Howard Shoup

Рождение : 1903-08-29, Dallas, Texas, USA

Смерть : 1987-05-29

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Howard Shoup (August 29, 1903 – May 29, 1987) was an American costume designer who received 5 Academy Award nominations. He had over 170 film credits during his long career. Including films like Ocean's 11 and Cool Hand Luke. Shoup was the long-term romantic partner of artist Sascha Brastoff.

Фильмы

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Costume Design
Любитель женщин Чарли Картрайт собирается устроить для группы американцев восемнадцатидневную поездку по девяти странам Европы. Дело в том, что у него есть подруга в каждом из городов, и он хочет их всех увидеть. Но, как выясняется, у каждого из туристов тоже есть свои, не очевидные для других, цели поездки…
Хладнокровный Люк
Costume Design
Однажды ночью Люк, выпив, решил развлечься и свинтил газовым ключом дюжину монетоприемников на автостоянке, за что и получил два года ремонтно-строительных работ на дорогах в южных штатах. Еще во время войны он много раз испытывал свою судьбу на прочность, и тюрьма стала очередной проверкой, которую Люк, похоже, и искал… За свой упрямый и упорный характер Люк получил от сокамерников уважительное прозвище Люк Хладнокровный, а с ним и ненависть надзирателей лагеря за стремление к свободе и непокорный прав. Три побега, три ареста и три жестоких наказания не сломили его волю к жизни, он стал героем для остальных заключенных, героем-одиночкой, поставившим себя против системы…
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
Costume Design
A woman brings her son and husband to a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed and carries him everywhere with her. Complications ensue.
Отель
Costume Design
В отеле «Святой Георгий» Нового Орлеана пересеклись судьбы разных людей. Здесь и крупный бизнесмен с молодой и красивой подругой, чета герцогов, гостиничный вор, частный детектив, хозяин отеля. Но главный герой, менеджер отеля — Питер Макдермотт. У каждого из персонажей — своя история, которая входит в общий водоворот событий. Судьба самого отеля тоже под вопросом. События нарастают, достигают кульминации и развязки…
An American Dream
Costume Design
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Deborah, Stephen snaps and pushes her from his high-rise apartment to her death. He manages to convince the authorities that she killed herself, then reignites an old affair with singer Cherry McMahon -- which doesn't sit well with her jealous mobster boyfriend, Nicky.
A Rage to Live
Costume Design
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
Youngblood Hawke
Costume Design
An unknown Kentucky writer (James Franciscus) comes to New York and pursues fame and women (Suzanne Pleshette, Genevieve Page).
Kisses for My President
Costume Design
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.
Далекий звук трубы
Costume Design
Молодой лейтенант Хэзард для дальнейшего прохождения службы прибывает в форт на индейской границе, где он сталкивается со слабой дисциплиной солдат и красавицей Китти — женой своего нового командира. Лейтенант пытается восстановить воинские порядки на форте и ухаживает за Китти, но всё осложняется из-за того, что Хазарда собирается навестить его невеста и намечающееся нападение индейцев...
Ребенок ждет
Wardrobe Designer
Доктор Кларк нанимает пианистку Джин Хансен в качестве педагога по музыке для детей с проблемами психики. Возмущенная методами лечения детей, Джин начинает конфликтовать с доктором, попутно сближаясь с одним из юных пациентов. Спектакль на День Благодарения становится поворотной точкой во взаимоотношениях героев…
Цыганка
Costume Design
Бродвей вас развлечет! К тому времени как Джипси Роуз Ли стала знаменитостью 30-х годов прошлого века, она прошла долгий путь от водевиля и из тени своей младшей сестры. Но одной силой природы она никак не могла избежать – амбиции ее матери, женщины, вытолкнувшей ее под софиты. Мюзикл «Цыганка» – история о ней.
Rome Adventure
Costume Design
Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets Don, who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Prudence and Don tour Italy together, and romance naturally follows.
Susan Slade
Costume Design
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.
Claudelle Inglish
Costume Design
A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order to marry an old rich neighbor but the girl rebels by becoming the town's harlot.
Parrish
Costume Design
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
Portrait of a Mobster
Costume Design
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
A Fever in the Blood
Costume Design
A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next governor--attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their own political ambitions. Director Vincent Sherman's 1961 drama stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Don Ameche, Jack Kelly, Angie Dickinson, Herbert Marshall, Jesse White, Parley Baer, Carroll O'Connor, Ray Danton, Andra Martin, Rhodes Reason and Louise Lorimer.
The Crowded Sky
Costume Design
When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Heading straight for a commercial jet piloted by Dick Barnett, whose plane is full of passengers, Heath can't tell which way to turn in order to avoid a catastrophe.
