Barbara Jo Allen

A snubbed malevolent fairy casts a curse on a princess that only a prince can break, with the help of three good fairies. (imdb)

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration. (imdb)

Elderly music instructor helps rich widow find romance.

In this western, a rancher turns his property into a dude ranch for soldiers after he is drafted. Featured upon this ranch are entertaining shows with music from Tex Ritter, Roy Acuff, and the Mills Brothers. (allrovi.com)

Two unsuccessful vaudeville entertainers decide to search for gold during the Californian gold rush in 1849. They come to a town where no woman lives. The dwellers of this town promise them a lot of gold, when they bring some women to them. So they bring a vaudeville show with lots of girls. (imdb)

With the gang business washed up, Rickey Deane, suave first lieutenant to racketeer Chink Moran, and Louie Lanzer, a has-been fighter with itchy fingers, decide to take a peaceful vacation in the country. They are followed by three hard-boiled characters, Fingers, Ziggy and Crusher. Ricky, thinking they are to be rubbed out for deserting Chink, who has been drafted into the Army, stops his car and confronts them. But they merely want to ask Ricky to be their new boss. (imdb)

Though Republic had decided to forego plans for an annual film edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, their reciprocal deal with the Broadway impresario was still very much in effect in 1946: Hence the creation of the musical extravaganza Earl Carroll Sketchbook. The highly forgettable plot involves a serious composer named Tyler Brice (William Marshall) who "sells out" to write radio commercials. (allmovie.com)

Newsreel cameraman Bob Clemens, an avowed woman hater, is assigned to cover the Lake Placid exhibition of Karen Vadja, the Swiss ice Queen. He misses his plane and fails to get the footage needed for a newsreel. Deciding that if you've seen one ice skater, you've seen them all, he goes to Central Park to film a skater picked at random. He selects Marie Bergin who is wanted by the immigration people for having over-stayed her visa. (imdb)

Republic's ongoing professional association with the celebrated "Ice-Capades" skating show yielded a number of flashy but forgettable musicals, including 1942's Ice-Capades Revue. Though a plot is hardly necessary, the story concerns New England farm gal Ann (Ellen Drew), whose already-mounting debts are escalated when she inherits a near-bankrupt ice show. (allmovie.com)

The nationwide search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind formed the basis of Claire Booth Luce's satirical Broadway comedy Kiss the Boys Goodbye. By the time the film version came out in 1941, Gone With the Wind was yesterday's news, but the picture still manage to elicit loud laughter from moviegoers bombarded by bad news from Europe. (allmovie.com)

On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice. She wins the ice-skating championship of her country and is invited to skate at the fabulous Lake Placid Carnival in the United States. (imdb)

A crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money. (imdb)

A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man. (imdb)

Vera thinks she's witnessed a man decapitating his wife. Actually, she's only seen magician Bluebeard the Great rehearsing his act. Still convinced that the magician is a killer, Vera goes through all sorts of comic agony when she is forced to share the same train compartment with Bluebeard (who doesn't help matters when he offers her a sandwich consisting of "scrambled brains and tongue"

Troupers (Ann Miller, Johnnie Johnston, Jerry Colonna) put on a swing show in a World War II aircraft plant.

Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, broadcast a special radio program in honor of her birthday. Employees Lulubelle, Scotty and Vera Vague, fed up with the terrible working conditions at Dairyville, cut into the broadcast, and Lulubelle asserts that Caroline is a "big hunk of cheese.

In wartime 1944 in California,defense plant workers Rosalind "Rosie" Warren and her friend Vera Watson must share, on a rotating schedule, the town's last available rental-room with Charlie Doran and Kelly Kennedy, who work the other shift at the plant. The landlady, Grandma Quill , also has her grandchildren, Buzz Prouty and Mabel Prouty , and her daughter Stella Prouty ---who is on the outs with her husband Clem ---living with her.

Vera, a hypochondriac, mistakes an escaped lunatic for a physician who can help "cure" her.

Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen) is a reporter aiming to march her editor boss down the aisle. He agrees to marry her if she can uncover a key spy. She nets a whole ring of spies.

A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trunk full of magic tricks hoping to soon be the life of the party.

With the help of a wealthy chiropodist (Jerry Colonna), O'Brien not only gets to star on a big-time radio show, but also sprinkles stardust upon his sweetheart Kay Barnett (Jane Frazee)-who, unbeknownst to everyone but the audience, is the daughter of the show's sponsor.

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before. (imdb)

Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen) is a clerk in a department store visited by a rich Texan, Pan McGrew (William Hall), in this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 7428), and when McGrew announces that the girl he marries must be a two-fisted, bronco-bustin' gal, Vera and Mazie (Claire Carleton) make a shambles out of the store by trying to prove which one is the toughest.

Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8423) features Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen) who, tired of her husband, divorces him and marries her lawyer. Returning to her home for their honeymoon, they find the first husband, due to the post-war housing shortage, still there. Vera solves the problem by going back to her first husband.

Vera Vague, in this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 7423), is strongly against fibbing in any fashion, and gives her maid a stern lecture when she catches her doing so. Complications and circumstances soon put Vera in a position of having to tell several fibs in order to pull herself out of a mess with her boss and her boy friend. The maid is a bemused-and-confused observer.

Vera is one of many of a group of jurors who must work together to come up with a decision whether or not a man is guilty of murder.

Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen) locks herself in her garage and has to be freed by her neighbor. Later, she discovers that the wife of her husband's boss has lost a necklace, and Vera suspects the neighbor.

Vera pretends to be insane in order to get out of a prearranged marriage.

Judy King (Grace McDonald), newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and while being interviewed by Bob Carlton (Robert Paige), an agent with the bureau, jokingly hints she may be a spy. While investigating her, he clears Judy and falls in love with her... and then uncovers a real Nazi spy ring.

Errol moves out of his apartment when the landlord raises the rent, but encounters the usual headaches and difficulties in finding a new place.

In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8425), Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen) plays twins, with one being a shy spinster and the other Vera's usual aggressive man-chaser. They switch dates, and the spinster's sedate boy friend is confronted with the not-shy Vera, while Vera's passionate beau ends up with the dry-and-shy spinster.

Vera Vague marries a man who is the twin-image of an escaped ax-murderer. The key word here is "escaped", as that guarantees that Vera will get involved with the ax-murderer thinking he is her husband.

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home. A complicated period of adjustment follows for both the boy, who is no longer a boy even at age 15, and his family.