Robert Cummings
Effective light comedian of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV series, Robert Cummings was renowned for his eternally youthful looks (which he attributed to a strict vitamin and health-food diet). He was educated at Carnegie Tech and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Deciding that Broadway producers would be more interested in an upper-crust Englishman than a kid from Joplin, Missouri, Cummings passed himself off as Blade Stanhope Conway, British actor. The ploy was successful. Cummings decided that if it worked on Broadway, it would work in Hollywood, so he journeyed west and assumed the identity of a rich Texan named Bruce Hutchens. The plan worked once more, and he began securing small parts in films. He soon reverted to his real name and became a popular leading man in light comedies, usually playing well-meaning, pleasant but somewhat bumbling young men. He achieved much more success, however, in his own television series in the '50s, The Bob Cummings Show (1955) and My Living Doll (1964).
Cummings was born June 10, 1910, in Joplin, Missouri, and he died of kidney failure December 2, 1990, in Woodland Hills, California. He is interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Sanctity.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.113 |
Birthday | 1910-06-09 |
Place of Birth | Joplin, Missouri, USA |
Also Known As | Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings, Bob Cummings, Blade Stanhope Conway, Bruce Hutchens, Роберт Каммингс, Bryce Hutchens, |
1954
Dial M for Murder
8.02/2494
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to have his wealthy wife murdered after discovering she is having an affair, and assumes she will soon leave him f...
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Dial M for Murder
1964
What a Way to Go!
6.893/75
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be...
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What a Way to Go!
1942
Saboteur
6.891/475
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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Saboteur
1943
Princess O'Rourke
6.4/19
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Princess O'Rourke
1941
It Started with Eve
7.1/26
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a...
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It Started with Eve
1963
Beach Party
6/33
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and...
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Beach Party
1954
Lucky Me
6.7/9
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promi...
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Lucky Me
1939
Rio
5/10
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlem...
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Rio
1949
Reign of Terror
6.842/38
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who,...
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Reign of Terror
1946
The Chase
6.1/57
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
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The Chase
1940
One Night in the Tropics
5.6/19
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million...
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One Night in the Tropics
1949
The Accused
6.1/22
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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The Accused
1964
The Carpetbaggers
5.8/34
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruth...
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The Carpetbaggers
1962
My Geisha
6.2/16
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version...
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My Geisha
1937
Souls at Sea
5.667/6
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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Souls at Sea
1941
Moon Over Miami
6.1/14
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich...
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Moon Over Miami
1941
The Devil and Miss Jones
7.7/51
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store...
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The Devil and Miss Jones
1939
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
7.3/6
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, an...
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1950
Paid in Full
6.6/7
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.
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Paid in Full
1966
Stagecoach
5.9/39
A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thr...
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Stagecoach
1947
The Lost Moment
6.5/21
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared m...
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The Lost Moment
1942
Kings Row
7.153/36
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
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Kings Row
1948
Sleep, My Love
6.3/43
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
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Sleep, My Love
1967
Five Golden Dragons
5.4/13
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden D...
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Five Golden Dragons
1966
Promise Her Anything
3.333/6
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is he...
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Promise Her Anything
1950
For Heaven's Sake
6.9/7
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
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For Heaven's Sake
1938
The Texans
5.6/4
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
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The Texans
1936
The Accusing Finger
4.7/3
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sente...
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The Accusing Finger
1937
Wells Fargo
4.9/9
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fres...
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Wells Fargo
1939
Everything Happens at Night
4.1/4
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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Everything Happens at Night
1938
College Swing
6.8/6
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.
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College Swing
1950
The Petty Girl
4.3/5
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his...
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The Petty Girl
1955
How To Be Very, Very Popular
4.7/6
Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cu...
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How To Be Very, Very Popular
1943
Flesh and Fantasy
6.7/15
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts...
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Flesh and Fantasy
1940
And One Was Beautiful
6.2/6
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
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And One Was Beautiful
1936
Desert Gold
5.4/5
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer...
