For many years, Hollywood movie music has been looked down upon and ignored by critics as a valid and important form of...
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Featured Music
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1995
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Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the...
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1970
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Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda headline this western in which an old lawman (Stewart) attempts to keep his town safe from a...
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1968
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1967
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Henry Hathaway's film is based on a character from Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers, who, in turn, based it on cowboy actor...
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1966
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Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20...
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1965
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In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the...
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1962
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Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary...
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1962
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This is the third time around for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The action takes place in urban Texas instead of the...
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1962
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Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford...
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1962
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1961
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The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1961
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Guy Green's social drama stars Stuart Whitman as the title character, a man whose unhealthy childhood has left him bewildered...
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1961
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A star-studded cast enlivens this glossy '50s soap opera, based on a novel by Rona Jaffe. The action unfolds at the...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1959
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This is the autobiographical drama of a young Dutch Jewish girl hiding from the invading Nazis during World War II. Anne and...
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1959
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Director Henry Levin followed up this light romantic comedy with Where the Boys Are and started a beach trend going. This...
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1959
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1958
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1958
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April Love is a musicalized remake of 1944's Home in Indiana. Pat Boone stars as a potential juvenile delinquent who is sent...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1957
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Carousel was adapted from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical of the same name--which, in turn, was based on...
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1956
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1956
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1956
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Anastasia is adapted from the popular stage play by Marcelle Maurette. The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. Ingrid Bergman...
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1956
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Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong...
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1955
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A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played...
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1955
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Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife (Evelyn Keyes) and children off to summer vacation,...
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1955
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This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of...
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1955
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Demetrius and the Gladiators was the sequel to The Robe, and though they were released several months apart, the films were...
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1954
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Hell and High Water brings an intriguing Cold War slant to a standard submarine melodrama. Richard Widmark plays a...
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1954
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Based on the novel by Mika Waltari and helmed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, The Egyptian, a lavish period soaper,...
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1954
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Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its...
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1954
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1954
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1953
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Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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An offbeat blend of World War II drama and "Arabian Nights" escapism, Destination Gobi is all the more odd in that it is...
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1953
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Tonight we Sing is the life story of legendary impresario Sol Hurok, impersonated herein by David Wayne. A lover of the arts,...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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Treasure of the Golden Condor is a Technicolor remake of 1942's Son of Fury; both films were based on the same novel by...
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1953
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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Producer/writer Philip Dunne adapted the screenplay of Way of a Gaucho from the novel by Herbert Childs. Largely filmed on...
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1952
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The upbeat title belies the film's often melancholy subject matter. Based on a novel by Ferdinand Reyher, Nellie stars...
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1952
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James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1952
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Given to violent, unpredictable behavior, composer Richard Morton (Gary Merrill) is an accident waiting to happen. Attempting...
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1952
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1952
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Besotted by alcohol, Australian cattle-station owner Michael McGuire (Finlay Currie) is led to believe that crooked gambler...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1952
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With a Song in My Heart is the story of popular 1930s songstress Jane Froman, here portrayed by Susan Hayward. We first see...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1952
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Generous helpings of stock footage from the 1944 film Buffalo Bill help make Pony Soldier seem far more expensive and...
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1952
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1952
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Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel....
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1952
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Not up to the classic 1935 presentation, this is still an excellent adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel. The familiar...
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1952
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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1952
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for...
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1952
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The original Broadway musical Call Me Mister was a plotless revue. By the time the property made it to the screen, however, a...
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1951
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1951
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Henry Hathaway directed this high-tension drama about a man teetering on the verge of self-destruction and how his dilemma...
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1951
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David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David...
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1951
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After surviving the hell of a Nazi death camp, a refugee faces even greater dangers in America in this tale of murder,...
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Composer (Music Score), Editor, Musical Direction/Supervision
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1951
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Take Care of My Little Girl is a genteel "expose" of college-sorority snobbery. Jeanne Crain stars as Liz Erickson a perky...
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1951
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People Will Talk was less a movie than a conduit for the genteel liberalism of screenwriter/director Joseph M. Mankiewicz....
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1951
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Even at age 38, Loretta Young could successfully pull off her ingenue duties in the innocuous comedy Half Angel. Young plays...
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1951
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In this musical comedy with dramatic touches, Jack and Molly Moran (Dan Dailey and Betty Grable) are a show business couple...
