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  1. Frozen Ghost, The (1945)

    Director
    Harold Young

    Feature film. Stage hypnotist Gregor the Great becomes enraged when a drunken audience member belittles his act. When the man dies suddenly, Gregor convinces himself that his hypnotic powers are to blame....

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  2. Tonight and Every Night (1945 Film)

    Director
    Victor Saville
    Producer
    Victor Saville

    Feature film musical about the efforts of London’s Windmill Theatre to stay open during the Blitz. In one scene in an officers’ mess a notice-board announces ‘By permission of Group Captain G. Homesby,...

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  3. Strange Illusion (1945 Film)

    Director
    Edgar G Ulmer
    Producer
    Leon Fromkess

    Film noir thriller B movie with loose connections to Hamlet. Paul (Lydon), has a recurring dream in which his father died in a car accident under mysterious circumstances and his mother (Eilers) falls in...

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  4. Romeo y Julieta (1943 Film)

    Director
    Miguel M. Delgado
    Producer
    Jacques Gelman; Santiago Reachi

    Feature film. A farce parodying Romeo and Juliet (and strongly referencing Cukor’s 1936 film version) starring Cantinflas, the celebrated Mexican comedian (real name Mario Moreno). Lanier (op cit) notes...

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  5. Presenting Lily Mars (1943 Film)

    Director
    Norman Taurog
    Producer
    Joseph Pasternak

    Musical comedy about Lily (Judy Garland), an aspiring actress from a small town in Indiana. In once scene Lily wants to impress a visiting Broadway producer (Heflin) and gives him a mawkish and melodramatic...

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  6. To Be or Not to Be (1942 Film)

    Director
    Ernst Lubitsch
    Producer
    Ernst Lubitsch

    Feature film. A comedy drama set in German-occupied Warsaw in World War II. Stars Jack Benny as Joseph Tura, the principal actor in a Polish troupe performing Hamlet. The film was controversial, not least in...

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  7. Pimpernel Smith (1941 Film)

    Director
    Leslie Howard

    Feature propaganda film and a wartime sequel to The SCARLET PIMPERNEL (d. Harold Young, 1934) also starring Leslie Howard. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, an English archaeologist...

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  8. Shakespearean Spinach (1940 Film)

    Series
    Popeye the Sailor
    Director
    Dave Fleischer
    Producer
    Max Fleischer

    Cartoon short. A spoof on Romeo and Juliet, with Popeye the sailor as Romeo and Olive Oyl as Juliet. They sing their lines to the tunes of operatic arias.

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  9. Gallant Sons (1940 Film)

    Director
    George B. Seitz
    Producer
    Stephani. Frederick

    Feature film. Johnny, By and Kate are schoolmates who attempt to prove the innocence of Johhny’s father. They discover the murderer is Al Posna and attempt a scheme in which Posna confesses his crime. They...

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  10. Paradise in Harlem (1939 Film)

    Director
    Joseph Seiden

    Feature film. Set in 1930s Harlem, Lem Anderson (Frank Wilson) is a vaudeville actor who aspires to performing Shakespeare. One evening after a show he witnesses a notorious gangster’s murder. The...

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