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2004
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Combining familiar newsreel footage with freshly shot material, David Helpern's Hollywood on Trial is a documentary...
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1976
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Mr. Pendergast
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1960
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Gen. Broulard
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1957
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1957
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J.B. Merlin
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1956
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The offspring of the American ambassador to France (the star was then living in Paris with her journalist husband),...
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Senator Cartwright
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1956
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I Married a Woman was tailored by top comedy writer Goodman Ace to the peculiar, low-key talents of TV comedian George Gobel....
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Frederick W. Sutton
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1956
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Republic's Trucolor process is shown off to good advantage in the outdoors actioner Timberjack. Sterling Hayden and David...
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Swiftwater Tilton
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1955
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Elia Kazan directed this drama inspired by a true story. Karel Cernik (Fredric March) is the leader of a troupe of...
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Fesker
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1953
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Lieutenant Kafka
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1952
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Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives...
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Pierre
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1951
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The Tall Target is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was...
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Col. Caleb Jeffers
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1951
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Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He...
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Gregg
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1950
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This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....
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Melville Crossman
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1949
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Thomas Hutchings
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1949
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Jim Conover
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1948
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When he was first offered the film version of the best-selling Frederick Wakeman novel The Hucksters, Clark Gable turned it...
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Mr. Kimberly
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1947
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In this musical comedy, Louise Ginglebusher (Deanna Durbin) is a girl from a small town who comes top New York City with...
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J. Conrad Nelson
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1947
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Andrew Stone's The Bachelor's Daughters has much of the nonsensical breeziness of Stone's earlier screwball comedy...
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Mr. Moody
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1946
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Ambassador
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1946
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Columbia's Mr. District Attorney was the second attempt to launch a film series based on the popular radio series of the same...
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District Attorney Craig Warren
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1946
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Man Alive is an inventive and consistently amusing farce dominated by stars Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou. The former plays...
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Kismet
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1945
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Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was...
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Wagner
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1944
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In the tradition of Hellzapoppin', Hi Diddle Diddle is an all-stops-out "screwball comedy" populated by certifiable zanies....
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Col. Hector Phyffe
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1943
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Thomas Moran
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1943
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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Billy Flynn
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1942
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The second and last of the Fred Astaire-Rita Hayworth vehicles, You Were Never Lovelier takes place in Argentina (courtesy of...
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Eduardo Acuna
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1942
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This musical chronicles the history of jazz music and features many of the most popular musical acts from the early 1940s,...
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George Latimer
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1942
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Silent screen queen Gloria Swanson returned to films after a seven-year absence in RKO Radio's Father Takes a Wife. Adolphe...
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Fredric Osborne, Sr.
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1941
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Col. Carleton Carraway
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1941
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A creaky remake of the 1932 film of the same name, Bill of Divorcement tells of the effect an emotionally disturbed father's...
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Hilary Fairfield
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1940
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One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
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Phil Manning
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1940
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Lucille Ball plays young starlet Sandra Sand in That's Right -- You're Wrong, the 1939 musical comedy directed by...
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Stanley Delmere
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1939
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Tom Moody
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1939
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In this comedy, a gangster's moll gets tired of the mob scene and returns to her mother's house. Her mom is a wealthy...
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Deakon Maxwell
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1939
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A remake of Racetrack, King of the Turf stars Adolphe Menjou as a seedy, alcoholic bookie with a long-dormant streak of...
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Jim Mason
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1939
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John Mannering
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1938
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Thanks for Everything is an unjustly forgotten lampoon of media promotional stunts. Jack Haley wins a contest sponsored by an...
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J.B. Harcourt
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1938
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A longtime admirer of Broadway impresario Flo Ziegfeld, Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn hoped to emulate the success of...
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Oliver Merlin
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1938
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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John Cardwell
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1937
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Anthony Powell
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1937
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Cafe Metropole stars Tyrone Power as an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe...
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Monsieur Victor
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1937
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Oliver Niles
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1937
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In this bedroom farce, a writer rails against marriage and touts the benefits of staying single. He then convinces his...
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J. Hugh Ramsay
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1936
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Norwegian skating sensation Sonja Henie made her Hollywood screen debut in the splashy 20th Century-Fox musical...
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Thaddeus Spencer
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1936
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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Gabby Sloan
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1936
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Bruce Farraday
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1936
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Those beautiful Busby Berkeley babes are back at work, seeking financial backing for a Broadway show. Salvation comes from a...
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1936
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A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. One day he...
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Prof. De Vinci
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1935
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With little plot but incredible photography and choreography, Gold Diggers of 1935 was exactly what you would expect a...
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Nicoleff
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1935
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In this melodrama, set backstage at the theater, a fading, but still egotistical Hungarian star and his actress wife who has...
