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Waltons: Thanksgiving Story
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Tea for Two
:Description:Spunky heiress Doris Day cures the blues with Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson and Eve Arden in a sparkling movie version of No, No Nanette. Evergreen songs: 'I want to Be Happy,' 'Do Do Do,' the title tune. Year: 1950 Director: David Butler Starring: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson
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The Waltons The Children's Carol
:Description:Spunky heiress Doris Day cures the blues with Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson and Eve Arden in a sparkling movie version of No, No Nanette. Evergreen songs: 'I want to Be Happy,' 'Do Do Do,' the title tune. Year: 1950 Director: David Butler Starring: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
:Description:'On Moonlight Bay' stars Doris Day and Gordon MacRae are back together in top tune-crooning form for the further adventures of a small-town family turning the corner from World War I into the Roaring '20s. Year: 1953 Director: David Butler Starring: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Billy Gray :The huge popularity of the nostalgic On Moonlight Bay prompted this 1953 sequel, which recaptures the first film's small-town, post-WWI spirit. Because young lovers Doris Day and Gordon MacRae are already together, the movie needs some sort of trumped-up conflict to separate them for ...
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April in Paris
: :Doris Day landed another All-American Gal role in April in Paris, a musical in which, due to a case of mistaken identity, her unknown chorus girl ends up representing the United States of America in an international peace festival. (The invitation was meant for the esteemed Ethel Barrymore, not Ethel 'Dynamite' Jackson. Oops.) Responsible for the SNAFU is state department official Ray Bolger, who naturally falls in love with Doris during a trans-Atlantic voyage. Complication: he's supposed to marry his boss's daughter. The songs here, by Vernon Duke and Sammy Cahn, ...
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Lullaby of Broadway
:Description:C'mon and listen to songbird Doris Day heads toward Great White Way stardom in this sparkling songfest full of favorite standards, co-starring Gene Nelson. Year: 1950 Director: David Butler Starring: Doris Day, Gene Nelson, Gladys George
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Bright Eyes
: essential video:Shirley Temple, the original dancing baby, sings her signature song, 'On the Good Ship Lollipop,' in this heart-rending drama, one of eight films she made in 1934 (!) at the ripe age of 6, and for which she was honored with a special pint-sized Academy Award. Temple stars as Shirley, the curly-headed 'gosh, oh gee'-adorable mascot to a group of aviators since her pilot father 'cracked up and went to heaven.' Get out your handkerchiefs when Shirley's mother is also killed, setting up a custody battle between the nasty, ...
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Waltons: Decade of
: essential video:Shirley Temple, the original dancing baby, sings her signature song, 'On the Good Ship Lollipop,' in this heart-rending drama, one of eight films she made in 1934 (!) at the ripe age of 6, and for which she was honored with a special pint-sized Academy Award. Temple stars as Shirley, the curly-headed 'gosh, oh gee'-adorable mascot to a group of aviators since her pilot father 'cracked up and went to heaven.' Get out your handkerchiefs when Shirley's mother is also killed, setting up a custody battle between the nasty, ...
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Look for the Silver Lining
: essential video:Shirley Temple, the original dancing baby, sings her signature song, 'On the Good Ship Lollipop,' in this heart-rending drama, one of eight films she made in 1934 (!) at the ripe age of 6, and for which she was honored with a special pint-sized Academy Award. Temple stars as Shirley, the curly-headed 'gosh, oh gee'-adorable mascot to a group of aviators since her pilot father 'cracked up and went to heaven.' Get out your handkerchiefs when Shirley's mother is also killed, setting up a custody battle between the nasty, ...
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Shirley Temple: Captain January
: :A 1936 vehicle for Shirley Temple, Captain January is actually a remake of a 1922 feature starring Baby Peggy Montgomery as an orphan informally adopted by the lighthouse keeper who rescues her from a storm. The Temple version, directed by David Butler, finds the little star playing a child named, well, Star, who is rescued and taken in by a salty old lighthouse-keeper known as Captain January (Guy Kibbee). Like a briny variation on Bret Harte's classic story, 'The Luck of Roaring Camp,' Captain January finds Star nurtured by a community ...
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