Frieda Inescort

Frieda Inescort

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frieda Inescort (born Frieda Wrightman, 29 June 1901 – 26 February 1976) was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape. Inescort's acting debut came in The Truth About Blayds (1922), which was presented at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include You and I (1923), The Woman on the Jury (1923), Windows (1923), The Fake (1924), Ariadne (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Love in a Mist (1926), Mozart (1926), Trelawny of the "Wells" (1927), Escape (1927-1928), Napi (1931), Company's Coming (1931), Springtime for Henry (1931-1932), When Ladies Meet (1933), False Dreams, Farewell (1934), Lady Jane (1934), Soldier's Wife (1944-1945), The Mermaids Singing (1945-1946) and You Never Can Tell (1948). Frieda Wrightman adopted her mother's surname as her professional name and moved to Hollywood and made her film debut in The Dark Angel (1935). Her other films include Mary of Scotland (1936), The Letter (1940), The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941), You'll Never Get Rich (1941) and A Place in the Sun (1951). She appeared with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson as the conniving Caroline Bingley in the 1940 film version of Pride and Prejudice. She had a leading role in Call It A Day, a 1937 film in which she appeared with Olivia de Havilland, Bonita Granville, Roland Young, and Ian Hunter. She appeared in at least one episode of Perry Mason, as Hope Quentin in "The Case of the Jealous Journalist" (season 5, 1961). Description above from the Wikipedia article Frieda Inescort, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Frieda Inescort
  • Popularity: 6.554
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1901-06-29
  • Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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  • Also Known As: Freida Inescourt, Frieda Inescourt
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Frieda Inescort Movies

  • 1955
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    Foxfire

    Foxfire

    6 1955 HD

    A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.

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  • 1951
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    A Place in the Sun

    A Place in the Sun

    7.3 1951 HD

    A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

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  • 1943
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    The Return of the Vampire

    The Return of the Vampire

    5.9 1943 HD

    In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in...

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  • 1939
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    Tarzan Finds a Son!

    Tarzan Finds a Son!

    6.088 1939 HD

    A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years...

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  • 1950
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    The Underworld Story

    The Underworld Story

    6.1 1950 HD

    A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

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  • 1941
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    You'll Never Get Rich

    You'll Never Get Rich

    6.6 1941 HD

    A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.

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  • 1942
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    Street of Chance

    Street of Chance

    5.3 1942 HD

    In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse,...

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  • 1959
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    The Alligator People

    The Alligator People

    5.6 1959 HD

    Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a...

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  • 1956
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    The Eddy Duchin Story

    The Eddy Duchin Story

    6.2 1956 HD

    The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

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  • 1956
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    The She-Creature

    The She-Creature

    3.968 1956 HD

    A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

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  • 1943
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    The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

    The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

    6.4 1943 HD

    A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

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  • 1940
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    The Letter

    The Letter

    7.278 1940 HD

    After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

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  • 1941
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    Shadows on the Stairs

    Shadows on the Stairs

    5.4 1941 HD

    Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.

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  • 1937
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    Another Dawn

    Another Dawn

    6.2 1937 HD

    Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia...

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  • 1960
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    The Crowded Sky

    The Crowded Sky

    5.6 1960 HD

    When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio....

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  • 1937
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    The Great O'Malley

    The Great O'Malley

    6.7 1937 HD

    His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

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  • 1939
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    Beauty for the Asking

    Beauty for the Asking

    5.7 1939 HD

    Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she...

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  • 1935
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    If You Could Only Cook

    If You Could Only Cook

    7.4 1935 HD

    An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

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  • 1936
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    The Garden Murder Case

    The Garden Murder Case

    5.5 1936 HD

    Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major...

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  • 1937
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    Call It a Day

    Call It a Day

    5 1937 HD

    The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.

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  • 1940
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    Convicted Woman

    Convicted Woman

    3.7 1940 HD

    A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

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  • 1958
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    Senior Prom

    Senior Prom

    7 1958 HD

    At a college party, a girl named Gay (Jill Corey) meets a guy named Tom (Paul Hampton) and they soon fall in love. Tom's bandmate, who goes by the...

