Known equally for her steely persona as her award-winning talent, Bette Davis was Tinseltown's greatest diva. Her legacy is...
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1993
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1991
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This fascinating program takes us on a star-studded trip down memory lane. Relive the Golden Age of Hollywood. Featuring...
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1990
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1990
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Miranda
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1989
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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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A once-in-a-lifetime cast of veterans performs David Berry's play about Libby Strong (Bette Davis) and Sarah Webber...
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Libby Strong
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1987
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This excellent biographical documentary looks at the life and work of director William Wyler. The film is dominated by clips...
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1986
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As Summers Die was produced as an "HBO Premiere" attraction. Set in the segregationist South of the 1950s, the film pits the...
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Hannah Loftin
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1986
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This collection of bloopers and outtakes is largely from Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Included are such sights...
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1986
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Carrie Louise Serrocold
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1985
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Little Gloria...Happy at Last is the two-part TV adaptation of Barbara Goldsmith's 1980 best-seller. The film concerns the...
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1984
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Arthur Hailey's novel Hotel had already served as the inspiration for a 1967 theatrical film when this TV pilot came along on...
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Mrs. Trent
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1983
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This story about an elderly couple who start a large controversy when everyone learns they plan on committing suicide stars...
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Mini Dwyer
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1983
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Rather than a compilation of a series of hilarious bloopers, plus scenes of current stars never-before shown to the public,...
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1983
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Directed by George Schaefer, this light made-for-television drama is based upon the novel of the same name by Robert...
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Esther Cimino
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1982
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Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Frank Capra. Included are excerpts from:...
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1982
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Elizabeth Winfield
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1981
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This Disney Studios attempt at entering the horror genre is a British production based on the chilling novel by Florence...
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Mrs. Aylwood
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1981
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Skyward is a 1980 GE Theatre presentation in the lofty tradition of TV's Golden Age. Bette Davis stars (what an inadequate...
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1980
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Bette Davis is White Mama in this custom-made TV movie. Ms. Davis plays a poverty-stricken widow who is too proud to go on...
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Adele Malone
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1980
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The made-for-television movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and a Daughter concerns a bitter widow (Bette Davis) who is...
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1979
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Mrs. Van Schuyler
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1978
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Letha
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1978
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This television miniseries is based on Thomas Tryon's complex and suspenseful occult thriller Harvest Home, delving into the...
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Widow Fortune
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1978
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Dan Curtis, director of TV's Dark Shadows series, directed this eerie haunted-house thriller about a house which draws energy...
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Aunt Elizabeth
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1976
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In 1926, flamboyant evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. At first feared drowned (she'd been...
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1976
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Bette Davis stars in the TV movie Scream, Pretty Peggy. She isn't Peggy, but instead the secretive matriarch of a spooky...
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Mrs. Elliott
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1973
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In this drama, a wealthy US heiress and her partner embark upon their annual journey to Rome to play scopa, an Italian card...
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1972
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Even Bette Davis showed up in a TV-movie pilot from time to time. The Judge and Jake Wyler stars the indestructible Davis as...
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Judge Meredith
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1972
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Would you believe Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine as a pair of free-spirited hippies on a crime spree? That's the premise of...
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Bunny O'Hare
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1971
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This melodrama explores the relationship between tenants in a boarding house. Included are a street musician, an ex-school...
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1971
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The first appearance of Bette Davis in a made-for-television film has an evil mastermind (Davis) plotting against a CIA agent...
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Madame Sin
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1971
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Bette Davis plays a wealthy one-eyed widow (complete with designer eye patch) who gathers her sons together once a year to...
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Mrs. Taggart
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1968
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An unusually long pre-credits sequence establishes the roots of faded Southern belle Charlotte's (Bette Davis) insanity;...
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Charlotte Hollis
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1965
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In this thriller (which represented something of a departure for Hammer Films, noted for their gothic period pieces), Joey...
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Nanny
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1965
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Though he's most famous for his portrayal of Victor Laszlo in 1942's Casablanca, actor Paul Henreid took a few turns behind...
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Edith,Margaret
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1964
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Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, comes this family drama from director Edward Dmytryk. Adapted for the the screen by...
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Mrs. Gerald Hayden
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1964
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Horst Bucholz plays Dino, a painter who realizes he has no artistic vision and decides to move back into his wealthy mother's...
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Dino's mother
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1963
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This is the first of four consecutive episodes in which Perry Mason appears only briefly, while a "guest" lawyer handles the...
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1963
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As a child, "Baby Jane" Hudson was the toast of vaudeville. As an adult, however, Baby Jane was overshadowed by her more...
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Jane Hudson
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1962
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Apple Annie, "Mrs. E. Worthington Manville"
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1961
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In this uneven but well-acted mystery story with a few gaps in the plot here and there, Alec Guiness plays a double role. He...
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Countess de Gue
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1959
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Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While...
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1959
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1959
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A teacher finds her will to survive and knowledge tested when she and students are isolated by a blizzard. ~ Rovi...
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1957
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Aggie Hurley
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1956
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Trouble brews when a widowed, small town librarian takes a stand against censorship. The trouble begins when the town...
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Alicia Hull
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1956
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Elizabeth I
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1955
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1955
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David Trask (Gary Merrill), the sole survivor of an airplane crash, takes it upon himself to contact the families of the...
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Marie Hoke
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1952
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An actress who once knew the heights of fame is forced to confronts the depths of defeat in this show business drama....
