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Fashions Of 1934 (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Spin A Little Web Of Dreams

Easy To Love (1953) -- (Movie Clip) -- Look Out! I'm Romantic

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Fashions Of 1934 (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Spin A Little Web Of Dreams Nearly an hour into the picture and finally the big (and only) Busby Berkeley number, Verree Teasdale’s song, by Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal, introduces a feather and fashion-based production, gowns per usual by Orry-Kelly, in Warner Bros.’ Fashions Of 1934, 1934, starring William Powell and Bette Davis.

Easy To Love (1953) -- (Movie Clip) -- Look Out! I'm Romantic Esther Williams as Florida water-skiing star Julie in New York with boss and not-boyfriend (Van Johnson as Ray), catching singer Barry (Tony Martin), with whom she’s making a commercial, with Carroll Baker’s whole performance as a jealous girlfriend, and an original tune by Vic Mizzy and Mann Curtis, in MGM’s Easy To Love, 1953.

Berkeley Square (1933) -- (Movie Clip) An American Jest Time traveling American Peter (Leslie Howard) is posing as his 18th century namesake, whose diary he has studied, meeting his puzzled London cousins Kate (Valerie Taylor), Tom (Colin Keith-Johnston), Lady Anne (Irene Browne) and Helen (Heather Angel), in Berkeley Square, 1933.

Rocco And His Brothers (1960) -- (Movie Clip) If A Real Man Wants A Woman On the snow day in Milan, eldest brother Vincenzo (Spiros Focas) grabs the chance to visit with almost-ex girlfriend Ginetta (Claudia Cardinale), their families since his poor relations arrived from the south, in Luchino Visconti's Rocco And His Brothers, 1960.

Rocco And His Brothers (1960) -- (Movie Clip) It's Like Daylight Director Luchino Visconti's family Parondi arrives from "Lucania" in the south, at Milan, Katina Paxinou the widowed mother, Renato Salvatori as Simone, Alain Delon as Rocco, Max Cartier as Ciro, Rocco Vidolazzi as young Luca, camera by Giuseppe Rotunno, opening Rocco And His Brothers, 1960.

Hitler's Madman (1943) -- (Movie Clip) As Your Protector Having just realized on camera that he needs to kill partisans before they resist, Reich Protector Heydrich (John Carradine, the title character) visits a professor (Tully Marshall) and class, in Hitler's Madman, 1943.

Hitler's Madman (1943) -- (Movie Clip) No Way To Treat Ladies Part sexual terror and part beauty show, Ava Gardner (as "Katy") is among the young Czech women being reviewed by Reich Protector Heydrich (John Carradine, the title character), in Douglas Sirk's Hitler's Madman, 1943.

Turnabout (1940) -- (Movie Clip) See If You Can Find My Stomach Producer-director Hal Roach lays out the ad agency, John Hubbard as energetic partner Willows, secretary Inez Courtney briefing new hire Daisy (Roach's daughter Margaret) about the boozier Manning (Adolphe Menjou), his assistant (Polly Ann Young) attempting control, in Turnabout, 1940.

Turnabout (1940) -- (Movie Clip) So Many Irregularities Alpha-male ad exec Tim Willows (John Hubbard) has switched personalities and voices with his wife (Carole Landis) so there’s mayhem as he visits production shoots with his secretary (Verree Teasdale) and his dueling partners (William Gargan, Adolphe Menjou), in the Hal Roach comedy Turnabout, 1940.

Sorcerers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) My Will Is Stronger Mean behavior by Mike (Ian Ogilvy) leads to blows with mechanic pal Alan (Victor Henry) over Nicole (Elizabeth Ercy), neither of whom know he's being mind-controlled by Monserrat (Boris Karloff) and his suddenly evil wife (Catherine Lacey), in director Michael Reeves' The Sorcerers, 1967.

Went The Day Well? (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Speak Quite Freely Innocent goings-on in an English village, Major Hammond (Basil Sydney) explaining his mission to the vicar (C.V. France) whose daughter (Valerie Taylor) brings along home-guard chief Wilsford (Leslie Banks), Mrs. Fraser (Marie Lohr) arranging rooms for soldiers, before a seismic plot turn, in Went The Day Well, 1942.

Went The Day Well? (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Fifth Column In England Mrs. Fraser (Marie Lohr) hosts Hammond and aide (Basil Sydney, John Slater), who are secretly Nazis, with traitor Willsford (Leslie Banks), the vicar (C.V. France) and Nora (Valerie Taylor), who puzzles over news from Mrs. Collins (Muriel George), in Went The Day Well?, 1942.

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