Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New...
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1949
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High Conquest was a good example of the sort of "prestige" fare that lowly Monogram Pictures hoped to turn out on a regular...
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1947
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A man's youthful indiscretions come back to haunt him in this droll drawing room comedy. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams)...
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Earl of Caversham
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1947
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1947
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The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle...
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1946
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Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing...
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1946
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In this crime drama, a naive, honest young woman falls for a louse who takes her to illicit gambling houses. When one of...
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1945
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This Republic programmer is based on a true story, though its plot complications are anything but founded in reality. Set in...
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Sir James Collison
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1945
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1945
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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Oxford Chancellor
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1944
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Originally titled They Shall Have Faith, Forever Yours was designed as Monogram's "prestige" release for 1945. Musical...
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Grandfather
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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Originally titled simply Sensations, this musical comedy was the final starring film for dancer Eleanor Powell and the final...
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Dan Lindsey
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1944
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Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel...
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Sir Christopher Belt
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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Adm. Eustace Trimble
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1943
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1943
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Too expensive for a "B"-picture, yet not quite an A, Two Tickets to London is an acceptable vehicle for French leading lady...
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Fairchild
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1943
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1943
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This brief (56-minute) MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Naturally, a few plot twists and...
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The Duke
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1941
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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1941
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Out of work as usual, showgirl Maisie Revier (Ann Sothern) takes a job as the maid for a wealthy family. She wins over the...
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Walpole
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1941
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1940
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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Grandpa
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1940
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Former Latin Lover Ricardo Cortez directed this farfetched but fast-paced gambling melodrama in which girl reporter Julie...
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The Judge
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1940
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A creaky remake of the 1932 film of the same name, Bill of Divorcement tells of the effect an emotionally disturbed father's...
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1940
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Allan Chadwick
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1940
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Given the omnipresence of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1940, the second film version of Robert E. Sherwood's...
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1940
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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Col. Burr MacFay
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1939
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In this romantic musical, a Russian prince sees a lovely singer in a town cafe and falls head-over-heels. Realizing that he...
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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Cyrus Barrett Sr.
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1939
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This was the first sound production of A.E.W. Mason's classic adventure novel, which was brought to the screen three times in...
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Gen. Burroughs
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1939
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Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star"...
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1939
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The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean....
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Grandpa
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1939
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In this patriotic British adventure, two courageous brothers try to keep war from erupting in Africa and stop a...
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1939
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Bishop "Gramps" Peabody
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1939
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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Duke of Argyle
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1938
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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Col. Loring Leigh
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1938
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Duke of Wellington
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1938
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Col. Williams
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1937
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Col. Zapt
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1937
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Young Roger Calverton (Ronald Sinclair) and his uncle Sir Peter Calverton (Sir C. Aubrey Smith) bring their prize race-horse...
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Sir Peter Calverton
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1937
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Framed in a flashback related by doctor Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is in essence the story of a struggle between...
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Father Paul
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1937
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Father Roubier
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1936
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David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of...
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Earl of Dorincourt
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1936
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1936
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Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of...
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Old Q
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1936
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1936
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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's...
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Prime Minister
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1935
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1935
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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The Hermit
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1935
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In this adaptation of author de la Roche's chronicle of the passionate lives of the strange Whiteoaks of Jalna, their...
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Uncle Nicholas
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1935
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Transatlantic Tunnel is the English-language version of the 1932 French-German speculative drama The Tunnel. Set sometime in...
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Lloyd
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1935
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The title might not mean much now, but in 1935 Jalna was familiar to readers everywhere as the best-selling first novel by...
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1935
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Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India....
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Maj. Hamilton
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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Lloyd Granville
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1935
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A descendant of the notorious Borgias begins to believe that he has inherited their murderous tendencies in this thriller....
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Dr. Lytton
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1935
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All but forgotten today, Warner Bros.' The Firebird was based on a once-popular stage mystery by Lajos Zilhany. Prohibited...
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Police Inspector
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1934
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Of the two 1934 film versions of the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress was the...
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1934
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Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler....
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Peter Madison
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1934
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We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the...
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Prince Kortchagin
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1934
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Before its absorption into the newly-formed 20th Century-Fox corporation in 1935, feisty little Majestic Pictures turned out...
