Richard W. Bann

Richard W. Bann

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Richard W. Bann is a photographer and documentarian who is best known for his friendship and association with Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner. Bann has appeared in TV shows and documentaries and even a movie related to his experiences around Playboy, as well as for his collection of old photographs and films of early movie and TV stars, such as Laurel & Hardy and "Our Gang"/The Little Rascals.

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Girl 27 2007 (6.4)

The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic 2011 (7.8)

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.
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The Telling 2009 (3.435)

In this horror anthology film, three girls pledge the most popular - and cruelest - sorority on campus. For their final task, they must tell the scariest story they know. Containing three distinct stories - one featuring a murderous doll, one a has-been actress and her run in with a film crew of the undead and, finally, a hunt-and-kill fright-fest.