11 друзей Оушена
Costume Design
Когда-то бравые солдаты 82-ой воздушно-десантной дивизии, а теперь обыкновенные, уже не молодые, да и не очень удачливые мужчины заняты поиском себя в этой жизни и конечно добычей денег. Поэтому у каждого из них нашлись те или иные причины, по которым они согласились участвовать в одной опасной авантюре. Ее вместе с известным аферистом разработал их однополчанин сержант Джон Оушен. Он собрал 11 бывших десантников своего отделения и предложил им ограбить несколько казино в Лас-Вегасе…
The Bramble Bush
Costume Design
A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
Кэш МакКолл
Costume Design
Кэш МакКолл - молодой и ловкий бизнесмен, который скупает предприятия, находящиеся на грани банкротства, и перепродаёт их. Компания «Остин Пластикс» является ещё более желанной для него, так как Кэш делает ставку на красивую дочь Гранта Остина, хозяина компании, - Лори. Эта сделка оказывается для Кэша и семьи Остин самым трудным испытанием.
Ice Palace
Costume Design
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugged activist leader Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
Tom, Dick and Harriet
Costume Design
Long distance telephone calls save the day when Aunt Emily tries to sell the farm, and when Harriet tries to decide whose proposal to accept, Tom's or Dick's.
A Summer Place
Costume Design
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Мододые филадельфийцы
Costume Designer
На основе сюжета этого фильма вполне можно было бы создать сериал. В качестве описания приведу выдержку из англо-русского словаря: "Philadelphia lawyer - 1) блестящий юрист; 2) ловкий, изворотливый адвокат". Становление такого вот "филадельфийского юриста" и показано в этом фильме. Затронуты также и самые "злободневные" темы: любовь, честь, дружба, предательство, социальные предрассудки и, конечно же, всё кончается победой добра над злом.
Westbound
Costume Design
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.
Island of Lost Women
Costume Design
A plane crash-lands on a jungle island inhabited by a scientist and his nubile young daughters. Complications ensue.
Марджори Морнингстар
Costume Consultant
Во время работы в летнем лагере, юная студентка Марджори Моргенштерн влюбляется в 32-летнего драматурга Ноэля Эйрмана. Как и Марджори, Ноэль принадлежит к крупному буржуазному классу нью-йоркских евреев, однако он был разорён, вследствие чего, родители девушки возражают против их отношений. Ноэль честно предупреждает Марджори, что она слишком наивна и заблуждается в нём, но ни это, ни категоричный протест родителей не мешают влюблённым быть вместе. Их отношения развиваются непросто. Они то сходятся, то расходятся. Вскоре, Марджори заканчивает своё обучение в колледже, и начинает заниматься актёрской карьерой, в то время как Ноэль заканчивает писать мюзикл, работу над которым начал ещё до встречи с Марджори.
I Married a Woman
Costume Design
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
Бомбардировщики Б-52
Costume Design
Сержант Чак Бреннан всегда не любил полковника Джима Херлай за его легкомысленность и бесконечные любовные связи. Неприязнь Чака становится еще сильней, когда Джим начинает встречаться с его дочерью Лоис.
The Unholy Wife
Costume Design
A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accidentally kill the wrong person.
Bundle of Joy
Costume Design
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
Serenade
Costume Design
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Sincerely Yours
Costume Design
He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can relive the Liberace magic in his only starring film, Sincerely Yours. In a poignant story scripted by Irving Wallace, Liberace plays a concert pianist threatened by deafness. Plunged into despair, he finds escape from personal sorrow by secretly involving himself in the problems of strangers. Liberace touches the heart and delights the ear with sparkling renditions of 31 selections from Chopin to Chopsticks. Along the way he romances Joanne Dru and Dorothy Malone, trades barbs with old pro William Demarest and in a warmly humorous nightclub scene, pokes fun at his own image as the 1950s matinee idol of the little-old-lady set. From beginning to end, Sincerely Yours perfectly captures the charisma and sheer musicality of the legendary Mr. Showmanship.
Блюз Пита Келли
Costume Design
1927 год, Канзас-Сити. Тяжелые будни маленького джазового оркестра во времена сухого закона. Трубач Пит Келли, управляющий оркестром, переживает не самые радостные дни. Например, приходится играть на заказ для разных заносчивых барышень с дурной репутацией. Одна такая - Айви Конрад - поклонница Пита и досаждает ему своим заигрыванием. Или же приходится держать оборону против рэкетиров: гангстер Фрэн МакКарг хочет получать процент от скудных заработков коллектива, предлагая взамен свою защиту. В оркестре разногласия среди музыкантов. Пит оказывается на грани отчаяния...
