"Promise to Murder" is a 60-minute TV play adapted from the Oscar Wilde short story "Lord Arthur Saville's Crime." Louis...
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1977
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Susan Glaspell's famous short story and one-act play Trifles is the source of this episode, in which Millie Wright...
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1961
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1956
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This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit...
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1956
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The "Bridey Murphy" craze of the 1950s was the catalyst for I've Lived Before. Jock Mahoney plays a contemporary pilot who...
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Jane Stone
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1956
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In one of his last appearances in a Hollywood production, Edmund Purdom plays Korean war veteran Paul Quentin. Keeping his...
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Mary Carmichael
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1956
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This crime drama comes from an episode of the Climax TV series. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1956
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Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek...
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Stella Mason
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1951
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Two Weeks With Love is set in a Catskills resort in the early 1900s. Seventeen-year-old vacationer Patti Robinson...
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Katherine Robinson
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1950
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Fanny Bowditch Holmes
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1950
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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1947
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It Happened On Fifth Avenue was easily the most ambitious movie made by the then-newly-organized Allied Artists for at least...
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Mary O'Connor
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1947
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Lucille Conway
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1946
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Robert Young stars as a WW2 pilot named Hank, who accompanies his pal Jerry (Bill Williams, in his film debut) on a furlough....
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Mrs. Brandt
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1945
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Janie, adapted from the Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams, was one of a 1940s cycle of stage-to-film...
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Lucille Conway
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1944
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Nine Girls stars several of Columbia's loveliest contract actresses as sorority sisters at an exclusive California college....
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Grace Thornton
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1944
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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Mrs. Davies
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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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Sophia
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1943
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Edward Arnold made the first of his two screen appearances as Bayard Kendrick's blind detective Captain Duncan McLain in...
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Norma Lawry
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1942
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Carol Howard
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1937
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Anne Talbot
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1936
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With her RKO Radio contract nearing an end, Ann Harding had little choice but accept such trifles as The Witness Chair....
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Paula Young
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1936
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Enchanted April was adapted for the screen from the novel by "Elisabeth" and play by Kane Campbell. Neglected by her novelist...
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Lotty Wilkins
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1935
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In this romantic drama a woman with a scandalous past tells all in an autobiography. It seems the woman, an artist, received...
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Marion
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1935
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"I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of...
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Mary, Duchess of Towers
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1935
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MGM's The Flame Within was the second entry in the "psychiatric" film-cycle inaugurated by Paramount's Private Worlds....
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Mary White
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1935
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Sally
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1934
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In this wartime drama, set during WW I, the adoring wife of a German officer soon finds herself falling for a handsome...
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Julie von Marwitz
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1934
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In this tear-jerking adaptation of Louis Bromfield's novel A Good Woman, the title character stands tall in the face of small...
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Vergie Winters
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1934
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Clare Woodruff
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1933
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Overworked and fearing that life is passing her by, eminent plastic surgeon Margaret "Peggy" Simmons (Ann Harding) takes an...
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Dr. Margaret Simmons
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1933
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Joan Colby (Ann Harding) is the unmarried older daughter in a once-wealthy family. She's always been the mature, level-headed...
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Joan Colby
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1933
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This Depression-era morale-booster looks at the ups and downs of a banking family from the 1870s to the 1930s (and borrows...
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Caroline Ogden Standish
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1932
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Daisy Sage
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1932
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A starry-eyed girl marries an impoverished but talented young writer. Though easily frustrated and given to temperamental...
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Olivia Van Tyne
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1932
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The tragic death from peritonitis of leading man Robert Williams marred the production of this oppressive triangle drama set...
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Therese Du Flos
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1932
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Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets....
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Shirley Mortimer
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1931
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Whenever a vaudeville comic of the 1920s wanted to get a quick laugh, he'd announce to his audience "Next Week: East Lynne."...
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Lady Isabella
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1931
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In her second film, Broadway actress Ann Harding plays the vacationing wife of a judge who finds herself blackmailed by a...
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Vera Kessler
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1930
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Linda Seton
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1930
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Minnie
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1930
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Ronald Colman's second talking picture, Condemned is a snail's-pace melodrama set on a Devil's Island. The evils of the...
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Madame Vidal
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1929
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This drama is an adaptation of a popular 1927 play and tells the story of a pair of married liberals who are content to...
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Mary Hutton
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1929
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