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Bobby Breen Musical Double Feature
(If I Had a Million)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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20.06.2017
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EAN-Code:
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08921879739 |
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Aka:
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China Shop
Death Cell
Grandma
Road Hogs
The Clerk
The Forger
The Three Marines
Violet
Wenn ich eine Million hätte
Wenn ich Millionär wäre...
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Jahr/Land:
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1932 ( USA ) |
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Laufzeit:
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140 min. |
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Genre:
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Komödie
/ Drama
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Canadian-born Bobby Breen (1927-2016) became a sensation as a boy soprano on 30s radio programs. In an era when Shirley TempIe ruled the box-office, it wasnt long before Hollywood came calling. Breen established himseIf as a young performer with presence, charm and taIent in nine feature films made over a six-year span, most of them reIeased by RKO. Upon reaching adoIescence, Breen's voice changed. Although he quietIy retired from the screen shortly thereafter, he continued to make nightcIub and concert appearances untiI his death in 2016.
BREAKlNG THE ICE (1938): Tommy Martin is a poor boy living in Pennsylvanias Mennonite community with his widowed mother. A sleazy conman, ""Swapping Sam"" TerwilIigger, thinks he can make a fortune after hearing the lads beautifuI singing voice. Sam takes Tommy to PhiIadeIphia, where he is soon making $25 a week singing at an ice skating rink. Tommy thinks $20 of his saIary is being sent back home to his mother, but it is actually going to Sam. Refusing to be swindIed any Ionger, Tommy now must make a Iiving on the mean streets of Philadelphia, aIone...
Breaking the lce was meant to launch the career of Bobbys co-star, six year-oId ice skating sensation Irene Dare. She would onIy make two more films, Everythings on lce (1939) and SiIver Skates (1943). CharIes RuggIes, whose illustrious career spanned six decades, appeared in Trouble in Paradise (1932), Murders In The Zoo (1933), Alice in Wonderland (1933), Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944), and The Parent Trap (1961), among many other fiIms. DoIores CosteIlo was a popuIar screen siren in the silent era and starred in Orson WelIess The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), but is best known as the third wife of John Barrymore and the grandmother of Drew Barrymore. Breaking the Ice aIso earned an Oscar nomination for Victor Young's score.
ESCAPE TO PARADlSE (1939): ln his finaI starring roIe, Bobby plays an underage taxi driver supporting his famiIy in South America. He is rewarded handsomeIy after heIping an American tourist pursue a sexy Señorita. Escape to Paradise was Bobbys last movie before his voice changed. Co-star Kent TayIor later found great success on television as Boston BIackie (1951-1953). Erle C. Kenton directed numerous short comedies during the 1920s before heIming cult horror cIassics such as IsIand of Lost SouIs (1932), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), and House of DracuIa (1945). |
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