Gertrude Michael

Gertrude Michael

Gertrude Michael (June 1, 1911, Talladega, Alabama – December 31, 1964, Beverly Hills, California) was an American film, stage and television actress. Born as Lillian Gertrude Michael in Talladega, Alabama, she reportedly graduated from high school at the age of 14. She became a radio singer on the radio. She attended the University of Alabama and Converse College, Cincinnati. Her childhood home in Talladega, Alabama was destroyed by fire in 2007. In 1929 in Cincinnati she made her stage debut in a stock company. She subsequently appeared on Broadway in Rachel Crothers' Caught Wet (1931). She entered the movies playing Richard Arlen's finaceé in Wayward (1932), but her best-remembered role is probably as Rita Ross in Murder at the Vanities (1934), one of the last pre-Code films, in which she sang an ode to marijuana (Sweet Marijuana). She had an affair with writer Paul Cain (aka Peter Ruric).After they broke up, Cain wrote the role of the alcoholic lover (based on Michael) in his only novel published during his lifetime, Fast One. Gertrude Michael died, aged 53, from undisclosed causes, in Beverly Hills, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gertrude Michael,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Gertrude Michael
  • Popularity: 3.319
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1911-06-01
  • Place of Birth: Talladega, Alabama, USA
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  • Also Known As: Lillian Gertrude Michael, Beck Michael
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Gertrude Michael Movies

  • 1955
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    Women's Prison

    Women's Prison

    5.5 1955 HD

    A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

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  • 1949
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    Flamingo Road

    Flamingo Road

    7.027 1949 HD

    A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

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  • 1933
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    I'm No Angel

    I'm No Angel

    6.347 1933 HD

    The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head...

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  • 1939
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    Hidden Power

    Hidden Power

    1 1939 HD

    Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife, Virginian, and their young son,...

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  • 1950
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    Caged

    Caged

    7.1 1950 HD

    A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.

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  • 1936
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    Second Wife

    Second Wife

    1 1936 HD

    Kenneth discovers that his son by his first wife is ill in a remote Swiss village, and is forced to leave Wife Number Two alone during childbirth.

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  • 1945
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    Allotment Wives

    Allotment Wives

    6 1945 HD

    Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.

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  • 1933
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    Ann Vickers

    Ann Vickers

    5.9 1933 HD

    After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married...

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  • 1934
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    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    6 1934 HD

    The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

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  • 1953
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    No Escape

    No Escape

    4.5 1953 HD

    When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a...

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  • 1961
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    The Continental Twist

    The Continental Twist

    4.7 1961 HD

    Sam Butera and the Witnesses perform several Twist numbers to save a small New Orleans nightclub and raise the bail to get Louis Prima out of jail.

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  • 1934
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    Murder at the Vanities

    Murder at the Vanities

    5.4 1934 HD

    Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading...

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  • 1935
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    The Last Outpost

    The Last Outpost

    6 1935 HD

    During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal...

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  • 1952
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    Bugles in the Afternoon

    Bugles in the Afternoon

    5 1952 HD

    Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.

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  • 1935
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    Four Hours to Kill!

    Four Hours to Kill!

    5 1935 HD

    A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where...

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  • 1945
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    Three's a Crowd

    Three's a Crowd

    1 1945 HD

    What would you do in this house of fear... if you knew that your husband killed your former flame?

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  • 1936
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    Make Way for a Lady

    Make Way for a Lady

    5 1936 HD

    An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley,...

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  • 1937
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    Sophie Lang Goes West

    Sophie Lang Goes West

    6 1937 HD

    Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California...

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  • 1933
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    Night of Terror

    Night of Terror

    5.5 1933 HD

    The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family...

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  • 1943
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    Women in Bondage

    Women in Bondage

    5.7 1943 HD

    Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking...

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  • 1934
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    Murder on the Blackboard

    Murder on the Blackboard

    5.3 1934 HD

    There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in...

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  • 1933
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    Cradle Song

    Cradle Song

    1 1933 HD

    In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a...

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  • 1934
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    Bolero

    Bolero

    6.1 1934 HD

    The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.

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  • 1943
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    Where Are Your Children?

    Where Are Your Children?

    4 1943 HD

    Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester...

