Dick Powell
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Bacon
- In Lloyd Bacon: Warner Brothers
…musical, it featured Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, and Warner Baxter. Even more critical to its success were the contributions of composers Al Dubin and Harry Warren and dance director Busby Berkeley. Picture Snatcher (1933) was not as big a hit, but it featured a notable performance by James…
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Borzage
- In Frank Borzage: Warner Brothers tenure
…Walk (1934), a musical starring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler that is set at West Point. In Living on Velvet (1935), George Brent played a guilt-racked pilot who was responsible for the deaths of his family in a plane crash, and Kay Francis played the socialite who helps him face…
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“Murder, My Sweet”
- In Murder, My Sweet
…smart-talking detective Marlowe (played by Dick Powell) is hired by an ex-con to track down the girlfriend he lost touch with while serving time in prison. In the meantime, Marlowe also takes on the seemingly innocuous job of accompanying a man to pay a ransom for some stolen jewels. It…
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“Susan Slept Here”
- In Frank Tashlin: Films of the mid-1940s to mid-1950s
…of a screenwriter (played by Dick Powell).
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