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Margaret Elliot
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1952
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Just before filming All About Eve, Bette Davis starred in the marital melodrama Payment on Demand. Davis plays Joyce Ramsey,...
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Joyce Ramsey
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1951
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Bette Davis co-stars with her then-new husband Gary Merrill in the British melodrama Another Man's Poison. Adapted from...
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Janet Frobisher
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1951
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Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around...
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Margo Channing
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1950
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"What a dump!" That's the classic line delivered by Bette Davis at the halfway point of Beyond the Forest, her final Warner...
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Rosa Moline
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1949
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June Bride is based on Feature for June, a play by Eileen Tighe and Graeme Lorimer. Bette Davis plays the businesslike editor...
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Linda Gilman
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1948
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The most memorable aspect of Winter Meeting, and the one that stirred up the most publicity, was its teaming of two Davises:...
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Susan Grieve
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1948
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In this romantic melodrama, Bette Davis plays twin sisters for the first time (she would do so again in 1964's Dead Ringer)....
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Producer, Kate Bosworth,Pat Bosworth
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1946
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Christine Radcliffe
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1946
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Miss Lilly Moffat
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1945
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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"Fanny" Beatrice Trellis Skeffington
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1944
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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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Herself
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1944
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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Herself
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1943
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1943
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An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas,...
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Sara Muller
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1943
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Katherine "Kittie" Marlowe
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1943
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In This Our Life is not a "for the ages" classic of the Golden Age of Cinema, but as a highly effective and entertaining...
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Stanley Timberlake
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1942
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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Charlotte Vale
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1942
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Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941...
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Regina Hubbard Giddens
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1941
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The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
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Maggie Van Allen
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1941
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In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He...
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1941
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Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but...
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Joan Winfield
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1941
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Maggie Cutler
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1941
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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Henriette Deluzy Desportes
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1940
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Leslie Crosbie
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1940
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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Judith Traherne
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1939
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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Empress Carlota von Habsburg
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1939
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When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was...
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Charlotte Lovell
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1939
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It is no secret that Bette Davis and Errol Flynn were at each other's throats throughout the filming of The Private Lives of...
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Elizabeth I
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1939
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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Julie Marsden
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1938
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Louise Elliott
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1938
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Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan...
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Louise "Fluff" Phillips
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1937
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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Mary Dwight (Stranger)
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1937
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Joyce Arden
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1937
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Mary Donnell
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1937
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Bette Davis plays a facial cream heiress in this middling comedy, which Warner Bros. filmed partially in Florida. Mistaking...
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Daisy Appleby
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1936
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Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason...
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Gabrielle Maple
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1936
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Valerie Purvis
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1936
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Not even considered a good film back in 1935, Dangerous is held together by the mesmerizing performance of Bette Davis. The...
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Joyce Heath
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1935
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Paul Muni stars in this drama about a romantic triangle that leads to madness and murder. Overly enthusiastic Mexican...
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Marie Roark
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1935
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The fourth screen version of Hubert Henry Davies' 1914 play Outcast, this comedy-drama stars Bette Davis as Miriam Brady, a...
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Miriam Brady
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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Ellen Garfield
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1935
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The agent of the title is George Brent, a journalist sent by the Government to get the goods on a crime syndicate. Brent...
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Julie Carston
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1935
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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Arlene Bradford
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1934
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James Cagney runs a shady missing-heir tracing service, occasionally providing phony heirs in order to collect his fee. He...
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Joan Martin
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1934
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A pre-stardom Bette Davis struggles mightily as the "other woman" in this rather obvious divorce court drama from Warner...
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Patricia Barclay
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1934
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Mildred Rogers
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1934
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Now known simply as Fashions, the lavish Warner Bros. musical Fashions of 1934 stars the unlikely but copacetic team of...
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Lynn Mason
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1934
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An idealistic but naive pharmacist believes the mobsters who claim they want him to manufacture illegal medicine to help out...
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Norma Frank
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1934
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In this comedy drama, a wealthy shoe magnate is bored with his life. The trouble really begins when his chief rival dies....
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Jenny Hartland
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1933
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Sent to Sing Sing prison, influential crook Spencer Tracy is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules. While in...
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Fay
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1933
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Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's...
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Norma Phillips/Norma Roberts
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1933
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Alabama
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1933
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In this romantic sex-comedy from director Robert Florey, Bette Davis stars as Helen Bauer, a free-spirited, self-sufficient...
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Helen Bauer
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1933
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A talented cast does its best with a nonsensical script in The Rich are Always With Us. Ruth Chatterton stars as a witty...
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Malbro
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1932
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Alfred E. Green directs the political satire The Dark Horse, starring Bette Davis early in her career. The progressive party...
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Kay Russell
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1932
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Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their...
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Madge
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1932
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Dallas O'Mara
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1932
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Ruth Westcott
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1932
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George Arliss is a world-renowned pianist, engaged to a young woman (Bette Davis) much younger than himself. An explosion...
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Grace Blair
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Bette Davis was on loan from Universal when she appeared in this little juvenile delinquent melodrama from independent...
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1932
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In this three-hanky melodrama, an aspiring writer abandons his wife and five children to work more closely with a beautiful...
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Margaret Carter
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1931
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A naive, wealthy small-town girl, bored with her routine life, falls for a dashing con artist who has come looking for fresh...
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Laura Madison
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1931
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Mae Clarke had the best role of her career as the heroine of Waterloo Bridge, the first of three filmizations of...
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1931
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Warner Brothers was one of the big studios of the 30s and had many talented performers under contract. See some of their...
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