In this musical comedy, a pair of small-potatoes performers try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent...
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Frankie
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1944
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This 91-minute Republic "special" stars Michael O'Shea as Matt Braddock, an aggressive Henry Kaiser-like shipbuilder...
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Diana Kennedy
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1944
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One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as...
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Ann Grayle
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1944
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A major moneymaker for RKO Radio, Bombardier stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots....
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Burt Hughes
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1943
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Olivia De Havilland hadn't wanted to star in RKO's Government Girl, but was forced to do so by her home studio Warner Bros....
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May
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1943
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In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them...
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Jessie Lee
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1942
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For the benefit of those who came in late, the John Robert Powers modelling agency was at one time the most famous and...
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Ellen Evans
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1942
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The Lady Bodyguard of the title is pretty but somewhat physically frail A. C. Baker (Anne Shirley). An advertising...
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A.C. Baker
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1942
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Mary Stone
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1941
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In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from...
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Nancy Hull
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1941
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From first frame to last, foxy Charles Coburn thoroughly dominates the proceedings in the bubbly RKO Radio comedy Unexpected...
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Kathleen Brown
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1941
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This quickie RKO musical is the second retread of Street Girl (1929); the 1937 musical That Girl from Paris was the first...
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Nine
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1941
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Anne Shirley
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1940
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A dedicated nurse in a British hospital takes a nervous rookie under her wing. When the new nurse messes up and causes a...
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Lucy Lee
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1940
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This third film version of Maxwell Anderson's play Saturday's Children stars Claude Rains as the impecunious but proud father...
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Bobby Halevy
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1940
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Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early...
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Sylvia Bartholomew
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1939
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Sorority House is based on Mary Coyle Chase's short story Chi House. Anne Shirley plays a middle-class college student who is...
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Alice Fisher
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1939
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When two lovers are framed for a jewelry store robbery in which the clerk was killed, the only person capable of saving them...
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Annabelle
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1938
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Boy Slaves is an effective indictment of the exploitation of reform school labor. Several troublesome boys are offered an...
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Annie
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1938
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In this drama, a falsely convicted woman falls in love with the prison psychologist who tries to liberate her. She ended up...
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Millie Anson
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1938
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A remake of 1933's One Man's Journey, A Man to Remember was the auspicious film directorial debut of Garson Kanin. Told in...
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Jean
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn's association with RKO Radio Pictures came to an abrupt end when she refused to star in the studio's...
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Nancy Carey
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1938
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In this comedy, wealthy girls attend boarding school to learn proper etiquette. The well-mannered character of the class is...
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Natalie Freeman
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1938
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Louise Foster
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1937
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Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined...
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Laurel Dallas
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1937
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Poor Barry Trent (John Morley) has Too Many Wives in this RKO programmer. Actually, Barry starts out with no wife at all,...
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Winifred Jackson
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1937
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Loosely based on a story by frontier writer Bret Harte, this romantic western drama tells the story of an innocent, carefree...
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M'liss Smith
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1936
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Anne Shirley is the teenaged "lady" in this filmization of Elizabeth Jordan's novel My Daddy and I. Shirley plays the...
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June Drew
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1936
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Stagestruck Vermont girl Jenny Yates (Anne Shirley) manages to land a job with a ragtag stock company. This she does over the...
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Jenny Yates
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1936
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1935
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O.P. Heggie plays an ageing Parisian book collector who has spent four decades tracking down a rare volume. The trail leads...
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Jeanne
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1935
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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Fleety Belle
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1935
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The Key is a story of the Irish "troubles" which avoids taking sides, but spends most of its screen time with the British...
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1934
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Anne Shirley
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1934
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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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1934
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The scandalous doings behind the high-toned exterior of a private school for rich young women provides the framework for...
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1933
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Jimmy Dolan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is a light heavyweight champion, with the world at his feet. Then he gets into a fight...
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1933
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1932
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Barbara Stanwyck, displayed in all her pre-Code glory, once again plays "damaged goods" in Warner Bros.' The Purchase Price....
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper...
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1932
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It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous...
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1932
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Charles Dickens' novel Dombey and Son is set in 1931 America in this interesting drama that centers on an egotistical,...
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1931
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1931
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1930
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1930
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The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Two...
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1929
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1928
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The great German actor Emil Jannings closed out the American phase of his film career with the Paramount part-talkie...
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1928
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Based on a novel by Kathleen Morris, The Callahans and the Murphys was the first of several MGM films costarring veteran...
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1927
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1925
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