Paragon (2009)

Actors: Steven Gutheinz (composer), John Michael Herndon (actor), Michael Darrow (editor), Brian Scannell (actor), Peggy Sue Honeyman-Scott (actress), Richard Molinare (actor), Gabe Montero (miscellaneous crew), Diandra Newlin (actress), Melissa Ciampa (producer), Jimmy F. Nabi (writer), Michael Holdaway (costume designer), Jimmy F. Nabi (director), Alex Cochise (actor), Victoria Kostic (actress),

Genres: Drama, Short,

The Seven Little Foys (1955)

Actors: Bob Hope (actor), Richard Keene (actor), Len Hendry (actor), Billy Gray (actor), Herbert Heyes (actor), Dabbs Greer (actor), Milton Frome (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Joe Flynn (actor), King Donovan (actor), Sam Harris (actor), James Cagney (actor), Harry Cheshire (actor), Mike Lally (actor),

Plot: Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold.

Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 19th-century, 20th-century, absent-father, actor, aunt, backstage, ballerina
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical,
Taglines: The story of a husband who didn't have time to come home! Daddy couldn't get home, so the kids all trouped down to Broadway and got into the act. The incredible, incomparable story of America's most fabulous family!

Quotes:

Clara Morando: Signor Foy, we are going to have a baby.::Madeleine Morando Foy: I wanted to tell you, Eddie, but Clara said to wait.::Barney Green: If you're interested, it happened in Capri.::Eddie Foy: ...Oh, well, thank you. Thank you, one and all. It is nice of you to let me im on it. There any other late bulletins? [to Clara] You seem to know everything! What's it gonna be - a boy or a girl?::Clara Morando: It will be an Italian!::Eddie Foy: It's one thing we're getting through customs!

Madeleine Morando Foy: I love him when he gets angry. And he gets angry all the time. How many women can love their husband all the time?

Eddie Foy: Anybody in New Rochelle would be happy to leave New Rochelle.

Eddie Foy: What do you need friends for?... you've got all the friends and enemies you need right here in the family.

Wilson (1944)

Actors: Harry Carter (actor), Charles Cane (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), James Bush (actor), George Anderson (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), Francis X. Bushman (actor), Felix Basch (actor), Jack Baxley (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Griff Barnett (actor), Frederick Burton (actor), Ken Christy (actor),

Plot: The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.

Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, ambassador, american-football, armistice-day-1918, baltimore-maryland, baseball, blackface, character-name-in-title
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance,
Taglines: DRAMA AND SPECTACLE UNPARALLELED! ENTERTAINMENT UNDREAMED OF! 12,000 PLAYERS! 200 MIGHTY SCENES! TOLD TO THE TUNE OF 87 BELOVED SONGS! (original ad - all caps)

Quotes:

Professor Henry Holmes: Now I know why the Democratic Party chose a jackass for a mascot.

[last lines]::Woodrow Wilson: The President has nothing further to communicate. Good day, sir.

Woodrow Wilson: I'm sorry I won't be able to stay for the inauguration ceremonies, but Mr. Harding and Mr. Coolidge have been kind enough to excuse me. I told them it was bad enough for the senate to throw me down without my stumbling and falling up the steps on my own account.

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Actors: Walter Brooke (actor), Charles Drake (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Leon Belasco (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), George Barbier (actor), James Cagney (actor), Walter Catlett (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Tom Dugan (actor),

Plot: A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life- story of George M. Cohan, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous songs.

Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, actor, actress, americana, applause, army, autograph
Genres: Biography, Drama, Musical,
Taglines: Based on the story of GEORGE M. COHAN with the Greatest of all his Great Music Get ready to Laugh, to Sing, to Shout! ...For here comes Uncle Sam's Star Spangled Yankee Doodle Dandy! The Yankee Doodle Dandiest Entertainment of 'em all!

Quotes:

George M. Cohan: My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you.

[George M. Cohan comes into apartment and smells something cooking]::George M. Cohan: Mmmmm... ham or bacon?::Mary: Bacon.::George M. Cohan: Good. Ham makes me self-conscious.

