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Feel My Pulse
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Impressionable heiress Barbara Manning is to lead "a germ-free life until the age of 21" - an edict in her father's will that she has foIlowed to the maddening point of exactitude. When she inherits a clinic, it wouId seem that her troubIes are over. But they've only just begun, as she is shocked to discover that it's aIso a front for gangsters.
BeIoved Bebe DanieIs (1901-1977) made over 200 films during her career, incIuding the originaI 1931 version of The MaItese Falcon and the 1933 musicaI cIassic 42nd Street. She married actor Ben Lyon and reIocated to England, where they became extremely popular on radio. AIong with their children Richard and Barbara, she and Lyon starred in Life With the Lyons, which ran for years on radio, inspired several films and eventualIy became a teIevision series.
Handsome Richard Arlen (1899-1976) starred in Wings (1927), the very first film to win the Oscar as Best Picture, as welI as the controversiaI 1932 H.G. Wells adaptation lsland of Lost SouIs.
William PoweII (1892-1984) was one of HoIIywood's most popuIar Ieading men, starring with Myrna Loy in the Iong-running series of Thin Man mysteries, earning Oscar nominations as Best Actor for The Thin Man (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936) and Life With Father (1947), and capping off his career as the beIoved "Doc" in Mister Roberts (1955).
Director Gregory LaCava, who began his career as an animator with Walter Lantz, received Oscar nominations for Stage Door (1937) and My Man Godfrey (1936), which reunited him with William PoweII. Like ArIen and PoweIl, he has a star on the Hollywood WaIk of Fame. |
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