Jane Powell

Jane Powell

Jane Powell was singing and dancing at an early age. She sang on the radio and performed in theaters before her screen debut in 1944. Through the 1940s and 1950s, she had a successful career in movie musicals. However, in 1957, her career in films ended, as she had outgrown her innocent girl-next-door image. She has made brief returns to acting in front of the camera -- on television, in commercials, and in a workout video. She has had a variety of roles on stage since the end of her movie career, including the musicals "South Pacific," "The Sound of Music," "Oklahoma!," "My Fair Lady," "Carousel," and a one-woman show "The Girl Next Door and How She Grew," from which she took the title of her 1988 autobiography. From the 1980s to the 2010s, Powell lived with her fifth husband, former child star Dickie Moore, in New York City and Connecticut, active in television and theater through the 2000s. Moore passed away in 2015 and Powell moved full-time to Wilton, Connecticut after that. Jane Powell passed away on September 16, 2021, of natural causes, at the age of 92. Despite the same last name she is not related to actors William Powell, Dick Powell, or Eleanor Powell.

  • Title: Jane Powell
  • Popularity: 5.258
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-04-01
  • Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon, USA
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  • Also Known As: Suzanne Lorraine Burce
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Jane Powell Movies

  • 1950
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    Two Weeks with Love

    Two Weeks with Love

    5.9 1950 HD

    The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for...

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  • 1954
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    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

    7.165 1954 HD

    In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

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  • 1951
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    Royal Wedding

    Royal Wedding

    6.4 1951 HD

    Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a...

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  • 1948
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    A Date with Judy

    A Date with Judy

    6 1948 HD

    Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship...

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  • 1948
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    Luxury Liner

    Luxury Liner

    5.2 1948 HD

    Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio...

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  • 2003
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    Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

    Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

    7 2003 HD

    Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. ...

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  • 1954
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    Athena

    Athena

    5.6 1954 HD

    A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.

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  • 1948
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    Three Daring Daughters

    Three Daring Daughters

    5.7 1948 HD

    Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.

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  • 1953
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    Small Town Girl

    Small Town Girl

    5.7 1953 HD

    Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's...

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  • 1958
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    The Girl Most Likely

    The Girl Most Likely

    3.7 1958 HD

    Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing...

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  • 1955
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    Hit the Deck

    Hit the Deck

    4.8 1955 HD

    Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.

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  • 1951
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    Rich, Young and Pretty

    Rich, Young and Pretty

    5.6 1951 HD

    A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.

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  • 1946
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    Holiday in Mexico

    Holiday in Mexico

    6.2 1946 HD

    Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young...

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  • 1950
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    Nancy Goes to Rio

    Nancy Goes to Rio

    5.7 1950 HD

    Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.

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  • 1945
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    Delightfully Dangerous

    Delightfully Dangerous

    5.3 1945 HD

    Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the...

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  • 1953
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    Three Sailors and a Girl

    Three Sailors and a Girl

    6 1953 HD

    A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

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  • 1958
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    Enchanted Island

    Enchanted Island

    4.5 1958 HD

    Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.

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  • 1944
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    Song of the Open Road

    Song of the Open Road

    1 1944 HD

    A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with...

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  • 1958
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    The Female Animal

    The Female Animal

    5.6 1958 HD

    Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her...

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  • 2011
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    Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter

    Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter

    1 2011 HD

    The beloved, Emmy-winning comic actor Don Knotts, best-known for his roles as the bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and the...

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  • 2000
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    Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder

    Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder

    6.1 2000 HD

    About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the...

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  • 2007
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    Royal Wedding: June, Judy and Jane

    Royal Wedding: June, Judy and Jane

    1 2007 HD

    When Arthur Freed brought Alan Jay Lerner to Hollywood to compose a new Fred Astaire musical (based on Fred's life,) little did he know he would have...

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  • 1975
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    Tubby the Tuba

    Tubby the Tuba

    1 1975 HD

    When Tubby the Tuba sets out to find a melody all of his own, his journey results in this enchanting and exciting musical tale. Tubby joins the...

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  • 1973
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    The Letters

    The Letters

    6.7 1973 HD

    Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.

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  • 1974
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    That's Entertainment!

    That's Entertainment!