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1950
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A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published...
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1950
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A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1950
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Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around...
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1950
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When the continual bickering of a married couple threatens to tear them apart, an angel is sent to help them get back...
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1950
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Two Flags West is set in the waning days of the Civil War. Colonel Clay Tucker (Joseph Cotten) is one of several Confederate...
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1950
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Indian scout Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He...
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1950
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In this classic noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks...
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1950
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Filmed on location, The Big Lift is a reenactment of the Berlin airlift of 1948. Flexing their postwar muscles, the Russians...
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1950
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Set in Paris, Under My Skin stars John Garfield as a washed-up jockey who has stolen money from a crooked gambler...
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Songwriter
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1950
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Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from...
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1950
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1949
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Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is an adaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the...
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1949
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This full-blooded saga of the 19th century whaling industry stars Lionel Barrymore as tough old salt Captain Bering Joy and...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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How much can a man give? When the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th Bombardment group is ordered on their fourth harrowing...
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1949
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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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Another of 20th Century-Fox's Technicolor musical biopics, Oh You Beautiful Doll is allegedly the life story of popular...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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Elia Kazan directed this, one of Hollywood's early attacks on racism, starring Jeanne Crain as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson....
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1949
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Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco and the surrounding countryside. Richard Conte plays Nick Garcos, an American GI who...
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1949
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A Christmastime TV perennial, Come to the Stable is the gentle saga of two French nuns (Celeste Holm with accent,...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1949
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Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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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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1949
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In this revised adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famous comedy of manners, Lady Windermere's Fan, the middle-aged but still...
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1949
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In this compelling and unusual psychological melodrama Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), a woman tormented by her secret...
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1949
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George Seaton's 1948 comedy Chicken Every Sunday was based on the play by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein as well as...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1948
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, but one set...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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Another of 20th Century-Fox's "drawn from today's headlines" dramas of the late 1940s, Behind the Iron Curtain (a.k.a....
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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William Wellman's westerns always seemed a little claustrophobic, but in Yellow Sky the director's technique works to the...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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1948
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That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1948
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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1948
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Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours is a typically witty and wild screwball comedy starring Rex Harrison as a symphony...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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"A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution." That's the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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In this documentary-inspired thriller, P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) is a reporter who is asked by his editor to look into a...
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1948
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Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the...
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1948
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1948
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1947
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They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber...
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1947
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Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the...
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1947
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Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, this film stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil...
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1947
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A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1947
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Boomerang, directed by Elia Kazan, is a chilling film noir, the true story about the murder of a priest, the subsequent...
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1947
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A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in...
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1947
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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1947
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In this drama, a Bostonian socialite marries the owner of a racehorse and begins a life of globe-trotting from international...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1947
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Daisy Kenyon stars Joan Crawford as the eponymous heroine, a Manhattan commercial artist. Daisy is torn between two men: a...
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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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1947
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Often mistakenly identified as a sequel to My Friend Flicka, Thunder in the Valley actually has more in common with the...
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1947
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In this musical set in late 19th-century Boston, a suffragette secretary finds that her political beliefs are standing in the...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1947
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1947
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This film is not only a revealing glimpse into the workings of the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) during WW II, but it...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1946
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After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in...
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1946
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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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Otto Preminger directed this romantic musical (something of a change of pace for the rather serious-minded director) set in...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1946
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Years before he became the leading star in horror movies, Vincent Price starred in this gothic thriller based on the...
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1946
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20th Century-Fox pulled its script for Three Blind Mice out of mothballs once more for Three Little Girls in Blue....
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1946
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Nostalgic and sweet, this tuneful comedy centers on a mother's reminiscence of her wild time as a 1920s teenage flapper....
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1946
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The real Diamond Horseshoe was a Las Vegas nightclub created by impresario Billy Rose, which spotlighted old-time stars from...
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1945
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The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took...
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1945
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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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1945
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Ernst Lubitsch was the original director for A Royal Scandal, but illness forced him to bow out; his replacement was...
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1945
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Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak),...
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1945
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1945
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1944
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Definitely no relation to the 1980 Louis Malle film of the same name, 1944's Atlantic City is a tuneful Republic musical, not...
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1944
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This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Climbing to fame...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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The year is 1942: eight American airmen crash-land during the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo and are taken prisoner. Though...
