Robert Surtees
出生 : 1906-08-09, Covington, Kentucky, USA
死亡 : 1985-01-05
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Robert L. Surtees, A.S.C. (August 9, 1906 – January 5, 1985) was an American cinematographer who won Academy Awards three times, for the films King Solomon's Mines, The Bad and the Beautiful and the 1959 version of Ben Hur.
Robert L. Surtees began working in Hollywood as assistant cameraman to Gregg Toland, A.S.C. in the late 1920s, before moving to Germany for several years, eventually returning to Hollywood. He became one of the most accomplished cinematographers in motion pictures. His credits include Ben-Hur (1959), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), The Graduate (1967), The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970), The Last Picture Show (1971), Summer of '42 (1971), The Sting (1973), A Star is Born (1976) and Same Time, Next Year (1978).
His son Bruce was also a cinematographer.
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A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.
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A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.
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オクラホマ・シティ。ウェイン・ロジャースと妻のディーディーとの間には長女エミリア、長男イーサン、二女ジャニナがある。この２人は元アメリカン・バレエ団のダンサーであったが、ディーディーがウェインとの恋愛中に妊娠したために正式に結婚し、バレエ団から身を退いたのだった。エミリアは容姿も美しく、父母の血をひき、バレリーナになる素質が十分であった。アメリカン・バレエ団が公演のためやってくることになり、ロジャース一家は、この公演をこぞって見に行き、ディーディーは久方ぶりの親友エマの舞台姿に感激するが、内心には複雑な思いが交錯していた。
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Drunken, has-been rock star John Norman Howard falls in love with unknown singer, Esther Hoffman, after seeing her perform at a club. He lets her sing a few songs at one of his shows and she becomes the talk of the music industry. Esther's star begins to rise, while John's continues to fall. She tries desperately to get John to sober up and focus on his music, but it may be too late to save him.
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In this highly speculative historical thriller, Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
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A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.
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1936年。シカゴの下町で、詐欺師の3人組が通り掛かりの男をヒッカケて金をだまし取る。しかし彼らが手にしたその金は、いつもとは段違いの思わぬ金額だった。悪い予感は的中。その金は、ニューヨークの大物ロネガンの手下が、賭博の上がりをシカゴへ届ける為の金だったのだ。怒った組織は、仲間の一人であるルーサーを殺害する……。
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In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.
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While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.
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コネチカットのとある農村を舞台に、一卵性双生児の少年ホランドとネイルズが巻き起こす事件と、その裏に潜む秘密を描いたサイコ・サスペンス。役者から作家へ転向したT・トライオンの原作を、自身で脚色、製作総指揮も兼ねた作品。
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牧場主のウィルはあまりの人手不足にやむを得ず11人の幼い少年たちを雇って、牛追いの旅に出る。だが途中で牛泥棒の手が忍び寄り……。西部劇としては異色の展開を見せる、ジョン・ウェイン主演作。
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High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
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１９４２年の夏、戦火を逃れてニューイングランド沖合いの美しい島にやって来たハーミーとその家族。１５歳のハーミーには、オシーとベンジーという同い年の友人ができたが、思春期の彼らの興味はもっぱら女の子のことだった。だが、ハーミーは小高い丘の家に住む美しい人妻ドロシーの虜となる。彼女と知り合った事でハーミーの夏は楽しい日々と化すが、夏に終わりが来るように、彼とドロシーの関係にも終わりを告げる時が訪れた……。
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Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.
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メキシコを舞台に、ひょんなことから出会ったスゴ腕ガンマンの流れ者と秘密を抱えた尼僧が、一緒に旅をしながら褒賞金目的の戦いに手を組んで活躍する姿を描いた西部劇。
流れ者のホーガンは、三人の男に乱暴されそうになっている尼僧サラを助けた。メキシコの革命騒ぎを利用して大金を稼ごうとしていたホーガンは、フランス軍に追われているサラと共に、革命派のもとへやってくる。そしてフランス軍の輸送列車を襲撃する計画を請け負うが……。凄腕ガンマンのくせに、妙に色っぽい尼僧には手を出せないイーストウッドがオカシイ。憎めない女を演じさせたら天下一品のマクレーンがここでも魅力を発揮している。
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An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
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Taxi dancer, Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life.
