Rudy Vallee

Rudy Vallee

Rudy Vallee started his career as a saxophone player and singer and later became a band leader. In the 1920s and early 30s he had a hit radio program, The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour (where he was hated by his cast and crew due to his explosive ego-driven personality). In the early 1930's he was ranked with the likes of Bing Crosby and the tragic Russ Columbo in the Hit Parade. A huge hit on radio in 1933 with his program, initially known as 'The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour,' Vallee was considered a slave driver by his staff. He was known to instigate fist fights with virtually anyone who got on his nerves. During the run of his show he slugged photographers, threw sheet music in the faces of pianists' heads and if provoked, would sock hecklers in the nose. While audiences loved him, he was hated by most of his staff. As a very popular star in night clubs and on records, as well as in movies, he helped other singers like Alice Faye - who was for a while his band singer - and Frances Langford to start their careers. In his early movies he often played the romantic lead, but he switched later to stuffy and comic parts. He also appeared on Broadway. The mid-60's Broadway hit "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" was filmed in 1967 with him in his original Broadway role.

  • Title: Rudy Vallee
  • Popularity: 2.621
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1901-07-28
  • Place of Birth: Island Pond, Vermont, USA
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  • Also Known As: Hubert Prior Vallée
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Rudy Vallee Movies

  • 1933
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    International House

    International House

    5.3 1933 HD

    Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house...

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  • 1947
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    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    6.3 1947 HD

    Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull,...

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  • 1946
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    People Are Funny

    People Are Funny

    5.2 1946 HD

    A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to...

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  • 1967
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    How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

    How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

    6.827 1967 HD

    A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.

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  • 1942
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    The Palm Beach Story

    The Palm Beach Story

    7.013 1942 HD

    A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying...

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  • 1948
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    Unfaithfully Yours

    Unfaithfully Yours

    7.193 1948 HD

    Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his...

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  • 1947
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    The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

    The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

    6.931 1947 HD

    Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her...

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  • 1948
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    I Remember Mama

    I Remember Mama

    7 1948 HD

    Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who...

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  • 1939
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    Second Fiddle

    Second Fiddle

    5 1939 HD

    Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

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  • 1950
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    The Admiral Was a Lady

    The Admiral Was a Lady

    6.1 1950 HD

    Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.

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  • 1970
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    The Phynx

    The Phynx

    3.5 1970 HD

    A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.

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  • 1968
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    Live a Little, Love a Little

    Live a Little, Love a Little

    5.5 1968 HD

    Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.

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  • 1948
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    My Dear Secretary

    My Dear Secretary

    5.9 1948 HD

    A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon...

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  • 1949
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    The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

    The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

    5.8 1949 HD

    Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news...

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  • 1958
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    Hansel and Gretel

    Hansel and Gretel

    1 1958 HD

    Musical adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story broadcast as a live television special on NBC.

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  • 1941
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    Time Out for Rhythm

    Time Out for Rhythm

    6.2 1941 HD

    A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.

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  • 1948
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    So This Is New York

    So This Is New York

    6 1948 HD

    A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of...

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  • 1975
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    Slashed Dreams

    Slashed Dreams

    2.9 1975 HD

    A couple on vacation in the woods is stalked by a pair of rapists.

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  • 1949
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    Mother Is a Freshman

    Mother Is a Freshman

    1 1949 HD

    Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The...

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  • 1949
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    Father Was a Fullback

    Father Was a Fullback

    6 1949 HD

    Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup,...

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  • 1931
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    Betty Co-ed

    Betty Co-ed

    4.5 1931 HD

    A young dog calls on Betty but fraternity hazers kidnap him. With a Bouncing Ball, Rudy Vallee sings the title tune.

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  • 1932
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    Rudy Vallee Melodies

    Rudy Vallee Melodies

    2.7 1932 HD

    Betty Boop, trying to keep a party lively, is aided by Rudy Vallee, who comes to live-action life from a sheet music cover and sings several songs...

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  • 1938
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    Gold Diggers in Paris

    Gold Diggers in Paris

    5.5 1938 HD

    When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for...

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  • 1929
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    Glorifying the American Girl

    Glorifying the American Girl

    5.5 1929 HD

    A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the...

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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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  • 1943
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    Happy Go Lucky

    Happy Go Lucky

    4 1943 HD

    A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.

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  • 1944
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    11th. Naval District "United States Coast Guard Band"

    11th. Naval District "United States Coast Guard Band"

    4 1944 HD

    A patriotic wartime short showcasing the U.S. Coast Guard Band, led by singer Rudy Vallee, and saluting the Naval branches of the military.

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  • 1929
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    The Vagabond Lover

    The Vagabond Lover

    4 1929 HD

    A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.

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  • 1935
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    Sweet Music

    Sweet Music

    5.7 1935 HD

    A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.

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  • 1995
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    Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

    Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

    8 1995 HD

    From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a...

