·斯特雷耶 actor: 华莱士·比里 / 雷蒙德·哈顿 …
other title: 大闹天空
Wally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation nut. They become mixed-up with the U. S. flying corps and are wafted over the enemy lines in a runaway balloon. Through misunderstanding they are honored as heroes of the enemy forces, and sent back to the U.S. lines to spy. Here they are captured and almost shot, but everything ends happily. Only 20 minutes of this 6 reel comedy are extant.

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Variety Girl (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Variety Girl
other title: 好莱坞女郎 / 银都百美 …
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.