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1. The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)

Approved | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Scatterbrained Sally Elliott tries to get a job as a Fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friend's kit without permission and her attempts at selling cosmetics ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins

Votes: 1,071

2. Armored Car Robbery (1950)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A well-planned robbery goes awry with tough cop Jim Cordell in pursuit of the thieves.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley

Votes: 2,996

3. My Favorite Spy (1951)

Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Music

A burlesque comic, who resembles an international spy, is recruited by the government and sent to Tangier to retrieve a sensitive microfilm before it's captured by hostile foreign agents.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bob Hope, Hedy Lamarr, Francis L. Sullivan, Arnold Moss

Votes: 1,349

4. Cinderella Jones (1946)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Judy Jones, sings with a band and also works at an aircraft plant. She takes part in a "missing heirs" radio program and is discovered to be an heiress to a fortune. But the will provides ... See full summary »

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, Julie Bishop, William Prince

Votes: 298

5. Lillian Russell (1940)

Passed | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold

Votes: 580

6. Sensation Hunters (1945)

Approved | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Robert Lowery, Doris Merrick, Eddie Quillan, Constance Worth

Votes: 255

7. Grand Central Murder (1942)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Classic whodunit mystery film about a gold-digging variety show actress who has many enemies and is found dead in her private railroad car at Grand Central Station in New York.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker, Virginia Grey

Votes: 1,066

8. I Married a Savage (1949)

Not Rated | 54 min | Adventure

A GI WAS WASHED ASHORE ON AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC DURING WW2...ZORITA PERFORMED HER SNAKE ACT FOR HIM......HE WAS A BROADWAY TALENT AGENT AND AFTER THE WAR BROUGHT HER BACK TO THE STATES ... See full summary »

Stars: Zorita, Alan Ferguson, Ralph Wordley, Maurice Hunter

9. Talent Scout (1937)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A Hollywood playboy helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Donald Woods, Jeanne Madden, Fred Lawrence, Rosalind Marquis

Votes: 110

10. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Tim Conway and Inga Neilsen (1969)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Includes VIP Colonel Flanders, American Boys, The Painters, The Night They Raided Rimsky's.

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner

Votes: 46