An unexceptional spy drama by Andre De Toth, Man on a String is based on an autobiography by counterspy Boris Morros, here...
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Songwriter
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1960
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Former Hollywood musical director (and erstwhile government spy) Boris Morros was one of the producers of the British Tale of...
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Producer
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1951
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Auteur theorists who've charted the career of "cult" director Edgar G. Ulmer have seldom mentioned Carnegie Hall, simply...
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Producer
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1947
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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Producer
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1942
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In this B movie actioner, a plucky female cub reporter is determined to get her boss a front page scoop and so finagles a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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Parole Fixer is another entry in Paramount's unofficial "J. Edgar Hoover" series, purportedly based on an actual case in the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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Though not the best of the Fred Astaire musicals, Second Chorus is the most easily accessible thanks to its current...
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Producer
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1940
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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In this crime drama, a young hood and a seductress team up and rob a gas station. As she requires an opulent, exciting...
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1939
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In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers...
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Producer
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1939
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In this sentimental drama, a washed-up boxer falls for a nightclub owner whose business has nearly been ruined by...
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1939
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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1939
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Akim Tamiroff plays the title role, an underworld leader who controls all illicit operations in Chinatown. Tamiroff is...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Though John Barrymore is top-billed in Bulldog Drummond's Peril, the aging matinee idol is consigned to the supporting role...
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1938
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1938
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter
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1938
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It can be said with some certainty that Paramount's Touchdown, Army is not a baseball picture. Taking time out from his...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1938
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Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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The oft-filmed Zane Grey story The Mysterious Rider was given another go-round by Paramount Pictures in 1938. Produced by...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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This typically wild-and-wooly entry in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series gets under way when stiff-upper-lip Scotland...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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In its never-ending efforts to find a "rustic" screen personality to replace the late Will Rogers, Hollywood turned to...
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1938
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Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's...
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1938
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1938
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Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland, a popular Paramount screen team specializing in south-sea extravaganzas, don "civilized" garb...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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Sons of the Legion is a showcase for Paramount's juvenile-talent pool-specifically, Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee and Billy...
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1938
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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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1938
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Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The...
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1938
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Hunted Men is part of Paramount's unofficial B-picture series based on the J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond was the last of Paramount's "B" film series based on Sapper's two-fisted soldier of fortune, and also...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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Chronic gambler Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) is a source of great consternation for his loving mother (Elizabeth Patterson), who...
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1938
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Herman Bahr's German play The Yellow Nightingale from 1907 became Paramount's 1938 entry in the then-popular operetta cycle....
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1938
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In this comedy, an American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1938
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We never actually see J. Carroll Naish in Alcatraz, but there's no doubt he's the "king" of the title. Most of the action...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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J. Carroll Naish positively oozes immigrant gangster charm in this fairly entertaining thriller from Paramount. He plays...
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1938
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1938
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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1937
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An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All...
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1937
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In this sports drama, framed by the annual Army-Navy football game, a freshman footballer at the Naval Academy falls in love...
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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1937
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In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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Thunder Trail is a thoughtful, intelligent adaptation of the Zane Grey yarn. Arizona Ames. The storyline is a Grey favorite,...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Johnny Downs takes a break from his usual campus musicals to play a small-town songsmith in Blonde Trouble. Attempting to...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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In the fourth of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" action-thrillers, the intrepid adventurer (John Howard) makes the grizzly...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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Department store owner Elliot Dinwiddy (Charlie Ruggles) never makes a decision without first consulting his astrologer Dr....
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1937
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This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The fact that Grable plays the new...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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"Camp Romance," a place for the romantically challenged, provides the setting of this musical. The story centers on a frumpy...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff plays the Great Gambini, a famous magician mixed up in a murder case. In addition to his card tricks and...
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1937
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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A remake of 1932's Guilty as Hell, Night Club Scandal also borrows a page from 1934's Murder at the Vanities by depicting the...
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1937
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A remake of 1929's The Greene Murder Case, Paramount's Night of Mystery was the first "Philo Vance" thriller not to use the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
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1937
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1937
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Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the...
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1937
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Veteran movie leading man Bert Lytell warmed the director's chair for Along Came Love. Irene Hervey plays a shopgirl, while...
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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Paramount's resident "big mouth" Martha Raye was afforded her first top-billed screen assignment in Hideaway Girl. The script...
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1937
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This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation,...
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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1937
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In this backwoods musical, two feudin' families provide the basis of the action. The tale begins as the head of one family...
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1937
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In this comedy, Uncle Rodney, the host of a kiddie show, finds himself assuming guardianship of a bratty lad at the behest...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers (who never met a publicity gimmick they didn't like), this...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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Just before his brief turn as a "singing cowboy," radio crooner Smith Ballew starred in Paramount's Palm Springs. Filmed on...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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Spendthrift gives the modern viewer a pretty good idea how Hollywood planned to "mold" the image of new star Henry Fonda. The...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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The third film of Paramount's "Big Broadcast" series follows the pattern of the first two titles: negligible plot with plenty...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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Joan Bennett is a manicurist who becomes a newspaper reporter. She joins forces with jaunty detective Cary Grant to get the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) is a politically ambitious Chinese bandit who holds the Northern districts in a grip of terror....
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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In this adventure, a young girl is stranded in the jungle with only a tiger cub for company and grows up to be a wild woman....
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1936
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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1936
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1936
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Dynamic district attorney Douglas Goodwin (Paul Kelly) has no patience with murderers: his philosophy is "burn them all," and...
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1936
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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