Ruth Donnelly Movie Rankings
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 3.4155 out of 4 stars for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. ... more about Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 3.4062 out of 4 stars for Bells of St. Mary's
3.4062
Father O'Malley the unconventional priest from 'Going My Way' continues his work for the Catholic Church. This time he is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. ... more about Bells of St. Mary's
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 3.1609 out of 4 stars for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life - including playing the tuba in the town band. ... more about Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 3.0086 out of 4 stars for Footlight Parade
3.0086
Chester Kent produces Musical Comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies aera he changes to producing short musical proluges for movies. But this is stressing him, because he always needs new units and his rival is always stealing his ideas. ... more about Footlight Parade
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.7305 out of 4 stars for Snake Pit
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Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and can't remember how she got there. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, marriage, and her developing symptoms. ... more about Snake Pit
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.7124 out of 4 stars for Autumn Leaves
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Milly, a lonely older woman, marries Burt Hanson, a much younger man. But after the wedding, Milly discovers that Burt has been mentally unhinged by the discovery, some time before, of his first wife Virginia in the arms of his father. ... more about Autumn Leaves
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.6863 out of 4 stars for My Little Chickadee
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Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie and pretends to marry him for "respectability. ... more about My Little Chickadee
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.6863 out of 4 stars for Slight Case of Murder
2.6863
Remy Marco announces he's going legit with the end of Prohibition. His fortune declines because the beer he makes tastes terrible. His daughter falls in love with a rich man's son who gets a job as a cop. ... more about Slight Case of Murder
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.6239 out of 4 stars for Affairs of Annabel
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Wonder Pictures' seedy publicity man Lannie Morgan (Jack Oakie) has put the studio's biggest star, Annabel Allison (Lucille Ball), in one crazy stunt after another. ... more about Affairs of Annabel
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.5387 out of 4 stars for Employees' Entrance
2.5387
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical owner of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. ... more about Employees' Entrance
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.4565 out of 4 stars for Make Me a Star
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Menton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non existant, but actress Flips gives him a chance in a bit part, but he fails in that, but the way he fails ... more about Make Me a Star
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.4565 out of 4 stars for Mandalay
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Russian refugee Tanya Borisoff is suddenly abandoned penniless in Rangoon, Burma, by her lover, Tony Evans, who accepted a gunrunning deal from Nick, the owner of an amoral nightclub. ... more about Mandalay
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.3789 out of 4 stars for Annabel Takes a Tour
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Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour. ... more about Annabel Takes a Tour
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.3561 out of 4 stars for Blessed Event
2.3561
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who sends Frankie to talk to Alvin. ... more about Blessed Event
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.3104 out of 4 stars for Hands Across the Table
2.3104
Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore 'Ted' Drew III. ... more about Hands Across the Table
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.3058 out of 4 stars for Cain and Mabel
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The managers of heavyweight champion Larry Cain and Broadway musical star Mabel O'Dare scheme up a romance to give the celebrities more glamour. But the two don't hit it off, having started on the wrong foot. ... more about Cain and Mabel
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.2888 out of 4 stars for Where the Sidewalk Ends
2.2888
Cop Mark Dixon is already in trouble with his superiors for his brutal tactics when he accidentally kills a murder suspect. ... more about Where the Sidewalk Ends
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.2373 out of 4 stars for Alibi Ike
2.2373
Rookie pitcher Francis "Ike" Farrell comes seemingly out of nowhere to help the Cubs go for the pennant. His idiosyncratic ways, which include excuses and alibis for everything, drive his manager and fiancee crazy in this baseball farce. ... more about Alibi Ike
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.1004 out of 4 stars for Spider
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.0892 out of 4 stars for Lawless Street
2.0892
The marshal of Medicine Bend is tired and alone. Tired of killing to keep himself from being killed; alone because of an unspoken past disappointment. ... more about Lawless Street
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.0821 out of 4 stars for Female
2.0821
Alison is owner and successful manager of an automobile factory. She also has a good relation to her employees - especially the male ones, which she is known to invite to her bed for some time and then dump quickly. ... more about Female
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.0821 out of 4 stars for Wonder Bar
2.0821
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. ... more about Wonder Bar
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 2.0730 out of 4 stars for Ladies They Talk About
2.0730
Gun moll Nan Taylor, caught after an otherwise successful bank robbery, falls for radio crusader David Slade and confides her guilt to him. Much to her surprise, he turns her in. ... more about Ladies They Talk About
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 1.7488 out of 4 stars for Thank Your Lucky Stars
1.7488
Two producers are putting together a Calvacade of Stars for a wartime charity show. Along with a list of well-knowns they promote the work of an unknown singer and songwriter. ... more about Thank Your Lucky Stars
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 1.5981 out of 4 stars for Bureau of Missing Persons
1.5981
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as "kindergarten" work. ... more about Bureau of Missing Persons
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Army Girl
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Busby Berkeley
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This tribute to 'Busby Berkeley' (qv) features candid interviews with his friends and associates: 'Ruth Donnelly' (qv) recalls the frantic filming of _Footlight Parade (1933) _(qv). ... more about Busby Berkeley
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Cinderella Jones
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Finished before WW II had ended and held up on release, thereby making some plot elements nearly as dated as the plot. Judy Jones, Joan Leslie) sings with a band and also works at an aircraft plant. ... more about Cinderella Jones
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Cross My Heart
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This 1946 production/1947 release is a slight remake of 1937's "True Confession"---Hutton sings three songs and Carole Lombard didn't---with the heroine not adverse to telling a small (or big) white lie when she deems the situation can be improved. ... more about Cross My Heart
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Ever in My Heart
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In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. But Jeff brings with him a German friend, Hugo Wilbrandt, who loves and marries Mary. ... more about Ever in My Heart
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Fabulous Texan
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A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way. ... more about Fabulous Texan
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Fatal Lady
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Fighting Father Dunne
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St. Louis, 1905: Parish priest Father Dunne becomes aware of the plight of the city's newsboys, living on pennies and often homeless, and resolves to help them. ... more about Fighting Father Dunne
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Ghost Goes Wild
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Monty Crandall (James Ellison) is a commercial artist who ridicules a dowager (Ruth Donnelly) with a caricature of her on a magazine cover and she sues him. ... more about Ghost Goes Wild
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Happiness Ahead
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Joan's parents want her to marry young Travis, but Joan has no interest in him. So on New Years Eve, she goes out to a club where she meets Bob. ... more about Happiness Ahead
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hard to Handle
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Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. ... more about Hard to Handle
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Havana Widows
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Mae and Sadie, impecunious chorus girls, chisel some money from an admirer and head for Havana to "dig gold" among the millionaires. Posing as rich widows, they prepare to fleece wealthy Deacon Jones, but his penniless son Bob catches Mae's eye. ... more about Havana Widows
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Ruth Donnelly scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Housewife
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Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. ... more about Housewife
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