    7.242 1974 HD

    Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

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  • 1985
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    Night of 100 Stars II

    Night of 100 Stars II

    8 1985 HD

    This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

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  • 1954
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    Deep in My Heart

    Deep in My Heart

    6.8 1954 HD

    Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

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  • 1959
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    Meet Me in St. Louis

    Meet Me in St. Louis

    5 1959 HD

    This adaptation of the classic 1944 film musical explores the lives of the close-knit Smith family -- mother, father, grandfather, and five children...

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  • 2000
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    The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

    The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

    6 2000 HD

    The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy...

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  • 1994
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    That's Entertainment! III

    That's Entertainment! III

    6.943 1994 HD

    Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

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  • 1997
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    Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'

    Sobbin' Women: The Making of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'

    7.5 1997 HD

    This behind-the-scenes documentary includes interviews with people who were directly involved in the MGM classic musical 'Seven Brides for Seven...

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  • 1985
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    That's Dancing!

    That's Dancing!

    7 1985 HD

    A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s,...

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  • 1977
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    Mayday at 40,000 Feet

    Mayday at 40,000 Feet

    6.5 1977 HD

    The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a...

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  • 1992
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    Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts

    Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts

    1 1992 HD

    A look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team.

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  • 2014
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    Private Screenings: Robert Osborne

    Private Screenings: Robert Osborne

    7.3 2014 HD

    TCM host Robert Osborne discusses his life and career with guest interviewer Alec Baldwin in commemoration of Osborne's 20 years with the network.

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  • 1982
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    Night of 100 Stars

    Night of 100 Stars

    6.5 1982 HD

    The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

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  • 2021
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    Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

    Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

    1 2021 HD

    Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who...

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  • 2009
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    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

    Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

    1 2009 HD

    During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with stereophonic sound. These two episodes explore...

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  • 1955
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    Billete para Tánger

    Billete para Tánger

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1985
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    Growing Pains

    Growing Pains

    6.45 1985 HD

    Fatherhood has taken on a whole new meaning for Jason Seaver, who has assumed the chores of cooking, cleaning and minding the kids so that his wife,...

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.932 1999 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.667 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1970
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    Private Screenings

    Private Screenings

    7.5 1970 HD

    Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne interviews noted personalities from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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  • 1964
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    The Hollywood Palace

    The Hollywood Palace

    4.5 1964 HD

    The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970....

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  • 1956
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    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    5.3 1956 HD

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was...

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  • 1957
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    Alcoa Theatre

    Alcoa Theatre

    6.2 1957 HD

    Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16,...

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  • 1956
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    The Steve Allen Show

    The Steve Allen Show

    5 1956 HD

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  • 1957
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    Alcoa Theatre

    Alcoa Theatre

    6.2 1957 HD

    Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16,...

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 1959
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    The DuPont Show with June Allyson

    The DuPont Show with June Allyson

    6.3 1959 HD

    The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts...

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  • 1957
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    Alcoa Theatre

    Alcoa Theatre

    6.2 1957 HD

    Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16,...

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    5.143 1961 HD

    The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

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  • 1963
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    The Judy Garland Show

    The Judy Garland Show

    8 1963 HD

    The Judy Garland Show is an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963-1964 television season....

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  • 1991
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    Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...

    Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...

    6 1991 HD

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.667 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.667 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.559 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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  • 1956
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    The Steve Allen Show

    The Steve Allen Show

    5 1956 HD

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  • 1964
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    The Hollywood Palace

    The Hollywood Palace

    4.5 1964 HD

    The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970....

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  • 1977
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    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat

    6.3 1977 HD

    Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation...

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  • 1977
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    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat

    6.3 1977 HD

    Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation...

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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  • 1959
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    The Bell Telephone Hour

    The Bell Telephone Hour

    7 1959 HD

    “The Bell Telephone Hour” was a musical variety show that aired on “NBC” TV from 12 January 1959 to 14 June 1968 that...

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    5.143 1961 HD

    The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

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  • 1978
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    Fantasy Island

    Fantasy Island

    6.4 1978 HD

    A magical island hosted by Mr Roarke and Tattoo where weekly guests learn valuable life lessons in their pursuit of fulfilling their dreams. Not all...

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