70% (1) Orchestra Wives 98 min, APPROVED, [Drama, Musical, Romance] [Archie Mayo] [04 Sep 1942]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, Glenn Miller, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
Writer: Karl Tunberg (screenplay), Darrell Ware (screenplay), James Prindle (original story)
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Plot: Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, small-town girl Ann Rutherford impulsively marries George Montgomery, a trumpeter in the Glenn Miller band. Rutherford soon finds that she isn't particularly suited for life on the road, nor is she prepared for the petty jealousies and backstabbings prevalent among the other orchestra wives.
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69% (1) Whistling in Brooklyn 87 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Crime, Mystery] [S. Sylvan Simon] [01 Dec 1943]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers, Rags Ragland, Red Skelton
Writer: Nat Perrin (screenplay), Wilkie C. Mahoney (additional dialogue)
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Plot: Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
Rotten Tomatoes: The third entry in the series that began with the film Whistling in the Dark follows the further adventures of "The Fox," radio detective Wally Benton (Red Skelton), as a notorious cop killer leads him on a chase onto the baseball diamond at Ebbets Field.
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68% (1) Andy Hardy's Private Secretary 101 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Romance] [George B. Seitz] [21 Feb 1941]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Rutherford, Fay Holden, Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney
Writer: Jane Murfin (screenplay), Harry Ruskin (screenplay), Katharine Brush (based on a story by), Aurania Rouverol (based upon the characters created by)
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Plot: Andy Hardy is about to graduate from high school and thinks he's pretty big stuff, so he hires a secretary, Kathryn Land. Kathryn and Polly Benedict, Andy's girlfriend, help him pass his English exam.
Rotten Tomatoes: Andy is ready to graduate from high school, and, trying to be a big man, he hires a pretty woman to be his social secretary. When he fails his finals, he gets help from a kindly faculty member. ~ Rovi
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68% (1) Happy Land 73 min, APPROVED, [Drama, Romance, War] [Irving Pichel] [10 Nov 1943]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Ann Rutherford, Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey
Writer: Kathryn Scola (screenplay), Julien Josephson (screenplay), MacKinlay Kantor (from the novel by)
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Plot: In a typical American Midwestern city, Hartfield, Iowa, Lew Marsh (Don Ameche) is the owner of a drugstore. Everyone knows Lew and knew his grandfather, old "Gramp" Marsh (Harry Carey), who had passed on. One evening, Lew and his wife, Agnes (Frances Dee), reminisce lovingly about their son, "Rusty" (Richard Crane), when a telegram arrive from the Navy Department informing them that "Rusty" had been killed in action. Lew becomes bitter, avoids people, refuses to go near the family drugstore. "Gramp" appears before Lew and takes him in hand and together, they revisit the past: Lew's childhood; "Gramp" as a Civil War veteran; Lew's courtship of Agnes; the birth of "Rusty"; Lew as a WW! soldier; Rusty's boyhood days and into his attempt to decide between Lenore Prentiss and Gretchen Barry, and how Lenore becomes his bride just before he joins the Navy. This excursion into the past takes away Lew's bitterness and he now sees what America means.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, an Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in WWII. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence. The grieving father is shown the error of his assumption by his grandfather's ghost.
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64% (1) Two O'Clock Courage 68 min, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir] [Anthony Mann] [13 Apr 1945]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Rutherford, Lester Matthews, Richard Lane, Tom Conway
Writer: Robert E. Kent (screen play by), Gordon Kahn (additional dialogue by), Gelett Burgess (based upon the story by)
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Plot: After nearly running over him with her cab, Patty Mitchell picks up a fare who claims to have amnesia. As he fumbles to remember the basic facts of his identity, Patty becomes interested in the stranger and decides to help him in his search. But as the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, and Patty's interest becomes more personal, the stranger finds that he is the prime suspect in a murder case.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this drama, an amnesiac awakens and finds himself accused of murder. Fortunately, a female cabbie helps prove his innocence. Things look bleak until a bullet wound helps him regain his memory and he can prove he didn't kill anyone.
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61% (1) Waterfront Lady 70 min, PASSED, [Crime, Drama, Romance] [Joseph Santley] [05 Oct 1935]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Rutherford, Barbara Pepper, Frank Albertson, J. Farrell MacDonald
Writer: Wellyn Totman (story and screenplay), Joseph Fields (additional dialogue)
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Plot: When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this crime drama set within a houseboat fishing colony, the co-owner of a gambling ship shoulders the blame for the accidental killing of a lookout during a raid. The seaman does it to save his partner. Seagoing mayhem ensues until the whole situation is finally straightened out in the end.
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55% (1) The Lawless Nineties 55 min, [Western] [Joseph Kane] [15 Feb 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 55%, External Reviews
Actors: Ann Rutherford, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Harry Woods, John Wayne
Writer: Joseph F. Poland (screenplay), Joseph F. Poland (original story), Scott Pembroke (original story)
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Plot: Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent. Plummer and his gang are out to make sure the vote fails. When Plummer's men kill Bridger, Tipton fights on. He sends fake telegrams that trap some of Plummer's men. Then he organizes the ranchers and on election day they descend on the town barricaded by Plummer's gang.
Rotten Tomatoes: Republic's The Lawless Nineties reteams the studio's up-and-coming cowboy star John Wayne with 19-year-old ingenue Ann Rutherford. Wayne plays John Tipton, who is determined to break up the corrupt Wyoming-territory political machine run by Charles K. Plummer (Harry Woods). What Tipton doesn't know is that Plummer is also the head of a night-riding vigilante army, bent on killing anyone who opposes his reign. Among Plummer's victims is newspaper editor Major Carter (George "Gabby" Hayes), but Carter's pretty daughter Janet (Rutherford) vows to carry on her dad's work. Amazingly, hero Tipton doesn't have to rely on his fists or fancy gunplay to rout the villains: this time around, Democracy itself saves the day. And in only 58 minutes! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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