The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the...
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1952
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1949
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A rare black-and-white Maria Montez vehicle, Tangier can be described as a second-echelon Casablanca. Montez plays a Spanish...
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1946
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene...
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1940
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Social-climbing Helen (Jean Muir) sends her less-pretentious younger sister Kate (Laraine Day) to a party in her stead, and...
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1940
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1939
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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1936
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Gloria Stuart's trouble only begins when she inherits a newspaper in this routine, but at times, quite hilarious comedy from...
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1936
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Miss Beasely
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1936
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In this musical comedy a Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school from his late aunt. He breathes life...
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1936
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1935
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1935
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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1933
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The Big Executive is Ricardo Cortez, to whom success is less important than the pursuit of success. Having lost as many...
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1933
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Long-suffering screen favorite Helen Twelvetrees is Disgraced again in this Paramount soap opera. Twelvetrees is cast as Gay...
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1933
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1931
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Poor but honest district attorney Fredric March, sick of the "one law for rich, one law for poor" imbalance, sentences...
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1930
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1930
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In this comedy, a plumbing magnate's son, who has started on the bottom rung of his father's business, is hired to fix the...
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1930
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1929
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Another of Goldwyn's successful pairings of Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky, Two Lovers was the last of their co-starring...
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1928
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Starring Joan Crawford and John Gilbert, this suspenseful, silent crime-drama follows the exploits of a gangster who does his...
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1928
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1928
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The piquant Leatrice Joy starred in this frothy marital comedy about a wife who leaves her boring husband (John Boles) to be...
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1928
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This silent German production is based on the same-named operetta by Oscar Strauss -- minus the musical score, of course....
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1927
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Filmed through mounds of gauze, silent movie queen Mae Murray stars in MGM's Altars of Desire. Murray plays a willful...
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1927
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1927
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Hip-swinging danseuse Gilda Gray, the girl who created the late-'20s dance craze "The Shimmy," plays the provocatively...
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1927
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No relation to the much-later musical comedy of the same name, The Boy Friend focuses on the misadventures of dreamy-eyed...
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1926
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Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused...
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1926
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Mae Murray hid her blonde tresses under a black wig to play the Spanish heroine of Valencia. A singer-dancer in a smoky...
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1926
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Lew Cody stars as Tony Townsend, a top-hatted "international adventurer" who gets into a heap of trouble when he runs out of...
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1926
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Norma Shearer was very much an up-and-coming young actress when she played a dual role in this MGM drama. Molly, a girl of...
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1925
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Betty Bronson, who found overnight success when she played the title character in Peter Pan, has the ingenue lead in this...
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1925
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When Dick Tyler (Conrad Nagel) becomes a partner in the firm of Knight and Tyler, he marries his sweetheart, Doris...
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1925
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This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela Rogers St. John. Maggie...
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1925
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This domestic comedy-drama seems to owe a lot of its spirit to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who made quite a few similar...
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1924
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George Walsh, usually known for his athletic roles, stars in this fantasy based on the famous story by Honoré de Balzac. Poet...
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1923
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This mystery-melodrama had a lot of action and featured a good cast. Railroad magnate Luke Carson (William Worthington) has...
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1923
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1922
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