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Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Steve Forrest, Liliane Montevecchi, James Robertson Justice, Sara Garcia, Eduardo Noriega
Synopsis: Filmmaker Albert Lewin's fascination with erotic exotica reaches a pinnacle in The Living Idol. James Robertson Justice plays Dr. Alfred Stones, an archeologist working in Mexico. It is Dr. Stones' contention that Indian maiden Juanita (Lilliane Montevecchi) is the reincarnation of an Aztec Read More
Actors: Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam, Michel Simon, Cyril Cusack
Synopsis: Saadia is an MGM-ized version of the Francis D'Autheville novel Echeck au Destin. Produced, directed and written by the always fascinating Albert Lewin (The Moon and Sixpence, Picture of Dorian Gray), the film stars Cornel Wilde as Si Lahssen, the progressive ruler of the Moroccan province of Read More
Actors: James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Marius Goring
Synopsis: Many cineastes consider Pandora and the Flying Dutchman as the masterpiece of filmmaker Albert Lewin, while others write the film off as a pretentious bore. Ava Gardner stars as Pandora Reynolds, a predatory creature who destroys the lives of all men who've been unfortunate enough to fall in love Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, David Bond, Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, John Carradine
Synopsis: Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with Egyptian sculpture and feline symbolism, managed to inject both into The Private Affairs of Bel Ami. Though based on a Guy de Maupassant story, Bel Ami seems to have been Read More
Actors: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford
Synopsis: The Picture of Dorian Gray was writer/director Albert E. Lewin's fascinating follow-up to his expressive-esoterica masterpiece The Moon and Sixpence. Hurd Hatfield essays the title character, a London aristocrat who would sell his soul to remain handsome and young--and, in a manner of speaking, he Read More
Actors: George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Steven Geray, Eric Blore
Synopsis: The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham's account of the life of artist Paul Gauguin, was brought to the screen as a labor of love by writer/director Albert Lewin. George Sanders plays Charles Strickland, a staid London broker who kicks over the traces to become an artist. Strickland pursues Read More
Crew: Producer
Actors: Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford, Anna Sten
Synopsis: The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War II, Adolph Hitler goes unmentioned (we wouldn't want to lose those foreign markets, would we?) Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel Flotsam, the film zeroes in on three Read More
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Helen Westley, Constance Collier
Synopsis: The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by Pauline Frederick in 1915 and by Gloria Swanson in 1923 when this Claudette Colbert version hit the screens in early 1939. Doing her own singing and dancing, Colbert plays Read More
Actors: George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Barrymore
Synopsis: The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before special effects got its own category. Henry Fonda stars as Jim Kimmerlee, a salmon fisherman in Alaska who has become at odds with a childhood friend, Tyler Dawson (George Read More
Actors: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel, Porter Hall
Synopsis: Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her tongue in her cheek. Helen is married to a Kenneth Bartlett, a scrupulously honest lawyer whose integrity has always held him back professionally. Hoping to help Kenneth Read More
Actors: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch, Charles Grapewin
Synopsis: Based on Donald Davis and Owen Davis' stage-adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's sprawling novel, Sidney Franklin's The Good Earth is the story of a Chinese farming couple whose lives are torn apart by poverty, greed, and nature. Paul Muni stars as Wang Lung a hardworking, but poor, farmer who weds Read More
Crew: Associate Producer
Actors: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Herbert Mundin, Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan
Synopsis: The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the titular 1789 ship mutiny, and this 1935 MGM movie version won the Oscar for Best Picture. Clark Gable stars as Fletcher Christian, first mate of the infamous HMS Bounty Read More
Actors: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell, Lewis Stone
