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The Lady Eve (1941)
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Director Preston Sturges
Writer Monckton Hoffe, Preston Sturges
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Plot A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Charles Lederer, Joseph Fields, Anita Loos
Cast Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Plot Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
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Heaven Can Wait (1943)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Samson Raphaelson, Leslie Bush-Fekete
Cast Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn
Plot An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
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The More the Merrier (1943)
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Director George Stevens
Writer Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy
Cast Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn
Plot During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.
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Bachelor Mother (1939)
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Director Garson Kanin
Writer Norman Krasna, Felix Jackson, Garson Kanin
Cast Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Plot An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.
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The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
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Director Sam Wood
Writer Norman Krasna
Cast Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn
Plot A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.
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Lured (1947)
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Director Douglas Sirk
Writer Leo Rosten, Jacques Companeez, Ernst Neubach
Cast George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
Plot British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.
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Impact (1949)
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Director Arthur Lubin
Writer Dorothy Davenport, Jay Dratler
Cast Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn
Plot A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
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Made for Each Other (1939)
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Director John Cromwell
Writer Jo Swerling, Rose Franken, Frank Ryan
Cast Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn
Plot While on a business trip, an ambitious young lawyer meets and immediately falls in love with a stranger. They wed the following day, and tragedy soon strikes.
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George Washington Slept Here (1942)
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Director William Keighley
Writer Everett Freeman, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman
Cast Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn
Plot When Bill and Connie Fuller are forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment because of their pet dog, Connie purchases a dilapidated old Pennsylvania house where George Washington allegedly slept, and persuades Bill to renovat...
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John Paul Jones (1959)
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Director John Farrow
Writer John Farrow, Ben Hecht, Jesse Lasky Jr.
Cast Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn
Plot The career of Revolutionary War naval hero from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952)
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Director Douglas Sirk
Writer Joseph Hoffman, Eleanor H. Porter
Cast Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn
Plot An aging heir-less millionaire wants to leave his fortune to the unsuspecting family of his first love but not before testing his prospective heirs by living with them under the guise of a poor boarder.
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Trouble Along the Way (1953)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Douglas Morrow
Cast John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn
Plot An ex-football coach is hired by a small Catholic college to train its football team in the hopes of winning games and making money to save the school from bankruptcy.
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Wilson (1944)
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Director Henry King
Writer Lamar Trotti
Cast Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Plot A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.
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Princess O'Rourke (1943)
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Director Norman Krasna
Writer Norman Krasna
Cast Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn
Plot A pilot falls in love with a woman he believes is heading cross country to become a maid, little suspecting that she's actually a princess.
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The Green Years (1946)
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Director Victor Saville
Writer A.J. Cronin, Robert Ardrey, Sonya Levien
Cast Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler
Plot An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
