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1. When Tim Donahue meets aspiring showgirl Vicky (Marilyn Monroe), the family act, The Five Donahues, begins to fall apart.
2. This 1951 musical from MGM centers around the "Cotton Blossom". When the married stars of the show are forced to leave because the woman is half black, Magnolia Hawks, the daughter of the owner, becomes the new attraction. She meets and marries Gaylord Ravenal (Howard Keel), whose gambling becomes more important to him than her.
3. Two young men live in a dying town in Texas. One, Duane, dates the girl all the men want to be with. The other, Sonny, is involved with the coach's wife, Ruth Popper, as well as being friends with Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson), the owner of the movie house in town which is being closed down.
4. Red Skelton stars in this 1946 comedy about a man who just can't help exaggerating about everything to impress people. He boasts of travels he's made and a managerial position that he doesn't have. When he charms Amy Fisher into marrying him, his exorbitant spending soon gets them into financial trouble.
5. A young couple encounter a strange person at a castle that they stumble upon when their car breaks down one rainy night.
6. This documentary-style comedy from 2000 profiles the owners of five dogs who are competing at a national dog show.
7. An insurance agent becomes suspicious about all aspects of his life when he wants to get away from his perfect small-town and take a vacation, but everyone discourages him.
8. Marion Davies and William Haines star in this 1928 silent movie about a young woman from Georgia, Peggy (Davies) who comes to Hollywood to be an actress. There, she meets Billy (Haines) who helps her get work at the studio where he works. She gets discovered by another studio and leaves, but Billy won't let her go without a fight.
9. Amy Irving plays journalist Kate Melendez, who investigates the murder, and subsequent cover-up, of two pro-independence students by the Puerto Rican police in 1978.
10. In the 1950s, Dick Goodwin investigates charges of the "fixing" of the game show "Twenty-One".
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