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2008
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Famed archeologist Rick Banning has mysteriously vanished after reports surfaced claiming that he had unearthed the mythical...
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2007
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This documentary highlights the careers and lives of some of the most famous actresses of early cinema. Some of the ladies...
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1989
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Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered...
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Mary Carson
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1983
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This mammoth TV miniseries, based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, proved to be a ratings bonanza; indeed,...
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Mary Carson
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1983
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Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered...
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Mary Carson
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1983
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Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered...
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Mary Carson
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1983
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Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered...
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Mary Carson
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1983
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It's nice to know that some of the greatest of the movie stars, while doing some of the most famous and best of Hollywood...
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1980
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Letters begins with the crash of a U.S. mail plane. One year later, cheerful postman Henry Jones delivers the long-delayed...
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1973
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Miriam Jennings
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1971
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Barbara Stanwyck made her TV movie debut in 1970's The House That Would Not Die. The setting is an old house in Gettysburg,...
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Ruth Bennett
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1970
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Victoria Barkley
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1968
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Victoria Barkley
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1967
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Victoria Barkley
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1966
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The Big Valley was the last major successful network Western series of the 1960s, running four seasons, from 1965 through...
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Victoria Barkley
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1965
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Irene Trent (Barbara Stanwyck) was married to the inventor Howard (Hayden Roarke) before the blind electronics genius blows...
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Irene Trent
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1964
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Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired...
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Maggie Morgan
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1964
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This Untouchables episode is the second of two unsold pilot films for the spinoff series The Seekers, starring Barbara...
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1963
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This Untouchables episode is the first of two pilot films for the proposed spinoff series The Seekers, starring Barbara...
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1962
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This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from...
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Jo Courtney
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1962
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Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences...
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Jessica Drummond
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1957
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Cora Sutcliff
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1957
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Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is a cynical newspaper columnist in San Francisco, handling women's advice -- by chance one...
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Kathy Ferguson
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1957
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The MGM melodrama These Wilder Years marked the first onscreen pairing of Hollywood stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck....
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Ann Dempster
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1956
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There's Always Tomorrow is a remake of a 1934 film of the same name. Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife...
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Norma Miller Vale
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1956
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Based on a Zane Grey novel published over a decade after the author's death, The Maverick Queen stars Barbara Stanwyck in the...
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Kit Banion
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1955
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Gwen Moore
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1955
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The witness of the title is Barbara Stanwyck, who insists she's seen a man strangling a girl in the apartment across the...
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Cheryl Draper
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1954
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Filmed on location at Montana's Glacier National Park, Cattle Queen of Montana makes excellent use of the diverse talents of...
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Sierra Nevada Jones
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1954
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Rudolphe Maté directs the western The Violent Men, based on the novel Rough Company by Donald Hamilton. Edward G. Robinson...
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Martha Wilkison
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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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Julia O. Tredway
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1954
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Marina Conway
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1953
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The answer is: A turgid melodrama. The question: What is Jeopardy? Barbara Stanwyck stars as a suburbanite on a Mexican...
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Helen Stilwin
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1953
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The 1912 sinking of the luxury liner Titanic is used as a backdrop for a several fictional subplots, chief of which involves...
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Mrs. Sturgess
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1953
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Disreputable wanderer Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) has been thrown in a frontier town calaboose, accused of being a...
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Rela
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1953
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All I Desire an early exercise in Douglas Sirk Baroque, is set at the turn of the century. Long divorced from her husband...
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Naomi Murdoch
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1953
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The opening credits appearing over a turbulent ocean serve as a foreshadowing of things to come in this standard-issue love...
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Mae Doyle D'Amato
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1952
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Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former...
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Lorna Bounty
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1951
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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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Regina Forbes
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1950
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Vance Jeffords
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1950
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A woman is torn between a comfortable lie and the painful truth in this drama. After she is abandoned by her unfaithful...
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Helen Ferguson
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1950
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Joan Boothe
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1949
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No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up...
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Thelma Jordon
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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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Jessie Bourne
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1949
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Polly Fulton
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1948
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When Lucille Fletcher took on the challenge of expanding her classic 30-minute radio suspenser Sorry, Wrong Number into an...
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Leona Stevenson
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1948
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Humphrey Bogart plays a psychotic killer who disposes of his wives through slow ingestion of poison in The Two Mrs. Carrolls,...
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Sally Morton Carroll
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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Barbara Stanwyck headlines this romantic tearjerker as a free-spirited concert pianist dying of tuberculosis. She checks into...