Это молодое сердце
Wardrobe Designer
Лори одна из трех дочерей музыканта Грегори Туттла они умны, красивы, воспитаны и давно хотят замуж. Лори и Эми договариваются о совместной свадьбе. Найдя подходящих женихов, они начинают приготовления к свадьбам. В это время Алекс — жених Лори, для своего нового проекта приглашает Барни Слоана — музыканта и аранжировщика, чтобы написать музыку. Барни поселяется в доме Грегори Туттла и постепенно знакомится со всей семьей. Он пессимист и считает себя неудачником, особенно он откровенен с Лори, они много говорят на разные темы. Приходит день свадьбы и неожиданно Лори понимает, что Алекс с которым она помолвлена, не ее мужчина, только меланхоличный Барни мил ее сердцу — именно он должен стать ее мужем и отцом будущих детей…
Джейн-катастрофа
Wardrobe Designer
Городок Дейдвуд в штате Дакота славится своим мужским населением. Здесь проживают солдаты, бойскауты, разведчики новых земель, фермеры-ковбои, и все эти веселые парни любят выпить крепкий виски и пострелять из своих кольтов. Среди них обитала и бестия Джейн, считающая себя девушкой-скаутом, которая ничем не хуже мужчин. Она ловчее и смелее многих местных забияк, а её кнут и револьвер проучат любого нахала. Однажды Джейн на спор с мужчинами вызывается привести из далекого Чикаго настоящую Приму варьете, но, не разобрав, кто есть кто, привозит её костюмершу Кэти. Однако мужчины городка в восторге от нового личика и каждый готов отдать Кэти своё сердце! Джейн, чтобы избавить певицу от назойливых поклонников, берет шефство над Кэти и приглашает пожить у себя в хижине. Певица и «гроза ухажеров» становятся неразлучными подругами. Девушка-скаут даже не осознает, что ждет её впереди — ведь именно с этой минуты начнется её перевоспитание из грубой девицы в настоящую леди…
So Big
Costume Design
After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk's life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.
No Escape
Wardrobe Designer
A woman and a songwriter suspected of murder join forces to crack the case.
Музей восковых фигур
Costume Design
Доктор Генри Джарэд был гением. Он создал великолепный музей восковых фигур, наполнив его историческими персонажами от Марка Антония и Клеопатры до Линкольна и его убийцы. Но, к сожалению, музей не пользовался популярностью и его компаньон, решил все сжечь, чтобы получить страховку. Пытаясь спасти свое детище, доктор исчезает в огне. Спустя несколько лет открывается новый музей больше похожий на «Комнату ужасов», наполненный сценами убийств, насилия и пыток. Его персонажи так похожи на живых людей! В чем причина этого невероятного сходства? Почему рядом с музеем исчезают люди?
The Jazz Singer
Costume Design
As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who'd hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.
Faithful in My Fashion
Costume Design
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
Presenting Lily Mars
Costume Design
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Whistling in Dixie
Costume Design
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
Семь невест
Costume Design
Журналист по заданию редакции приезжает в небольшой городок, чтобы написать репортаж о местном фестивале тюльпанов. Он поселяется в отеле, у владельца которого, потомка голландских иммигрантов, имеется семь незамужних дочерей. По старинной голландской традиции, а отец тщательно хранит их, старшая дочь, Регина, должна выйти замуж первой. Однако замужество не входит в ее планы - Регина мечтает стать актрисой и хочет правдами или неправдами уехать в Нью Йорк...
The Affairs of Martha
Costume Design
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
Приключения Тарзана в Нью-Йорке
Costume Designer
Тарзан, его подруга Джейн и их Мальчик дружно живут среди ветвей, лиан в окружении диких зверей и птиц в сердце Африки. Владелец Нью-Йорского цирка велит своим приспешникам похитить Мальчика и привести в город для показа на публике. Тарзан и Джейн преследуют похитителей и попадают Нью-Йорк. Тарзан неприспособленный к жизни вгороде создает много комичных ситуаций и даже попадает в полицию. Поиски Мальчика приводят героев в цирк, где Тарзан находит общий язык с слонами трупы и они помогают юноше найти ребенка
Grand Central Murder
Costume Design
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
Fingers at the Window
Costume Design
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Зверь мужского пола
Costume Design
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
Nazi Agent
Costume Design
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Капитаны облаков
Costume Design
Вдохновленный речью Черчилля, дерзкий и недисциплинированный пилот малой авиации Брайан Маклейн с друзьями решают завербоваться в Канадские Королевские ВВС, но им отказывают по причине возраста.
