Jean Hagen
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Panic in Year Zero!
(1962)Released just before the Cuban Missile Crisis, this chiller-thriller realistically details what might happen to the survivors of a nuclear attack. Screen legend Ray Mill directs and leads a superb cast that includes Jean Hagen and Frankie Avalon.

The Shaggy Dog
(1959)After years of on-the-job clashes with cranky canines, mail carrier Wilson Daniels sees man's best friend as his worst enemy. This makes for one hairy situation when a magical ring accidentally transforms his teenage son Wilby into a lumbering sheepdog.

Carbine Williams
(1952)Oscar-winner James Stewart stars in the title role as a jailed bootlegge r who invents the famed rifle and gains his freedom, co-starring Oscar-nominee Jean Hagen and James Arness.
Half a Hero
(1953)Audiences always roared with delight when Red Skelton went one-on-one with post-war life in The Yellow Cab Man, The Fuller Brush Man and other films. In Half a Hero, the legendary comic took on a slice of 20th-century Americana that still resonates today: the suburbs. Red plays Ben Dobson, a magazine writer whose boss approves of Ben because he lives in a cramped Manhattan apartment instead of "the slums of tomorrow": the 'burbs. So, of course, when Ben movies his family to a sprawling housing development, he struggles (hilariously_ to keep the fact a secret. Jean Hagen, a year after her iconic portrayal of the itsy-voiced screen siren in Singin' in the Rain, plays Ben's long-suffering wife, and singer Polly Bergen makes a guest appearance with a torrid nightclub-scene rendition of "Love."

Singin' in the Rain
(1952)Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds star in this acclaimed, timeless musical that follows a silent-screen star who finds love while trying to adjust to the "talkies" in the Hollywood of the late 1920s.

The Asphalt Jungle
(1950)A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Sunrise at Campobello
(1960)
The Big Knife
(1955)A Hollywood star trapped by fame and blackmail has to escape his crazy studio boss before a deadly secret destroys his career, his love, and his soul.

Adam's Rib
(1949)Academy Award winners Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn star as a husband-and-wife team of attorneys representing opposite sides of a case in this classic comedy directed by George Cukor.To attorney Adam Bonner (Tracy), it's an open-and-shut case when a woman is arrested for attempting to kill her husband after she discovers him with his mistress.