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1944
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The Sullivans attempts to find the positives in one of the most tragic chapters of World War II. Edward Ryan, John Campbell,...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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One of three morale-boosting government documentaries directed by Lieutenant Colonel William Wyler (the others were...
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1944
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Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck....
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1944
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Charles Winninger plays an old seaman who rules the roost in his family, which resides on a Florida houseboat. His oldest...
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1944
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Sgt. Andy Mason Jr. (James Ellison) is on the eve of shipping out from New York with his unit -- he's the son of Andrew Mason...
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1943
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On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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An utterly enchanting Technicolor filmization of Mary O'Hara's novel, My Friend Flicka is the story of a beautiful colt and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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Produced on behalf of the U.S. government, December 7th is just as slick and professional as any of director John Ford's...
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1943
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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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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1943
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In this downbeat drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck (which was also adapted for the stage), German troops invade Norway...
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1943
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In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1943
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Everything clicks in this tuneful, colorful and profitable Betty Grable musical. The star plays Katie Farley, a gyrating...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1943
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This is a restored, 82-minute version of 1943's December 7th, originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy to document the events...
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1943
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A musical remake of the 1936 comedy Second Honeymoon and the starring debut of Betty Grable, Springtime in the Rockies tells...
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1942
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In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1942
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Prelude to War was the first entry in the US War Department's Why We Fight series, a group of seven morale-boosing...
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1942
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One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WWII, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli...
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1942
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Highlights from World War II are documented in this award-winning film. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and...
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1942
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One of the shortest and sweetest of Betty Grable's Technicolor musicals, Song of the Islands casts the Leggy One as Eileen,...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1942
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Director Rouben Mamoulian completed a three-picture 20th Century Fox deal with this airy comic romance that attempted to ape...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1942
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In this comedy, set in WW II, a Venezuelan rubber planter's son must travel to New York to try and secure a loan for the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the...
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1942
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1942
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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In this drama, a has-been stage thespian finds that his alcoholism is ruining his life. When his daughter, a cripple,...
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1942
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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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1942
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1942
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Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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In this musical, the cruise that salesgirl Nan Spencer (Alice Faye) worked so hard to pay for is cut tragically short when...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1941
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The first of several remakes of 1938's Three Blind Mice, the Technicolor musical Moon Over Miami stars Betty Grable and...
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1941
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1941
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Wild Geese Calling is one of those 20th Century-Fox star vehicles which used to pop up all the time on TV before the Carsons,...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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That Night in Rio is a musical remake of 1934's Folies Bergère. Don Ameche plays a dual role as a middle-aged Brazilian...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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1941
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On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment...
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1941
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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1941
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A hunter finds himself in a world of danger when he decides to stalk Adolf Hitler in this taut WWII thriller. Capt. Thorndike...
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1941
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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A dedicated nurse in a British hospital takes a nervous rookie under her wing. When the new nurse messes up and causes a...
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1940
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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1940
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1940
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Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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Future blacklistee John Howard Lawson co-wrote this remake of Samuel Goldwyn's 1920 drama Earthbound, presented here as a...
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1940
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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1940
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Communism-the American variety-is given a hilarious going-over in 20th Century-Fox's Public Deb No. 1. Spoiled society girl...
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1940
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This sweeping drama chronicles the foundation a Canadian institution: the Hudson's Bay Trading Company. Set in the 17th...
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1940
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The town of Vinegaroon, TX, is the home to Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), who calls himself "The Only Law West of the...
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1940
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This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing...
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1940
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1940
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"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy...
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1940
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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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When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily...
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1940
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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1940
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Like its predecessors, this third cinema version of Sidney Hoiward's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted...
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1940
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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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The Star Maker is the story (with variations) of vaudeville enterpreneur Gus Edwards, here played by Bing Crosby. Determining...
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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1939
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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1939
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1939
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Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a...
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1939
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The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of...
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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1939
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John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film...
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1939
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Set during the turn-of-the-century Moro uprising in the Philippines, The Real Glory stars Gary Cooper as an American Marine...
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1939
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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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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1938
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After an eccentric young woman (Merle Oberon) is left on her father's estate to keep her from spoiling his Presidential bid,...
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1938
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1938
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History is Made at Night has been described as a romantic tragedy, which it indeed is, up to a point. The film begins...
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1937
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Framed in a flashback related by doctor Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is in essence the story of a struggle between...
