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Songwriter
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1974
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Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier...
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Songwriter
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1968
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In this collection of clips from The Judy Garland Show, which ran for 26 episodes on CBS television in 1963 and 1964, the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1963
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Reviewing Bill and Coo for a major magazine, an otherwise restrained critic was moved to describe the film as "by...
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Songwriter
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1947
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter
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1947
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New chorus member Eadie Allen (Ann Miller) is the only thing that's good or lively or fresh in a run-down burlesque revue run...
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Songwriter
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1945
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The Stork Club, the famed New York nightspot immortalized by columnist Walter Winchell (in return for special favors from its...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1945
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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Songwriter
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1945
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Though it takes several liberties with facts and motivations, The Hitler Gang is a reasonably absorbing chronicle of Hitler's...
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Producer
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1944
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Producer
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1944
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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Play Author
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1943
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Play Author, Screen Story
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1942
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Executive Producer
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1942
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Rather shaky as history, Birth of the Blues delivers the goods in terms of entertainment, thanks to the unbeatable star...
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Producer, Songwriter
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1941
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Play Author, Producer
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1941
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The South Seas romance is set on the scenic island of Tahiti where the island chief betroths his son to a woman and then...
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Producer
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1941
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Bob Hope plays a famous movie star who does his best to avoid the pre-war draft, but ends up in uniform all the same. Hope...
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Producer
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1941
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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Producer
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1939
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This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She...
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Producer
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1938
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Merry-Go-Round of 1938 was the first (and last) of a proposed series of films spotlighting top Broadway talent. Three...
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Producer
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1937
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In this musical, the only one singer/dancer Alice Faye, made for Universal, a Broadway producer is in a quandary when he...
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Producer
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1937
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Stranded in Shanghai, orphaned Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the ward of Chinese missionaries, is rescued from harm by...
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Producer
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1936
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Ladies in Love transplants 20th Century-Fox's favorite film plot--three girls on the prowl for rich husbands--into the...
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Producer
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1936
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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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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Songwriter
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1936
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The old Edward Peble play The Littlest Rebel was gussied up in 1935 as a Shirley Temple vehicle. The curly-topped child star...
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Producer
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1935
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Shirley Temple's first costume picture -- and one of her best pictures of any kind -- was 1935's The Little Colonel. The...
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Producer
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1935
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Producer
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1935
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In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen...
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Producer
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1935
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In this comedy, a con artist gets elected to the chamber of commerce in his home town. He then goes there with three fellow...
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Producer
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1935
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The career of dance instructor Sally (Jean Parker) comes to an abrupt end when she is crippled in an accident on the eve of...
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Screen Story
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1934
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In his only musical-comedy appearance, Spencer Tracy stars as fast-buck promoter Smoothie King. Our hero's latest scam is to...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1934
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The charming and effervescent continental film star Lillian Harvey made her Hollywood debut in My Weakness. Borrowing a page...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1933
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Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1933
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Divesting herself of her own production company, silent-screen queen Gloria Swanson entered into a two-picture deal with...
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Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1931
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Flying High was a nonsensical Broadway musical hit of 1930 starring Bert Lahr. The film version, made one year later by MGM,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1931
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From Musical by, Play Author
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1930
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The opening attraction at New York's Hollywood Theatre, Hold Everything was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson musical...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1930
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Made in 1930, this well-known sci-fi musical chronicles the adventures of a lightning-struck man who awakens to find himself...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1930
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This musical, based on a Broadway show, was filmed in two-color technicolor. Set upon a golf course, it chronicles the...
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Play Author
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1930
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Le Grande Mare is the French-language version of Paramount's The Big Pond (1930), with Maurice Chevalier and...
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Songwriter
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1930
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In this musical comedy, two partners in the garter business fight for control and decide to play a round of poker to settle...
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From Musical by
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1930
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The DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical Good News was first brought to the screen by MGM in 1930. The scene is Tait...
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Play Author
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1930
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A custody battle for a little boy forms the basis of this domestic comedy, a talkie that is so early that title cards are...
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Songwriter
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1929
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Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the...
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Songwriter
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1929
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1929
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