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The Ghost Breakers

Index The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers is a 1940 American comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. [1]

80 relations: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Alfred E. Green, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Hornblow Jr., Bing Crosby, Blanca Vischer, Bob Hope, Bodyguard, Bosley Crowther, Boss (crime), Catatonia, Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Goddard (playwright), Charles Lang, Chicago Review Press, Cinema of the United States, Comedy film, Dean Martin, Douglas Kennedy (actor), Ellsworth Hoagland, Emmett Vogan, Ernst Toch, Fred MacMurray, George Marshall (director), Ghostbusters, H. B. Warner, Haitian Vodou, Harrison's Reports, Havana, Investigative journalism, Jack Norton, James Flavin, Jerry Lewis, John Mosher (writer), Lila Lee, List of American films of 1940, Lloyd Corrigan, Los Angeles Times, Lost film, Manhattan, Martin and Lewis, Max Wagner, McFarland & Company, Murder, He Says, Noble Johnson, Organized crime, Paramount Pictures, Paul Dickey, Paul Fix, Paul Lukas, ..., Paul Newlan, Paulette Goddard, Pedro de Cordoba, Peter Dendle, Power outage, Richard Carlson (actor), Road to Bali, Robert Elliott (actor, born 1879), Robert Ryan, Scared Stiff (1953 film), Screen Directors Playhouse, Shirley Mitchell, Silent film, The Cat and the Canary (1939 film), The Film Daily, The Ghost Breaker (1914 film), The Ghost Breaker (1922 film), The Ghost Breaker (play), The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tom Dugan (actor, born 1889), Trailers from Hell, Turner Classic Movies, Valet, Variety (magazine), Virginia Brissac, Wallace Reid, Walter DeLeon, Willie Best, Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Expand index (30 more) »

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is a 1948 American horror comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.

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Alfred E. Green

Alfred Edward Green (July 11, 1889 – September 4, 1960) was an American movie director.

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Anthony Quinn

Antonio Rodolfo Oaxaca Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor, painter and writer.

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Arthur Hornblow Jr.

Arthur Hornblow Jr. (March 15, 1893 – July 17, 1976) was an American film producer.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)Giddins 2001, pp.

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Blanca Vischer

Blanca Vischer (January 5, 1915 – November 24, 1969) was a Guatemalan film actress who moved to the United States where she made most of her films.

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Bob Hope

Sir Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) known professionally as Bob Hope, was an English-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author.

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Bodyguard

A bodyguard (or close protection officer) is a type of security guard or government law enforcement officer or soldier who protects a person or people — usually high-ranking public officials or officers, wealthy people, and celebrities — from danger: generally theft, assault, kidnapping, assassination, harassment, loss of confidential information, threats, or other criminal offences.

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Bosley Crowther

Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Boss (crime)

A crime boss, crime lord, mob boss, kingpin, or Don, is a person in charge of a criminal organization.

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Catatonia

Catatonia is a state of psycho-motor immobility and behavioral abnormality manifested by stupor.

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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.

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Charles Goddard (playwright)

Charles William Goddard (November 26, 1879 – January 11, 1951) was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Charles Lang

Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California from the American Society of Cinematographers website) was an American cinematographer.

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Chicago Review Press

Chicago Review Press, or CRP, is a U.S. book publisher and an independent company founded in 1973.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on the film industry in general since the early 20th century.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Dean Martin

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, comedian and film producer.

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Douglas Kennedy (actor)

Douglas Richards Kennedy (September 14, 1915 – August 10, 1973) was an American supporting actor originally from New York City who appeared in more than 190 films between 1935 and 1973.

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Ellsworth Hoagland

Howard Ellsworth Hoagland (August 15, 1903 – September 4, 1972) was an American film editor.

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Emmett Vogan

Charles Emmett Vogan (September 27, 1893 – October 6, 1969) was an American actor with almost 500 film appearances from 1934–54, making him, along with Bess Flowers, one of the most prolific film actors of all time.

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Ernst Toch

Ernst Toch (7 December 18871 October 1964) was an Austrian composer of classical music and film scores.

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Fred MacMurray

Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s.

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George Marshall (director)

George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of film history.

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

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H. B. Warner

Henry Byron Warner (born Henry Byron Lickfold, 26 October 1876 – 21 December 1958) was an English film and theatre actor.

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Haitian Vodou

Haitian Vodou (also written as Vaudou; known commonly as Voodoo, sometimes as Vodun, Vodoun, Vodu, or Vaudoux) is a syncretic religion practiced chiefly in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora.

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Harrison's Reports

Harrison’s Reports was a New York City-based motion picture trade journal published weekly from 1919 to 1962.

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Havana

Havana (Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba.

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Investigative journalism

Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.

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Jack Norton

Jack Norton (September 2, 1882 – October 15, 1958) was an American stage and film character actor who appeared in 184 films between 1934 and 1948, often playing drunks, although in real life he was a teetotaler.

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James Flavin

James William Flavin Jr. (May 14, 1906 – April 23, 1976) was an American character actor whose career lasted for nearly half a century.

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Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch, March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian, director, screenwriter, producer, headliner and author.

