For more than 25 years, Gertrude Berg was one of the most prominent women in American broadcast media and popular culture, as...
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2009
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Sedessa
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2008
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The Contessa
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2003
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After the little white lies of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), director David Mirkin focuses on scheming of a...
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2001
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The difficult birth of the nation of Israel is the subject of this documentary feature, the first in a projected three-part...
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2001
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An American journalist takes on the dangerous responsibility of rescuing nearly a thousand refugees from a Nazi concentration...
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Mama Gruber
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2001
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A woman left alone by the death of her husband finds her love life has become suddenly and dangerously complicated in this...
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Princess San Ferdinando
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2000
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Actor Edward Norton debuts as a director with this comedy-drama about love, friendship, and faith. Priest Brian Finn (Norton)...
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Ruth
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2000
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This video is part of a PBS series, narrated by Anne Bancroft, which showcases some of the most remote and beautiful places...
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2000
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This video is part of a PBS series, hosted by Anne Bancroft, that visits some of the most beautiful and remote places on the...
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2000
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DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images collaborated on this all computer-animated comedy-adventure about the ant angst of misfit...
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1998
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1998
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Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Anne Bancroft, this video serves as an inspiration for anyone battling cancer....
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Narrator
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1998
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Given up for adoption in infancy, 34-year-old Barbara Ann Williams (Gloria Reuben) launches a desperate search for her...
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1998
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Anne Bancroft narrates this 52-minute documentary, a 3-D Imax view of 19th-century America as seen from the viewpoint of...
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1998
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Ms. Dinsmoor
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1998
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Sidney Lumet filmed this hospital satire at a Canadian studio. Alcoholic Dr. Butz (Albert Brooks in old-age makeup) advises...
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1997
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Ridley Scott directed this flawed but involving study of Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore), a Navy topographic analyst who is...
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Sen. Lillian DeHaven
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1997
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In this tender made-for-TV drama, four children are effectively orphaned when they are deserted by their mother. With...
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Abigail
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1996
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Dr. Renata Baumbauer
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1996
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It's been said that while most people love their families, they don't always like them very much, and that emotional dividing...
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Adele Larson
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1995
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A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in...
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Glady Jo, Finn's great aunt
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1995
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1994
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Originally a television mini-series, this drama chronicles the painful and lively reminiscences of a 100 year old woman....
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1994
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Amanda
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1993
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The title character, a manic depressive prone to very irrational behavior (Richard Gere), is hospitalized for treatment....
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Dr. Catherine Holland
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1993
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Alec Baldwin stars in this thriller as Dr. Jed Hill, a brilliant young trauma specialist who begins to believe he can do no...
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1993
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When it comes to love, Paul Matthews and Diane Farrow, two highly educated and talented scientists don't know a thing....
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1992
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After making a deathbed promise to his mother that he would never marry, Jack Singer (Nicolas Cage) finds that resolve...
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Bea Singer
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1992
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When a seemingly well-adjusted homemaker murders a fellow supermarket shopper, a police lieutenant decides to find out what...
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1992
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The 1986 stage hit Broadway Bound is the third entry in playwright Neil Simon's "autobiography trilogy". Unlike the...
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Kate Jerome
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1992
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Tony award-winning British musical comedy star Robert Lindsay makes his first important American film appearance in Bert...
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Meredith Perlestein
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1989
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Harvey Fierstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit was adapted for the screen by Fierstein himself. The playwright also...
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Ma
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1988
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Helene Hanff's book 84 Charing Cross Road had previously been a TV program and a stage play before it was converted into this...
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Helene Hanff
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1987
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Thelma Cates
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1986
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Agnes of God is an "opened up" adaptation of the minimalist stage play by John Pielmeier. Meg Tilly plays a young nun who...
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Sister Miriam Ruth
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1985
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This bittersweet comedy is, among many other things, a tour de force for the marvelous Anne Bancroft. The star is cast as...
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Estelle Rolfe
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1984
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This live appearance by Mel Brooks includes songs, skits and jokes. ~ John Bush, Rovi...