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Karen Duncan
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1947
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The tense psychological drama Cry Wolf offers a fascinating if not altogether successful change of pace for action star...
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Sandra Marshall
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1947
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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Jessica Drummond
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1946
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Charmless films like The Bride Wore Boots helped to kill the postwar revival of the "screwball comedy" genre almost before it...
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Sally Warren
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1946
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In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha...
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Martha Ivers
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1946
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Lily Bishop
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1946
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Elisabeth Lane
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1945
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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Phyllis Dietrichson
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1944
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Joan Stanley
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1943
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Dixie Daisy
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1943
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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Fiona Gaylord
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1942
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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Hannah Sampler
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1942
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Sugarpuss O'Shea
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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Ann Mitchell
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1941
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Jean Harrington
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1941
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A daffy romantic comedy released in Great Britain under the title Good Morning Doctor, this film reunites the two stars of...
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Helen Hunt
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1941
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Lee Leander
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1940
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Lorna Moon
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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Mollie Monohan
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1939
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Margot Weston
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1938
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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles...
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Melsa Manton
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1938
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Valentine Ransome
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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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Stella Dallas
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1937
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Pulp fiction writer Max Brand's 1936 creation Dr. Kildare made his screen debut in the amiable person of Joel McCrea in this...
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Janet Haley
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1937
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Lil Duryea
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1937
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John Ford, whose fierce pride in his Irish heritage often manifested itself in his work, directed this historical drama which...
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Nora Clitheroe
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1936
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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Rita Wilson
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1936
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This lively riverboat musical shows off the vocal and terpsichorean talents of former Ziegfeld Follies star Barbara Stanwyck...
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Pearl Holley
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1936
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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Raphaelita Maderos
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1936
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Newlywed Carolyn Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) has been raised to expect the finer things in life, but these are things that...
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Carolyn Martin
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1936
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Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the...
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Drue Van Allen
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1935
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Ruth Vincent
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1935
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In this romantic drama, a horsewoman is forced to work in a society dame's stable. There she meets and falls in love with a...
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Shelby Barrett
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1935
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This highly fictionalized biopic of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley stars Barbara Stanwyck as "Little Sure Shot" Annie....
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Annie Oakley
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1935
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Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler....
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Lady Lee
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1934
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In this melodrama, a devoted father begins feeling unappreciated at home and so embarks upon a clandestine friendship with a...
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1934
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This is the second movie version of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning novel that tells the story of a bride-to-be whose...
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Marian Ormsby
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1934
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Megan Davis
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1933
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One of the earliest girls-in-prison yarns, Ladies They Talk About has everything but Ida Lupino as the warden--and had she...
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Nan Taylor
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1933
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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Lily "Baby Face" Powers
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1933
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An espionage drama set in the early 20th century, Ever in My Heart stars Barbara Stanwyck as a New England naif who marries a...
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Mary Archer
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1933
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In this romance a school marm takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to a crippled...
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Lulu Smith
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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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Joan Gordon
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1932
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Barbara Stanwyck overcomes a veritable ocean of clichés and manages to make her "shopworn" heroine come to life in this...
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Kitty Lane
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1932
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Selina Peake Dejong
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1932
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1931
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Few actresses exuded as much raw sensuality as the pre-Production Code Barbara Stanwyck. In Illicit, Anne Vincent (Stanwyck)...
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Anne Vincent
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1931
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A minister's daughter finds fame as an evangelist but struggles with her own lack of faith in Frank Capra's impassioned...
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Florence "Faith" Fallon
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1931
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William Wellman's Night Nurse survives as a potentially interesting but ultimately unsatisfying melodrama about a nurse...
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Lora Hart
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1931
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Ten cents a dance, that's what they pay her -- "her" being downtrodden taxi dancer Barbara (Barbara Stanwyck). The only thing...
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Barbara O'Neill
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1931
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Reformed gold-digger Barbara Stanwyck falls in love with a womanizing and wealthy aspiring artist and tries to convince him...
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Kay Arnold
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1930
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In this drama, set in a bordertown gambling saloon, the owner falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an...
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Mexicali Rose
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1929
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In this drama, which marks Barbara Stawyck's Hollywood film debut, a woman is taken to an illegal cabaret set aboard a...
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Ann Carter
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1929
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Amateur thespians Fannie (Lois Wilson) and Johnny (Sam Hardy) team up to form a vaudeville act. Along the way, they decide to...
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Fan dancer
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1927
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