In this drama, an experimental researcher plays with gene splicing. In one experiment, he artificially inseminates a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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Songwriter
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1932
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Though "blessed" with a complex title, which translates as Marriage with Limited Liability, this German comedy was adapted...
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1932
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Composer (Music Score)
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1933
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1933
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Composer (Music Score)
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1933
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A choice early example of esoterica from the great Max Ophuls, On a Vole un Homme (Man Stolen) is a bit more lighthearted...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1933
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Set in the Washington of World War I, Escapade stars William Powell as a newspaper editor eager to sign up for an overseas...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1935
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Celebrated British musical comedy star Cicely Courtneige was given a chance at American movie stardom in Perfect Gentleman....
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Songwriter
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1935
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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Composer (Music Score)
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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This upbeat domestic drama chronicles the struggles of a newlywed couple as they try to keep their marital status secret from...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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A half-hearted derivation of Ninotchka, Comrade X stars Clark Gable as an American news reporter stationed in Russia. Gable...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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This George Cukor romantic comedy casts Greta Garbo as ski instructor Karin Borg Blake. She gives lessons to wealthy American...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Strange Skirts is the TV title of the 1941 MGM film When Ladies Meet. The film was a remake of a 1933 production of the same...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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When MGM decided to move up-and-coming star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a startlingly...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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An innocent man is put on trial, but is he really as innocent as he claims? Diplomat David Talbot (William Powell) and his...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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A fun though abortive bid to pair crime-solving duo Lew Ayres and Laraine Day for a series of thrillers, this murder mystery...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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The once-notorious theatrical chestnut White Cargo was toned down for public consumption in this 1942 MGM-ized adaptation...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Unable to convince their isolationist New York editor (Charles Dingle) that America must be alerted to the threat of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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MGM's A Yank at Eton follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A Yank at Oxford, with a wartime angle...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Once Upon a Thursday was the original released title of The Affairs of Martha, a 1942 Marsha Hunt vehicle from the MGM...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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In 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer and the United States Office of War Information collaborated on Bataan with the official goal...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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The time is World War II. A group of disillusioned French soldiers are approached by Nazi troops and promised safe passage to...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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In this light romantic comedy, William B. Whitley (William Powell) is an astronomer who is very excited about his latest...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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Robert Z. Leonard, who must have taken room and board at MGM, was the directorial hand behind this slight domestic drama....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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In their third film together, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn created one of the box-office sensations of 1945, a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1945
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Radio legend and 3-D pioneer Arch Oboler brings his story, Alter Ego, to the screen in a low-budget yarn that benefits from a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1945
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An earnest rural melodrama set among Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is a slightly updated...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1945
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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The Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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The Secret Heart is a psychological drama starring June Allyson as a disturbed teenager obsessed with the memory of her dead...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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This is the one where Lassie plays a war veteran with amnesia. Actually Lassie isn't even Lassie, but a male collie named...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1947
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Former army pilot Robert Taylor is accused, on the basis of strong circumstantial evidence, of his wife's murder. Suffering...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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The 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in the innocuous MGM confection Cynthia. Taylor plays the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1948
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Composer (Music Score)
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1948
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The oft-filmed Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden was given the usual plush MGM treatment in 1949. Tempestuous...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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An unusually disturbing noir from a director better known for more mainstream fare like High Noon and From Here to Eternity,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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Though one might have expected friction between MGM's resident "nice lady" Greer Garson and Warner Bros. notorious "bad boy"...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Grounds for Marriage is another attractively packaged sausage from the MGM assembly line. Van Johnson is a doctor, while...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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Pretty stewardess Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) must choose between Three Guys Named Mike in this frothy MGM concoction. There's...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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A minor but effective MGM programmer, Shadow in the Sky stars Ralph Meeker as a shell-shocked World War II veteran. He is...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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Filmed on location in Canada, The Wild North stars Stewart Granger as renegade trapper Jules Vincent. Forced to kill in...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1952
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Composer (Music Score)
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1952
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Set in the southernmost regions of Texas, Ride, Vaquero stars Robert Taylor as a steely-eyed gunman named Rio. In league with...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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Based on the story by Paul Gallico, Lili stars Leslie Caron as the title character, a 16-year-old waif who runs off to join a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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The powerhouse combination of star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann score another cinematic bullseye in The Naked...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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After a fruitful 15-year association, Greer Garson and MGM parted company with Her Twelve Men. The William Roberts-Laura Z....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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Sir Walter Scott's medieval take on the "John Alden" story formed the basis of Quentin Durward. Robert Taylor dons armor in...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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The Glass Slipper is a charming retelling of the Cinderella story, eminently suitable for both kids and adults. Leslie Caron...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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Composer (Music Score)
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1956
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Composer (Music Score)
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1956
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Based on a novel by Howard Swiggert, The Power and the Prize sets up a premise that had far more relevance in 1956 than it...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1956
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Once you get past the fact that handsome Paul Newman could never pass for plug-ugly boxer Rocky Graziano in real life, you...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1956
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If Jet Pilot seems hopelessly out of date today, imagine how filmgoers in 1957 reacted when this relic from 1949 was taken...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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Composer (Music Score)
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1958
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Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given a Hollywood screen treatment by producer Pandro S. Berman and director...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1958
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This romantic drama set in a Venezuelan jungle is based on a novel by W.H. Hudson about Rima, a mythical "bird-woman" and her...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1959
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1959
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A woman who has long been short on feelings falls in love with a married man in this emotional drama. Gloria Wondrous...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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This is an indecisive, ultimately unconvincing wartime drama set in the 1930s when Spain was caught in a bloody civil war, a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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Released in Great Britain as The Spinster, this romantic drama is based on a novel by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Shirley MacLaine...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1961
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Dean Martin plays an easygoing Southern politician, long on charm but short on brains. Susan Hayward, a poor girl with rich...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1961
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This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1962
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Behind every great woman, there's a man who isn't so sure he's happy to be there -- or at least that's the state of affairs...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1965
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The first season of ABC's longest-running adventure series The F.B.I is slightly different in content from future seasons, in...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1965
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Despite the formidable competiton of CBS' The Ed Sullivan Show and NBC's Walt Disney anthology, the ABC series The F.B.I....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1966
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Arthur Hiller directed this exciting World War II drama starring Rock Hudson as Major Donald Craig of the British North...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1966
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Released theatrically in Europe, Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI originated as "The Executioner", a two-part episode of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1966
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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Season Three of The F.B.I. finds hard-working Inspector Lew Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and his main sidekick, Agent Arthur...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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The beauty of classical music confronts the ugliness and treachery of war in this unusual drama. Lionel Evans...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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The fourth season of The F.B.I. is also the first season without any major cast changes. Back for more cops-and-robbers...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1968
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Taken from the 1907 comedy play by Georges Feydeau, A Flea In Her Ear is a comedic sex romp about a wife suspicious of her...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1968
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Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Inspector Lew Erskine continues to hunt down and ensnare the most dangerous and elusive of Federal...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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The sixth season of The F.B.I finds Efrem Zimbalist Jr. still on the job as diligent, no-nonsense Federal Inspector Lew...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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Efrem Zimbalist Jr. continues to bring Federal offenders to heel in the role of Inspector Lew Erskine in Season Seven of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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The longest-running adventure series on the ABC network, The F.B.I continues to go strong in its eighth season on the air....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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The ninth and final season of ABC's longest-running adventure series The F.B.I marks the first time since Season Three that a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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