Columbia Pictures put a goodly number of its contract starlets to work in the mild exploitationer Under Age. Fresh out of...
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1941
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"That Girl" isn't Marlo Thomas, but instead heiress Jeanne Hudson (Barbara Kent). Someone has tried to murder Jeanne with a...
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Jeanne
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1935
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In this musical campus comedy, trouble ensues when a meddlesome, overprotective father enrolls in the same college as his...
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Edith Warren
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1935
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Wallace Ford plays Terry McCall, a small-town baseball star with a monumental ego. Terry's gift for self-aggrandizement...
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Mary Malone
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1935
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The title tells all in the independently produced romantic drama Marriage on Approval. Set just before the repeal of...
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1934
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A young woman believes that her mother's gambling house is a hotel. When a gambler angry about being cheated there convinces...
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1933
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Based on Dicken's classic novel, this is the first sound version of the oft-filmed tale of a plucky orphan who struggles to...
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Rose Maylie
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1933
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1933
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Mascot Films, the feisty precursor to Republic Pictures, was responsible for 1933's The Big Payoff. In a rare top-billed...
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1933
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Her Forgotten Past was released by Mayfair Studios, meaning that all the characters suffer in evening clothes in a handful of...
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1933
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Before he moved to MGM, director Richard Thorpe virtually lived at the tiny production firm of Chesterfield-Invincible....
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Sally
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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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William Collier Jr. stars as an ambulance surgeon, forced by circumstances to work for a gang of criminals. What the villains...
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1932
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First filmed in 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair has undergone several cinemadaptations, most...
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Amelia Sedley
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1932
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The title of this RKO western refers to the wagons which bore settlers Westward during the mid-19th century. Following in his...
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1932
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Crusading district attorney Jerry Bennett (Gilbert Roland) would give anything to get the goods on unscrupulous criminal...
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Carol Everett
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1932
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In this police drama, a cop, known for being a rock under pressure, endeavors to cope with the aftermath of a...
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1932
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In this mystery-thriller, set on Broadway, a cynical reporter looks into the killing of a New York actor who was found...
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Jean Royce
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1931
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Chinatown After Dark is where you'll find Madame Ying Su (Carmel Myers), a "dragon lady" type who'll stop at nothing to get...
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Lotus
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1931
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Divesting herself of her own production company, silent-screen queen Gloria Swanson entered into a two-picture deal with...
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Joan Trent
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1931
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In this romantic comedy, a fighter goes to a southern town to train for the championship. He soon falls in love. The girl...
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Faith Corey
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1930
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In this drama, a suave playboy gets jealous when his lover falls for a new man. Then the mistress' sister comes to town and...
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1930
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Made in the final years of director John S. Robertson's career, Night Ride is a crime drama starring Joseph Schildkraut as...
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Ruth Kearns
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1930
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Harold Lloyd's second talkie finds The Bespectacled One playing a shoe clerk in Honolulu. Harboring dreams of becoming an...
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Barbara
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1930
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This comedy classic is the sound-film debut of enormously popular and brilliant silent comedian Harold Lloyd. He plays a...
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Billie Lee
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1929
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Director William Wyler made the move up to talking pictures with this blend of action and comedy. Dave Roberts (James Murray...
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Marjorie
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1929
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The "modern" mother in this modest melodrama released by Columbia was played by Helene Chadwick, a minor screen vamp of the...
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1928
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Two lonely people discover short-lived happiness in this silent drama. Jim (Glenn Tryon) and Mary (Barbara Kent) live in the...
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Mary
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1928
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The success of First National's Harold Teen prompted Universal to cast gangly juvenile Arthur Lake as lead in Stop That Man....
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Muriel Crawford
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1928
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Molly Moran
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1928
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The silent The Dropkick stars Richard Barthelmess as a talented but hopelessly conceited college football star. Because of...
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Cecity Graves
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1927
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Those who believe that misleadingly titled "instant" movies produced in the wake of earth-shaking news events are an...
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Mimi
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1927
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1927
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A wild stallion becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter in this fine Western adventure produced by...
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1927
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A bulky, verbose novel by Herman Suderman was the source for the exquisitely silent Flesh and the Devil. On leave from the...
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Hertho Prochuitz
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1926
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1926
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This muddled, improbable drama was only interesting because it was shot in the swampland of the Florida Everglades. David, a...
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Screenwriter
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1924
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When an Arizona ranchman (Willard Louis) is elected senator, he heads for Washington with his daughter, Judith Baldwin (Mary...
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Screenwriter
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1921
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