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Here Comes Cookie

By movieMoll on May 25, 2009

Gracie Allen’s madcap comedy is fully unleashed in “Here Comes Cookie.”
Gracie’s millionaire father Harrison Allen (George Barbier) signs control of his fortune over to Gracie for two months in a ploy to convince her sister’s gold-digging suitor Ramon (Rafael Storm) that she and her father are penniless. In Gracie’s perpetually confused mind, she believes her [...]

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Here Comes Cookie

By GroovyMovieGuy on May 25, 2009

George Burns and Gracie Allen play a rich man’s lawyer and daughter who wind up in a tangled web of wackiness. Daddy leaves his New York mansion to spend some time at his childhood home and leaves his money — temporarily — to his daughter for a ruse. The rich man goes to the country [...]

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International House

By GroovyMovieGuy on February 13, 2009

Watch this movie.
Who could believe this was W.C. Fields first feature film?
He throws beer bottles out of his airplane window. He drives a car through a hotel. He sleeps with — well, in the bed next to — a young woman by accident then next to (on purpose) an elderly Chinese gentleman.
This movie has lines [...]

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International House

By movieMoll on February 13, 2009

As madcap as any Marx Brothers film, International House packs non-stop fun into just over an hour. Not only is it a perfect vehicle for W.C. Fields in his first talking feature film, it sports classic dialogue between George Burns as the hotel doctor and Gracie Allen as his nurse. A legion of popular radio [...]

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