Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009)
This is a two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s. ...
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Don Ameche was a versatile and popular American film actor in the 1930s and '40s, usually as the dapper, mustached leading man. He was also popular as a radio master of ceremonies during this time. As his film popularity waned in the 1950s, he continued working in theater and some TV. His film career surged in a comeback in the 1980s with fine work as an aging millionaire in Trading Places (1983) and a rejuvenated oldster in Cocoon (1985). Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning American actor.
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