Synopsis: China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex symbols Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. Gable plays the captain of a tramp steamer chugging between Singapore and Hong Kong. Harlow is Gable's ex-main squeeze, a "woman of the Read More
Actors: Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young, ZaSu Pitts, Maude Eburne
Synopsis: The legendary theatrical team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne made their only starring screen appearance in this 1931 adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman. The Lunts are appropriately cast as a famous husband-and-wife acting duo, the husband of which suspects the wife of infidelity. To Read More
Actors: Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Karen Morley, Hale Hamilton
Synopsis: MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this two-year project to an end. Tibbett plays a cocky marine stationed in Havana, who devotes his attention to voluptuous Cuban peanut vendor Lupe Velez. He serenades her with "The Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Norma Shearer, Ralph Forbes, Owen Moore, O.P. Heggie, Gwen Lee
Synopsis: The Actress is a silent-film adaptation of Arthur Wing Pinero's evergreen stage play Trelawny of the Wells. Norma Shearer plays Rose Trelawny, who becomes an accomplished actress only after she learns to "love the players"-that is, to believe in what she's doing. While touring with a second-string Read More
Actors: William Haines, George K. Arthur, George Fawcett, Eileen Percy
Synopsis: Another of William Haines' sports-oriented vehicles, Spring Fever casts the star as lowly shipping clerk Jack Kelly. Falling in love with heiress Allie Monte (a young Joan Crawford), Jack bluffs his way into Allie's country club, posing as a champion golfer. By the time he realizes that Allie Read More
Actors: Claire Windsor, William Haines, Harry Carey, Claire McDowell, Lawford Davidson
Synopsis: Because of his impressive work in Brown of Harvard and Tell It to the Marines, William Haines had just achieved stardom when he was featured in this simple little comedy, based on the play by Rachel Crothers. But he's nearly upstaged by Harry Carey who, without his usual Western gear, makes a Read More
Actors: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Flora Finch, Margaret Seddon
Synopsis: A bit more sedate and reserved than the usual Marion Davies vehicle, this 1927 adaptation of James M. Barrie's Quality Street turned out to be one of the star's best and most likeable films. Davies is cast as Phoebe, a pretty young thing who agrees to be faithful to her sweetheart Dr. Valentine Read More
Actors: Renée Adorée, Ralph Graves, Paulette Duval, Malcolm Waite, Margaret Seddon
Synopsis: Set sometime during the 19th century, Blarney deals with the exploits of Irish prizefighter James Carabine (Ralph Graves). Aspiring to become the greatest bare-knuckle boxer in the world, Carabine stows away on a boat bound for America. On the verge of being discovered, our hero is rescued by Read More
Actors: Conrad Nagel, Claire Windsor, George Cooper, Bert Roach, Tom O'Brien
Synopsis: The fact that the advertising posters for Tin Hats were designed by John Held Jr. is the most memorable aspect of this minor WWI comedy. Conrad Nagel, George Cooper and Tom O'Brien star as Jack, Lefty and Sarge, three American doughboys who manage to get lost behind enemy lines on Armistice Day. Read More
Actors: Elaine Hammerstein, T. Roy Barnes, Gertrude Short
Synopsis: This early Columbia production stars Elaine Hammerstein as the best friend of Gertrude Short, a predatory society girl who intends to trap wealthy T. Roy Barnes into marriage. Instead, Hammerstein and Barnes fall in love with each other. The nonplused Short persists in trying to force Barnes to Read More
Actors: Dorothy Revier, Forrest Stanley, Clarissa Selwynne
Synopsis: Legend has it that Dorothy Revier rose to stardom in the Columbia Pictures product of the 1920s because she was the "good friend" of Columbia head man Harry Cohn; some sources suggest that Revier was also the model for the studio's famous torch-lady trademark. In Fate of the Flirt, the actress is Read More
Actors: Mae Busch, Robert W. Frazer, Wanda Hawley, Pat O'Malley, Hobart Bosworth
Synopsis: After seeing their mother (Eugenie Besserer) struggle to eke out a meager existence for her family, her daughters Jeanette (Mae Busch) and Alice (Wanda Hawley) take different paths. Jeanette finds work as a stenographer, while Alice marries a poor workman and gives birth to a brood of children. Read More
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