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1937
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This musical chronicles 15 years in the life of a New York City Street. In 1912, 52nd Street is a peaceful residential...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot...
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1937
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This early feminist tale was a box-office flop that was released after years of script doctoring. Producer Samuel Goldwyn...
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1937
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Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined...
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1937
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Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once....
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1937
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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1937
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1937
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Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the...
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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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Musical comedy star Eddie Cantor stars in this story, well suited to his talents, as Eddie Pink, a meek gentleman who works...
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1936
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A remake of the French comedy Monsieur Sans-Gene, One Rainy Afternoon gets under way when film-actor Phillippe Martin...
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1936
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Dancing Pirate was the second feature-length production by Pioneer Pictures, whose earlier effort Becky Sharp was the first...
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1936
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The Gay Desperado is a 1936 musical lampooning the then-popular gangster pictures. Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican...
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1936
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This episodic satire of the Machine Age is considered Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film, although Chaplin uses sound,...
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1936
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In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged...
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1936
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This lavishly appointed Sam Goldwyn soap opera is set in Ireland during "the troubles." Irish rebel leader Dennis Reardon...
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1936
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First filmed in 1910, the venerable Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona was remade in 1936 in full Technicolor (20th...
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1936
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1936
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1935
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Metropolitan was the first release from the newly merged 20th Century-Fox corporation. Famed operatic baritone...
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1935
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1935
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The Broadway Melody of 1936 was designed as the first of many annual follow-ups to "MGM"'s early-talkie triumph...
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1935
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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's...
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1935
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American opera baritone George Houston, who later gained a measure of fame as a western hero, made his film debut in The...
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1935
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1935
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This romantic comedy-drama is set -- typical for producer Samuel Goldwyn at the time -- among the upper class. Joel McCrea...
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1935
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The third screen version of Jack London's classic adventure story was also the first with sound, and it toyed with the...
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1935
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1935
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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1935
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Unable to secure Hollywood-studio backing for his Depression-era agrarian drama Our Daily Bread, director King Vidor financed...
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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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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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1934
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1934
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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While crossing the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner, a radio troupe (led by Jack Benny) becomes involved in a murder mystery...
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1934
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Joe Graham (Spencer Tracy), a troubleshooter for the telephone company, suspects that his beloved Ethel (Constance Cummings)...
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1934
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The Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer's popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life...
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1934
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Loretta Young, who became known almost exclusively for playing sweet, wholesome roles, is kind of a shocker in this romantic...
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1934
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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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We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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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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1933
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Roland Brown's Blood Money (1933) has lost none of its ability to entertain and startle over the seven decades since its...
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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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1933
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Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and...
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1933
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Max Miller's best-seller forms the basis of this romantic melodrama about cynical, hard-drinking reporter Joe Miller...
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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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1933
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This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a...
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1933
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Hoping to match the success of his boisterous (and Oscar-winning) silent comedy Two Arabian Knights, and at the same time...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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1932
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Zoë Akins' archetypal "gold-digger" stage comedy The Greeks Had a Word for It was transferred to the screen in 1933, with the...
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1932
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In this romantic comedy a demanding French actress is upset because she has not recently received the proper adulation from...
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1932
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The pleasures of the flesh confront the discipline of the Lord's teachings in this screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's...
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1932
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In director Leo McCarey's film The Kid From Spain, actor Eddie Cantor plays mischievious college boy Eddie Williams, who,...
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1932
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Although the photography of the beautiful South Seas island and the musical score of this movie (by Alfred Newman) make this...
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1932
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Charles Chaplin was deep into production of his silent City Lights when Hollywood was overwhelmed by the talkie revolution....
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1931
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1931
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Of interest mainly because of the talent involved, this film remains a tepid bootleg melodrama about a small-town football...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Eddie Cantor plays Eddie Simpson, a shy and jumpy young fellow who spontaneously bursts into song whenever he gets nervous....
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1931
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One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
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1931
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1931
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In this elaborate big-budget musical, a handsome businessman follows a beautiful woman aboard a luxury liner and begins to...
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1931
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Divesting herself of her own production company, silent-screen queen Gloria Swanson entered into a two-picture deal with...
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1931
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1930
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Ronald Colman plays the "black sheep" of a wealthy British family, sent to South Africa so that he'll be as far away from...
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1930
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