Patricia Barry guest-stars as Sabrina, a self-centered movie star who arrives in San Juan to film her latest movie. Saved...
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1968
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Season seven of The Beverly Hillbillies began on September 25, 1968, with an echo of the series' sixth-season opener. In "A...
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1968
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Once again, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) hopes to weasel out of chopping wood for Kate's ancient stove. This time, his plan...
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1965
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This standard love story adapted by Leonard Spigelgass from his stage play was acclaimed when it was released for probing...
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1961
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Arrested and jailed on a charge of murdering a small-town mayor, Bret (James Garner) is none too encouraged by his...
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1960
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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1956
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The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own...
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1956
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Director Robert Z. Leonard brought his 31-year association with MGM to a rousing close with The King's Thief. Set in England...
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1955
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Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the...
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1954
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Alphonsus Mannering
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1954
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Robert Newton exhibits absolutely no shame in his portrayal of the title character in Blackbeard the Pirate. If you thought...
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1952
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1952
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Blue-collar gal Henrietta Smith (Anne Sheridan) is mistaken for a woman of wealth by plumber Fred Newcombe (John Lund)....
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1952
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit served up another winner with the Technicolor actioner Crosswinds. Set in New Guinea, the film...
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Sir Cecil Daubrey
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1951
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The "bandit" of the title is notorious 18th-century British highwayman Dick Turpin, herein portrayed by Louis Hayward. The...
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1951
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Wagon Master, splendidly directed by John Ford, is a superlative western. The film is the outwardly simple tale of a Mormon...
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Dr. A. Locksley Hall
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1950
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The Jackpot is a generally pleasing satire of quiz programs. James Stewart stars as Bill Lawrence, an average Joe who picks...
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Leslie
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1950
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Adapted from a play by Honore de Balzac, Lovable Cheat offers a veritable smorgasbord of Hollywood's top character actors....
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Justin
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1949
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This Abbott & Costello vehicle was originally planned as a Bob Hope comedy titled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly...
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1949
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When a priceless diamond is stolen from a museum exhibition all suspicion falls upon the notorious Lone Wolf, a former jewel...
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Jamison
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1949
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Set in the 1920s and 1930s, 20th Century-Fox's You're My Everything borrows elements from several true-life showbiz stories,...
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1949
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An Innocent Affair was the original release title for the tame marital comedy Don't Trust Your Husband. Making her first film...
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1948
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Robin Hood (Jon Hall) acosts Sir Allan Claire (Michael Duane) and his sister Lady Marian (Patricia Morison) in Sherwood...
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The Friar
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1948
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1948
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Mr. Spitzer
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1948
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The George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Merton of the Movies was previously filmed in 1923 with Glenn Hunter, and in 1932...
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Frank Mulvaney
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1947
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Beneath the proper, prurient exterior of a spinster college professor beats the passionate, seductive heart of a sexy...
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1947
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In this drama, a print shop owner suffers a blow to the head and wakes up a mind-reader. Meanwhile the president of a...
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Martine
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1947
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In this big-budget historical adventure, Tyrone Power stars as Pedro De Vargas, a young and impetuous nobleman in 16th...
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1947
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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Maxwell
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1947
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J.C. Crow
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1946
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The penultimate entry in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series, Terror by Night takes place almost exclusively on a speeding...
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Maj. Duncan-Bleek / Col. Sebastian Moran
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1946
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One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt...
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1946
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In this high-spirited musical comedy, J. Newport Bates (Eddie Bracken) is a millionaire who finds women are only interested...
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1945
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In this musical, a humble cigarette girl dreams of auditioning for the handsome bandleader at the nightclub. Her many...
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Col. Ambrose Morgan
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1945
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In 1912, John Bunny and Flora Finch starred in the one-reel farce The New Secretary, wherein Bunny's wife hires a homely...
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1945
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Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and...
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1945
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Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies....
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Grand Duke Paul
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1945
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A policeman teams up with a drama critic to solve a mystery in this drama. They look into a case involving a wealthy, famous...
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Cecil Moore
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1945
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In this engagingly silly musical fantasy from the waning days of WW2, Fred MacMurray stars as Bill, who wants to serve his...
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1945
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Rodney Spoonyer
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1944
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The Devil Checks Up is the 1944 reissue title for the 1942 Hal Roach "screamliner" The Devil With Hitler. Alan Mobray plays...
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1944
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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1944
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The exciting world of the cosmetic industry provides the basis of this lively low-budget musical comedy that centers on the...
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1944
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A man trying to leave his fame behind discovers the perils of choosing to be the wrong unknown person in this farcical...
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Mr. Pennington
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1943
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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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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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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So This is Washington is one of the better entries in the "Lum 'N' Abner" film series. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff...
