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Affair In Trinidad (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Trinidad Lady

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Affair In Trinidad (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Trinidad Lady No fooling around, brief bit with Steven Geray greeting Torin Thatcher and Howard Wendell but really producer-director Vincent Sherman is delivering the first appearance of Rita Hayworth, as night club performer Chris Emery, with a new song by Bob Russell and Lester Lee, in her first movie after the failure of her marriage to prince Aly Khan, in Columbia’s Affair In Trinidad, 1952, Rita’s vocal by Jo Ann Greer, choreography by Valerie Bettis and dress by Jean Louis.

Affair In Trinidad (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Not In The Tropics Not his first scene but his first with the star, Glenn Ford as just-arrived American Steve is angry with Rita Hayworth as night club star Chris, widow of his artist brother, whom he’s never met, thinking he committed suicide, not realizing she’s helping the cops solve his murder, followed by a typical powerful entry into the plot by Juanita Moore as servant Dominique, in Affair In Trinidad, 1952.

Imitation Of Life (1959) -- (Movie Clip) A Maid To Live In After wide shots establishing the real Coney Island, director Douglas Sirk switches to location shooting in Long Beach, CA, introducing principals Lana Turner, John Gavin and Juanita Moore, opening producer Ross Hunter's hit re-make, Imitation Of Life, 1959.

Imitation Of Life (1959) -- (Movie Clip) A Falling Star! Susie (Sandra Dee) and Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) are now teens, Lora (Lana Turner) now a Broadway star and Annie (Juanita Moore) still her backup, when old flame Steve (John Gavin) shows up at a premiere party ten years later, in producer Ross Hunter's Imitation Of Life, 1959.

Imitation Of Life (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Foolish Together Single mom and aspiring actress Lora (Lana Turner), embarrassed by Christmas attention from Steve (John Gavin), as housekeeper/roommate Annie (Juanita Moore) takes a call from agent Loomis (Robert Alda), representing Edwards (Dan O'Herlihy), in Douglas Sirk's hit Imitation Of Life, 1959.

Opposite Sex, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Four Million Square Males Ann Sheridan as playwright Amanda off to a crisp start, opening the Fay and Michael Kanin musical adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's "The Women," also introducing Dolores Gray as Sylvia, Alice Pearce as manicurist Olga and Joan Blondell in the dark, in The Opposite Sex, 1956, starring June Allyson.

Singing Nun, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Best Place For Her Scooting into (not very) seedy Gent, Belgium, Debbie Reynolds as the highly fictionalized version of the real Sister Jeanine Deckers, meets Sister Cluny (Agnes Moorehead), the Mother Prioress (Greer Garson) and old friend Sister Mary (Juanita Moore), early in MGM's The Singing Nun, 1966.

Imitation Of Life (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song, Credits Earl Grant's vocal, Sammy Fain and Paul Thomas Webster's song, the especially evocative title sequence, from producer Ross Hunter and director Douglas Sirk's hit melodrama Imitation Of Life, starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee and Juanita Moore.

Iron Mistress, The - (Original Trailer) American adventurer Jim Bowie (Alan Ladd) fights to make his way in the lumber business in The Iron Mistress (1952).

Imitation of Life (1959) - (Original Trailer) Two mothers, one white, one black, face problems with their rebellious daughters in Douglas Sirk's Imitation Of Life (1959) starring Lana Turner.

Witness To Murder - (Original Trailer) Barbara Stanwyck fights to convince the police that she is a Witness To Murder (1954).

Singing Nun, The - (Original Trailer) Debbie Reynolds stars in the film biography of the Belgian nun who had a hit single in the sixties - The Singing Nun (1966), directed by Henry Koster.

Girl Can't Help It, The - (Original Trailer) A gangster sets out to turn his girlfriend into a rock star in The Girl Can't Help It (1956).

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