Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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1960
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The first big budget Western to feature a black hero, this military courtroom drama from director John Ford starred his...
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Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate
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1960
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Something of an urbanized, upscale version of Peyton Place, Vincent Sherman's
The Young Philadelphians is a glossy...
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1959
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1953
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Mrs. Doris Dunstan
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1951
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Zelda Bagley
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1950
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Spencer Tracy received an Oscar nomination for his performance in this classic comedy. Stanley T. Banks (Tracy) is a securely...
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Mrs. Doris Dunstan
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1950
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Inspired by the 1949 hit A Letter to Three Wives, this takes the other side of the coin with a deceased playboy leaving...
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1950
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The Barkleys of Broadway became Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "reunion" picture purely by accident. Originally conceived as...
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Mrs. Livingston Belney
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1949
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Bride-to-be Barbara Hale collapses into a faint while taking the altar vows. Hale learns that she is pregnant by her former...
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Mrs. Fletcher
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1949
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Breakfast in Hollywood was loosely based on the ABC radio program of the same name. Tom Breneman, the series' host, appears...
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1946
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Andrew Stone's The Bachelor's Daughters has much of the nonsensical breeziness of Stone's earlier screwball comedy...
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Molly
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1946
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Though on its last legs, Universal's "B"-musical unit continued grinding out tune-filled quickies like Swing Out, Sister well...
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Jessica
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1945
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A snooty blue-blooded English family learns a bitter lesson about the realities of lower class living in this British comedy....
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Mrs. Pidgeon
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1945
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With his performance in the offbeat sagebrusher The Laramie Trail, Bob Livingston makes his final appearance in a Republic...
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1944
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The title of this low-budget Universal musical was lifted from the Andrew Sisters' hit song, introduced in 1941's...
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Aunt Harriet
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1943
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In this tuneful comedy, a would-be actor and playwright is deeply in debt, and to keep away from his creditors, begins...
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Minerva
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1943
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In the tradition of Hellzapoppin', Hi Diddle Diddle is an all-stops-out "screwball comedy" populated by certifiable zanies....
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Mrs. Prescott
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1943
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Gildersleeve on Broadway was the third in a series of RKO B-pictures inspired by the radio sitcom The Great Gildersleeve....
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Mrs. Chandler
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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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1942
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In this comedy, set in WW II, a Venezuelan rubber planter's son must travel to New York to try and secure a loan for the...
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Mrs. Rowland
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1942
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There's plenty cookin' in this brisk, breezy Andrews Sisters vehicle. The plot, such as it is, concerns the efforts by a...
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1942
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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Mrs. Drew
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1942
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Mrs. Ernest Stanley
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1941
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The third of producer Hal Roach's Topper films, Topper Returns eschews the frothy "screwball" format of the first two in...
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Mrs. Topper
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1941
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One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in...
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Catherine Enfilden
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1941
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In this comedy drama, a medicine show con-man pretends to be a wealthy man to impress his long-lost daughter who is slated...
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Bernice Marshall
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1941
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This touching romance is based on a play by Rachel Crothers. An aging sea captain squanders his fortune on a bad business...
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Blossy Stort
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1940
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Social-climbing Helen (Jean Muir) sends her less-pretentious younger sister Kate (Laraine Day) to a party in her stead, and...
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Mrs. Lattimer
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1940
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It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that the MGM programmer Hullabaloo bears no relation to the 1960s rock-and-roll series...
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Penny Merriweather
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1940
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In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene...
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1940
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Frank Morgan and Billie Burke, who'd previously costarred in MGM's Wizard of Oz, head the cast of the minor but entertaining...
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Cora Adams
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1940
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The 1922 George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Dulcy was based on a delightful character created by columnist Franklin P....
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Eleanor Forbes
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1940
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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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1939
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With comedian Stan Laurel temporarily off his payroll due to a contract dispute, Hal Roach hastily put together a solo...
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Mrs. Tibbitt
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1939
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Veteran German director William Thiele managed to add a continental flavor to the MGM assembly-line romance Bridal Suite....
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1939
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Aunt Abbey
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1939
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In this off-beat love story, wealthy socialite Linda Bronson (Greer Garson) is about to marry Sky Ames (Lou Ayres) but then...
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Mrs. Bronson
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1939
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A comparatively little-known entry in the "screwball comedy" genre, David O. Selznick's The Young in Heart goes for quiet...
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Marmy Carleton
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1938
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Everybody Sing is an uncertain blend of screwball comedy and standard MGM musical. Reginald Owen plays Hillary Bellaire,...
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Diana Bellaire
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1938
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Mrs. Emily Kilbourne
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1938
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Except for a few clips from 1937's Topper, Cary Grant is absent from the proceedings of the 1939 sequel Topper Takes a Trip,...
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Mrs. Topper
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1938
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MGM's Navy Blue and Gold prettily dresses up some of the oldest cliches in the "military cadet" movie genre. The film charts...
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Mrs. Alyce Gates
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1937
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Contessa de Meina
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1937
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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1937
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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Mrs. Topper
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1937
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After several light comedy roles, Rosalind Russell proved her salt as a dramatic film actress in this 1936 adaptation of...
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Mrs. Frazier
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1936
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in...
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Mrs. Robert Cantillon
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1936
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Eugenia
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1936
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For 20 years, Jeff Williams (Clark Gable) has been in love with his childhood playmate Mary Clay (Joan Crawford). Alas, Jeff...
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Paula
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1935
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Now famous as the first feature film produced in the three-strip Technicolor process, Becky Sharp is also an enjoyable effort...
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Lady Bareacres
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1935
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Mrs. Norwood
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1935
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Legendary stage actress Pauline Lord made but a few films, but was always worth watching whenever she took command of the...
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Julia Trent Anders
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1935
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This romantic comedy-drama is set -- typical for producer Samuel Goldwyn at the time -- among the upper class. Joel McCrea...
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Clarissa
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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Mrs. Van Dyke
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1935
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Paula Brown
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1935
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A crusading physician supervises his own life-threatening operation in this farfetched potboiler from MGM, which marked...
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Mrs. Crane
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1935
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Eustacia
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1934
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Trying a bit too hard to qualify as a "screwball" comedy, RKO Radio's We're Rich Again is based on Alden Nash's stage play...
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Mrs. Page
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1934
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The scandalous doings behind the high-toned exterior of a private school for rich young women provides the framework for...
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Mrs. Radcliff
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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Julia Warren
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1933
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Mrs. Oliver Jordan
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1933
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Lady Elaine Strong
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1933
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Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by...
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Margaret Fairfield
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1932
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Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld brought his legendary "Follies" to the silver screen in Glorifying the American Girl....
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1930
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Education of Elizabeth was adapted for the silent screen from a play by Roy Horniman. The film version was designed as a...
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1921
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Still in her ingenue stage (at age 35!), Broadway favorite Billie Burke stars in Away Goes Prudence. Burke plays a dizzy...
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1920
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1918
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This film was purely a showcase for the charms of ex-Follies girl (and future Glenda the Good Witch from The Wizard of Oz)...
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1918
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Ziegfeld Follies headliner Billie Burke starred in a handful of silent films, of which Arms and the Girl was the second....
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1917
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1917
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1916
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