Ross Hunter
4) Pillow talk
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Tells the story of an uptight interior decorator who must share a party line with a laid-back playboy. But the real connection is made when the two meet and he starts wooing her with late-night calls while pretending to be someone else.
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Pillow talk: Two single professionals find themselves sharing a party line - and a whole lot more - when they get their lines crossed.
Lover come back: Business gets mixed with pleasure when two advertising executives go after the same account.
Send me no flowers: A hypochrondriac gets the wrong diagnosis and decides to arrange for a 'future' husband for his very confused wife.
6) Naked alibi
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Murder suspect Al Willis, released for lack of evidence, vows vengeance on the cops who brutalized him. When one of those cops turns up dead, his partner Chief Joe Conroy hunts down Al who has skipped town for a border city. Both men end up in thrall to bad girl Marianna, whose unique sexiness is on full display in this film noir potboiler.
7) All I desire
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An actress comes home to the husband and children she abandoned years before.
8) Battle Hymn
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"As a WWII fighter pilot Colonel Dean Hess (Hudson) accidentally bombed a German orphanage, killing thirty-seven children. After entering the ministry to atone for the tragedy, Hess eventually rejoins the Air Force to train pilots in South Korea, while devoting his spare time to building a shelter for orphans. But now, to protect these children in a territory fraught with danger, he must fight ... and face the past once again!"--Container.
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'Thoroughly modern Millie' is the story of an innocent country girl who comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way she becomes the secretary of the rich and famous Trevor Graydon, befriends the sweet Miss Dorothy, fights off white slaver Mrs. Meers and hooks up with a lively paper clip salesman, Jimmy. In the end it takes a rich and nutty jazz baby like Muzzy to unravel all these complications, give a great party, and match up lovers....
10) Lost horizon
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In this musical remake of the Frank Capra classic, a group of passengers survives a plane crash in the Himalayas and ends up in the mystical world of Shangri-La, an idyllic oasis where art, culture and the knowledge of the world are treasured.
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Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from a rescue team. They have to use the town's only resuscitator. At that same moment the beloved, local doctor has a heart attack and dies while waiting for the life-saving device. When Bob learns about the doctor's secret - to give selflessley and in secret - he decides to give it a try. He alienates the doctor's widow, Helen, with whom Bob has now fallen in love....
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"Michael Martin (Rock Hudson) is a headstrong young patriot who has turned to highway robbery to support his country's cause against England during the Irish revolution. When he is taken under the wing of the famous rebel leader Captain Thunderbolt (Jeff Morrow), he soon finds himself second-in-command with a bounty on his head"--Container.
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The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
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1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
1959 version: Two single mothers, a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman, attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.
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Clifford Groves wants to spend more time alone with his wife, Marion, but her domestic duties keep her busy. Alone on a getaway weekend he had planned with Marion, Clifford runs into Norma, a stunning former employee -- and old flame -- who is now successful, divorced, and seemingly eager to be with him.
17) Flower Drum Song
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A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
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The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.