George M. Cohan: Thanks, Sam. It'll be great as long as those critics don't start to eat off my leg.::Sam Harris: Oh, don't worry about the critics! You got a smash hit! It's in the air, kid! It's in the air! You can't stop anything that's in the air!

[first lines]::Critic #1: I call it a hit. What'll your review say?::Critic #2: I like it too, so I guess I'll pan it.

[a group of soldiers in marching off to fight in World War II, singing Cohan's World War I song, "Over There"]::Sergeant on parade: What's the matter, old timer? Don't you remember this song?::George M. Cohan: Seems to me I do.::Sergeant on parade: Well, I don't hear anything.::[Cohan starts singing along, with tears coming into his eyes]

George M. Cohan: It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us.

Eddie Foy: [Cohan's competitor Eddie Foy is reading a poster advertising Cohan's latest success] "Cohan and Harris present George Washington Jr. starring the author and composer George M. Cohan."::[... ]::Eddie Foy: "George M. Cohan and his royal family. Books and lyrics, music and directed by George M. Cohan. Printed by Sam Divensky". That must be Cohan's alias.

Mary: George, I didn't know you could yodel.::George M. Cohan: Learned it on the farm. Nothing but pig callin' with frost on it.

Eddie Foy: [Cohan's competitor Eddie Foy is reading a poster advertising Cohan's latest success. Noticing the many times 'George M. Cohan' is printed on the poster] What does the 'M' stand for? Modesty!

Frontier Marshal (1939)

Actors: Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), John Butler (actor), John Carradine (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Richard Cramer (actor),

Plot: Early low budget version of the famous Gunfight at OK Corral with Scott as Wyatt Earp and Romero as Doc Holiday. Remade by John Ford as "My Darling Clementine" in 1946 and by John Sturges as "Gunfight at OK Corral" in 1957

Keywords: alcoholic, ambush, bar-shootout, bartender, based-on-novel, beating, boot-hill, buntline-special, business-competition, card-cheat
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Western,
Taglines: BIGGER THAN ALL OUTDOORS - Too thrilling for words! (original print ad) I'M THE LAW IN TOMBSTONE!,,,when Wyatt Earp tamed the wickedest town in all the West! (original poster) THE FLAMING SAGA OF TOMBSTONE! (Hades of the West) (original poster)

Quotes:

Curley Bill: [as Earp goes toward he saloon for a showdown with Indian Joe] You know who he is?::Ben Carter: No, we'll find out at his inquest.

Ben Carter: You're a smart girl. Are you playin' me for a sucker, or do you wnt a cut in?::Jerry: No, the only way you can cut me in... see that Curly Bill takes care of Earp.::Ben Carter: Oh, you don't like him either?::Jerry: [Emphatically] No, I don't like him either. The happiest day of my life will be when I can sit on hiscoffin.

John 'Doc' Halliday: I don't wanna hear anymore, Yes, I'm a killer! What of it? Life's nothing! My life... anybody's life! What's the difference to a lot of rats caught in a trap? Whatthey do? How they act? Sarah, you've got to go!

Eddie Foy: [Somewhat dazed as he exits stage after returning to Tombstone after stage robbery] Ah, so this is Tombstone.

Sarah Allen: John...::John 'Doc' Halliday: Yes, Sarah?::Sarah Allen: Isn't it more thrilling to give life than take it away?

Doctor: [after being hurriedly summoned] What is it - a baby or a shooting?::townsman: A shooting.

Benny, from Panama (1934)

Actors: Eddie Baker (actor), James P. Burtis (actor), Eddie Foy Jr. (actor), Pat Harmon (actor), Arthur Housman (actor), George 'Spanky' McFarland (actor), James C. Morton (actor), Hal Roach (producer), James Parrott (director), Louis McManus (editor), Jeanette Loff (actress),

Plot: Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the guests show up at their apartment, disrupting the building. Then, a rowdy sailor friend of Eddie's shows up, accompanied by a squad of even rowdier buddies and an enormous vengeful mosquito.

Keywords: character-name-in-title, part-animation
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Short,