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1950s comedy-drama films
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The list 1950s comedy-drama films includes
Lady and the Tramp, Cheaper by the Dozen, Auntie Mame, Stalag 17 and Sabrina.
The list consists of 164 members
and 23 sublists.
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Lady and the Tramp
1955 American animated musical romance film produced by Walt Disney
Overview: Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated musical romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. Based on Ward Greene's 1945 Cosmopolitan ...
Release date: 16 June 1955Genre: Animation, Family, Music, Romance, Adventure, ComedyDirector: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred JacksonProducer: Walt Disney, Erdman PennerWriter: Ward Greene, Erdman PennerThe romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.
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Cheaper by the Dozen
1950 film by Walter Lang
Overview: Cheaper by the Dozen is a 1950 American comedy film based upon the autobiographical book Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The film and book describe ...
Release date: 31 March 1950Genre: Drama, Comedy, FamilyDirector: Walter LangProducer: Lamar Trotti, Darryl F. ZanuckWriter: Lamar Trotti, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.Myrna Loy plays the wife of the persnickety father of her 12 children, Clifton Webb, who has uniquely humorous methods for dealing with the ordeals such ... 0
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Auntie Mame
1958 film
Overview: Auntie Mame is a 1958 American Technirama Technicolor comedy film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Edward Everett Tanner III (under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis) and the 1956 play of the same ...
Release date: 27 December 1958Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Morton DaCostaProducer: Morton DaCostaWriter: Betty Comden, Adolph GreenAn orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle. 0
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Stalag 17
1953 film by Billy Wilder
Overview: Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder. It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp "somewhere ...
Release date: 29 May 1953Genre: Comedy, Drama, WarDirector: Billy WilderProducer: William Schorr, Billy WilderWriter: Billy Wilder, Edwin BlumAfter two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being ... 0
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Sabrina
1954 film directed by Billy Wilder
Overview: Sabrina (Sabrina Fair/La Vie en Rose in the United Kingdom) is a 1954 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman ...
Release date: 9 September 1954Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Billy WilderProducer: Billy WilderWriter: Billy Wilder, Samuel A. TaylorA playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her. 0
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Picnic
1955 film by Joshua Logan
Overview: Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in CinemaScope. It was adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same ...
Release date: 1 November 1955Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Joshua LoganProducer: Fred KohlmarWriter: Daniel Taradash, William IngeEmotions are ignited amongst the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labour Day picnic ... 0
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Bus Stop
1956 film directed by Joshua Logan
Overview: Bus Stop is a 1956 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, and ...
Release date: 31 August 1956Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Joshua LoganProducer: Buddy AdlerWriter: George Axelrod, William IngeA naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana ... 0
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Baby Doll
1956 American black comedy drama film by Elia Kazan
Overview: Baby Doll is a 1956 American black comedy film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and adapted by Williams from ...
Release date: 18 December 1956Genre: Drama, Comedy, RomanceDirector: Elia KazanProducer: Elia KazanWriter: Tennessee Williams 0
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Wee Geordie
1955 British film
Overview: Geordie (released in the United States as Wee Geordie) is a 1955 British film directed and co-produced by Frank Launder, with Bill Travers in the title role as a Scotsman who becomes an athlete and competes ...Release date: 1 September 1955Genre: Drama, Sport, Romance, ComedyDirector: Frank LaunderProducer: Sidney Gilliat, Frank LaunderGeordie is a Scots lad sent to the Melbourne Olympics to represent Britain in Hammer-Throwing. He insists on wearing his kilt... 0
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Trouble Along the Way
1953 film by Michael Curtiz
Overview: Trouble Along the Way is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring John Wayne and Donna Reed, with a supporting cast including Charles Coburn and Marie Windsor. The black-and-white ...Release date: 4 April 1953Genre: Drama, Comedy, SportDirector: Michael CurtizProducer: Robert Hardy Andrews, James Edward GrantStruggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds... 0
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The Rose Tattoo
1955 American film by Daniel Mann
Overview: The Rose Tattoo is a 1955 American film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play of the same name. It was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, with stars Anna Magnani, Burt ...
