The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the...
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1952
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1948
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning...
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1947
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Fannie Hurst's novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish-American violinist who forgets all about his friends...
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1946
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Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also...
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1943
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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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1943
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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1943
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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1943
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Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered...
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1942
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper...
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1942
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Strange Skirts is the TV title of the 1941 MGM film When Ladies Meet. The film was a remake of a 1933 production of the same...
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1941
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The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score)...
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1941
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Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences...
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1941
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1941
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An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college...
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1941
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1941
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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1941
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James Stewart's last Hollywood film before entering military service, Come Live with Me teams Stewart with the hauntingly...
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1941
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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1941
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Adapted from the warhorse stage tearjerker by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin, this 1941 film version of Smilin' Through is even...
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1941
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Attempting to Americanize Greta Garbo to appeal to American audiences (since most of the foreign markets for Hollywood...
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1941
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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1940
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The Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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Based on a novel by Ethel Vance, Escape stars Robert Taylor as a young American, the son of a widowed European woman (Alla...
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1940
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Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars...
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1940
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A half-hearted derivation of Ninotchka, Comrade X stars Clark Gable as an American news reporter stationed in Russia. Gable...
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1940
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Given the omnipresence of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1940, the second film version of Robert E. Sherwood's...
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1940
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Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining...
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1940
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Clark Gable is "Big John" and Spencer Tracy is "Square John"; both "Johns" seek their fortunes in the Texas oil fields. They...
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1940
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife,...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a...
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1940
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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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1939
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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1939
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In this romantic musical, a Russian prince sees a lovely singer in a town cafe and falls head-over-heels. Realizing that he...
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1939
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It's "Never the Twain Shall Meet" time again in the MGM romantic melodrama Lady of the Tropics. The lady in question is...
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1939
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1939
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Comedy, romance, and song hit the ice in this musical. Larry Hall (James Stewart) is a professional ice skater whose act with...
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1939
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1939
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In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still...
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1939
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"Garbo Laughs!" declared the ads for Ninotchka. In the face of dwindling foreign revenues, MGM decided to put Greta Garbo, a...
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1939
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1938
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Viennese-born Luise Rainer plays a young Parisian girl who attends an exclusive drama school, working nights at a factory to...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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Nancy, a jilted bride-to-be, is played by Janet Gaynor in one of her last starring films. The three loves are novelist...
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1938
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The second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the...
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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1938
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1937
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The tempestuous love affair between a young surgeon and a pretty but married nurse provides the basis for this melodrama....
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1937
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Mannequin stars Joan Crawford as Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements (though this being an MGM film, her slum dwellings...
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1937
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Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
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1937
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1937
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This third entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series may not have been the biggest or best, but thanks to a masterpiece of...
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1937
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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1937
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1937
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1937
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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1936
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Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' oft-filmed romantic tragedy....
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1936
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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1936
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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1935
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MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good...
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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1935
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1935
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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1935
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For 20 years, Jeff Williams (Clark Gable) has been in love with his childhood playmate Mary Clay (Joan Crawford). Alas, Jeff...
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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1934
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In this crime drama, a famous criminal attorney is abandoned by his wife who has tired of his neglect and heavy drinking....
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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1934
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Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained....
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1934
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Based on a successful stage drama, this historical romance stars Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid largely...
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1934
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Outcast Lady is a heavily censored version of Michael Arlen's once-notorious novel The Green Hat, previously filmed by...
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1934
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A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip...
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1934
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In director Edwin L. Marin's film Paris Interlude, a beautiful French woman named Julie Bell (Madge Evans) unexpectedly falls...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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1934
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In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
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1934
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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1933
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After the death of her circus-aerialist husband, Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) dedicates herself to transforming her daughter...
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1933
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There's nothing wrong with Hold Your Man that a little editing wouldn't cure. Clark Gable plays a raffish young petty crook...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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A conflict between the Serbs and the Hungarians provides the framework of this drama that centers on a love triangle between...
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1933
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Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle...
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1933
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Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss...
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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1933
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Loaned to MGM by her home studio of Warner Bros., Loretta Young suffers her way through the title role in Midnight Mary. A...
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1933
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In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece --...
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1933
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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1933
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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1933
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A love triangle forms the basis of this drama set during WWI. The screenplay was written by the story's original author...
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1933
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1933
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Heroine Mona (Sally Eilers) is "made" in more ways than one in this free-wheeling spoof of the press-agent business. A...
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1933
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Secret of Madame Blanche is one of those "confessional" film dramas which movie fans of the early 1930s ate up like bonbons....
