Though it takes a few liberties with the Arthur Conan Doyle original -- not the least of which is turning Sherlock Holmes...
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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1939
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The title tells all in Columbia's A Woman is the Judge. Frieda Inescourt stars as lady jurist Mary Cabot, who 20 years...
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1939
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1939
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1937
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Call It a Day is a Warner Bros. attempt at British light comedy. Nothing much happens of any consequence in this story of a...
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1937
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Forbidden Heaven was accurately assessed by "B"-film historian Don Miller as "a weepie unabashed -- and a successful one."...
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Agnes
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1936
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In this crime drama, a girl whose father was murdered by gangsters wants to marry into a rich family. Her fiance's mother...
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1936
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In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so...
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1936
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Critics in 1935 recognized immediately that Age of Indiscretion drew its inspiration from the well-publicized Gloria...
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1935
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Three former POWs return home and find that they have been listed among the dead. This comedy follows their attempts to...
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1935
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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Based on the novel and play by James M. Barrie, The Little Minister turned out to be Katharine Hepburn's best vehicle since...
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1934
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This version of the Charlotte Bronte classic is the first to use sound. The story closely follows the book as it chronicles...
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Mrs. Fairfax
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1934
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Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas,...
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Harriet Hawkins
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1934
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1934
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The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film...
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Cook
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1933
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1933
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In this melodrama a father rejects his son after his wife dies in childbirth. As a result, the boy is sent to live with his...
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Mom
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1933
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Her Splendid Folly is an old-fashioned comedy/drama from the misleadingly named firm of Progressive Pictures. Lillian Bond...
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Mother
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1933
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Adapted from John Balderston's successful stage fantasy (itself based on a story by Henry James), Berkeley Square is the...
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Mrs. Barwick
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1933
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1933
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1932
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1932
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A newspaper journalist must choose between the two women he loves in this drama. On one hand, he is in love with a...
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Fern Madden
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1932
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Grandmother
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1932
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The Calcutta Sweepstakes is the unifying factor of The Devil's Lottery. Among the winners of the sweepstakes are Evelyn...
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1932
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It took nerve for low-budget producer M.H. Hoffman to update Gustave Flaubert's 19th century novel Madame Bovary and relocate...
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Mrs. Cawley
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1932
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Lovers Courageous represents a rare direct-to-screen original by Frederick Lonsdale, the playwright responsible for such...
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1932
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Grandma Beamish
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1932
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Alexander Carr, a Jewish-dialect comedian usually confined to small roles, is practically the whole show in the sentimental...
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Mrs. Burns
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1932
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The problem with the main characters in Midnight Morals is that they have more midnight than morals in their lives. Rookie...
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Prison Matron
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1932
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In this off-beat sci-fi film, an outspoken diplomat is murdered during an international trade conference. This is a terrible...
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The Widow
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1932
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Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle...
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1931
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown...
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1931
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In this drama a pianist-composer falls in love with the charwoman who cleans his boardinghouse room. Eventually, she too,...
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Mrs. Leadbatter
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1931
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A decidedly minor entry in the then-popular aviation melodrama cycle, The Sky Spider was the first film produced by sound...
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Mrs. Morgan
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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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Joyce
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1931
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Eternal movie juvenile Eric Linden offers perhaps the best performance of his career in RKO's Are These Our Children? In this...
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1931
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Robert Montgomery plays an aimless young man who secures a job as a bailiff's deputy. Montgomery is assigned to guard a house...
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Mrs. Dabney
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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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Mrs. Higgins
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1931
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Whatever rapport comedian Frank Fay enjoyed with Broadway audiences invariably evaporated when he appeared on film. In The...
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1930
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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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Grandma Corey
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1930
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Ellen Neal (Constance Bennett) is a "nice" girl -- just turned 18 -- who's been picked up in a raid on a speakeasy where she...
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Mrs. Neal
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1930
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Originally filmed under the title The House of Troy, In Gay Madrid was one of four 1930 MGM operettas designed to show off...
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1930
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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join...
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1930
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Out of sympathy, a grown lad fighting for Canada in World War I agrees to let an older childless woman adopt him, becoming...
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Sarah Ann Dowey
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1930
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This unusual supernatural drama, based on a 1924 Broadway stage hit, concerns a disparate group of people who find themselves...
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Mrs. Midget
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1930
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In this comedy, three GIs return home and discover that they have been officially listed among the dead. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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Mrs. Gubbins
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1929
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Popular radio crooner Morton Downey (yes, the father of talk-show host Morton Downey Jr.) stars in this sentimental...
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Mrs. O'Day
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1929
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We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well,...
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Mrs. Levine
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1928
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Childhood sweethearts with lofty goals do not a good Christian lifetime make, in this doomed romance directed by...
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1923
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Eastern boy Malcolm McGregor takes a job in a Western lumber camp to improve his manliness. In his job as overseer, he meets...
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1922
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In 1916, Broadway playwright Channing Pollock deigned to "lower" himself by working for the movies. The result was the...
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1916
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