24th Annual Academy Awards (1952)
The 24th Academy Awards honored the best in film in 1951, as recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture was awarded to An American in Paris, which, like A Place in the Sun, received six Ac
On the Double (1961)
At the time of the Invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British General in order to confuse the Nazi spies and assassins in London
The Five Pennies (1959)
Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning Louis Satchmo Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling granite voice Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun
White Christmas 1954
A successful song and dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general
Up in Arms (1944)
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs Hes also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that shes in love with his best friend Joe
Wonder Man (1945)
After being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice
The Man from the Diners Club (1963)
An employee at Diners Club issues a credit card to a well known mobster and has to retrieve it in order to keep his job
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
The opening scene of the movie describes it best Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales
On the Riviera (1951)
An American entertainer impersonates a wealthy aviator and flirts with his lookalikes neglected wife
Knock on Wood (1954)
Discovering that a ventriloquist is travelling to Zurich, a spy ring hides secret plans in his dummies heads When a second spy ring learns of the plans, they descend upon the ventriloquist, causing city wide pandemonium
Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971)
With the help of a time machine, Peter Cottontail must rescue Easter from the hands of the malicious Irontail
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy
The Court Jester (1955)
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King