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1933
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1933
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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1932
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1932
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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1932
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Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Directed by Harry Beaumont, the courtroom drama Unashamed stars Robert Young as Dick Ogden, who will do anything to protect...
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1932
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It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous...
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1932
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In this romantic drama, a strait-laced preacher creates controversy when he marries a seductive trapeze artist . The two...
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1932
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Based on a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, this drama chronicles the tangled web woven by a poisonous New York socialite who...
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1932
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This complex '30s film is based upon a play by Pirandello which involved a hapless amnesiac. In As You Desire Me, the...
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1932
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In this football drama, a tough steelworker's son wins a scholarship to Yale and attempts to use his talent on the football...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Red Dust was lensed almost entirely on MGM's back lot; even so, we are utterly convinced that the film takes place in...
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1932
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1932
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In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family,...
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1931
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Joan Crawford is her usual upwardly mobile self in this melodrama co-starring Clark Gable. She plays Marian Martin, a cynical...
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With a blonde wigged Joan Crawford offering one of her more high-handed performances, and veteran silent star Pauline...
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1931
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1931
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The second of Cecil B. DeMille's talkies (as well as his second for MGM), Madam Satan is an exercise in incoherence, but this...
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1930
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Greta Garbo appears here (in her second talking film) as an Italian singer who seduces a young priest into falling for her....
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1930
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Originally filmed under the title The House of Troy, In Gay Madrid was one of four 1930 MGM operettas designed to show off...
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1930
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Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on...
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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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Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore made her film debut in MGM's A Lady's Morals. The film purports to be the biography of...
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1930
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Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown star in this high budget horse opera from M-G-M. She is Joan Prescott, a spoiled...
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1930
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1930
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Metropolitan opera star Lawrence Tibbett headed the cast of The Rogue Song, an opulent Technicolor adaptation of the...
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1930
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In this espionage drama set during WW I, a French agent sneaks behind enemy lines into Alsace-Lorraine and decides to see...
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1930
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1930
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Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, this film was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but it was held...
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1930
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1930
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Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo made her "talking picture"...
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1930
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Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has...
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1930
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In this drama, a two wealthy cousins find themselves involved in an unfortunate love triangle. The trouble begins when the...
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1930
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Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) directed this second film version of the Bayard Veiller play, which was his first...
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1929
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Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in...
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1929
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Completed as a silent film, Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl was quickly converted into a part-talkie by the simple...
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1929
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MGM's paranoid fear of audience reaction to Greta Garbo's speaking voice must have been the only reason for this plodding...
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1929
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This romantic adventure chronicles the escapades of one of Napoleon's followers. After his leader's exile, the follower is...
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1929
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A group of Londoners gather at the home of their host in order to solve the murders of two company officers. Once assembled...
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1929
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1929
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In this well-executed courtroom drama, a Broadway chorine is accused of stabbing her wealthy boy friend to death. The girl...
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1929
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Marion Davies made her talkie debut in this early musical romance set during World War I. Marianne (Davies) is a beautiful...
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Worried that Greta Garbo's rich, deep voice and thick Swedish accent would not record properly, MGM executives kept Garbo in...
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1929
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In this comedy, an aging fellow falls in love with a free-spirited flapper. His crush causes the normally dignified...
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1929
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Yet another early talkie about love, jealousy and divorce among the upper classes, Their Own Desire remains a dramatically...
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1929
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In this silent film, the beautiful Lili Sterling (Greta Garbo) meets up with the enchanting Prince de Gace (Nils Asther)...
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1929
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Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could...
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1928
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In her last silent film, Norma Shearer plays Dolly, aka Angel Face, a young woman engaged in blackmailing rich libertines....
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1928
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Glamorous Broadway actress Babe (Leatrice Joy) is cast as a Salvation Army lass in her latest musical. For research purposes,...
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1927
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Forbidden Woman was the first production by PDC Pictures to be released after the defection of the company's founder...
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1927
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Although Vanity was one of Leatrice Joy's most successful films, it can hardly be considered one of her best. Joy is cast as...
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1927
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Based on a real-life incident, Maurine Watkins' semi-satirical novel and play Chicago was first brought to the screen in...
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1927
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Despite his accomplishments as an actor, Donald Crisp's talents as a director were slight at best. What makes Crisp's...
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The "wise wife" is Helen Blaisdell (Phyllis Haver), the loving missus of John Blaisdell (Owen Moore). Unfortunately, John's...
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One feels that if Cecil B. DeMille had been assigned to direct the one-character play Krapp's Last Tape, he'd have added...
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This lively outing chronicles the adventures of a daring young buck who defies his father, who grounded the lad for getting...
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Constance Talmadge was at the peak of her career when she made this comedy; she was also near the end of her career. The star...
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