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  • 1955
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    Flame of the Islands

    Flame of the Islands

    3.5 1955 HD

    A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.

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  • 1936
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    The King Steps Out

    The King Steps Out

    5.7 1936 HD

    Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.

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  • 1941
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    Father's Son

    Father's Son

    4.5 1941 HD

    A young boy seeks love and understanding from his cold, demanding father.

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  • 1959
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    Juke Box Rhythm

    Juke Box Rhythm

    7 1959 HD

    An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.

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  • 1942
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    Sweater Girl

    Sweater Girl

    4 1942 HD

    College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

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  • 1943
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    It Comes Up Love

    It Comes Up Love

    3 1943 HD

    This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a...

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  • 1942
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    The Courtship of Andy Hardy

    The Courtship of Andy Hardy

    5.6 1942 HD

    While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.

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  • 1954
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    Casanova's Big Night

    Casanova's Big Night

    6.1 1954 HD

    Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little...

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  • 1944
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    Heavenly Days

    Heavenly Days

    1 1944 HD

    Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.

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  • 1935
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    The Dark Angel

    The Dark Angel

    6.1 1935 HD

    Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has...

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  • 1939
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    The Zero Hour

    The Zero Hour

    4.5 1939 HD

    A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.

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  • 1936
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    Mary of Scotland

    Mary of Scotland

    6.314 1936 HD

    The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

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  • 1936
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    Give Me Your Heart

    Give Me Your Heart

    6 1936 HD

    An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

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  • 1947
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    The Judge Steps Out

    The Judge Steps Out

    7 1947 HD

    A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.

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  • 1937
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    Portia on Trial

    Portia on Trial

    5 1937 HD

    Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle...

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  • 1936
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    Hollywood Boulevard

    Hollywood Boulevard

    2.5 1936 HD

    With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

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  • 1941
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    The Trial of Mary Dugan

    The Trial of Mary Dugan

    5 1941 HD

    Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced...

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  • 1940
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    Pride and Prejudice

    Pride and Prejudice

    6.9 1940 HD

    Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single...

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  • 1943
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    Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain

    Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain

    6.8 1943 HD

    The fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was...

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  • 1941
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    Remember the Day

    Remember the Day

    6.8 1941 HD

    Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to...

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  • 1939
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    Woman Doctor

    Woman Doctor

    1 1939 HD

    Woman Doctor is a 1939 American drama film

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  • 1953
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    Never Wave at a WAC

    Never Wave at a WAC

    4.885 1953 HD

    A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many...

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  • 1939
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    A Woman is the Judge

    A Woman is the Judge

    1 1939 HD

    Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd...

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  • 1942
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    Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

    Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

    6 1942 HD

    Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

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  • 1943
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    Mission to Moscow

    Mission to Moscow

    5.2 1943 HD

    Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

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  • 1941
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    Sunny

    Sunny

    4.9 1941 HD

    Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play...

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  • 1986
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    Horrible Horror

    Horrible Horror

    7 1986 HD

    A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.619 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1959
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    Bourbon Street Beat

    Bourbon Street Beat

    5 1959 HD

    "Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    5.5 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1955
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    The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

    5 1955 HD

    An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    2.7 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

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  • 1960
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.233 1960 HD

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host...

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  • 1959
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    The Rebel

    The Rebel

    5.3 1959 HD

    The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one...

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  • 1955
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    Crossroads

    Crossroads

    5 1955 HD

    An anthology series based on the activities of clergymen from different denominations.

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  • 1954
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    Meet Corliss Archer

    Meet Corliss Archer

    1 1954 HD

    Meet Corliss Archer is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from April to December 1954. The series stars Ann Baker in the title role. The...

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  • 1954
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    The Lone Wolf

    The Lone Wolf

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    5.8 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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  • 1952
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    Four Star Playhouse

    Four Star Playhouse

    5.667 1952 HD

    Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer...

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