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Mr. Marshall
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1943
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By Monogram standards, the cast of Isle of Missing Men was Academy Award calibre. John Howard and Gilbert Roland head a group...
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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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MGM's A Yank at Eton follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A Yank at Oxford, with a wartime angle...
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1942
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1942
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Republic's ongoing professional association with the celebrated "Ice-Capades" skating show yielded a number of flashy but...
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1942
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The Devil
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1942
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In this musical comedy, a country bumpkin spends most of his free time watching movies and becomes such an expert that he can...
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R.B. Harris
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1942
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With The Mad Martindales, the eight-year association between 20th Century-Fox and child star Jane Withers came to an end....
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Hugo Martindale
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1942
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For the benefit of those who came in late, the John Robert Powers modelling agency was at one time the most famous and...
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1942
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Sir William Hamilton
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1941
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This back-stage romantic comedy pokes fun at Hollywood cowboys as it tells the story of a champion rodeo rider who is...
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Phineas Johnson
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1941
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A sequel to the zany backstage comedy Curtain Call, RKO Radio's Footlight Fever once again stars Alan Mowbray and Donald...
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Avery
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1941
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Ernst Lubitsch's That Uncertain Feeling was previously filmed by the director in 1925 as Kiss Me Again; both versions were...
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Dr. Vengard
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1941
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By Republic Pictures standards, 1941's Ice-Capades certainly qualifies as an "all-star" film. The many subplots center around...
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Pete Ellis
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1941
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Ubiquitous 20th Century-Fox contractee Lynn Bari is the heroine of The Perfect Snob. Carefully raised by her social-climbing...
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1941
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In this comedy, a popular radio marriage counselor tends to ignore his own advice and his wife to boot. One day, a handsome...
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Grover Sloan
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1941
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Well-known New York sports promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) is the prime suspect in the murder of Vicky Lynn...
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1941
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Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using...
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Cribbs the Villain
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1940
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In this Mexican adventure, a daring man robs a stage coach. During the robbery, his mask slips off when he steals a kiss....
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John Travers
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1940
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1940
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J.R. Russell
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1940
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A Broadway producer and a director conspire to destroy the career of an aging star so they can tear up her contract and use...
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Donald Avery
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1940
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This mistaken-identity concoction takes place on a college campus--a familiar locale for Paramount B-pictures. Wayne Morris...
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Prof. Hobbs
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1940
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Boasting Tony Martin and Rita Hayworth and bandleader Andre Kostelanitz as its leading players, it's surprising that Music in...
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Charles Gardner
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1940
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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Prince Smirnov
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1939
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Way Down South ranks as among the better Bobby Breen musicals, if only because of its impressive production credits. The film...
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Jacques Bouton
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1939
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Except for a few clips from 1937's Topper, Cary Grant is absent from the proceedings of the 1939 sequel Topper Takes a Trip,...
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Wilkins
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1938
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Grosvenor, the Butler
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1938
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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Penny E. Pennypepper
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1938
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An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All...
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Henry Morgan
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1937
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Director Roy Del Ruth and singing star Dick Powell were raided from the Warner Bros. stables for this frothy musical comedy...
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1937
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The disarmingly zany Marry the Girl was one of the better Hugh Herbert "B"-vehicles for Warner Bros. Much of the story takes...
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1937
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Groucho Marx received co-writer credit (along with his old friend Norman Krasna) for King and the Chorus Girl, though very...
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Donald
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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Alexander Dupre
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1937
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Wally
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1937
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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Leon Rodowsky
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1937
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Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in...
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Koslofski
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1937
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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Wilkins
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1937
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A Mississippi flood saves the life of a petty crook who is about to be lynched for a murder he did not commit. After he...
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1937
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Ladies in Love transplants 20th Century-Fox's favorite film plot--three girls on the prowl for rich husbands--into the...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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When wealthy Mr. Ames is murdered, his beautiful wife Hope (Madeleine Carroll) is the principal suspect. She is acquitted...
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1936
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Mary Ellis, Paramount's answer to Columbia's Grace Moore, stars in the title role in this musical melodrama/whodunit. When...
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1936
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1936
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When New York police commissioner Lewis J. Valentine instructed his men that the best way to handle criminals was to "muss...
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Paul Harding
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1936
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In this frothy romantic adventure, Marlene Dietrich plays Madeleine de Beaupre, a devious jewel thief. After sneaking a...
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1936
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Four Days Wonder is adapted from the A. A. Milne novel of the same name. New Universal contractee Jeanne Dante stars as...
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Archibald Fenton
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1936
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Charismatic Polish opera singer Jan Kiepura made his Hollywood debut in Give Us This Night. His thick Slavic accent...
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1936
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Another of Thorne Smith's slyly naughty fantasy novels, Night Life of the Gods was transferred to the screen with reasonable...