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  • 1945
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    Man Alive

    Man Alive

    5.1 1945 HD

    A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.

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  • 1984
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    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    10 1984 HD

    Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

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  • 1957
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    The Helen Morgan Story

    The Helen Morgan Story

    5.2 1957 HD

    Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

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  • 1950
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    The Golden Twenties

    The Golden Twenties

    1 1950 HD

    Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

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  • 1940
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    Rodeo Dough

    Rodeo Dough

    5.3 1940 HD

    After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star-filled rodeo.

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  • 1945
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    It's in the Bag!

    It's in the Bag!

    5 1945 HD

    The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

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  • 1955
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    Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

    Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

    5.2 1955 HD

    Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided...

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  • 1941
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    Too Many Blondes

    Too Many Blondes

    1 1941 HD

    The plot centers on a husband-wife radio team, Dick (Rudy Vallee) and Virginia (Helen Parrish). When Dick is caught in an innocent but compromising...

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  • 1980
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    Men Who Rate a 10

    Men Who Rate a 10

    1 1980 HD

    Variety special hosted by Barbara Eden, Gloria Swanson, and Brooke Shields that celebrates the men whose sex appeal transcends age and the ages.

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  • 1934
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    Hollywood on Parade No. B-9

    Hollywood on Parade No. B-9

    1 1934 HD

    Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator...

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  • 1954
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    Ricochet Romance

    Ricochet Romance

    7 1954 HD

    Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces...

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  • 1935
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    A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

    A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

    5.2 1935 HD

    This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the...

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  • 1938
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    Breakdowns of 1938

    Breakdowns of 1938

    5 1938 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

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  • 1935
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    Things You Never See on the Screen

    Things You Never See on the Screen

    5 1935 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

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  • 1975
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    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    5.7 1975 HD

    Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

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  • 1946
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    The Fabulous Suzanne

    The Fabulous Suzanne

    5 1946 HD

    Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the...

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  • 1943
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform

    Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform

    6 1943 HD

    Actors are seen in their new roles as military men during WWII: Robert Stack displaying his remarkable skill as an artillery training officer; Tyrone...

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  • 1956
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    Jazz Ball

    Jazz Ball

    7 1956 HD

    A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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  • 1942
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    Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

    Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

    6 1942 HD

    Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

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  • 1931
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    Kitty from Kansas City

    Kitty from Kansas City

    4.5 1931 HD

    Sun bonneted Betty Boop takes a train to "Rudy Valley" where she gains weight and Rudy Vallee performs the title song with Bouncing Ball.

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  • 2015
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    Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

    Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

    1 2015 HD

    A retrospective of Chita Rivera's film, television and stage career, including interviews with Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, Carol Lawrence and others....

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  • 1932
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    The Musical Doctor

    The Musical Doctor

    1 1932 HD

    Rudy Vallee cures patients at Dr. Vallee's Musical Hospital by means of music.

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  • 1968
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    The Night They Raided Minsky's

    The Night They Raided Minsky's

    5.6 1968 HD

    Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her...

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  • 1976
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    Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

    Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

    4.1 1976 HD

    A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

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  • 1929
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    The Vagabond Lover

    The Vagabond Lover

    4 1929 HD

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  • 1947
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    The Unfaithful

    The Unfaithful

    6 1947 HD

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  • 1977
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    CHiPs

    CHiPs

    6.8 1977 HD

    Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two...

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  • 1968
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    Here's Lucy

    Here's Lucy

    6.923 1968 HD

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  • 1954
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    December Bride

    December Bride

    5.5 1954 HD

    December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series...

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1966
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    Batman

    Batman

    7.3 1966 HD

    Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret...

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  • 1971
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    Alias Smith and Jones

    Alias Smith and Jones

    6.862 1971 HD

    Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben...

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  • 1963
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    Petticoat Junction

    Petticoat Junction

    5.871 1963 HD

    The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.571 1962 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

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  • 1970
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    Night Gallery

    Night Gallery

    7.83 1970 HD

    Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the...

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  • 1971
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    The Chicago Teddy Bears

    The Chicago Teddy Bears

    5 1971 HD

    The Chicago Teddy Bears is an American sitcom that aired on CBS. The series was part of the network's 1971 fall lineup, premiering on September 17,...

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  • 1950
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    Your Show of Shows

    Your Show of Shows

    5.5 1950 HD

    Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5,...

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    5.1 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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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.37 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 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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  • 1968
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    The Name of the Game

    The Name of the Game

    6.8 1968 HD

    The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC,...

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  • 1947
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    Kraft Television Theatre

    Kraft Television Theatre

    7.333 1947 HD

    Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series

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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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  • 1957
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    The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

    The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

    8.545 1957 HD

    The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of...

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  • 1987
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    The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

    The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

    8 1987 HD

    Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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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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  • 1975
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    Ellery Queen

    Ellery Queen

    7.4 1975 HD

    Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76...

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