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Ross Hunter

Ross Hunter (born Martin Fuss 6 May 1920 – 10 March 1996) was a Hollywood film producer. After serving in Army intelligence during World War II, Hunter signed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures and acted in a number of B-movie musicals. Success followed when he became a film producer attaining...
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All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows (1955) is a romance feature film starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about a well-to-do widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love. The screenplay was written by Peg Fenwick based upon a story by Edna L....

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  • 1956

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Runtime:

  • 89 min (53 hs )

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Airport

Airport is a 1970 American film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey novel of the same name. This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office at a time when achieving that milestone was rare, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his...

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  • 1970

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  • 137 min (82.2 hs )

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Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk is a 1959 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Gordon. It features Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter and Nick Adams. The film was written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene. The...

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  • 1959

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Runtime:

  • 98 min (59 hs )

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on...

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  • Mar 21, 1967

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Runtime:

  • 138 min (82.8 hs )

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  • 6,000,000 (US$)

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Midnight Lace

Midnight Lace is a 1960 American mystery-thriller film starring Doris Day and Rex Harrison, directed by David Miller. The screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts is based on the play Matilda Shouted Fire by Janet Green. The film was remade as a...

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  • 1960

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Naked Alibi

Naked Alibi is a 1954 black-and-white film starring Sterling Hayden. Portions of the film, considered film noir, was shot in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Police chief Joe Conroy (Hayden) is relieved of his police duties after he accuses a ...

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  • Oct 1, 1954

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Runtime:

  • 86 min (52 hs )

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Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life is a 1959 film directed by Douglas Sirk, adapted from Fannie Hurst's novel Imitation of Life, produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal Pictures. Starring Lana Turner, it is a remake of the 1934 Imitation of Life, the film...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 17, 1959

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Runtime:

  • 125 min (75 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 2,000,000 (US$)

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The Art of Love

The Art of Love is a 1965 comedy film starring James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, and Angie Dickinson. The film involves an American artist in Paris (Van Dyke) who fakes his own death in order to increase the worth of his paintings (new...

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  • 1965

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Runtime:

  • 99 min (59 hs )

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The Thrill of It All

The Thrill of It All (1963) is a romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison starring Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, and ZaSu Pitts. The screenplay was written by Larry Gelbart and Carl Reiner. Reiner also plays a cameo as a character...

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  • Jul 17, 1963

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Runtime:

  • 108 min (64.8 hs )

This Happy Feeling

This Happy Feeling is a 1958 film by Blake Edwards adapted from the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money. Edwards regretted Universal's eleventh hour decision of a name change, but the studio was hoping to trade off another pop hit by Debbie...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 18, 1958

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Runtime:

  • 92 min (55 hs )

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Battle Hymn

Battle Hymn (1957) is a Universal Studios feature film starring Rock Hudson as Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. Hess's autobiography of the same name was published concurrently with the...

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  • 1956

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Runtime:

  • 108 min (64.8 hs )

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My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey is a 1957 comedy film starring June Allyson and David Niven. It is a remake of Gregory La Cava's 1936 screwball comedy of the same name. Allyson played the role created by Carole Lombard in the original version, and Niven took on the...

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  • 1957

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  • 92 min (55 hs )

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Flower Drum Song

Flower Drum Song is a 1961 Academy Award-nominated film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway musical play Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The film and stage play were based on...

Initial release date:

  • Nov 9, 1961

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Runtime:

  • 132 min (79.2 hs )

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Back Street

Back Street is a 1961 film made by Universal Pictures, directed by David Miller, and produced by Ross Hunter. The screenplay was written by William Ludwig and Eleanore Griffin based on the novel by Fannie Hurst. The music score is by Frank Skinner....

Initial release date:

  • Oct 11, 1961

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Runtime:

  • 107 min (64.2 hs )

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Tammy and the Bachelor

Tammy and the Bachelor is a 1957 romantic comedy film and is the first of the four Tammy movies. It stars Debbie Reynolds as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree, Walter Brennan as Grandpa Dinwitty and Leslie Nielsen as Peter Brent. It was adapted from the book...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 14, 1957

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Runtime:

  • 89 min (53 hs )

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Madame X

Madame X is a 1966 drama film directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Lana Turner. A lower class woman, Holly Parker (Turner), marries into the rich Anderson family. Her husband's mother (Constance Bennett) looks down on her and keeps a watchful...

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  • Nov 8, 1966

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Runtime:

  • 100 min (60 hs )

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I'd Rather Be Rich

I'd Rather Be Rich is a 1964 romantic comedy film. A dying man wishes to meet his granddaughter's fiancé, but he is unavailable, so the woman persuades another man to substitute for him. Then the grandfather recovers. The film is a remake of the...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 26, 1964

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Runtime:

  • 96 min (58 hs )

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There's Always Tomorrow

There's Always Tomorrow is a 1956 drama film made by Universal Pictures, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring by Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett. The screenplay was written by Bernard C. Schoenfeld, based on novel by Ursula Parrott.

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Tumbleweed

Tumbleweed is a 1953 western film starring Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, Chill Wills, Roy Roberts, Russell Johnson, K.T. Stevens, Madge Meredith, and Lee Van Cleef. It was also known as Three Were Renegades. Audie Murphy plays a character that leads a...

Initial release date:

  • Dec 1953

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Runtime:

  • 79 min (47 hs )

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Taza, Son of Cochise

Taza, Son of Cochise is a 1954 western film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Rush. The film was shot in 3D, but only released in 2D at the time. Three years after the end of the Apache Wars, peacemaking chief Cochise...

Initial release date:

  • Feb 16, 1954

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  • 79 min (47 hs )

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