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Leonard Spigelgass

Born November 26, 1908 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died February 15, 1985 · aged 76

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American film producer and screenwriter. Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Spigelgass got his start collaborating on the script for Erich Von Stroheim's Hello, Sister! (1933). Additional screen credits include The Big Street (1942), I Was a Male War Bride (1949), Ten Thousand Bedr…

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Silk StockingsSilk Stockings · 1957
Silk Stockings
★ 6.91957
MovieComedyRomance
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).
I Was a Male War BrideI Was a Male War Bride · 1949
I Was a Male War Bride
★ 6.91949
MovieComedyRomance
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Deep in My HeartDeep in My Heart · 1954
Deep in My Heart
★ 6.71954
MovieComedy
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
All Through the NightAll Through the Night · 1942
All Through the Night
★ 6.71942
MovieComedyAction
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
AthenaAthena · 1954
Athena
★ 5.81954
MovieRomanceComedy
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
They Got Me CoveredThey Got Me Covered · 1943
They Got Me Covered
★ 6.21943
MovieComedy
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her. When he gets a hot tip on some Nazi spies operating in Washington, D.C., he convinces Chris to help him break the story so he can get his job back. The pair soon find themselves in several awkward predicaments as they track the criminals down in a night club, a burlesque show, and face a final showdown at a beauty salon.
GypsyGypsy · 1962
Gypsy
★ 6.41962
MovieComedyDrama
Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.
Ten Thousand BedroomsTen Thousand Bedrooms · 1957
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
★ 5.61957
MovieComedyRomance
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.

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Playhouse 90Playhouse 90 · 1956
Playhouse 90
★ 7.51956
SeriesDrama
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.

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