Dick Foran
John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran (June 18, 1910 – August 10, 1979) was an American actor, known for his performances in western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.
Foran was still billed as Nick Foran when he signed a contract with Fox in 1934. In 1935, Foran, who stood 6-foot-2 and had red hair, was hired by Warner Bros. as a supporting actor, changing his first name to Dick. He would also croon when called upon in films such as Change of Heart (1934) with Janet Gaynor, made for Fox Film Corporation. His handsome appearance and good-natured personality made him a natural choice for the supporting cast. He first appeared as a singing cowboy in his first starring role, in Moonlight on the Prairie (1935). Other singing cowboy features included Song of the Saddle (1936), Guns of the Pecos (1937), Empty Holsters (1937) and Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938).
In 1938 Foran moved to Universal Studios, where he acted in many different genres of film from horror to comedies with Abbott and Costello such as Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942). In 1942, Foran starred as Lon Prentice in a 68-minute war support film, Private Buckaroo. Foran starred in The Petrified Forest (1936), The Sisters (1938), Rangers of Fortune (1940), The Mummy's Hand (1940) and Keep 'Em Flying (1941).
One of his last film roles was a small one in Donovan's Reef (1963), starring his longtime friend John Wayne. His final film appearance was as the prospector "Old Timer" in the sentimental film Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1967) with Joseph Cotten, Pat Conway and Karl Swenson
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.017 |
| Birthday | 1910-06-18 |
| Place of Birth | Flemington, New Jersey, USA |
| Also Known As | John Nicholas Foran, Nick 'Dick' Foran, Nick Foran, Richard Foran, Dick Foran the Singing Cowboy, The Singing Cowboy Dick Foran, John Nicholas "Dick" Foran, |
1940
The Mummy's Hand
5.7/91
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving...
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The Mummy's Hand
1942
Private Buckaroo
4.9/7
The film tells the story of army recruits following basic training, with the Andrew Sisters attending USO dances. The film is a mixture of comedy and...
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Private Buckaroo
1941
In the Navy
6.3/32
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter,...
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In the Navy
1958
The Fearmakers
6.2/14
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1940
The House of the Seven Gables
6.9/29
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The House of the Seven Gables
1942
The Mummy's Tomb
5.662/71
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1940
My Little Chickadee
6.452/31
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1937
Black Legion
6.6/54
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Black Legion
1948
Fort Apache
7/376
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant,...
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Fort Apache
1959
The Atomic Submarine
5.3/44
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The Atomic Submarine
1963
Donovan's Reef
6.2/142
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Donovan's Reef
1936
Earthworm Tractors
5/5
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1939
I Stole a Million
6/1
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1957
Chicago Confidential
5/16
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1956
Please Murder Me
6/26
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1936
The Petrified Forest
7.057/193
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1938
Four Daughters
6.5/27
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1937
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
4.2/5
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1936
California Mail
4.8/6
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1941
Mob Town
0/0
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
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Mob Town
1935
One More Spring
5.7/3
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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One More Spring
1955
The Miracle on 34th Street
5.3/9
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this i...
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1958
Violent Road
6/7
Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components,...
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Violent Road
1941
Horror Island
5.8/29
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Horror Island
1939
Inside Information
0/0
A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.
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Inside Information
1936
Treachery Rides the Range
1/1
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just si...
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Treachery Rides the Range
1937
The Cherokee Strip
6/1
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1937
The Perfect Specimen
5.7/5
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1939
Daughters Courageous
6.2/9
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Daughters Courageous
1945
Guest Wife
6.2/10
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1941
Four Mothers
5.7/3
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Four Mothers
1951
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
5/3
Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.
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1938
Over the Wall
5/1
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Over the Wall
1965
Taggart
5.2/16
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Taggart
1938
Cowboy from Brooklyn
4/1
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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1936
Song of the Saddle
7/1
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1939
Private Detective
6/2
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
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1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
6/1
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.
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1936
Public Enemy's Wife
5.8/6
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1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1955
Treasure of Ruby Hills
4/1
Ranchers battle one another over water rights. Western.
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1960
Studs Lonigan
5/4
A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.
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1938
Heart of the North
3.7/3
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Heart of the North
1935
Shipmates Forever
6.5/4
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1935
Moonlight on the Prairie
5.5/2
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
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Moonlight on the Prairie
1949
El Paso
5.7/14
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1938
Secrets of a Nurse
3/2
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true in...
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1936
Guns of the Pecos
6.2/3
A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
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Guns of the Pecos
1937
Land Beyond the Law
7/1
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
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Land Beyond the Law
1940
Winners of the West
0/0
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from bein...
