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1957
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Tony Curtis was by 1955 an accomplished enough actor to get through the costumed derring-do of The Purple Mask minus the...
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1955
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The famed Bal Tabarin cabaret in Paris is the gathering spot for this swiftly paced crime melodrama. It all begins when...
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1952
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Who else but Esther Williams could star in a romantic drama (with musical numbers) bearing a title like this? In Million...
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1952
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Alan Ladd stars in Calcutta as devil-may-care pilot Neale Gordon. With his equally fearless partners Pedro Blake...
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1947
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This well-plotted and executed film noir suffered from its lack of star power, but has become something of a cult classic....
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1946
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Officially based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, Experiment Perilous would seem to be more inspired by MGM's psychological...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1945
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Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie...
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1944
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Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on-...
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1944
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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Monty Woolley plays an irascible Englishman who insists that he dislikes children. While on a vacation in France, the Nazis...
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1942
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Two Girls on Broadway is an updated reworking of MGM's Oscar-winning 1929 musical Broadway Melody. Joan Blondell and...
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1940
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride is the next-to-last entry in Paramount's series of "Drummond" B-pictures. It goes without saying...
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1939
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1939
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan attends a WW I reunion in Paris. While catching up with his buddies,...
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1939
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In this comedy set during WW I, two crazy vaudevillians try their new act out on their agent. He thinks it is a real dud and...
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1939
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This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler)...
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1939
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1938
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Even the mighty MGM had to keep the home fires burning with B pictures. The studio's Mama Steps Out is a harmless confection...
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1937
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This romantic tearjerker was the second film based on the popular 1922 stage play. James Stewart stars as Chico, a lowly...
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1937
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Previously teamed in six early-1930s films, James Dunn and Sally Eilers bring the total up to seven with their last...
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1937
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Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with...
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1937
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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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Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This...
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1936
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Gladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word...
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1936
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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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"I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of...
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1935
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Mae West is Goin' to Town in this elegant post-Production Code vehicle. West plays Cleo Borden, a nouveau riche cattle...
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1935
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This big-budget 1936 RKO Studios picture lost money, perhaps due to a cool box-office reception to the idea of leading lady...
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1935
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A famous movie actress takes a trip to New York City. While there, she gets involved with a wisecracking cab driver who is...
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1935
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1934
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1934
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Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen....
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1933
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1933
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The George du Maurier novel Trilby, about a hypnotist who controls a female musician, was originally filmed as Trilby, a...
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1931
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In this drama, a woman with dubious past finds herself blackmailed when she makes plans to marry a senator's son. She finds...
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1931
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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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In this drama, a bored wife amuses herself with a lover from Spain. Later she writes a letter to her spouse explaining her...
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1931
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While...
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Madame Pompier
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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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Mrs. Corbett
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1930
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The widow in question is wealthy Tamarind Brooks (Gloria Swanson), who flits from one man to another with the rapidity of a...
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1930
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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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In this musical, a naive entertainer is sent to Paris by a Broadway producer who wants her return with a more sophisticate,...
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1929
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The scene is New Orleans, during Mardi Gras week. The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren (Jack Mulhall),...
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Ma Tapman
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1926
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Glamorous Gloria Swanson dressed down for this story of a little Parisian thief. Toinette (Swanson) is the leader of a band...
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1924
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Although Gloria Swanson was known as a clotheshorse, occasionally her studio would allow her to rely purely on her acting...
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1924
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