Hal K. Dawson Movies

  • 1936
    My American Wife

    My American Wife

    My American Wife

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    Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...

    My American Wife
  • 1968
    Funny Girl

    Funny Girl

    Funny Girl

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    The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Fol...

    Funny Girl
  • 1949
    Chicken Every Sunday

    Chicken Every Sunday

    Chicken Every Sunday

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    A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

    Chicken Every Sunday
  • 1938
    Rich Man, Poor Girl

    Rich Man, Poor Girl

    Rich Man, Poor Girl

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    A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

    Rich Man, Poor Girl
  • 1939
    The Great Victor Herbert

    The Great Victor Herbert

    The Great Victor Herbert

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    In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's...

    The Great Victor Herbert
  • 1935
    Dr. Socrates

    Dr. Socrates

    Dr. Socrates

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    Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor...

    Dr. Socrates
  • 1958
    Teacher's Pet

    Teacher's Pet

    Teacher's Pet

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    A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.

    Teacher's Pet
  • 1934
    The Firebird

    The Firebird

    The Firebird

    5.51934HD

    Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old...

    The Firebird
  • 1937
    On Again—Off Again

    On Again—Off Again

    On Again—Off Again

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    This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Ho...

    On Again—Off Again
  • 1937
    Love and Hisses

    Love and Hisses

    Love and Hisses

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    As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

    Love and Hisses
  • 1940
    The Doctor Takes a Wife

    The Doctor Takes a Wife

    The Doctor Takes a Wife

    6.51940HD

    A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

    The Doctor Takes a Wife
  • 1948
    Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

    Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

    Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

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    An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with proble...

    Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
  • 1937
    Wells Fargo

    Wells Fargo

    Wells Fargo

    5.11937HD

    In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fres...

    Wells Fargo
  • 1937
    Vogues of 1938

    Vogues of 1938

    Vogues of 1938

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    An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The...

    Vogues of 1938
  • 1938
    The Nurse from Brooklyn

    The Nurse from Brooklyn

    The Nurse from Brooklyn

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    A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of sho...

    The Nurse from Brooklyn
  • 1938
    Boy Meets Girl

    Boy Meets Girl

    Boy Meets Girl

    6.21938HD

    Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie abo...

    Boy Meets Girl
  • 1935
    Music Is Magic

    Music Is Magic

    Music Is Magic

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    An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

    Music Is Magic
  • 1955
    Three for the Show

    Three for the Show

    Three for the Show

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    This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940),features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husba...

    Three for the Show
  • 1944
    Greenwich Village

    Greenwich Village

    Greenwich Village

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    In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

    Greenwich Village
  • 1942
    Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

    Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

    Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

    6.51942HD

    Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling tra...

    Life Begins at Eight-Thirty