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John Mosher (writer)

John Chapin Mosher (June 2, 1892 – September 3, 1942) was an American short story writer as well as the first regularly assigned film critic for The New Yorker, a position he held from 1928 to 1942.

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Lila Lee

Lila Lee (born Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel, July 25, 1901 – November 13, 1973) was a prominent screen actress, primarily a leading lady, of the silent film and early sound film eras.

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List of American films of 1940

A list of American films released in 1940.

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Lloyd Corrigan

Lloyd Corrigan (October 16, 1900 – November 5, 1969) was an American film and television actor, producer, screenwriter, and director who began working in films in the 1920s.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lost film

A lost film is a feature or short film that is no longer known to exist in any studio archives, private collections, or public archives, such as the U.S. Library of Congress.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Martin and Lewis

Martin and Lewis were an American comedy duo, comprising singer Dean Martin and comedian Jerry Lewis.

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Max Wagner

Max Wagner (November 28, 1901 – November 16, 1975) was a Mexican-born American film actor who specialized in playing small parts such as thugs, gangsters, sailors, henchmen, bodyguards, cab drivers and moving men, appearing more than 400 films in his career, most without receiving screen credit.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.

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Murder, He Says

Murder, He Says is a 1945 slapstick comedy film starring Fred MacMurray about a murderous rural family and the hapless pollster who becomes entangled in their hunt for a cache of money.

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Noble Johnson

Mark Noble (April 18, 1881 – January 9, 1978), known as Noble Johnson, was an American actor and film producer.

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Organized crime

Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Paul Dickey

Paul Dickey (12 May 1882 – 7 January 1933), was an American playwright and silent screen writer.

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Paul Fix

Peter Paul Fix (March 13, 1901 – October 14, 1983) was an American film and television character actor, best known for his work in Westerns.

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Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; May 26, 1894 – August 15, 1971) was a Hungarian actor.

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Paul Newlan

Paul Emory Newlan (June 29, 1903 – November 23, 1973) was an American film and TV character actor from Plattsmouth, Nebraska.

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Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress, a child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl; she became a major star of Paramount Pictures in the 1940s.

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Pedro de Cordoba

Pedro de Cordoba (September 28, 1881 – September 16, 1950) was an American actor.

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Peter Dendle

Peter Dendle is a professor of English at Penn State Mont Alto, teaching classes on folklore, 20th and 21st century representations of the Middle Ages, Old and Middle English (language and literature), and the monstrous (in film, folklore, and society).

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Power outage

A power outage (also called a power cut, a power out, a power blackout, power failure or a blackout) is a short-term or a long-term loss of the electric power to a particular area.

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Richard Carlson (actor)

Richard Dutoit Carlson (April 29, 1912 – November 25, 1977) was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter.

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Road to Bali

Road to Bali is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.

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Robert Elliott (actor, born 1879)

Robert Elliott (October 9, 1879 – November 15, 1951) was an American character actor who appeared in 102 Hollywood films and TV shows from 1916 to 1951.

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Robert Ryan

Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909July 11, 1973) was an American actor who most often portrayed hardened cops and ruthless villains.

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Scared Stiff (1953 film)

Scared Stiff is a 1953 American horror paranormal musical comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

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Screen Directors Playhouse

Screen Directors Playhouse (sometimes written as Screen Directors' Playhouse) is an American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949.

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Shirley Mitchell

Shirley Mitchell (November 4, 1919 – November 11, 2013) was an American radio, film, and television actress.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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The Cat and the Canary (1939 film)

The Cat and the Canary is a 1939 American horror comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard.

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The Film Daily

The Film Daily was a daily publication that existed from 1915 to 1970 in the United States.

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The Ghost Breaker (1914 film)

The Ghost Breaker was a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel and based on the Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.

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The Ghost Breaker (1922 film)

The Ghost Breaker is a 1922 American silent horror comedy film about haunted houses and ghosts.

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The Ghost Breaker (play)

The Ghost Breaker is a 1909 haunted house farcical play written by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard, it was adapted into a 1940 film starring Bob Hope called The Ghost Breakers.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Tom Dugan (actor, born 1889)

Tom Dugan (1 January 1889 – 7 March 1955) was an Irish film actor.

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Trailers from Hell

Trailers from Hell (branded as Trailers from Hell!) is a web series in which filmmakers discuss and promote individual movies through commenting on their trailers.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Valet

Valet and varlet are terms for male servants who serve as personal attendants to their employer.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Virginia Brissac

Virginia Alice Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979) was an American actress who came out of retirement in her early 50s to begin what would turn out to be a twenty-year career as a performer in cinema and television productions.

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Wallace Reid

William Wallace Halleck Reid (April 15, 1891 – January 18, 1923) was an American actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".

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Walter DeLeon

Walter DeLeon (May 3, 1884 – August 1, 1947) was an American screenwriter.

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Willie Best

William "Willie" Best (May 27, 1916 – February 27, 1962), sometimes known as Sleep n' Eat, was an American television and film actor.

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Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide

Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide is a 2008 non-fiction book by Glenn Kay about zombies in popular culture, primarily zombie films.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Breakers

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