Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20...
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1965
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1964
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Based on the novel by Irving Wallace, The Prize takes place in Stockholm, where several laureates gather to accept their...
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1963
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This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic...
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1962
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There's a rumor that the MGM executive who thought that Glenn Ford could fill Rudolph Valentino's shoes in the 1962 remake of...
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1962
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Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary...
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1962
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1962
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Director George Pal is noted as a special effects maestro, both in films for children that feature his "puppetoons" and in...
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1961
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MGM's all-star 1960 filmization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn surgically removes the sociological subtext of Mark...
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1960
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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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1960
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Talented special effects and adventure director Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) keeps the suspense going...
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1959
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This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to...
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1959
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This romantic drama set in a Venezuelan jungle is based on a novel by W.H. Hudson about Rima, a mythical "bird-woman" and her...
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1959
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While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to...
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1959
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The contrasting acting styles of Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster serve to increase the already high tension level of the WW2...
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1958
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In the psychological WW2 drama Torpedo Run, Glenn Ford plays submarine commander Barney Doyle, who is obsessed with sinking...
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1958
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One of the best of Elvis Presley's pre-Army films, Jailhouse Rock offers us the sensual, "dangerous" Elvis that had won the...
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1957
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The Wings of Eagles is filmmaker John Ford's paean to his frequent collaborator--and, it is rumored, drinking buddy--Cmdr....
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1957
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Tom Ewell plays a busy attorney who wishes to be closer to his son. To do this, he becomes manager of the boy's little league...
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1956
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MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline...
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1956
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The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma...
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1956
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Based on a novel by Howard Swiggert, The Power and the Prize sets up a premise that had far more relevance in 1956 than it...
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1956
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1956
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Lana Turner stars as Diane in this opulent costume drama. Set in 16th century France, the film finds the gorgeous Diane de...
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1955
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One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the...
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1955
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After a fruitful 15-year association, Greer Garson and MGM parted company with Her Twelve Men. The William Roberts-Laura Z....
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1954
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Using the dry historical tome Gods, Graves and Scholars as its source, MGM came up with the rip-roaring adventure film Valley...
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1954
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1954
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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1954
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1954
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1954
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At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films. The first of...
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1954
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MGM romantic Robert Taylor turns nasty in this low-budget crime melodrama. Taylor plays a cop who subsidizes his income with...
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1954
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Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled...
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1954
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Set in the southernmost regions of Texas, Ride, Vaquero stars Robert Taylor as a steely-eyed gunman named Rio. In league with...
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1953
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Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) is the kind of man who wants to marry an old-fashioned girl, one who will stay home and take care...
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1953
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On the whole, the MGM B product of the 1950s contained some of the studio's best-ever "small" pictures. Filmed on location in...
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1953
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1953
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This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of...
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1953
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Previously adapted to film in 1923, Ben Ames Williams' rousing sea adventure All the Brothers Were Valiant was given the...
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1953
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In his only MGM film, Humphrey Bogart plays the commanding officer of a M*A*S*H unit during the Korean War. Bogart runs his...
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1953
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Above and Beyond is the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as told from the perspective of the man who flew the...
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1952
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Plymouth Adventure earned a footnote in film history as the last directorial effort by the prolific Clarence Brown....
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1952
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The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the...
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1952
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The Young Man with Ideas in this MGM production is idealistic lawyer Maxwell Webster (Glenn Ford). Too self-effacing for his...
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1952
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Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the...
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1952
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Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, this remake of the 1934 original finds a wealthy widow (Lana Turner) returning to her...
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1952
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The unbreakable bond between a young man and his pet lion provides the action in this comedy. The trouble begins when the...
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1952
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June Allyson portrays real-life doctor Emily Dunning in this respectful biopic. Emily chooses a medical career despite...
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1952
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Authentic New Orleans locations enhance the overall enjoyment of the prizefight melodrama Glory Alley. A mere few seconds...
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1952
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1952
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Peter Lawford goes through his standard "rich, spoiled young playboy" paces in the MGM comedy Just This Once. In danger of...
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1952
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Originally advertised as "Colossal Quo Vadis," this opulent MGM production is far and away the most elaborate of the many...
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1951
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1951
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Barry Sullivan plays an eager young lawyer who is willing to sacrifice any and all scruples on the upward climb. He is put on...
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1951
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1951
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The Tall Target is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was...
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1951
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Robert Pirosh wrote and directed this little-known World War II drama from MGM that commemorates the 442nd Regimental Combat...
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1951
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Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the...
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1951
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Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip....
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1951
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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1950
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1950
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Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He...
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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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A Lady Without Passport stars Hedy Lamarr in the title role. Lamarr plays Marianne Lorress, a concentration-camp refugee who...
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1950
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Ann Sothern closed out her MGM contract with the Technicolor musical Nancy Goes to Rio. As Frances Elliot, Sothern is billed...
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1950
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1950
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Judy Garland was originally slated to star in MGM's film version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, but she was forced to...