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Winners of the West
1949
Deputy Marshal
6.8/4
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
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1938
Love, Honor and Behave
3.5/4
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
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Love, Honor and Behave
1947
Easy Come, Easy Go
0/0
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
1934
Change of Heart
6.2/5
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Change of Heart
1957
Sierra Stranger
5/5
A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
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Sierra Stranger
1937
She Loved a Fireman
6/1
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
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She Loved a Fireman
1935
It's A Small World
4.5/2
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It's A Small World
1960
The Big Night
0/0
Big money means big crime in this noir drama following the exploits of Frankie (Randy Sparks), a young man who stumbles on a stash of cash and finds h...
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The Big Night
1938
Boy Meets Girl
6.2/5
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie abo...
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Boy Meets Girl
1940
The Fighting 69th
5.4/24
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The Fighting 69th
1938
Out Where the Stars Begin
6.5/3
When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born.
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1942
Ride 'Em Cowboy
5.8/24
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ra...
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
1934
Gentlemen Are Born
6.5/2
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn t...
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Gentlemen Are Born
1936
The Big Noise
5/1
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half inte...
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The Big Noise
1939
Four Wives
5.1/8
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 enga...
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Four Wives
1941
Road Agent
0/0
Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their a...
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Road Agent
1940
Rangers of Fortune
5/1
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his youn...
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Rangers of Fortune
1937
Prairie Thunder
3.5/2
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells ri...
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Prairie Thunder
1937
Blazing Sixes
6/1
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to ge...
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Blazing Sixes
1937
Empty Holsters
0/0
Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for Clay....
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Empty Holsters
1937
The Devil's Saddle Legion
0.5/1
Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed an...
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The Devil's Saddle Legion
1936
The Golden Arrow
6.1/10
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
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The Golden Arrow
1938
The Sisters
6.1/10
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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The Sisters
1936
Trailin' West
0/0
A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
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Trailin' West
1942
Butch Minds the Baby
0/0
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe cracker...
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Butch Minds the Baby
1935
Dangerous
6.7/49
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail t...
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Dangerous
1941
Riders of Death Valley
6.5/1
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Fora...
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Riders of Death Valley
1941
Keep 'Em Flying
5.9/18
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello,...
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Keep 'Em Flying
1941
The Kid from Kansas
0/0
Competition among fruit growers takes a nasty turn when the main buyer offers unrealistically low prices for their crops.
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The Kid from Kansas
1943
Hi, Buddy
7/3
Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI Dave O'Connor, who comes...
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Hi, Buddy
1942
Behind the Eight Ball
4.7/3
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comed...
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Behind the Eight Ball
1943
He's My Guy
6/1
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
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He's My Guy
1962
Should I Marry Outside My Faith?
2.4/5
A short drama which seeks to explore some of the problems in inter-faith relationships.
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Should I Marry Outside My Faith?
1936
Breakdowns of 1936
0/0
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
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Breakdowns of 1936
1934
Student Tour
5/2
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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Student Tour
1955
Night of Execution
5/1
A woman is forced to leave her marriage by her violent, over-bearing husband whose objective is to train their young son to follow his evil footsteps.
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Night of Execution
1935
The Lottery Lover
3/1
A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They" ha...
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The Lottery Lover
1936
The Sunday Round-Up
10/1
The small church, pastored by Ted Burke, in a western town is struggling to stay alive as all the men gather at Jack Higgins' Mustang Saloon every Sun...
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The Sunday Round-Up
1935
Accent on Youth
5.5/2
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
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Accent on Youth
1947
Hollywood Wonderland
6.7/3
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
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Hollywood Wonderland
1966
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
5.5/2
At the turn of the century in the Southwest, Brighty the wild burro accompanies his friend, a prospector named Old Timer, on a hunt for gold. A claim...
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Brighty of the Grand Canyon
1946
Movieland Magic
0/0
Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely hold...
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1938
Breakdowns of 1938
5/2
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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1937
Breakdowns of 1937
6/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
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1946
Blow-Ups of 1946
6/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946.
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1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
2008
Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge
0/0
A compilation that highlights works from the Three Stooges. It includes the shorts Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, and Malice in the Palace...
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Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge
1941
Unfinished Business
5.3/2
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts...
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Unfinished Business
1952
The Kill
8/2
Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the thr...
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The Kill
1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
4.8/10
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...
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Stand Up and Cheer!
1958
Thundering Jets
0/0
An Air Force captain teaches pilots to fly jets but doesn't like it.
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Thundering Jets
1936
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1/1
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1939
Hero for a Day
0/1
When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
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Hero for a Day
1942
Breakdowns of 1942
6/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
6.1/8
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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