Born in Seattle, WA, in late 1921, Carol Channing made her Broadway debut in 1941 in the show Let's Face It, and she's been...
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2012
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Adventure-loving house painter Mr. Popper (Jim Carrey) contends with the problem of having too many penguins in director...
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Mrs. Van Gundy
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2011
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In the early years of Walt Disney Studios, the company was associated largely, if not exclusively, with animated...
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2008
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Jerry Herman is a singer and songwriter who rose to fame on the strength of several hit Broadway shows, launched at a time...
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2007
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A nanny reveals ways of making children behave that are much more effective than a time-out in this fantasy comedy based on...
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Aunt Adelaide
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2006
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Angela Lansbury guest stars as Eleanor Duvall, the wealthy and politically powerful mother of suspected serial rapist Gabriel...
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2005
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Experience the performances that made Broadway history in this release that compiles twenty-three unforgettable musical...
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2005
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2005
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Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is...
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2004
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Dora
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2004
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2004
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This fourth TV movie inspired by the classic, long-running mystery series Murder, She Wrote is also the first based on a...
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Jessica Fletcher
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2003
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Broadway's Lost Treasures is a two-hour collection of musical highlights, culled from 19 years (1967-1986) of Tony Awards...
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Host
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2003
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Stage and screen actress Angela Lansbury joins The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square for a special...
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2002
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Angela Lansbury guest stars as Lady Penelope Berrington, the proud and very haughty matriarch of a famous tea-manufacturing...
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2002
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Initially released to IMAX theaters at the crescendo of millennial fever and 60 years after the original Fantasia, Fantasia...
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Narrator
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2000
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Film director George Cukor (1899-1983) gets the American Masters treatment in this documentary from the acclaimed PBS series....
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2000
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In this feature-length follow-up to the long-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, homespun mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher...
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Jessica Fletcher
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2000
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Chief film critic of Variety and director of the acclaimed Visions of Light (1993), Todd McCarthy spins this love letter to...
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1999
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Based on the first of Dorothy Gilman's popular novels about a senior citizen who joins the CIA, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax...
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Emily Pollifax
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1999
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This two-hour TV entertainment special takes a surface skim (95 minutes minus commercials and promos) over the history of...
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1998
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The history of color photography in motion pictures is lovingly detailed with vibrant film clips and first-person interviews...
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1998
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Three years after the cancellation of her popular series Murder She Wrote, Angela Lansbury returns for the first of several...
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1997
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The first feature from the 20th Century-Fox animation unit in Phoenix, Arizona, this is the ninth film produced and directed...
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1997
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Angela Lansbury shows off her gifts as a singer and dancer in this holiday-themed made-for-TV musical. Near the turn of the...
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1996
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Jessica Fletcher
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1995
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This episode of Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories is narrated by Angela Lansbury. The story centers around Gloria, a hapless...
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1994
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Just as tireless and diligent at writing novels and solving murders as she'd been in season one, Jessica Fletcher...
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Jessica Fletcher
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1994
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The fact that Murder, She Wrote has entered its tenth season is a daunting one, considering that at least 198 characters have...
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Jessica Fletcher
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1993
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It's off to a film festival in Milan for middle-aged mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) as...
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Jessica Fletcher
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1992
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1992
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Beauty and the Beast is widely considered the best animated Disney feature of the studio's 1980s/1990s renewal of the form....
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Mrs. Potts
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1991
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Ingrid Bergman was both one of Hollywood's most sought after stars and a controversial public figure. Her bright and...
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1991
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Season eight of Murder, She Wrote finds mystery novelist and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher accepting a position as...
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Jessica Fletcher
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1991
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Jessica Fletcher
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1990
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Angela Lansbury stars as an unmarried teacher at a Minnesota Catholic grade school. An ongoing battle with new bishop...
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Agatha McGee
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1990
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The made-for-TV The Shell Seekers was based on the best-selling novel by Rosamunde Pincher. Heading the cast is...
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Penelope Keeling
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1989
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Middle-aged mystery novelist and part-time sleuth Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) finds murder in such exotic locales as...
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Jessica Fletcher
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1989
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Jessica Fletcher
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1988
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Shootdown, based on a controversial book by R. W. Johnson, examines the aftereffects of a politically sensitive air disaster....
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Nan Moore
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1988
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Angela Lansbury once again essays the dual role of Maine-based mystery writer Jessica Fletcher and her colorful cousin,...
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1987
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Jessica Fletcher
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1987
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1986
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Jessica Fletcher
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1986
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This two-part TV movie was the sequel to the ratings-grabbing 1983 miniseries Rage of Angels; both were based on the...
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Marchesa
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1986
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Angela Lansbury guest stars as crime novelist and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher in this crossover episode with Lansbury's...
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1986
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Jessica Fletcher
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1985
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This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all...
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1985
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Angela Lansbury plays a dual role in this episode, as Maine-based mystery writer Jessica Fletcher and as Jessica's...
