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Summer Under the Stars: Hattie McDaniel

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Summer Under the Stars: Robert Redford

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Summer Under the Stars: Rosalind Russell

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Summer Under the Stars: Cary Grant

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Summer Under the Stars: Natalie Wood

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Summer Under the Stars: Jack Lemmon

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Summer Under the Stars: Susan Hayward

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Summer Under the Stars: Groucho Marx

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Summer Under the Stars: Barbara Stanwyck

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Summer Under the Stars: George Hamilton

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Jess's Top 10 Movies:

1. It Happened One Night (1934)
2. The Major and the Minor (1942)
3. Pillow Talk (1959)
4. Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
5. Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
6. Seven Sweethearts (1942)
7. Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
8. Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
9. Thrill of a Romance (1945)
10. I Met Him in Paris (1937)

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