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1950
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1950
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Louis B. Mayer's nephew Gerald proved himself an able director with the MGM "B" thriller Dial 1119. Marshall Thompson stars...
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1950
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1950
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Cary Grant's utter credibility in the role of a brilliant, world-famous brain surgeon Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson is the...
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1950
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Farley Granger plays a casually larcenous New York City mailman who steals a shipment of money. Granger's excitement over...
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1950
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1950
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1949
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The oft-filmed Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden was given the usual plush MGM treatment in 1949. Tempestuous...
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1949
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Both Van Johnson and Gregory Peck were considered for the role of baseball star Monty Stratton in the 1949 biopic The...
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1949
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Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders....
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1949
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1949
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The Dore Schary regime at MGM brought a much-needed dose of stark realism to the venerable studio. Van Johnson sheds his...
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1949
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Federal agent Robert Taylor journeys to a mythical South American community, there to break up a war-surplus contraband...
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1949
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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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1948
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The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a...
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1948
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In this period musical, Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) is the son of a Mexican innkeeper who has come to California to take over a...
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1948
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The 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least,...
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1947
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Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes...
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1947
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Filmed not long after the actual events, The Beginning or the End is a sober, intelligent account of the development and...
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1947
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In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with...
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1947
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1947
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In this war movie, set during WW II, a pilot must crash land in the Pacific after he is shot down. As he floats upon the...
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1947
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Former army pilot Robert Taylor is accused, on the basis of strong circumstantial evidence, of his wife's murder. Suffering...
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1947
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When he was first offered the film version of the best-selling Frederick Wakeman novel The Hucksters, Clark Gable turned it...
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1947
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1946
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MGM's first "Maisie" entry in two years, Up Goes Maisie once more stars Ann Sothern as eternally stranded showgirl Maisie...
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1946
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Robert Montgomery is the director and star of the film noir mystery Lady in the Lake, adapted for the screen by source...
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1946
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The Clock was designed by MGM as a "small" picture--though characteristically, it was a bigger production than most "A"...
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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1945
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Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his...
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1945
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Yolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at...
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1945
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Son of Lassie is about a courageous collie named Laddie, played by a dog named "Pal". A sequel to Lassie Come Home, the film...
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1945
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An earnest rural melodrama set among Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is a slightly updated...
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1945
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1945
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In their third film together, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn created one of the box-office sensations of 1945, a...
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1945
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Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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Fred Zinnemann directed this World War II drama, considered one of the best anti-Nazi dramas produced by Hollywood during the...
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1944
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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1944
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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1944
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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1944
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Director King Vidor intended An American Romance as the third entry in his "War, Wheat and Steel" trilogy (the War had been...
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1944
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One can only imagine the reaction of arch-conservative MGM head Louis B. Mayer when Song of Russia first tumbled over the...
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1943
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Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in...
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1943
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In this light romantic comedy, William B. Whitley (William Powell) is an astronomer who is very excited about his latest...
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1943
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In 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer and the United States Office of War Information collaborated on Bataan with the official goal...
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1943
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In this drama set at the end of WW I, Sgt. Jocko Wilson leaves England to return to Australia. He brings with him, two...
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1943
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As Electronic Earthquake opens, the viewer sees a strange cable that flows into the harbor near Metropolis. The cable slinks...
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1942
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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1942
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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This final "Tarzan" entry from the MGM assembly line is arguably one the least effective of the series, though it certainly...
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1942
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1942
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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1941
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1941
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A half-hearted derivation of Ninotchka, Comrade X stars Clark Gable as an American news reporter stationed in Russia. Gable...
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1940
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Clark Gable is "Big John" and Spencer Tracy is "Square John"; both "Johns" seek their fortunes in the Texas oil fields. They...
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1940
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MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without...
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1940
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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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1939
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1938
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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1938
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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1934
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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1933
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1928
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As was the case with every film project that he cared deeply about, filmmaker King Vidor had to fight long and hard with his...
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1928
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The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg (George Sidney) and Littauer...
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Art Director, Set Designer
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1928
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In the spirit of female stars both before and after her, 30-year-old Marion Davies plays a girl a decade younger than herself...
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1927
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Filmed through mounds of gauze, silent movie queen Mae Murray stars in MGM's Altars of Desire. Murray plays a willful...
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1927
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The most tantalizing of the "lost" Tod Browning films, London After Midnight has gained a near-legendary status in recent...
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1927
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While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in...
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1926
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A tough-as-nails Marine sergeant sets about training a rag-tag group of boys into men. Though sporting a rough and gruff...
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Production Designer, Set Designer
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1926
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Having nothing whatever to do with the Rudyard Kipling poem, The Road to Mandalay is a typically bizarre collaboration...
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1926
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Amidst much fanfare, Lillian Gish was signed to a fabulous MGM contract in 1925 which not only assured her $400,000 per...
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1926
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This characteristically grim Lon Chaney/Tod Browning collaboration stars "The Man of a Thousand Faces" in two distinct...
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1926
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