In this crime comedy, a fortune is stolen and every gangster in town is looking for it. They all end up staying at a young...
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Auntie
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1938
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When Marie Dressler died in 1934, the career of her frequent screen partner Polly Moran went into eclipse. Four years later,...
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Josephine Bonney
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1938
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In this drama, a young man aspires to a life of wealth and power in the newspaper business. Unfortunately, it takes time and...
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Nora
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1938
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The "Stavisky Affair," a high-level swindling scandal which all but destroyed the French government in the early 1930s, was...
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Suzanne
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1937
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Agatha Stanton
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1937
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On New Year's Eve, aspiring actress Julia Wayne (Joan Bennett) and chronic gambler Larry Stevens (Joel McCrea), both flat...
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Lillie "The Toad" Eckleberger
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1936
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Mme. Barabbas
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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To finance such major productions as Ramona and Lloyds of London, 20th Century-Fox had to maintain a quota of such minor but...
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Aunt Frederika
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1936
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In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so...
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1936
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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Lady Gertrude Allwyn
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1936
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Mrs. Pampinelli
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1935
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Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the last time on this...
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Senora Perez
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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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Miss Crowley
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1935
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S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case....
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Mrs. Llewellyn
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1935
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The stigma of miscegenation (horrors!) is at the base of this very dated romantic melodrama. Charles Boyer stars as Dmitri...
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1935
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The fourth screen version of Hubert Henry Davies' 1914 play Outcast, this comedy-drama stars Bette Davis as Miriam Brady, a...
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Mrs. Martin
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1935
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Not even considered a good film back in 1935, Dangerous is held together by the mesmerizing performance of Bette Davis. The...
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Mrs. Williams
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1935
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Countess Rostova
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1934
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1934
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The Countess
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1934
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Adapted from an earlier European film, Wharf Angel stars Dorothy Dell as Toy, a golden-hearted prostitute stranded in San...
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Mother Bright
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1934
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It's Grand Hotel on the high seas, with a remarkable cast -- particularly for the usually parsimonious Columbia Pictures. As...
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Mrs. Magruder
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1934
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In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young...
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Miss Vanderdoe
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1934
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Glamorous American jewel-thief Sophie Lang (Gertrude Michael) not only regularly outwits Scotland Yard, but has great fun...
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Aunt Nellie
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1934
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A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse in this uproarious farce from Paramount. Naming the...
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Beulah Bonnell
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1933
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Tillie Winterbottom
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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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Lady Barrett-Smythe
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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Grand Duchess Emilie
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1933
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Frau Rasmussen
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1933
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In this comedy, a childlike playboy inherits the family fortune and gets himself a worldly butler who teaches him how to...
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1933
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Confidence woman Martha Hicks (Alison Skipworth), better known to those who know her at all as "the Countess," is a career...
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"Countess von Claudwig"/Martha Hicks
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1932
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In this comedy, a nursemaid steals the heart of a wealthy socialite and thereby saves him from marrying a conniving...
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Mrs. Hawkins
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1932
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Paramount Pictures seldom fully utilized the talents of contract player Carole Lombard, as witness such tedious programmers...
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Mrs. Blake
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1932
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Based on Abel Kandel's 1931 play Hot Money, this delightfully daffy comedy from Warner Bros. is a typical example of that...
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1932
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1932
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In one of his first starring roles, George Raft plays Joe Anton, a tough but basically decent speakeasy owner who falls in...
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Mrs. Mabel Jellyman
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1932
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In this drama, a doctor and his wife are stationed in Singapore where the lonely wife, tired of constantly trying to get his...
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Mrs. Wey-Smith
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1931
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In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's...
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Countess de Martini
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1931
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Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets....
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1931
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Virtuous Husband was adapted from Apron Strings, a play by Dorrance Davis. Though his mother has been dead several years,...
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Mrs. Olwell
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1931
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1931
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This unusual supernatural drama, based on a 1924 Broadway stage hit, concerns a disparate group of people who find themselves...
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1930
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This sprightly romantic comedy chronicles the delightfully unlikely and tempestuous relationship between an opera diva and a...
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1930
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Strictly Unconventional offers two subplots united by irony. British wife Elizabeth (Catherine Dale Owen), weary of her much...
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1930
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The third in a succession of film adaptations of author E.W. Hornung's novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, this version was...
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Kitty Melrose
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1930
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This drama chronicles the rise of a famous Madame from casino hostess to king's mistress. Her story begins as she is being...
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1930
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Silent film star Norma Talmadge's last film was the 100 percent all-talkie Dubarry. Adapted from the popular stage play by...
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1930
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1930
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aka Handcuffs and Kisses The producers of this picture apparently got their inspiration from a magazine story about the...
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Miss Strodd
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1921
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