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  • 1937
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    Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

    Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

    5.333 1937 HD

    A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.

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  • 1936
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    Till We Meet Again

    Till We Meet Again

    5 1936 HD

    In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan...

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  • 1934
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    The Witching Hour

    The Witching Hour

    5.3 1934 HD

    Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently...

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  • 1936
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    The Return of Sophie Lang

    The Return of Sophie Lang

    6 1936 HD

    In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a...

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  • 1932
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    Unashamed

    Unashamed

    6.3 1932 HD

    A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.

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  • 1934
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    Father Brown, Detective

    Father Brown, Detective

    6.5 1934 HD

    After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Later Flambeau sends notes to...

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  • 1934
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    Search for Beauty

    Search for Beauty

    5.9 1934 HD

    Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and...

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  • 1933
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    A Bedtime Story

    A Bedtime Story

    8 1933 HD

    Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.

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  • 1935
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    It Happened in New York

    It Happened in New York

    1 1935 HD

    A New York City cab driver in need of $200 picks up a movie star in his cab, and schemes to get the money from her.

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  • 1940
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    Slightly Tempted

    Slightly Tempted

    1 1940 HD

    A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.

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  • 1934
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    Menace

    Menace

    6.5 1934 HD

    A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.

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  • 1934
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    George White's Scandals

    George White's Scandals

    5 1934 HD

    Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she...

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  • 1940
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    Parole Fixer

    Parole Fixer

    1 1940 HD

    This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice...

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  • 1942
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    Prisoner of Japan

    Prisoner of Japan

    4.3 1942 HD

    An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.

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  • 1940
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    The Farmer's Daughter

    The Farmer's Daughter

    5 1940 HD

    Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend,...

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  • 1944
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    Faces in the Fog

    Faces in the Fog

    3 1944 HD

    Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the...

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  • 1940
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    I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

    I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

    6 1940 HD

    In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to...

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  • 1936
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    Woman Trap

    Woman Trap

    1 1936 HD

    A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the...

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  • 1934
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    Hold That Girl

    Hold That Girl

    1 1934 HD

    "That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses...

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  • 1943
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    Behind Prison Walls

    Behind Prison Walls

    1 1943 HD

    A reworking of a familiar theme, the story finds scheming steel tycoon James J. MacGlennon (Tully Marshall) and his high-minded lawyer son Jonathan...

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  • 1939
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    Just like a Woman

    Just like a Woman

    1 1939 HD

    A group of private detectives working for a jeweler pursue a gang of thieves in Argentina.

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  • 1951
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    Darling, How Could You!

    Darling, How Could You!

    6 1951 HD

    Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.

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  • 1932
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    Wayward

    Wayward

    6 1932 HD

    Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.

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  • 1940
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    Pound Foolish

    Pound Foolish

    7 1940 HD

    An expose of attempts by wealthy people to avoid payment of customs duties. Part of the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series.

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  • 1934
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    The Notorious Sophie Lang

    The Notorious Sophie Lang

    6 1934 HD

    After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police...

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  • 1934
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    I Believed in You

    I Believed in You

    1 1934 HD

    An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon...

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  • 1933
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    Sailor Be Good

    Sailor Be Good

    1 1933 HD

    A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight.

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  • 1945
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    Club Havana

    Club Havana

    5.7 1945 HD

    A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

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  • 1938
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    Star of the Circus

    Star of the Circus

    2 1938 HD

    English-language version or remake of the German film, TRUXA (1937).

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  • 1936
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    Forgotten Faces

    Forgotten Faces

    1 1936 HD

    Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife,...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1958
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    Sea Hunt

    Sea Hunt

    6.5 1958 HD

    Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades...

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    7 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1955
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    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    5.167 1955 HD

    The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this...

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  • 1952
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    Cavalcade of America

    Cavalcade of America

    3.5 1952 HD

    Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an...

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    7 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1952
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    Four Star Playhouse

    Four Star Playhouse

    6.125 1952 HD

    Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer...

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  • 1960
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    The Case of the Dangerous Robin

    The Case of the Dangerous Robin

    1 1960 HD

    The Case of the Dangerous Robin is an American crime drama series which aired in syndication from October 1960, to July 1961. The series stars Rick...

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