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Stephen Karpath
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1934
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Senor Madrino
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1934
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Perhaps the most memorable of all of the movies based on Damon Runyon's story because of the winning presence of...
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Sorrowful Jones
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1934
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The Human Side was adapted by Frank Craven and Ernest Pascal from a play by Christine Ames. Long married and the parents of...
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Gregory Sheldon
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1934
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A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars Ruth Chatterton as Françoise...
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Paul Moliet
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1934
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In this family drama, a happy marriage is threatened by suspicion and jealousy, and illicit affairs. The trouble begins when...
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John Townsend
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1934
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Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is...
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Mr. Bailey Walsh
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1934
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Practically every member of the Warner Bros. stock company except Glenda Farrell shows up in the rowdy, raunchy pre-Code...
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T.R. Kent
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1933
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Maj. Carey Liston
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1933
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A vicious spiral of revenge in a traveling circus is the basis for this fast-paced thriller. The circus has stopped to...
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Thatcher Colt
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1933
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Katharine Hepburn won her first Oscar for her portrayal of Eva Lovelace, a small-town community-theatre actress who comes to...
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Louis Easton
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1933
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In this romantic comedy, an American art student goes abroad to study and gets a reputation when she marries a wealthy...
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Adolphe Ballou
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1933
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Dan McQueen
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1932
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Maj. Rinaldi
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1932
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In this romance a school marm takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to a crippled...
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Bob Grover
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1932
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A night club owner under heavy police protection is murdered anyway, and a clever police commissioner figures out that it...
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Thatcher Colt
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1932
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Bachelor Andrew Hoyt (Adolphe Menjou), beginning to feel his age, convinces himself that he can become rejuvenated if he...
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Andrew Hoyt
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1932
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The tragic death from peritonitis of leading man Robert Williams marred the production of this oppressive triangle drama set...
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Capt. Remy Bandoin
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1932
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In this melodrama that was considered utterly scandalous in its day, an impoverished, beautiful young ghetto girl quickly...
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Walter Brockton
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1931
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No relation to the 1949 Bob Hope comedy of the same name, The Great Lover stars that master of sartorial splendor,...
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Jean Paurel
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1931
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Walter Burns
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1931
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The old bromide about joining the Foreign Legion to "forget," so often parodied by such comedians as Laurel and Hardy, was...
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Captain Roberts
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1931
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Tony Minot
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1931
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Gerome
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1931
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1931
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Mon Gosse de Pere (My Childish Father) was based on a stage play by Leopold Lemarchand. The title character, played by...
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1930
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Gov. Boris Brusiloff
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1930
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1930
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L'Enigmatique Monsieur Parkes is the French-language version of the American romantic melodrama Slightly Scarlet. Replacing...
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Courtenay Parkes
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1930
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Like so many campaigners before him, Gary Cooper joins the Foreign Legion to "forget." At a smoky cabaret in Morocco, Cooper...
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Mons. Le Bessiere
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1930
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In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where...
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1930
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Look up "suave and sophisticated" in the dictionary, and one might very well find a picture of Adolphe Menjou. In His Private...
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Georges St. Germain
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1929
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This romantic drama marks the first talking movie done by popular silent film star Adolph Menjou who plays a philandering...
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Paul de Remy
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1929
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Adolphe Menjou's final silent film was the imitation-Lubitsch Marquis Preferred. Characteristically dressed up like a million...
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Marquis d'Argenville
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1929
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Captain Ferreol
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1928
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Henri
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1928
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Albert Leroux
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1927
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Directed with his usual dry wit by the talented and underrated Harry D'Arrast, Gentleman of Paris was based on a short story...
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Marquis de Marignan
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1927
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It stands to reason that the sartorially splendid Adolphe Menjou would star in a picture called Evening Clothes. At the...
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Lucien d'Artois
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1927
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Franz Rossi
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1927
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Henri Martel
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1927
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Fascinating Youth was designed as a showcase for the winners of Paramount's Junior Star contest of 1926. Newcomer...
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1926
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Though his career went into decline in the talkie era, director Mal St. Clair was responsible for some of the funniest,...
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Albert Durant
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1926
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Though D.W. Griffith had given up his independent-filmmaker status by joining Paramount Pictures in 1926, he had lost none of...
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Prince Lucia de Rimanez
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1926
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Originally, Louise Brooks was only supposed to have a supporting role in this comedy-drama starring Adolphe Menjou. Partway...
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Max Haber
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1926
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Who better to play Ace of Cads than that charming reprobate Adolphe Menjou? This time, however, Menjou is reasonably...
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Chappel Maturin
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1926
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Frederick Lonsdale's witty 1924 play Aren't We All was turned into a vehicle for the debonair Adolphe Menjou by Paramount...