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Hunter Hawky
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1935
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A variation on the Lady for a Day theme, Universal's Lady Tubbs stars Alice Brady as Henrietta "Mom" Tubbs, the no-nonsense...
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Elyot Wembsleigh
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1935
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Now famous as the first feature film produced in the three-strip Technicolor process, Becky Sharp is also an enjoyable effort...
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Rawdon Crowley
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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1935
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Francis Lederer stars as the prince of a mythical European kingdom. To mingle with the "common folk" while on a visit to New...
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Lord Clewe
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1935
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After suffering a nervous breakdown (at least that's what she calls it), imperious movie star Carol Corliss (Ginger Rogers)...
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Jay Holmes
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1935
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George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish bankers. Despite the...
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1934
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Formerly known as Allied Pictures, M. J. Hoffman's Liberty Pictures turned out quite a few potentially interesting...
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Paul Southern
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1934
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Set in Germany shortly before the collapse of the Weimar Republic, this romantic drama chronicles the travails of an...
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1934
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Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) spends an eventful weekend at an English country estate in this fog-bound...
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Geoffrey Richmond
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1934
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Looking for all the world like a 2-reel comedy bloated to 6-reel proportions, Embarrassing Moments was directed by...
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Aheam
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1934
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John Barrymore is the Long Lost Father in this lightweight seriocomedy. Barrymore is felicitously cast as Carl Bellairs, who...
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Sir Anthony Gelding
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1934
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Nicholas
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1934
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1934
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A woman may be forced back into a dangerous relationship in order to save her good name in this drama from director James...
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1934
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson solve a puzzling case in which a bloody foreign word is found beside a murder victim. The plot...
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1933
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Capt. Christopher Brent
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1933
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The life and times of one of France's most influential authors and philosophers receives the romantic treatment from director...
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1933
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Adapted from John Balderston's successful stage fantasy (itself based on a story by Henry James), Berkeley Square is the...
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Major Clinton
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1933
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Everybody in The Midnight Club is seeing double, and it's all the handiwork of slick London criminal mastermind Colin Grant...
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1933
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Produced in Arizona by theater legend Oliver Morosco's wife Helen Mitchell, Her Secret told the sordid story of Waffles (Sari...
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Nils Norton
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1933
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This well-wrought drama chronicles the rise and fall of a midwestern family dynasty from the mid 1800s through the Great...
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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Our Betters is adapted from Somerset Maugham's play about the shallowness and hypocrisy of the idle rich. American heiress...
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1933
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Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called...
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1932
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A 1930 stage play by William A. Grew was the source for the 1932 Universal film Nice Women. Sidney Fox stars as Bess Girard,...
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Mark Chandler
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1932
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This version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed tale is set in contemporary London and follows Holmes and Watson as they seek...
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1932
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Constance Bennett suffers nobly in this outdated but fairly engrossing melodrama in which a seemingly hardened debutante...
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1932
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The "Enoch Arden" theme is trotted out and slicked up for The Man From Yesterday. Nurse Claudette Colbert marries army doctor...
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Dr. Waite
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1932
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1932
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This film version of the Jack DeLeon-Jack Celestin play Silent Witness stars Lionel Atwill in his original stage role of Sir...
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1932
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In this drama, an jewel thief is let out of prison and heads for a New York hotel to find the jewels he hid in the fireplace...
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Mr. Underwood
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop for Paramount's The World and the Flesh. Marked for death by the Bolsheviks, a...
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Duke Dimitri
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1932
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James Cagney stars as a popular prizefighter who loses his winnings through too much partying and too many women. Cagney's...
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1932
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Legendary songwriter and vaudevillian George M. Cohan made his first appearance in a sound film with this satiric musical...
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1932
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Lovers Courageous represents a rare direct-to-screen original by Frederick Lonsdale, the playwright responsible for such...
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1932
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This imitation-Lubitsch romantic comedy stars William Powell as an elegant jewel thief plying his trade in Vienna. Powell's...
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Fritz
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1932
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Robert Montgomery plays an aimless young man who secures a job as a bailiff's deputy. Montgomery is assigned to guard a house...
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1931
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1931
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God's Gift to Women demonstrated conclusively that Warner Bros. would never make a movie star out of Broadway comedian...
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1931
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Jerry
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1931
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Alexander Hamilton was not precisely the life story of America's first secretary of the treasury--in fact, it doesn't even...
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George Washington
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1931
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In this swashbuckling melodrama, set in Budapest, a seductive gold-digger becomes the mistress of a wealthy old man. She,...
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Tony Revere
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1931
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In this heart-tugging musical, a Southern boy loses his parents during the Civil War and is forcibly wrenched away from his...
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Ralph Layton
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1930
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