James V. Kern

James V. Kern

James V. Kern (September 22, 1909, New York City, New York – November 9, 1966, Encino, California) was an American singer, songwriter, screenwriter, actor, and director. Educated at the Fordham Law School, Kern worked for a while as an attorney. He sang with the George Olsen Trio, and appeared with the Olsen orchestra in the musical Good News. From 1927 to 1939, he sang with and wrote for the Yacht Club Boys quartet, with whom he appeared in several motion pictures. He became a screenwriter and later a director. In film, he directed mainly "B" pictures, but after he moved to television, he directed hundreds of series episodes. He was one of the house directors on I Love Lucy in the 1950s. He directed My Three Sons for most of two seasons in the 1960s. When he died suddenly of a heart attack at age 57, several episodes of the show remained only partially completed for the 1966/67 season, so director James Sheldon was brought in by series producers to round out the season. He joined ASCAP in 1955. His popular-song compositions include "Easy Street," "Lover, Lover," "Little Red Fox," and "Shut the Door." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Title: James V. Kern
  • Popularity: 1.724
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1909-09-22
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Yacht Club Boys, James Kern, The Yacht Club Boys
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James V. Kern Movies

  • 1937
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    Thrill of a Lifetime

    Thrill of a Lifetime

    5 1937 HD

    "Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.

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  • 1937
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    Artists & Models

    Artists & Models

    6 1937 HD

    An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

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  • 1936
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    The Singing Kid

    The Singing Kid

    4 1936 HD

    Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.

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  • 1936
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    Pigskin Parade

    Pigskin Parade

    5.962 1936 HD

    Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. The hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.

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  • 1950
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    The Second Woman

    The Second Woman

    5.5 1950 HD

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  • 1946
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    Never Say Goodbye

    Never Say Goodbye

    6.1 1946 HD

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  • 1943
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    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    6.1 1943 HD

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  • 1945
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    The Horn Blows at Midnight

    The Horn Blows at Midnight

    5.8 1945 HD

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  • 1946
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    Her Kind of Man

    Her Kind of Man

    5.8 1946 HD

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  • 1941
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    Look Who's Laughing

    Look Who's Laughing

    5.5 1941 HD

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  • 1940
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    You'll Find Out

    You'll Find Out

    5.4 1940 HD

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  • 1940
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    You'll Find Out

    You'll Find Out

    5.4 1940 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Doughgirls

    The Doughgirls

    7 1944 HD

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  • 1951
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    Two Tickets to Broadway

    Two Tickets to Broadway

    4.3 1951 HD

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  • 1948
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    April Showers

    April Showers

    6 1948 HD

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  • 1939
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    That's Right – You're Wrong

    That's Right – You're Wrong

    5.7 1939 HD

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  • 1946
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    Never Say Goodbye

    Never Say Goodbye

    6.1 1946 HD

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  • 1941
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    Playmates

    Playmates

    5.2 1941 HD

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  • 1944
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    Shine on Harvest Moon

    Shine on Harvest Moon

    6 1944 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Doughgirls

    The Doughgirls

    7 1944 HD

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  • 1960
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    Jack Benny Christmas Show

    Jack Benny Christmas Show

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1957
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    Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show

    Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1939
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    East Side of Heaven

    East Side of Heaven

    7.1 1939 HD

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  • 1947
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    Stallion Road

    Stallion Road

    5 1947 HD

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  • 1946
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    Movieland Magic

    Movieland Magic

    1 1946 HD

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  • 1940
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    If I Had My Way

    If I Had My Way

    6.4 1940 HD

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  • 1956
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    Lum and Abner Abroad

    Lum and Abner Abroad

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1956
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    Lum and Abner Abroad

    Lum and Abner Abroad

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1941
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    Look Who's Laughing

    Look Who's Laughing

    5.5 1941 HD

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara finds a crashed alien spaceship that contains one live alien. Not wanting to be discovered by the authorities, the Martian assumes the identity of Tim's Uncle Martin and begins to repair his spaceship so that he can return to Mars.

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    "Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to July 4, 1960. It featured Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they worked. The show is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and revolves around the lives of Rex Randolph (Long) and Cal Calhoun (Duggan), who run a detective agency called Randolph and Calhoun — Special Services. The agency is based in the Absinthe House, a French Quarter nightclub on Bourbon Street.

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.

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  • 1970
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    5.167 1970 HD

    The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.

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  • 1970
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    6.3 1970 HD

    Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.

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  • 1970
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    8 1970 HD

    Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC. The Gale Storm Show was co-produced by Independent Television Corporation and Hal Roach Studios. The series was aired under the title Oh, Susanna in syndication.

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  • 1970
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    4.8 1970 HD

    Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Date with the Angels is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from May 10, 1957 to January 29, 1958. The series, which stars Betty White and Bill Williams, began as a late season replacement for The Ray Anthony Show for the same sponsor, Chrysler's Plymouth division. Tom Kennedy was the show's announcer and spokesman for Plymouth.

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    The Ann Sothern Show is an American sitcom starring Ann Sothern that aired on CBS for 93 episodes. The series began on October 6, 1958, and ended on September 25, 1961. The Ann Sothern Show was Sothern's second sitcom for CBS. Her first series, Private Secretary, ended in 1957 after a contract dispute occurred between Sothern and Secretary's producer Jack Chertok. Several of Private Secretary's cast members appeared in the show.

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Conflict is a 1956 ABC series that directly succeeded Warner Brothers Presents. It is most famous for having hosted the effective pilots of 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick. Although it assumed the same time slot as its predecessor, the two do not share the same format. Where Warner Brothers Presents had been a wheel series, Conflict was a fully anthological series. However, since Cheyenne and Conflict alternated the Tuesday 7:30pm time slot, the net effect was that of a proper wheel series—even though Cheyenne and Conflict were not under the same umbrella title. The name change was imposed upon its production company, Warner Bros., by ABC executives who believed that "conflict" was the missing element in Casablanca and King's Row from Warner Brothers Presents. The show does not fit neatly into standard American television seasons. It technically superseded Warner Brothers Presents after Casablanca concluded its run in April 1956. And it seems to have provided at least one week of new material at the beginning of the 1957 season, before Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins, took its place.

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Those Whiting Girls is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from July 4, 1955 to September 30, 1957. The series stars sisters Barbara and Margaret Whiting, playing themselves and living with their mother in Los Angeles.

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

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