This biographical documentary depicts the life and loves of Ava Gardner, a country girl who took Hollywood by storm....
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1990
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1988
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The classy made-for-TV Harem managed to get away with plot devices that dated back to the days of Rudolph Valentino....
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Kadin
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1986
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The made-for-TV The Long Hot Summer was based on the 1958 theatrical film of the same name-which, in turn, was based on two...
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Minnie
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1985
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Filmed in Tunisia on a budget of 30 million dollars, the five-part, 12-hour miniseries A.D. was the final installment in a...
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Agrippina
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1985
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Ava Gardner made her last theatrical film appearance in the German-Italian Regina. Gardner is cast as the Smothering Mom to...
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1983
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The later years of the life of author D.H. Lawrence are dramatized in this screen biography. Following the controversial...
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Mabel Dodge Luhan
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1981
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After Third World terrorists abduct the Commander-in-Chief, it's up to Secret Service head William Shatner to get him back in...
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Beth Richards
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1980
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City on Fire, a disaster thriller filmed in Canada with dialogue in both French and English, tells the story of an...
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1978
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This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a transcontinental luxury train...
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Nicole
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1976
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The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen...
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Luxury
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1976
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1976
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Producer
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1976
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Yet another in the stable of spy movies which depict espionage as a dirty business. Here, we have Dirk Bogarde heading the...
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Katina Petersen
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1975
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Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to...
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Remy Graff
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1974
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Paul Newman plays the title role in John Huston's surreal, revisionist western as the infamous Texas hanging judge. Upon...
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1972
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In this interesting horror movie, a pleasure-seeking noblewoman uses contemporary black magic to toy with the young lovers...
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1971
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This romantic tragedy concerns the Archduke Rudolf (Omar Sharif) and his mistress, the Baroness Maria Vetsera...
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Empress Elizabeth
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1968
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The Bible was intended by producer Dino De Laurentiis as the first in a series of films which would eventually cover the Old...
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1966
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Adapted by Rod Serling from the best-selling novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Seven Days in May was...
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Eleanor Holbrook
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1964
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Filmed on location in Mexico by John Huston, Night of the Iguana stars Richard Burton as Rev. Shannon, an alcoholic defrocked...
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Maxine Faulk
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1964
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Baroness Natalie Ivanoff
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1963
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This is an indecisive, ultimately unconvincing wartime drama set in the 1930s when Spain was caught in a bloody civil war, a...
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Soledad
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1960
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The slow pacing of this fanciful tale about the life and one reputed love of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya makes for an...
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Duchess of Alba
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1959
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Although there'd been "doomsday dramas" before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first "important" entry...
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Moira Davidson
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1959
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For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main...
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Lady Brett Ashley
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1957
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Susan Ashlow
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Ava Gardner was never more alluring than as the half-caste heroine of Bhowani Junction. Set during India's battle for...
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Victoria Jones
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1956
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The Barefoot Contessa begins at the funeral of Ava Gardner, a former Spanish peasant, cabaret dancer and movie star, who at...
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Maria Vargas
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1954
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MGM's first CinemaScope production was the lavishly appointed Knights of the Round Table. Without overlapping into any...
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Guinevere
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1953
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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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Cordelia Cameron
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1953
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The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was...
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Eloise Y. Kelly
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1953
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One of the most subtle and sophisticated of the musical comedies that came out of MGM's Arthur Freed Unit in the '40s and...
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1953
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for...
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Cynthia Green
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1952
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Julie Laverne
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1951
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This period melodrama stars Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a woman who inherits a substantial fortune from her...
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Barbara Beaurevel
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1951
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Martha Ronda
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1951
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Many cineastes consider Pandora and the Flying Dutchman as the masterpiece of filmmaker Albert Lewin, while others write the...
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Pandora Reynolds
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1951
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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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Elizabeth Hintten
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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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Isabel Lorrison
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1949
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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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Pauline Ostrovski
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1949
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The spirit of love is back, and she's working in retail in this bubbly romantic musical comedy. Eddie Hatch (Robert Walker)...
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Venus, Goddess of Love/Venus Jones
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1948
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Returning to Singapore after a five-year absence, WWII veteran Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) mournfully recalls his romance...
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Linda Gordon Van Leyden
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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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Jean Ogilvie
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1947
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In this drama, Mary (Ava Gardner) returns to her small town after she becomes a success in the city. Meeting up with her old...
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Mary
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1946
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Kitty Collins
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1946
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Hilda Spotts
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1945
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1945
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MGM's notion of a "B" picture would be an "A" production at any other studio, and Blonde Fever is no exception. Philip Dorn...
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1944
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In this eighth film in MGM's "Maisie" series, Ann Sothern is back as ever-stranded chorus girl Maisie Revier. As the story...
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Gloria Fullerton
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1944
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Margaret O'Brien, MGM's newest child sensation, was given her first starring vehicle with Lost Angel. O'Brien plays Alpha,...
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1944
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MGM's popular Dr. Kildare series spanned 1938-47. Lew Ayres played the title character, but parted in 1942. Though crusty and...
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Jean Brown
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1944
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Musical producer Joe Pasternak moved from Universal to MGM in the early 1940s, taking his pet director Henry Koster (the two...
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1944
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Two Girls and a Sailor is another of those all-star, no-plot wartime musicals turned out by the bushel basket in the 1940s....
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1944
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Ghosts on the Loose (which features no ghosts whatsoever) is perhaps the best-known of Monogram's "East Side Kids" series....
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Betty Williams Gibson
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1943
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Hitler's Madman is based on an all-too-real wartime atrocity. John Carradine portrays Heydrich, the vicious SS officer put in...
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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 most of his movie vehicles, bandleader Kay Kyser played a bandleader named Kay Kyser. In Swing Fever, however, Kyser is...
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1943
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Young Ideas is a deliberately "small" MGM feature designed as a trial balloon for up-and-coming director Jules Dassin. Hardly...
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1943
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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1943
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1942
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Another graduate of MGM's short-subject department, director David Miller proved he had what it took to helm a feature film...
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1942
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When Lew Ayres' wartime conscientious-objector status caused MGM to drop the actor like a hot potato, Ayres' "Dr. Kildare"...
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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Kid Glove Killer is an expanded remake of They're Always Caught (1938), a 2-reel entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series....
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1942
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Just when it seemed that the MGM Our Gang series was going to continue wallowing in mediocrity, along came the one-reel gem...
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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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1942
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This upbeat war-time tale chronicles the ordeal of ardently American munitions plant worker Joe Smith (Robert Young), whose...
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1942
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MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the...
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1941
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