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William Wright

William Wright

William Wright (January 5, 1911 – January 19, 1949) was an American leading man in films who was most popular in the 1940s when he was typically compared to Clark Gable, whose career was temporarily derailed by World War II. Wright even played Gable's part in a 1945 musical comedy remake of It Happened One Night entitled Eve Knew Her Apples. He also played Philo Vance in Philo Vance Returns (1947) and the title role in King of the Gamblers (1948). Wright's other films include Eadie Was a Lady (1945), Rose of the Yukon (1949), Daughter of the Jungle (1949), and Impact (1949). Wright died from cancer in 1949 at the age of 38.

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Air Hostess (1949)

The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nurse; and Jennifer White, whose husband was an aviator killed in World War II. Ruth meets a smart-alec pilo ...

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Impact (1949)

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime. ...

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Daughter of the Jungle (1949)

An airplane carrying a pair of police officers escorting gangsters to prison crash-lands in the African jungle. They are rescued from an attack by savage natives by a white woman who appears out of nowhere, and it turns out she is a lost heiress who hersel ...

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Rose of the Yukon (1949)

Major Geoffrey Barnett, U. S. Army Intelligence Service, is sent to Alaska, to apprehend a deserter, Tom Clark, who was presumed to be dead as a member of a small force wiped out on Attu in World War II. With the aid of Rose Flambeau, he finds evidence tha ...

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Gas House Kids Go West (1947)

The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation. ...

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Philo Vance Returns (1947)

Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephone ...

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Doctor Jim (1947)

Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner. The scenario then flashes back through three decades, commencing with the young GP first hanging up his ...

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Down Missouri Way (1946)

When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks. ...

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Lover Come Back (1946)

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful. ...

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The Mask of Diijon (1946)

A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt. ...

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Eve Knew Her Apples (1945)

Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hi ...

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Escape in the Fog (1945)

A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is ...

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Eadie Was a Lady (1945)

In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But trouble starts when her boss (William Wright) decides to build her up as a star. One of the many bread-and-bu ...

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Dancing in Manhattan (1944)

In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a wild night on the town. He and his girlfriend do not know that the money represents the spoils of a blackmailer's scheme. ...

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One Mysterious Night (1944)

After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, ...

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Saddles and Sagebrush (1943)

Krag Sabine has aroused the wrath of all the ranchers by stealing their land with the aid of his henchmen, led by Ace Barco; when Lafe Martin objects, the outlaws shoot him down. Lucky Randall promises Ann Martin he will avenge her wounded father. He sets ...

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Murder in Times Square (1943)

An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom. ...

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Reveille with Beverly (1943)

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hi ...

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A Night to Remember (1942)

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in ...

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The Daring Young Man (1942)

Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies. ...

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Lucky Legs (1942)

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the round ...

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A Man's World (1942)

Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious ...

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Parachute Nurse (1942)

Nurses parachuting. ...

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Night in New Orleans (1942)

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation. ...

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Meet the Stewarts (1942)

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget. ...

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Not a Ladies' Man (1942)

A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher. ...

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True to the Army (1942)

A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend's Army base. ...

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Fly By Night (1942)

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies. ...

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Glamour Boy (1941)

Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers disc ...

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Devil Pays Off (1941)

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy. ...

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World Premiere (1941)

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies al ...

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China Clipper (1936)

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China. ...

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