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Lakeshore Classic Movies
Second Chorus (1940)
Season 2023
Episode 100
Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith are aging undergrads and rival trumpeters, each with their sights set on getting the other one fired, and winning the affection of the band manager (Paulette Goddard).
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James Cagney plays an editor of a Tokyo newspaper in Imperial Japan in the 1930s.
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After heist goes wrong, Paul Henreid assumes a new identity, which leads to new problems.
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Handsome young man plans to dispose of his wealthy older wife before she changes her will.
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Street performer (Charles Laughton) adds a beautiful pickpocket (Vivien Leigh) to his act.
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Reporter tries to exploit the "imminent" death of an ailing young woman (Carole Lombard).
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When the show’s star walks out, a producer casts a chorus girl (Vera-Ellen) as a new lead.
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James Stewart is in the middle of a feud between uncle and a neighboring musical family.
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A reclusive tycoon (Orson Welles) hires a shady American to investigate his past.
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Buster Keaton is a Confederate engineer trying to get his train back from Union spies.