• The Wife Takes a Flyer (aka Highly Irregular, UK title: A Yank in Dutch) is a 1942 romantic comedy film made by Columbia Pictures, directed by Richard...
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    its list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time". In 1959, before production on the third season of Leave It to Beaver began, Beaumont's wife, son, and...
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    Remember the Day (1941) as Miss Cartwright Blue, White and Perfect (1942) as Ethel Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942) as Sally The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) as...
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    Franchot Tone (category The Hill School alumni)
    signed a multi-picture deal with Columbia, where he made two films with Joan Bennett, She Knew All the Answers (1941) and The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)...
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  • - At the Rialto" (February 26, 1941) New York Times " 'The Wife Takes a Flyer', a Labored Farce Film, With Joan Bennett and Franchot Tone, at the Capitol"...
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    Lloyd Bridges (category Male actors from the San Francisco Bay Area)
    Columbia Pictures at $75 a week, where he played small roles in features and short subjects. He could be seen in The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941), They...
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    Gertrude Hoffmann (actress) (category Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States)
    (German Empire), the daughter of Walter and Mary Sara Silver (née Fraser) Wesselhoeft. Her father was a German-born doctor who at the time of her birth...
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    then as a sensuous brunette femme fatale (with looks that movie magazines often compared to those of Hedy Lamarr), and finally as a warmhearted wife-and-mother...
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    Hans Conried (category Columbia University School of the Arts alumni)
    (uncredited) The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) as Hendrik Woverman Pacific Rendezvous (1942) as Park Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited) The Falcon Takes Over (1942)...
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  • Vernon Downing (category British expatriate male actors in the United States)
    Vernon Downing (1913–1973) was a British actor who appeared in many Hollywood films between 1934 and 1954, generally playing English characters. BFI.org...
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