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Lakeshore Classic Movies
Never Wave at a WAC (1952)
Season 2023
Episode 86
Rosalind Russell is a divorced socialite and politician’s daughter who joins the Women’s Army Corps to be closer to her boyfriend, a colonel. Expecting to be made an officer because of her father’s standing, she learns that she has to tough it out as an ordinary private.
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Film noir with painter (Edward G. Robinson) caught in the web of a pretty, young woman.
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Assassin Frank Sinatra takes a widow and her family hostage in a small California town.
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Film adaptation of the prize-winning play about life in the village of Grover’s Corners.
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Paul Robeson faces the harsh realities of life as a coal miner in his Welsh community.
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Abbott and Costello’s fairy tale about a boy who trades family cow for some magic beans.
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Laurel & Hardy are nursery-rhyme characters who come and go in a surreal fantasy.
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Buster Keaton works father’s Mississippi riverboat in comic masterpiece of the silent era.
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Politician is haunted by his past when a blackmailer threatens to reveal his secret.
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Carole Lombard brings home ‘forgotten man’ William Powell to be her family’s new butler.
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WWII veteran (Van Johnson) meets young socialite (Elizabeth Taylor) and falls in love.
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German aircraft attack a Ukrainian village and soon the town falls under Nazi occupation.