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Jim Hanvey
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1934
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George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish bankers. Despite the...
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Duke of Wellington
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1934
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1934
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A woman may be forced back into a dangerous relationship in order to save her good name in this drama from director James...
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1934
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Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance...
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1934
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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1934
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In this comedy a maid and a butler work for a very rich man. The trouble begins when their employer dies and leaves his...
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1933
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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Mr. Marlowe
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1933
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Katharine Hepburn won her first Oscar for her portrayal of Eva Lovelace, a small-town community-theatre actress who comes to...
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Robert Harley Hedges
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1933
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An old man learns the sad truth of the old saw about being careful what you wish for in this horror outing that is based on...
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Sgt.-Maj. Morris
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1933
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This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean...
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1933
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In this drama, Diana (Myrna Loy) is a beautiful tourist from the United States who is visiting Cairo, accompanied by her...
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Cecil
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1933
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A wealthy, but sad young woman falls in love with an impoverished fellow in this bittersweet romance. While her father is...
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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Mr. Middleton
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1933
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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1933
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Frisky princess Marie Christine, known as Mitzi (Janet Gaynor) passes herself off as a manicurist, and falls in love with...
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The Prime Minister
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1933
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In this romantic drama, a strait-laced preacher creates controversy when he marries a seductive trapeze artist . The two...
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Reverend James Northcott
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1932
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Florian
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1932
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One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight...
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1932
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1932
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Tarzan, The Ape Man was not only MGM's inaugural "Tarzan" film, but also the first to star former Olympic swimming champ...
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James Parker
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1932
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In this melodrama, a magician finds himself accused of murdering his lover's father. He flees and the lover marries her...
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Bourrelier
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1931
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In this romantic comedy-drama, a wealthy San Francisco businessman becomes the guardian of a sexy young Polynesian woman. At...
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Mr. Pritchard
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1931
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A man who unthinkingly sullied the honor of a virtuous girl now must deal with his own ethical downfall in this drama. Willi...
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Gen. von Hertz
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1931
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In this British murder mystery, a host is murdered just before a gala dinner party at his country estate. The killers are...
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Arthur Hilton
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1931
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Sir Basil Winterton
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1931
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Though silent-screen favorite William Haines wasn't able to sustain his popularity into the talkie era, he insisted upon...
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Lord George Hampton
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1931
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Rev. Hastings
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1931
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A major undertaking for M-G-M and the first non-documentary production to be filmed in Africa, Trader Horn starred the...
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1931
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An young boy is en route to Bombay with his wealthy father when they are ambushed by highwaymen and his father is mortally...
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Dr. Wallace
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1931
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Surrender is yet another triangular romance set against the backdrop of WWI. French POW Dumaine (Warner Baxter) is...
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Count Reichendorf
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1931
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Robert Montgomery plays an aimless young man who secures a job as a bailiff's deputy. Montgomery is assigned to guard a house...
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Mr. Dabney
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1931
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In this British mystery, set along the Cornish coast, a detective impersonates an escaped convict to get inside a smugglers...
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1931
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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1931
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A mother attempts to give her troubled daughter some sage advice in order to save her marriage in this domestic drama that...
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1930
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A.A. Milne's The Fourth Wall was the source for this early British talkie. During a weekend party at the country estate of...
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1930
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The title to this picture came from a Rudyard Kipling poem, and accurately reflected the attitude of Victorian and...
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1925
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John Leslie (Conrad Nagel) and Craig Burnett (Antonio D'Algy) land their plane near a small Quebec town. Leslie becomes...
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1924
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1924
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With her Hollywood career in the doldrums, actress Mae Marsh briefly set up shop in England, where she appeared in several...
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1922
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This was the first time William Balfe's popular romantic opera was filmed. Although other operas made successful transitions...
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Devilhoof
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1922
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1920
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1920
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1918
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Gambler Jack Brookfield (C. Aubrey Smith) has psychic abilities and unconsciously he suggests a means of murdering the...
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1916
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In his second film appearance, the venerable C. Aubrey Smith is cast as dedicated businessman John Glayde. Too preoccupied...
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1915
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