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Tag Archives: Preston Sturges

Know Your Character Actor – Jimmy Conlin
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August 16, 2015 by smumcounty

In researching this post, I was hard put to find many articles on the life and career of Jimmy Conlin. …
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Category: Know Your Character Actor | Tags: Conlin and Glass, Hail the Conquering Hero, Jimmy Conlin, Myrtle Glass, Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
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November 26, 2014 by smumcounty

Woodrow (Eddie Bracken) comes from a long line of war heroes. His father “Hinky Dinky” Truesmith was a hero who …
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Category: 1940s, Comedy | Tags: Eddie Bracken, Franklin Pangborn, Freddie Steele, Georgia Caine, Hail the Conquerying Hero, Harry Hayden, Jimmy Conlin, Preston Sturges, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, World War II
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
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November 28, 2013 by smumcounty

Preston Sturges’ “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek” (1944) begins with a harried newspaper editor making a frenzied call to the …
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Category: 1940s, Comedy | Tags: Akim Tamiroff, Al Bridge, Betty Hutton, Brian Donlevy, Diana Lynn, Eddie Bracken, Gertrude Kockenlocker, Homefront, McGinty, Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Norval Jones, Porter Hall, Preston Sturges, Sextuplets, Torben Meyer, William Demarest, World War II