Movies and TvShows featuring "manpower-shortage" theme.

A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.

Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.

A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.