Release date: 12 December 1955Genre: Drama, Romance, ComedyDirector: Daniel MannProducer: Hal B. WallisWriter: Tennessee Williams, Hal KanterA Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death. 0
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The Doctor's Dilemma
1959 British film
Overview: The Doctor's Dilemma is a 1958 British comedy-drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim, and Robert Morley. It is based on the 1906 play The Doctor's ...Release date: 17 December 1958Genre: Drama, ComedyDirector: Anthony AsquithProducer: Anatole de Grunwald, Pierre RouveWriter: George Bernard Shaw, Anatole de GrunwaldMrs. Dubedat loves and idolizes her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. She goes to a doctor and convinces him to save her husband ... 0
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954 French film
Overview: Royal Affairs in Versailles (French title: Si Versailles m'était conté) is a 1954 French-Italian historical drama directed by Sacha Guitry. Described as "a historical film showing Versailles from its ...Release date: 9 March 1954Genre: Drama, Comedy, HistoryDirector: Sacha GuitryCast: Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jeanne Boitel, Gilbert Bokanowski, BourvilProducer: Clément Duhour, Sacha GuitryWriter: Sacha GuitryThe history of the palace of Versailles from it's founding to the present. 0
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Mister Roberts
1955 film
Overview: Mister Roberts is a 1955 American comedy-drama film directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy featuring an all-star cast including Henry Fonda as Mister Roberts, James Cagney as Captain Morton, William Powell ...Release date: 10 July 1955Genre: Comedy, Drama, WarDirector: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoyProducer: Leland HaywardWriter: Frank S. Nugent, Joshua LoganComedy-drama about life on a not particularly important ship of the US Navy during WW2. 0
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Love Nest
1951 film by Joseph M. Newman
Overview: Love Nest is a 1951 American comedy-drama film directed by Joseph Newman, and starring June Haver, William Lundigan, Frank Fay and Marilyn Monroe.
Release date: 10 October 1951Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Joseph M. NewmanProducer: Jules BuckWriter: I.A.L. Diamond, Scott CorbettTwo married New Yorkers purchase an old, run-down building full of colorful tenants. 0
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Harvey
1950 film by Henry Koster
Overview: Harvey is a 1950 American comedy-drama film based on Mary Chase's 1944 play of the same name, directed by Henry Koster, and starring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse ...
Release date: 13 October 1950Genre: Comedy, Drama, FantasyDirector: Henry KosterProducer: John BeckWriter: Mary Chase, Oscar BrodneyDue to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane ... 0
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French Cancan
1954 film by Jean Renoir
Overview: French Cancan (also known as Only the French Can) is a 1955 French-Italian musical film written and directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, and María Félix. It marked Renoir's ...
Release date: 27 December 1954Genre: Drama, Romance, Musical, ComedyDirector: Jean RenoirProducer: Louis WipfWriter: Jean Renoir, André-Paul AntoineThis comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble ... 0
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Black Orpheus
1959 film by Marcel Camus
Overview: Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro ) is a 1959 romantic tragedy film directed by French filmmaker Marcel Camus and starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição ...Release date: 12 June 1959Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, MusicDirector: Marcel CamusCast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Ademar Da Silva, Waldemar De SouzaProducer: Sacha GordineWriter: Marcel Camus, Jacques ViotA retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. 0
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Belles on Their Toes
1952 film by Henry Levin
Overview: Belles on Their Toes is a 1952 American family comedy film based on the autobiographical book Belles on Their Toes (1950) by siblings Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The film, which ...
Release date: 2 May 1952Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: Henry LevinProducer: Samuel G. EngelWriter: Phoebe Ephron, Henry EphronThe "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, ... 0
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Beautiful But Dangerous
1955 Italian film
Overview: Beautiful but Dangerous (Italian: La donna più bella del mondo, 'The World's Most Beautiful Woman'; French: La belle des belles) is a 1955 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It is ...Release date: 21 October 1955Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Robert Z. LeonardProducer: Cesare Cavagna, Liana Ferri 0
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