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Desert Gold
1946
The Bride Wore Boots
5.9/7
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
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The Bride Wore Boots
1952
The First Time
6.5/1
A married couple welcomes their first child.
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The First Time
1969
Gidget Grows Up
6/2
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The l...
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Gidget Grows Up
1949
Tell It to the Judge
6.3/6
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her...
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Tell It to the Judge
1937
The Last Train from Madrid
4.6/8
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
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The Last Train from Madrid
1939
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
6/1
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. Wh...
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1935
So Red the Rose
6/1
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a wido...
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So Red the Rose
1940
Spring Parade
6.8/9
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she wil...
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Spring Parade
1939
The Under-Pup
6/2
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed beca...
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The Under-Pup
1945
You Came Along
7/2
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...
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You Came Along
1951
The Barefoot Mailman
4/1
Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community. So he dec...
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The Barefoot Mailman
1948
Let's Live a Little
6.3/3
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fianc...
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Let's Live a Little
1949
Free For All
6/2
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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Free For All
1973
The Great American Beauty Contest
6/2
The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of t...
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The Great American Beauty Contest
1938
Touchdown, Army
0/0
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
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Touchdown, Army
1933
Sons of the Desert
7.054/224
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
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Sons of the Desert
1933
Seasoned Greetings
5/4
The owner of an unsuccessful greeting cards store decides to sell 'talking' greeting cards in the form of records.
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Seasoned Greetings
1936
Arizona Mahoney
6/1
When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cattle.
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Arizona Mahoney
1936
Hollywood Boulevard
2.5/2
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w...
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Hollywood Boulevard
1941
Free and Easy
5.5/4
This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max rom...
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Free and Easy
1954
Twelve Angry Men
8/33
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 S...
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Twelve Angry Men
1942
Between Us Girls
6/1
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. Comedy.
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Between Us Girls
1943
Forever and a Day
7.2/8
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day
1953
Marry Me Again
0/0
Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars...
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Marry Me Again
1947
Heaven Only Knows
6/3
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his front...
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Heaven Only Knows
1936
Border Flight
6/1
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Wither...
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Border Flight
1935
The Virginia Judge
0/0
Walter C. Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Stepin Fetchit
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The Virginia Judge
1936
Hideaway Girl
0/0
An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.
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Hideaway Girl
1960
Gala Day at Disneyland
6/1
The gala dedication ceremonies at the opening of three new major attractions at Disneyland—Matterhorn Bobsleds, Submarine Voyage, and the new Monorail...
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Gala Day at Disneyland
1955
Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast
7/3
Relive the magic with hosts Art Linkletter, Bob Cummings and Ronald Reagan at the live opening day celebration. Broadcast on July 17, 1955 to a live a...
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Disneyland's Opening Day Broadcast
1940
Private Affairs
0/0
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
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Private Affairs
1990
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
0/0
Celebration of Disneyland's 35th Anniversary
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Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
1959
Disneyland '59
6.5/2
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disn...
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Disneyland '59
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
0/0
Seeing Hollywood, intimate glimpses of your favorite stars, at home, at work, and at play.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 23, no. 3)
1973
Partners in Crime
2/1
A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot.
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Partners in Crime
1942
Breakdowns of 1942
6/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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Breakdowns of 1942
1937
Sophie Lang Goes West
6/1
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California...
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Sophie Lang Goes West
1916
Romeo and Juliet
0/0
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families, and how the sins of the fa...
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Romeo and Juliet
1938
You and Me
6.758/31
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Am...
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You and Me
1938
I Stand Accused
0/0
Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally qu...
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I Stand Accused
1960
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
6/1
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1978
Three on a Date
1/1
The adventures and mishaps of four couples, winners on a TV game show, along with their young chaperone, on a Hawaiian holiday.
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Three on a Date
1958
Bomber's Moon
0/0
A hard-hearted Colonel loses many men in his group's bombing missions over World War Two Germany, but keeps on going and won't tolerate lightly a youn...
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Bomber's Moon
1962
Holiday Time at Disneyland
0/0
We see numerous Disneyland attractions over the early years of Disneyland that were opened on, or around, official holidays.
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