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Walter Grenhum
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1925
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Tony Hamilton, an American (Adolphe Menjou), is visiting Paris. He has a gambling compulsion, and he bets his friend, Dick...
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Tony Hamilton
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1925
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Although there was nothing really fresh about the story to this romantic comedy (based on the play The King, by Leo...
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Serge IV of Molvania
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1925
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The 1925 silent feature The Swan was the first of three film versions of Ferenc Molnar's play. The original plot was followed...
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Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
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1925
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Betty Bronson, who found overnight success when she played the title character in Peter Pan, has the ingenue lead in this...
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1925
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With a racy title and a South Seas backdrop, producer Thomas Ince put together a solid box-office picture, even if it wasn't...
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Bob Canfield
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1924
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Edmund Duveme
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1924
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1924
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Ernest Steel
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1924
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First National dressed up this routine society melodrama with a good cast and a decently written story line. Harrison Bates...
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Joseph Hudley
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1924
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Ultra suave Adolph Menjou plays an urbane, filthy rich bachelor who finds himself falling for a socialite just as carefree as...
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Ralph Norton
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1924
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With its racy title and emphasis on jazz parties and youth, this romantic drama was a typical mid-'20s release. But being an...
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Arthur Merrill
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1924
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Chancellor
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1924
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Viennese doctor Monte Blue is madly in love with his wife Florence Vidor--so much so that many suspect that they aren't...
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Prof. Josef Stock
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1924
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In her autobiography, Pola Negri claims she felt dubious about playing the lead role in this exotic drama based on the novel...
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Mr. Chepstow
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1923
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The rights to Don Cesar, the novel by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez, were originally purchased by Paramount as a vehicle for Rudolph...
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1923
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Charles Chaplin's first, long-awaited, independent production for United Artists begins with an only partially true caveat...
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Pierre Revel
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1923
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The normally low-key William C. deMille veers into the territory of his younger brother, Cecil B. DeMille, with this highly...
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Robert Townsend
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1923
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Author Anthony Hope's sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda had been filmed once before, in 1915. But filmgoers were far more...
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1923
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Western ace Buck Jones had one of his best early roles in this well-mounted silent action melodrama directed by...
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Cal Baldwin
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1922
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On the whole, John Gilbert's starring vehicles at Fox were not as beneficial to him professionally as his films at MGM....
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Capt. Fortine
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1922
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What was Paramount thinking when it cast a capable comedienne like Bebe Daniels in this artificial tragedy? The funny moments...
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Bliss Gordon
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1922
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Duc de Langeais
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1922
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1922
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This melodrama, based on the novel Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley, wasted the talents of James Kirkwood,...
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Louis Barney
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1922
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This farce from Paramount was loosely adapted from the play The Open Door by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustave Kadelberg. Arthur...
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1922
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The Goldwyn studios had apparently been hanging onto this Mabel Normand comedy for quite a while -- by the time it was...
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1922
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1921
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This picture should have been called "What Happened to Mabel?" Mabel Normand's comedy pictures for Goldwyn had slowly been...
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1921
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This dreary drama would never have been made into a motion picture if The Miracle Man had not been such a big hit. Because of...
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1921
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For her fourth United Artists picture, Mary Pickford once again plays a poor little rich girl. This one, Jeanne, is so...
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James Brewster
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1921
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Having nothing to do with the later Greta Garbo vehicle, the 1921 The Kiss was a sentimental melodrama set in Old California....
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1921
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Sidney Franklin, formerly the principal director of the "Fox Kidlettes" series, works with grownups in the silent Courage....
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Bruce Ferguson
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1921
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1921
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This romantic costumed adventure is the film that cemented Rudolph Valentino's reputation as a legendary screen lover. Sheik...
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Raoul de Saint Hubert
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1921
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1921
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Based on a novel by William Dana Olcott, this domestic melodrama starred the regal Norma Talmadge as a spoiled heiress whose...
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1917
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When her guardian gets married, twelve-year-old Marian Morgan (Marguerite Clark) is sent to live with her father...
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1917
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The Amazons is neither a story of ancient Greece nor a South American travelogue. Instead, it is based on a play by Arthur...
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1917
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1916
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In spite of his acclaim as a stage actor, during his early motion picture career, John Barrymore generally played lightweight...
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1916
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Douglas Fairbanks headlines this fast-paced and funny adventure set in contemporary Manhattan playing a New Yorker who...
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1916
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Patience (Louise Huff) is a Quaker orphan, who is hired by Robert Penfield (John Bowers) as a social secretary to his mother...
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1916
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Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds...
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1916
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A handsome, wealthy French WW I fighter-pilot attends a fabulous masked ball to find the girl of his dreams in this frothy...
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1916
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