Louise Beavers Movies

List of the best Louise Beavers movies: Imitation of Life(1934), It Happened in New Orleans(1936), The Jackie Robinson Story(1950), Too Busy to Work(1932), No Time for Comedy(1940), Holiday Inn(1942), What Price Hollywood?(1932), Delightfully Dangerous(1945), Goodbye, My Lady(1956), Wives Never Know(1936), Wide Open(1930), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House(1948) ... ...

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Imitation of Life

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

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It Happened in New Orleans

A boy soprano (Bobby Breen) and his foster mother (Louise Beavers) meet his rich grandmother (May Robson) after the Civil War.

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The Jackie Robinson Story

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.

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Too Busy to Work

A depression-era tramp named Jubilo goes looking for the wife that left him. While on his journey, he meets an assortment of characters.

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No Time for Comedy

Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily married until a patroness of the ... See full summary »

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Holiday Inn

At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.

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What Price Hollywood?

The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.

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Delightfully Dangerous

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 stage. When Sherry is distraught just before... See full summary »

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Goodbye, My Lady

A 14-year-old orphan (Brandon de Wilde) grows attached to a stray dog, then learns the animal's owner wants it back.

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Wives Never Know

J. Hugh Ramsey, author of "Marriage, the Living Death" decides that the marriage of his friends The Bigelows cannot possibly be as perfect as it appears.

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Wide Open

A nervous woman-shy office clerk, already troubled by an amorous female co-worker, suddenly has to deal with a very forward and attractive young woman who has sneaked into his apartment - and doesn't want to leave.

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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

A New York adman (Cary Grant) and his calm wife (Myrna Loy) buy a big old fixer-upper in rural Connecticut.

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Good Sam

Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.

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My Blue Heaven

Betty Grable and Dan Dailey are a married song and dance team who cannot have children. The movie follows the travails as they try and adopt and keep the kids they adopt while performing on their TV show.

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The Jack London Story

The writer (Michael O'Shea) joins the Alaskan gold rush, goes to sea, finds a wife (Susan Hayward) and covers the Russo-Japanese War.

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Reap the Wild Wind

Florida ship salvager, Loxi, falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor, and eventually leads to tragedy.

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Ladies of the Big House

Married couple is imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit.

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Peck's Bad Boy With the Circus

Young Bill Peck has a romantic dalliance with an adolescent circus performer before heading to summer camp.

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It's Tough to Be Famous

A Navy war hero (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) marries his girlfriend (Mary Brian) and tries to avoid publicity.

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Tammy and the Bachelor

An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.

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The Goddess

A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.

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Young America

Already in trouble with the law, Arthur and his friend Nutty break into a drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. The druggist's wife, Mrs. Doray, asks for custody. When he hears... See full summary »

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Du Barry Was a Lady

A night club's coatroom attendant who's in-love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.

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General Spanky

A small boy is instrumental in a famous Civil War victory.

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All the Fine Young Cannibals

The minister of the town has died and his son Chad has no tears for him. Sarah, who now calls herself Salome, is pregnant with Chad's baby, but Chad has no future, no job and no money. ... See full summary »

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Kisses for Breakfast

Rodney has just married the often engaged Juliette and they are both ready to leave on their honeymoon. However, Clara showed up and Rodney sneaks out to talk to her. Clara is blackmailing ... See full summary »

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Sundown Trail

Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she ... See full summary »

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Made for Each Other

A young lawyer (James Stewart) starts a family with the woman (Carole Lombard) he loves instead of with his boss's (Charles Coburn) daughter.

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The Facts of Life

Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together... See full summary »

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Our Blushing Brides

Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Jerry is the sensible one,... See full summary »

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Never Wave at a WAC

A shallow society matron is urged by her senator father to join the Women's Army Corps.

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Palooka

Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.

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For the Love of Mary

Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

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Brother Rat

Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.

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