Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred...
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1985
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1984
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Each episode of Portrait of an Artist offers an intimate peek at the life and work of an important figure in the world of...
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1983
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The 1955 film version of John Steinbeck's East of Eden will always be popular because of the presence in the cast of...
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Faye
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1981
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Lilianna Zorska
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1980
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This made-for-TV biopic covers the life of teenaged tennis star Maureen Catherine Connolly (Glynnis O'Connor), better known...
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1978
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Rex Stout's corpulent, orchid-loving detective Nero Wolfe would eventually headline his own 1980s TV series, courtesy of star...
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1977
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"An unprecedented cast brings to life the blockbuster book"--or so said the add copy for The Moneychangers, a four-part TV...
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1976
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Kay Lenz essays the troubled title role in the made-for-TV Lisa, Bright and Dark. Unhappy at school and at home (her parents,...
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1973
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A rich hypochondriac steals the world's medical knowledge stored in a powerful computer. ~ Rovi...
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1973
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Requiem for a Falling Star features Anne Baxter as a fading movie queen. And is her face red--Baxter had intended to murder a...
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1973
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When the blame of murder is placed on his friend, a private detective attempts to clear his reputation in a small cattle...
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1973
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This unsold pilot film was reminiscent of the 1956 syndicated TV weekly The Tracer. Michael Witney plays the "catcher" of the...
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1972
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1972
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The ABC network chose to recognize the thirtieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor with the "revisionist" TV movie...
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1971
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Cleo
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1971
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This Dick Ross melodrama stars Anne Baxter as an alcoholic socialite who beats her addiction by finding strength through...
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Liz Addams Hatch
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1971
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In this mystery, a former episode from the Name of the Game television series, Glenn Howard, a magazine publisher heads for...
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1969
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At large in the Bay Area is an elusive maniac who has assaulted several different women--all blondes, all single and living...
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1969
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Ritual of Evil was a sequel to the earlier TV movie Fear No Evil; both were pilots for a never-realized Universal series,...
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1969
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The launching pad for the long-running ABC medical series Marcus Welby, M.D. was this feature-length pilot film, first aired...
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1968
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Anne Baxter guest stars as Ironside's attorney friend Carolyn White, whom the authorities have tagged as the "most obvious"...
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1968
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Katherine Daly (Anne Baxter) is kidnapped from her own home by escaped robber-murderer Frank Padgett (Steve Ihnat). Heading...
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1968
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Completed in 1968, the made-for-TV The Challengers wasn't telecast until one year later. This Grand Prix melodrama top-bills...
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Stephanie York
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1968
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A prime early example of how to make a truly worthwhile TV movie, Stranger on the Run is a tough, minimalist western in the...
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Valvera Johnson
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1967
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A nosey housewife (Marguerite Viby) takes on extra responsibilities when her husband (Buster Larsen) hurts his back while...
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Margo Foster
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1967
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Melvyn Douglas made his TV-movie debut in Companions in Nightmare. Douglas plays a famous psychiatrist who conducts a...
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1967
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Seven courageous white women endeavor to survive alone in the Western wilderness after their traveling party is massacred by...
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1967
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Show business agent Janice Brandt (Anne Baxter) all but abandons her client list to advance the career of young actor Larry...
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Janice Brandt
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1963
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This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from...
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Teresina Vidaverri
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1962
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In this confusing drama, the IRA, intrigue, psychiatric analysis, and a young man framed for murder are thrown together in a...
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Dr. Anne Dyson
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1962
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The Oklahoma land rush of 1889 provides the starting point for this western drama, based on a novel by Edna Ferber. Yancey...
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Dixie Lee
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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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Olive
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1959
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Why has total stranger Richard Todd shown up at the villa of wealthy Anne Baxter? Why does he claim to be her long-lost...
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Kimberley
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1958
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Set in the American West after the Civil War, this drama is the pull-no-punches story of a lethal family feud. Colt Saunders...
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Lorna Hunter Saunders
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1957
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In this convoluted thriller a manipulative woman gets entangled in her own web of deceit. The story is set in Mexico, where...
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Rita Kendrick
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1956
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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Nefertiri
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1956
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The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to...
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Tacey Cromwell
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1955
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In this dark drama, a young American is on his way to take his final vows as a priest when he encounters a troubled...
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Monica Johnson
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1955
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The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the...
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Cherry Malotte
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1955
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Lensed in Germany, Carnival Story stars Anne Baxter as a wayward Teutonic lass who joins a travelling carnival troupe. She...
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Willie
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1954
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After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to...
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Norah Larkin
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1953
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Based on the turn-of-the-century play Our Two Consciences by Paul Anthelme, Hitchcock's I Confess is set in Quebec....
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Ruth Grandfort
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1953
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Virginia Mason
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1952
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This last of several movie adaptations of Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat stars Cameron Mitchell as a murderous...
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Cal
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1952
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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Joanna, The Last Leaf
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1952
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Follow the Sun is the filmed biography of golf champion Ben Hogan. Glenn Ford, no mean duffer himself, stars as Hogan, here...
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Valerie Hogan
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1951
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Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around...
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Eve Harrington
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1950
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A Ticket to Tomahawk has sometimes been described as a musical western satire, but in fact is more "straight" western than...
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Kit Dodge, Jr.
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1950
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Set in the 1920s and 1930s, 20th Century-Fox's You're My Everything borrows elements from several true-life showbiz stories,...
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Hannah Adams
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1949
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William Wellman's westerns always seemed a little claustrophobic, but in Yellow Sky the director's technique works to the...
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Mike
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1948
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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Julia Norman
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1948
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A semi-fantasy with sociological overtones, The Luck of the Irish stars Tyrone Power as an American journalist named Stephen...
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Nora
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1948
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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Penny Johnson
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1948
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In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots....
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Lucille Stewart
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1947
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A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley...
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1947
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Julie Richards
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1946
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In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's...
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Barbara Foster
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1946
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After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in...
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Sophie MacDonald
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1946
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A Guest in the House is an involving psychological melodrama, well directed and acted, concerning a young woman's obsessive...
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Evelyn Heath
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1945
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Ernst Lubitsch was the original director for A Royal Scandal, but illness forced him to bow out; his replacement was...
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Countess Anna Jaschikoff
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1945
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Charles Winninger plays an old seaman who rules the roost in his family, which resides on a Florida houseboat. His oldest...
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Tessa Osborne
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1944
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Janet Feller
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1944
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The Sullivans attempts to find the positives in one of the most tragic chapters of World War II. Edward Ryan, John Campbell,...
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Katherine Mary
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1944
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Tyrone Power made his last screen appearance before a three-year stretch in the Marines in this World War II drama. Lt. Ward...
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Jean Hewlett
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1943
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel...
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Mouche
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1943
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In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya...
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Marina
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1943
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Monty Woolley plays an irascible Englishman who insists that he dislikes children. While on a vacation in France, the Nazis...
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Nicole Rougeron
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1942
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Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in...
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Lucy Morgan
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1942
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Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt....
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Amy Spettigue
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1941
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Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film. Walter Brennan plays Tom Keefer, a man who is...
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Julie
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1941
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John Barrymore provides an embarrassing spectacle in the semi-autobiographical role of a ham actor. Constantly in debt and...
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Mary Maxwell
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1940
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As indicated by the title, 20 Mule Team is all about pioneering borax miners in territorial Arizona. Wallace Beery goes...
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Joan Johnson
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1940
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