Larry Simms

Madame Bovary (1949)

, 1h54
Réalisé par Vincente Minnelli
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Mélodrame, Romance
Thèmes Sexualité, Le suicide, Madame Bovary
Acteurs Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart
Rôle Justin
Note69%

Gustave Flaubert passe en jugement pour avoir écrit Madame Bovary, une œuvre jugée immorale. Il raconte son roman devant le tribunal et devient l'avocat de son héroïne…

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Blondie's Holiday (1947)

, 1h7
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Films pour enfants
Acteurs Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Jerome Cowan, Grant Mitchell, Mary Young
Rôle Alexander Bumstead
Note64%

Dagwood Bumstead is an architect who has managed to convince the prominent bank president Samuel Breckenridge to let his firm have the contract to erect a new bank building in town. When Dagwood’s boss at the architect firm, George Radcliffe, hears about the contract, he is ecstatic and offers Dagwood a modest raise of $2,50.

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La vie est belle (1946)

, 2h10
Réalisé par Frank Capra
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Science-fiction, Comédie dramatique, Fantasy, Romance
Thèmes La famille, Noël, Religion, Ange, Uchronie
Acteurs James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Samuel S. Hinds
Rôle The Bailey Child - Pete
Note85%

Dans la petite ville de Bedford Falls dans l'État de New York, la veille de Noël 1945, de nombreux habitants prient pour la sauvegarde d'un certain George Bailey. Au Paradis, Clarence, un apprenti ange, est appointé au secours de George afin de gagner ses ailes. Un long flashback lui déroule, ainsi qu'aux spectateurs, la vie de George Bailey.

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Les Folles Héritières (1942)

, 1h50
Réalisé par Irving Rapper
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Romance
Acteurs Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Gig Young, Nancy Coleman
Rôle Austin
Note65%

Fiona, Evelyn et Susie sont sœurs. Leurs parents morts, elles doivent gérer l’héritage familial par elles-mêmes. Mais un conflit de succession les oppose avec Charles Barclay. Les 3 sœurs, et plus particulièrement Fiona, vont tout faire pour conserver leur héritage et la maison de leur enfance.

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Blondie for Victory (1942)

, 1h11
Réalisé par Frank R. Strayer
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Films pour enfants
Acteurs Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Stuart Erwin, Jonathan Hale, Edward Gargan
Rôle Alexander " Baby " Bumstead
Note61%

Blondie Bumstead forms a civilian defense group, ”Housewives of America”, by persuading her housewife neighbors to join. But the forming of the group creates trouble in her own household.

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Blondie Goes to College (1942)

, 1h14
Réalisé par Frank R. Strayer
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Films pour enfants
Acteurs Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Janet Blair, Jonathan Hale, Adele Mara
Rôle Alexander " Baby " Bumstead
Note61%

Dagwood Bumstead is forced to receive a college diploma in order to remain a worker at the Dithers Construction Company. He goes to school with his wife Blondie, until they get the news married couples are not allowed. They decide to pretend they aren't a couple. A dilemma starts when Laura Wadsworth begins to flirt with Dagwood and Big Man on Campus Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. Even more problems come to Blondie when she discovers she is pregnant. Afraid to tell Dagwood out of fear for expulsion, she decides to keep it a secret.

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Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)

, 1h10
Réalisé par Frank R. Strayer
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Films pour enfants
Acteurs Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Jonathan Hale, Arthur Hohl, Esther Dale
Rôle Baby Dumpling
Note65%

Blondie proves to be a real nuisance to her husband Dagwood and causes domestic disturbance in the Bumstead home, when she insists on getting a maid. Dagwood is forced to take the request seriously, and asks his boss, J.C. Dithers, for a raise. As a rule, Dithers refuses the raise, but instead he offers Dagwood and his family a two-week stay at a country house, complete with servants. The house is the size of a palace, formerly owned by Batterson, a newly deceased magician. With the consent of his wife, Dagwood accepts the offer, and they prepare for take off to the country.

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Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)

, 1h8
Réalisé par Frank R. Strayer
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Films pour enfants
Acteurs Glenn Ford, Penny Singleton, Larry Simms, Arthur Lake, Jonathan Hale, Irving Bacon
Rôle Alexander " Baby " Bumstead
Note64%

Dagwood Bumstead has been caught possessing illegal fireworks and now he tries to make up for this by taking his wife Blondie to Aunt Hannah's ranch for 4 July celebrations. The ranch is a peaceful place in the country, but trouble starts already on the way over there, when the Bumsteads board the wrong train and have to hitchhike most of the way. The young couple that picks them up, Millie and Charlie, are on their way to get married and elope together, without their parents' consents. The Bumsteads have to accompany the young couple to court and the wedding ceremony, but the wedding is interrupted by Millie's father, Mr Tucker, storming in with a shotgun. Mr Tucker then takes the car, with Dagwood, his son and their dog still in it, and drives off. Charlie is forced to take Blondie to Aunt Hannah's ranch, and in she encourages him to have another go at marrying Millie and elop. unfortunately he twists his ankle on the way, and a very reluctant Dagwood has to take his place and go and fetch Millie from her (and her father's) home. Dagwood accidentally climbs through the window to Millie's father's bedroom, and is held at gunpoint. He flees head over heels and is chased around the property. His son discovers what he thinks is some kind of fireworks and lights it, but it is in fact a dynamite stick. When the dynamite explodes it rips up a hole in the ground, and in doing so, opens up an oil well. Millie's father is so happy over the new source of income that he consents to Charlie marrying his daughter after all, and the Bumsteads finish their weekend holiday at the hospital, in peace and quiet.

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Blondie on a Budget (1940)

, 1h12
Réalisé par Frank R. Strayer
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Films pour enfants
Acteurs Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Ian Wolfe, Willie Best, Larry Simms, Rita Hayworth
Rôle Baby Dumpling Bumstead
Note64%

Blondie Bumstead is having trouble balancing the family budget, particularly as she wants to buy a new fur coat. Her husband Dagwood also needs money for the membership fee of a fishing club he wants to join. Blondie becomes jealous when she finds Dagwood with an overfamiliar old friend, Joan Forrester, and begins to suspect that they are having an affair. After Dagwood wins money in a competition he decides to buy Blondie a fur coat, but uses Joan to try it on for size. Blondie sees them in the shop together and mistakenly thinks he is buying it for Joan. She decides to leave Dagwood for good, only to have a last minute change of heart.

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