This in-depth, feature length documentary explores the controversial life of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Often...
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2007
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In this concert film, shot at Mantua's legendary Teatro Bibiena, the five-star pianist and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter...
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2006
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On the short list of great cinema dancers, Gene Kelly led a multi-faceted career that included acting, directing, and...
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2002
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This Lifetime Intimate Portrait tells Mia Farrow's life story with the help of interviews with Ms. Farrow herself, her...
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1999
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Songwriter Harold Arlen is the subject of this documentary. Arlen wrote several songs for famous artists, but remained in the...
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1999
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For his first opera, noted composer Andre Previn collaborated with librettist Phillip Littell for this adaptation of...
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Composer (Music Score), Conductor, From Opera by
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1998
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Blue Note Records was founded in the 1930s and has played a vital role in the development of jazz for more than 60 years....
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1997
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This is a documentary film about the work of a legendary producer of musicals. After winning his laurels in 1939 as the...
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1996
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Originally filmed in 1992, this Christmas performance features opera divas Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade alongside...
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1992
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Director
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1991
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Experience the performance then listen to the discussion of its merits. ~ Rovi...
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Director
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1990
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Narrated by Burt Lancaster, Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs provides a comprehensive overview of the life and career of jazz...
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1989
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This program is part of the acclaimed Sounds Magnificent series, showcasing some of the great works in Western classical...
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1984
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This program is part of the acclaimed Sounds Magnificent series, showcasing some of the great works in Western classical...
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1984
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This program is part of the acclaimed Sounds Magnificent series, showcasing some of the great works in Western classical...
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1984
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This program is part of the acclaimed Sounds Magnificent series, showcasing some of the great works in Western classical...
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1984
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Conductor Andre Previn explores the critical backlash against wildly popular composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky before...
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1984
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This program is part of a special series, featuring Andre Previn conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in works of...
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1984
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Conductor Andre Previn conducts Dimitri Shostakovich's "Symphony Number 5" and discusses the changes from 19th to 20th...
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1984
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Andre Previn, performs the "Symphony Fantastique," a landmark...
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1984
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Listen to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Joseph Haydn while discussing the lives and careers of these two...
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1984
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This documentary tells the story of the man who many think was the greatest composer who ever lived. Narrated by Andre...
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1984
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Legendary conductor André Previn leads the London Symphony Orchestra for a series of concert performances in this classical...
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Conductor
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1977
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In the year 2018 violence has been outlawed and corporations have replaced government as the ruling party following the...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1975
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Originally aired in the United States on PBS, playwright Julian Mitchell's BAFTA-award-winning television mini-series tells...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1974
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Conductor
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1973
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1971
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Rosalind Russell plays Mrs. Pollifax in this film, thus joining together a well-loved movie star and a well-loved fictional...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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After a debut on Broadway in 1951, Paramount spent an estimated 17 to 20 million dollars in production costs for this Lerner...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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George Roy Hill directed this original musical set the 1920s that mixes pop standards with new tunes written by Sammy Cahn...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1967
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A cinematic take on a 1960s best-seller, Valley of the Dolls traces the ups and downs of three young women as fame, booze,...
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Songwriter
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1967
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1967
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The British title of Billy Wilder's classic comedy was Meet Whiplash Willie -- for, despite Jack Lemmon's star billing, the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1966
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Screenwriter William Goldman has claimed that Paul Newman agreed to do Harper, the film that established the grateful...
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Songwriter
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1966
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The most interesting aspect of The Swinger is the name of the character played by Ann-Margret: the former Ann Margaret Olsson...
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Songwriter
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1966
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Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) goes from teenage girl to movie star practically overnight when her demented mother enters her...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1965
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Though he's most famous for his portrayal of Victor Laszlo in 1942's Casablanca, actor Paul Henreid took a few turns behind...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1964
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Dean Martin stars in this once-controversial comedy as Dino, a Las Vegas crooner, alcoholic, and celebrity playboy. Dino...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1964
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This romantic comedy opens with a resounding warning: its chief concerns are passion, bloodshed, desire, and death....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1963
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There's a rumor that the MGM executive who thought that Glenn Ford could fill Rudolph Valentino's shoes in the 1962 remake of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1962
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Based on the two-character play by William Gibson, Two for the Seesaw was unnecessarily expanded for the film version....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1962
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1962
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In his last starring film (it was supposed to be his last film, but Ragtime came along in 1981), James Cagney plays Coca-Cola...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1961
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Composer (Music Score)
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1961
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A screwball comedy that turns into political farce, this film was something of a throwback even in 1960. Real-life husband...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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Judy Holliday re-creates her Broadway role of flibbertigibbet telephone operator Ella Peterson in Bells are Ringing. Ella...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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In this romantic comedy, a young basketball star proposes to a tall and intelligent coed while attending Custer College. She...
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Songwriter
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1960
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1959
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Vicki Gaye (Cyd Charisse) is a dancer at a night club in early 1930's Chicago. A healthy cynic who still possesses some...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1958
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1958
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1957
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Hot Summer Night is an out-of-the-ordinary crime yarn from the TV/radio production team of Morton Fine and David Friedkin....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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House of Numbers might have worked better as a farce comedy than a deadly serious melodrama, but everyone involved tries hard...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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Composer (Music Score)
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1956
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MGM's Invitation to the Dance was the fruition of Gene Kelly's long-standing dream to create a plotless "concert" feature....
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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In this western, a pacifistic store owner does all he can to avoid association with his father, a notorious gunfighter. One...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1956
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This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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This fourth film version of the warhorse Edward Knoblock theatrical piece Kismet was based on the Broadway musical version of...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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A good man tries to warn his daughter away from a bad man who has stolen her heart in this melodrama. Steve Latimer...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate is a musical within a musical -- altogether appropriate, since its source material, Shakespeare's...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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After providing excellent support in previous MGM musicals, the singing-dancing team of Marge and Gower Champion were...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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While a man recuperates from a heart-attack, he obsesses with the thought that his wife and his doctor are having an affair,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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MGM went into the western-programmer business relatively late in the game, but made up for lost time with such laudable...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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A murder is witnessed by the victim's little daughter (Gigi Perreau), who immediately goes into a state of shock. All the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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MGM's Three Little Words is a "twin" musical biopic, covering the lives and careers of songwriters Bert Kalmar and...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1950
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Louis B. Mayer's nephew Gerald proved himself an able director with the MGM "B" thriller Dial 1119. Marshall Thompson stars...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1950
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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In this drama, an embittered widow, a former concert singer, can't help but blame Lassie for her son's death. Needing help...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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The oft-filmed Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden was given the usual plush MGM treatment in 1949. Tempestuous...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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As far removed from a "typical" MGM picture as it was possible to get back in 1949, Border Incident is a gritty, realistic...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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A "new" Lassie (once again, a male collie in drag) starred in A Challenge to Lassie, MGM's fourth entry in their series based...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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The Dore Schary regime at MGM brought a much-needed dose of stark realism to the venerable studio. Van Johnson sheds his...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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In this period musical, Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) is the son of a Mexican innkeeper who has come to California to take over a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1948
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Conductor
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Director
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Director
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In this video, Beethoven's music is performed and discussed. ~ Rovi...
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Director
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This release takes an intimate look at the life and career of composer and pianist Andre Previn, examining how he came to...
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