Narrated by Anjelica Huston, this cable-TV documentary offered an up-close and personal look at the life and career of...
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2002
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2000
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A young delinquent from a Mexican border town sets out to cross the border and search for his long lost father, in the...
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1962
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Virtually all of the Chesterfield Pictures efforts of the 1930s served as starring vehicles for Hollywood's best character...
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1936
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I Have Lived takes place in a New York penthouse, a Broadway theater, and a seedy speakeasy, though not necessarily in that...
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1933
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A shipwreck strands a newpaperman, his fiancee, and a man falsely accused of murder, on an African island. ~ Jason Ankeny,...
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Doris Evans
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1933
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Renowned animal-trainer Clyde Beatty plays himself as a circus owner in this adventure that centers on an enthusiastic youth...
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Lillian Langley
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1933
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Much of this exciting crime drama is set aboard an airplane in which a brave hero does battle with a gang of smugglers....
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Natalie
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1933
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"Are you listening?" was the catchphrase of early-1930s radio personality Tony Wons. Though Wons does not appear in the 1932...
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Sally
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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Jenny
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1932
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Night Court is one of those pictures that "hooks" the viewer with one audacious plot twist after another. Walter Huston is...
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Mary Thomas
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1932
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Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) is the matriarch of a banking family who has run the Warren Bank for years, until she turns it...
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Helen Praskins
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1932
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A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't...
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Sophie
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1932
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Buster Keaton once described his 1931 vehicle Sidewalks of New York as "God-awful"; it's hardly that bad, though admittedly...
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Margie
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1931
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In this melodrama that was considered utterly scandalous in its day, an impoverished, beautiful young ghetto girl quickly...
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Peg Feliki
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1931
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In this slapstick comedy set in a posh beauty salon, the owner asks her matronly sister, a postman's wife, to come and...
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Vivian Truffle
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1931
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Silent screen star John Gilbert had a tough time adapting to the talkies--not due to his voice, as is commonly believed, but...
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Ruth
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1931
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Elvira Plunkett
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1930
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Alice Brown
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1930
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Connie
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1930
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Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at...
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Genevieve Jones
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1930
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War Nurse was based on the anonymous memoirs of an American nurse who served with the French Army during WWI. Since the...
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Joy
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1930
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Isabel
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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Kentucky
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1929
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This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of...
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Queenie Mahoney
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1929
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This cookie-cutter William Haines vehicle was filmed in part at the Indianapolis Speedway. As usual, Haines plays a fresh...
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Patricia
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1929
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Flying Fleet was one of the first script-writing efforts of Lt. Commander Frank "Spig" Wead, who came to Hollywood after the...
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Anita
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1929
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This drama tells the victories and defeats of 6 U.S. Navy Academy graduates at flying school working to win their wings. ~...
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1929
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Lon Chaney Sr. eschews his trademarked makeup in the MGM crime melodrama While the City Sleeps. The plot is sparked by the...
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Myrtle
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1928
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Chrystal Malone
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1928
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Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can...
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Ann
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1928
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As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was not immediately appreciated...
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1926
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