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1984
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Mel Brooks and his real-life wife Anne Bancroft play Frederick and Anna Bronski, musical comedy stars in 1939 Poland. The...
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Anna Bronski
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1983
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Thirteen months and ten million dollars were lavished upon this ten-hour, four-part TV miniseries about legendary...
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Signora Polo
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1982
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John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a...
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Mrs. Madge Kendal
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1980
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In this dark and sometimes sad comedy, Dominick -- an extremely obese man -- is pushed by his sister Antoinette to shed a few...
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Director, Screenwriter, Antoinette
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1980
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Poet Sylvia Plath wrote an immensely popular roman à clef, The Bell Jar, which chronicles a woman's descent from functioning...
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1979
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Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
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Mary Magdalene
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1977
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One of a cycle of '70s post-Women's Liberation "women's pictures," Herbert Ross's drama uses the ballet world to examine the...
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Emma
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1977
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Silent Movie is just that: a totally nonverbal comedy, save for one single line. Director Mel Brooks stars as a once-famous...
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1976
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Lipstick is a cheap exploitation film pretending to make a social statement about rape and revenge. Chris...
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Carla Bondi
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1976
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"The German Air Force is not at all what it used to be," says Anne Bancroft's Countess, about 16 minutes into The Hindenburg,...
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Countess
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1975
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A lesser but still entertaining Neil Simon work, The Prisoner of Second Avenue was adapted to film in 1974. Jack Lemmon takes...
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Edna
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1974
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This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his...
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Lady Randolph Churchill
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1972
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"Just one word: plastic." "Are you here for an affair?" These lines and others became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth...
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Mrs. Robinson
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1967
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Dr. D.R. Cartwright
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1966
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Sidney Pollack marked his feature film directing debut with this taut suspense drama, based upon an actual incident reported...
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Inga Dyson
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1965
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Anne Bancroft stars as a restless, twice-married British woman with six children, whose third husband is a fledgling...
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Jo Armitage
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1964
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Annie Sullivan
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1962
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In this episode of the Playhouse 90 anthology series, a young girl finds herself pursued by an unemployed actor who is being...
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1957
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Another of director Allan Dwan's underrated but well-crafted westerns of the 1950s, The Restless Breed stars Scott Brady as a...
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Angelita
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1957
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Anne Bancroft was several years away from her 1962 Oscar win when she starred in the compact murder mystery The Girl in Black...
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Beth Dixon
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1957
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Walk the Proud Land is the true story of Indian agent John Philip Clum, as set down on paper by Clum's son. The film begins...
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Tianay
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1956
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Commercial artist James Vanning (Aldo Ray) and his friend, Dr. Edward Gurston (Frank Albertson), are on a hunting and fishing...
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Marie Gardner
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1956
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Third-billed Lee Marvin dominates the proceedings in A Life in the Balance. Marvin plays a psycho killer, whose trail is...
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Maria Ibinia
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1955
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A ruthless crime lord saves his sister from social embarrassment by working diligently to get the gangster who fathered her...
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Rosalie Regalzyk
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1955
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Victor Mature is in rare form in this otherwise uneven cavalry Western about a trapper who prevents a Little Big Horn-type...
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Corinna Marston
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1955
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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Kathy Lupo
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1955
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Gorilla At Large is a more-or-less self-explanatory title for this thriller, set at an amusement park. The major attraction...
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Laverne Miller
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1954
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Based on a true story from the Civil War, this drama follows a band of Confederate POWS who escape from a New England prison...
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Katy Bishop
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1954
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Demetrius and the Gladiators was the sequel to The Robe, and though they were released several months apart, the films were...
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Paula
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1954
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Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in...
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1953
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Despite the lighthearted promotional campaign mounted by 20th Century-Fox when the film was first released,...
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Marian Foley
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1953
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Tonight we Sing is the life story of legendary impresario Sol Hurok, impersonated herein by David Wayne. A lover of the arts,...
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Emma Hurok
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1953
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Treasure of the Golden Condor is a Technicolor remake of 1942's Son of Fury; both films were based on the same novel by...
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Marie
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1953
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Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal...
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Lyn Leslie
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1952
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