A Yank on the Burma Road
Costume Design
A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
На протяжении всей ночи
Costume Design
Гловс Донахью — нью-йоркский спортивный промоутер. В течение многих лет каждое его утро начинается с чизкейка, приготовленного в пекарне Миллера. Но однажды устоявшийся распорядок был нарушен: владельца пекарни, Миллера, убивают. Он видел, как певица из ночного клуба Леда Гамильтон покидает пекарню. По просьбе своей матери Гловс начинает своё расследование. А когда партнер босса певицы Марти Джо также оказывается убит, Леда и ее аккомпаниатор Пепи исчезают. Вскоре выясняется, что за убийством Миллера стоит крупная подпольная организация, в планах которой — захват страны. Так Гловс выходит на банду тайных нацистов.
Steel Against the Sky
Wardrobe Designer
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Steel Against the Sky
Costume Design
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Costume Design
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Kisses for Breakfast
Costume Design
A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife.
Out of the Fog
Costume Design
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Shining Victory
Costume Design
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Footsteps in the Dark
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A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
Four Mothers
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Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
She Couldn't Say No
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Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
Father Is A Prince
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Director Noel Smith's comic 1940 morality tale, about a carpet sweeper manufacturer who sacrifices his family's happiness for his business, stars Grant Mitchell, Nana Bryant, Jan Clayton, George Reeves, Lee Patrick, John Litel, Billy Dawson, Richard Clayton, Frank Ferguson, Vera Lewis, Pierre Watkin, Frank Wilcox, John Ridgely and Frank Orth.
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
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Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Завоевать город
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Бывший чемпион по боксу Данни Кенни уходит на покой. Он собирается вложить все свои сбережения в мечту своего брата — написание симфонической оды городу, в котором они оба живут — Нью-Йорку. Но все складывается не так как хотелось…
Flowing Gold
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In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Murder in the Air
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Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
Выжженная зона
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Устав от разорительных набегов на плантации со стороны революционеров одной банановой республики, для восстановления порядка управляющий Стив Кэйс нанимает давнего друга - независимого и непредсказуемого Ника Батлера. Скоро на горизонте появляется красивая певица и аферистка Ли Донли, которая внесёт разлад в отношения Стива и Ника...
Это всё правда
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After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
Castle on the Hudson
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A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Calling Philo Vance
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Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Four Wives
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In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Private Detective
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A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
No Place to Go
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An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
Everybody's Hobby
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A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
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Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Daughters Courageous
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Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
The Man Who Dared
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An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption.
The Kid from Kokomo
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Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.
Torchy Runs for Mayor
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Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
On Trial
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An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
On Trial
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An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
Secret Service of the Air
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Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
Yes, My Darling Daughter
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Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
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Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Off the Record
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After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Going Places
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A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Torchy Gets Her Man
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A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
Broadway Musketeers
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Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Mr. Chump
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A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
Борцы с бандитизмом
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A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
When Were You Born
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A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.
Мужики — такие тупицы
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Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
Mystery House
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When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to get to the bottom of the case.
Torchy Blane in Panama
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Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Accidents Will Happen
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A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.
Over the Wall
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When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
He Couldn't Say No
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A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Love, Honor and Behave
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Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
Простенькое дело об убийстве
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Сухой закон официально отменен. А это значит, что торговец контрабандными спиртными напитками Реми Марко должен внести в свою работу кое-какие изменения. Теперь вся эта операция с торговлей спиртным называется не преступление, а бизнес. Рабочие теперь не просто олухи, а партнеры. И не обращайтесь теперь к Марко иначе, чем «сэр»…
Blondes at Work
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When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Sergeant Murphy
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An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
Submarine D-1
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Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.
The Adventurous Blonde
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The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
The Perfect Specimen
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Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
Alcatraz Island
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A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Love Is on the Air
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A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Back in Circulation
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Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
The Footloose Heiress
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A rich businessman brings home a homeless man who promises to tame his willful 18-year-old daughter.
Talent Scout
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A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Slim
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Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love their work, and the same girl, who hates their dangerous profession.
Дело о заикающемся епископе
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Епископ из Австралии обращается к Перри, чтобы попросить его взять дело женщины, ошибочно обвинённую в убийстве 22 года назад. Дело заключается в богатом мистере Браунли и тот факт, что его предполагаемая внучка может быть самозванкой. При этом епископ уходит и уединяется в своем гостиничном номере. Вскоре после того, как он уплывает на лодке, Перри встречается женщиной по имени Ида Гилберт. Перри идет к мистеру Браунли, но не находит его нигде. Позже той же ночью, Браунли встретится с Идой, но он будет застрелен женщиной, которая подбирает пистолет Иды. Иду арестовывают за убийство мистера Браунли и Перри ввязывается в это дело.
A Family Affair
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Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and his son, Andy discovers Polly Benedict. As usual, Judge Hardy is concerned with everyone in the family and lends wisdom and calmness to all.
Ready, Willing and Able
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Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.