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1985
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The pride of Cabot Cove, ME, sprightly mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) indulges her hobby of solving...
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Jessica Fletcher
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1984
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Little Gloria...Happy at Last is the two-part TV adaptation of Barbara Goldsmith's 1980 best-seller. The film concerns the...
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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1984
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Five Emmy nominations went to the two-part TV drama The First Olympics: Athens 1896. The story begins in 1894, when Baron...
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1984
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Company of Wolves is Little Red Riding Hood for the Alien generation. Sheltered 13-year-old Sarah Patterson, living on the...
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Granny
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1984
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A notorious, internationally known sex symbol (Phoebe Cates) attempts to track down her birth mother in this glitzy,...
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Aunt Hortence
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1984
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Debuting September 30, 1984, Murder, She Wrote, TV's longest-running mystery series, might never have come about had...
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Executive Producer
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1984
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Bearing a marked resemblance to It's a Wonderful Life, The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story stars Lee Remick as a woman...
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Amanda Fenwick
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1983
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Ruth
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1983
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Only one of the mythological creatures escapes the evil King Haggard's (voice by Christopher Lee) plan to eliminate all...
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1982
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Nellie Lovett
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1982
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Miss Marple
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1980
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Miss Froy
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1979
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Mrs. Salome Otterbourne
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1978
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1975
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks was produced several years after Walt Disney's death and released in the fall of 1971. As it turned...
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Eglantine Price
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1971
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Based on a novel by Harry Kressing, Something for Everyone must hold some sort of record for having the largest number of...
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Countess Von Ornstein
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1970
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James Garner plays a man who awakens in Central Park with no memories at all. This drama chronicles his search for his...
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Gloria
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1966
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Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This...
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Lady Blystone
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1965
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Mama Jean Bello
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1965
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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 romantic comedy, a middle-aged postmistress from a small town goes to a post office convention in New York and...
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1964
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Decked out with another of his American accents, Peter Sellers plays self-centered concert pianist Henry Orient. While...
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Isabel Boyd
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1964
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In this drama of romantic intrigue and infidelity, Sam and Christine Bonner (Arthur Hill and Jane Fonda) are a married couple...
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Sybil Logan
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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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1962
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In one of his first roles, Warren Beatty plays a callous, self-involved young man who is idolized by his younger brother...
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Annabel Willan
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1962
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An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes...
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Mrs. Iselin
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1962
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One of Elvis Presley's most successful post-Army vehicles, Blue Hawaii casts Elvis as scion to a Hawaiian pineapple fortune....
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Sarah Lee Gates
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1961
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Based on the Ferenc Molnar play Olympia, A Breath of Scandal serves as an elegant vehicle for a ravishing Sophia Loren. The...
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Countess Lina
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1960
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Robert Preston plays the flip side of his eternally ebullient Professor Harold Hill in Dark at the Top of the Stairs....
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Mavis Pruitt
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1960
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Poignant and pointed, as well as funny, this love story by director Leslie Norman has a simple message: act your age. Since...
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Pearl
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1959
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While often regarded as one of America's greatest novelists, William Faulkner produced work that did not always translate...
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1958
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The Reluctant Debutante is a vintage example of the sort of elegant, witty "polite" comedy that Hollywood used to pull off so...
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Mabel Claremont
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1958
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Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful...
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Princess Gwendolyn
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1956
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In this thriller, an amorous attorney is appalled to realize that the lovely client (with whom he was smitten) he acquitted...
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1956
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Up until its surisingly mundane finale, A Lawless Street is one of the best of the Randolph Scott westerns of the 1950s....
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Tally Dickinson
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1955
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In this British television drama, Angela Lansbury portrays a woman who will stop at nothing to prevent her husband from...
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1955
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Tony Curtis was by 1955 an accomplished enough actor to get through the costumed derring-do of The Purple Mask minus the...
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Mme. Valentine
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1955
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In this romantic drama, a secret love affair becomes the cause of a series of mysterious mishaps involving a philandering...
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1954
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June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a...
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Valeska Chauval
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1953
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Director Edward Dmytryk returned from a few unhappy years on the Blacklist in the early 1950s, to direct a handful of...
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Leslie
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1952
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This remake of the 1935 version is considered far superior to the original. It is the harrowing story of a kindly old...
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Mrs. Edwards
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1951
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Semadar
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1949
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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Audrey Quail
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1949
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Kay Thorndyke
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1948
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The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
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Queen Anne
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1948
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Filmed in 1946, Tenth Avenue Angel is yet another treacly vehicle for little Margaret O'Brien. The juvenile star is cast as...
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Susan Bratten
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1948
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Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with...
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Clothilde de Marelle
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1947
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In this drama, set in England, an honorable textbook writer in a village becomes friends with a pregnant girl. The...
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Mabel Sabre
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1947
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This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride....
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Em
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1946
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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Dusty Millard
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1946
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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1946
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Sybil Vane
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1945
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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Edwina Brown
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1944
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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel...
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Nancy Oliver
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1944
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