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大ヒット作「ダーティハリー」を生んだ監督ドン・シーゲル×主演クリント・イーストウッドの名コンビが初めて組んだ作品。
アリゾナの片田舎の保安官補クーガンは、逮捕された凶悪犯の身柄を引き取りに、単身ニューヨークへとやって来る。だが、煩雑な警察組織のやり方になじめずクーガンは、独断で犯人を強引に連行するが、悪党一味の作戦にひっかかり逃がしてしまう。ニューヨーク市警の協力を得られぬまま、怒りが爆発したクーガンの大都会での追跡劇が始まる…。
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大学を卒業し前途洋々のベンジャミン。彼は、祝賀パーティの席で誘惑をかけてきた中年女性ロビンソン夫人と逢瀬を重ねることに。だが彼女の娘エレインが現れた事で、その関係は崩れていく。親の勧めで不承不承エレインと付き合うことになるベンジャミンは、彼女に惹かれていったのだ。一方、そんな若い2人に嫉妬するロビンソン夫人。やがて、彼女とベンジャミンの関係がエレインの知るところとなるのだが……。
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A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
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After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
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The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories of his past?
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A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.
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蝶の収集を唯一の趣味とする内気な銀行員フレディは、ある日大金を手にしたことから、若く美しい女子大生ミランダを誘拐し、蝶を採集するかのごとく監禁するという、以前から考えていた恐ろしい計画を実行し始めたのだった。ミランダは4週間の期限でわずかな自由しか与えられず囚われの身となる。彼女に異常な愛情を注ぐフレディと何度も逃亡を試みるミランダ。約束の期限が過ぎた頃、彼はミランダに結婚を申し込み彼女もそれを承諾するのだが。。
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A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
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When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for her husband Thad McCloud. He, as First Husband, must take over the job as The First Lady, in the women's groups and garden parties.
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Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and signal the Navy for rescue.
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The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
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The epic story of a family that's involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889.
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Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub dancer.
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ユダヤの豪族の息子、ベン・ハーの数奇な運命を通してローマの圧政とキリストの最期を6年半の製作期間と54億円の巨費を投じて描いた一大スペクタクル。些細な出来事から旧友メッサラの裏切りにあい、奴隷船送りとなったベン・ハーはそこで命を救ったローマの将軍の養子となる。束の間の安住の後再び故郷へ戻った彼は、別れた家族が獄中死したと聞かされ戦車競技に出場する事を決意する。そこではメッサラとの宿命の対決が待っていた。
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Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. It seems they were once in a gang together and Jake knows where the proceeds of a bank hold-up are hidden. Hollister and his sidekicks make off into the hills, taking along the trussed-up marshal and his kidnapped bride-to-be to force the lawman to show them where the loot is.
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When eccentric English teacher Andrew Larabee needs a raise in order for his fiancée to marry him, his interest in archaeology leads him to an ancient statue's burial site. But when he finds a traveling circus directly above the statue's location, he accidentally becomes part of the act. With a newfound passion for performance and an attraction to the beautiful acrobat Selena, Andrew must decide what is truly important to him.
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In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
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After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
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Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
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Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get used to Rodock's ways, although he takes an immediate shine to his Greek girl Jocasta.
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This joyous celebration of frontier life combines tender romance and violent passion in the Oklahoma Territory of the 1900s with a timeless score filled with unforgettable songs. Rodgers and Hammerstein's hit Broadway musical.
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A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters.
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Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father, Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, murder, and the possibility that the tomb itself has been emptied of all its artifacts by ancient looters.
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A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.
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A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
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Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.
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Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
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An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
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シェンキウィッチの歴史小説を壮大なスケールで映像化した、50年代を代表するスペクタクル史劇。暴君ネロの時代、ローマ軍の大隊長マーカスは美しきクリスチャンの娘リジアに恋をする。だが二人の心はすれ違って……。
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Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.
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Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
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Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
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Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new opera. They fall in love, but on meeting his colleague Mary while visiting Johnny's work, Prudence becomes convinced Johnny is in love with her.
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Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
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A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
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Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's footsteps and become "The Kissing Bandit".
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Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie, Judy suspects that her father is having an affair with a beautiful dance instructor. The two girls team up to expose Judy's father -- who is only taking innocent dance lessons.
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A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
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Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and Steve out of trouble.
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A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn't like.
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Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and Arnold, who learn about their world and experience the ups and downs of life as the season pass.
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An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
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In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
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A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
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Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
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Mickey and Froggy are candidates running to be president of the Gang's club. When the vote continues to end in a tie, the club winds up split. Buckwheat then reminds everyone of the lessons learned from Abraham Lincoln when America was once divided.
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This Passing Parade series short examines the origins of three popular nursery rhymes.
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This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's cow did not start the great Chicago fire; Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned; and Lady Godiva never rode naked through the streets of Coventry.
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Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.
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The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
