Longtime MGM executive and short-subject producer Carey Wilson wrapped up his career with the 67-minute...
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Producer
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1957
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Producer
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1952
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Owen Johnson's novel The Lawrenceville School Stories (compiled from short stories originally published in...
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Producer
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1950
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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Producer
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1949
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Narration
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1948
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After 15 entries, MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series came to a quiet end with Dark Delusion. Although Dr. Leonard Gillespie...
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Producer
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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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Producer
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1947
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James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers...
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Producer
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1946
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The oft-used movie title Between Two Women was resurrected once more for this entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series. Though...
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1944
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Screenwriter
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1943
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This Warner Bros. 3-reeler was produced to commemorate the 12th anniversary of Hollywood's Academy Awards ceremony. With fine...
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Commentary
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1940
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If Judge Hardy and Son had been filmed in the 1990s, it would have been titled Andy Hardy VII. In this latest edition of...
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1939
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Producer
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1938
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The tempestuous love affair between a young surgeon and a pretty but married nurse provides the basis for this melodrama....
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1937
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The Dangerous Number of the title is madcap showgirl Elinor (Ann Sothern). Notorious throughout Manhattan for her zany...
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1937
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1937
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man...
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1934
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The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery...
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1934
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In an early pro-ecology effort, Jean Parker stars as a girl dwelling in the High Sierras. Awkward with humans, her best...
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1934
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Bolero stars George Raft as Raoul de Barre, an arrogant dancer who rises to fame in the years prior to, during, and after WW...
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1934
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In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer...
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1933
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In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece --...
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1933
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1932
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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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1932
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1932
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The inimitable Edna May Oliver makes a meal of the title role in the Technicolor backstage drama Fanny Foley Herself. The...
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1931
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A pompous executive has a hard time admitting that his hard-working, devoted secretary is really the one pulling the strings...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1931
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While...
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1930
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In this romantic drama, a chorine marries her absent-minded childhood sweetheart so she can make her real love, a...
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1930
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In this musical, a naive entertainer is sent to Paris by a Broadway producer who wants her return with a more sophisticate,...
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1929
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Milton Sills, one of the silent era's great matinee idols, starred in this follow-up to his sound debut in the part-talkie...
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1929
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1929
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In this comedy, a salesgirl falls in love with a wealthy heir to the store in which she works. At first his father opposes...
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1929
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1928
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George Fitzmaurice directed this romantic World War I drama, which was First National Pictures' entry into the epic...
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1928
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Very loosely based on the stage play by Jacques Deval, this comedy was largely rewritten to give comedienne Marion Davies a...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1928
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German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a...
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1928
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1928
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"Hard Boiled" Haggerty (Milton Sills) is a flight lieutenant who uses German planes for target practice during WWI. For all...
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1927
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One of the most accessible of the Colleen Moore silent vehicles, Orchids and Ermine also happens to be among Moore's best and...
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Screen Story
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1927
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The dazzlingly gorgeous Billie Dove is appropriately cast as the title character in American Beauty. This is the story of...
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1927
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1927
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Billie Dove stars as Marcia Kane, whose head is turned by the charming but sinister Grand Duke Sergei (Montague Love)....
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Screen Story
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1927
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1927
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1927
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The "stolen bride" of the title is Sari (Billie Dove), a Hungarian countess. During WWI, Sari falls in love with Franz Pless...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1927
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Ladies at Play was based on Loose Ankles, a stage comedy by Sam Janney. Heroine Ann Harper is thrilled to discover that she...
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1926
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So far as his fans were concerned, Milton Sills could have played a ballerina and still cashed in at the box office. In this...
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1926
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Corinne Griffith had pretty much limited herself to lugubrious romantic melodramas by the time Into Her Kingdom came along....
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1926
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Lew Cody stars as Tony Townsend, a top-hatted "international adventurer" who gets into a heap of trouble when he runs out of...
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Screen Story
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1926
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Continuity, Editor, Screenwriter
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1926
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The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version...
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1925
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Norma Shearer, who hadn't yet become the queen of the MGM lot (or won mogul Irving Thalberg as her husband), stars in this...
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Screen Story
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1925
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Based on a 1911 novel by Elinor Glyn, this melodrama seems at first to focus on the dilemma of whether to marry for material...
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1925
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Because Little Old New York was so successful, MGM and newspaper/sometime film magnate William Randolph Hearst decided to put...
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1925
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer produced this drama with the cooperation of the Navy Department, and many of the scenes -- including the...
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1925
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1924
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With its racy title and emphasis on jazz parties and youth, this romantic drama was a typical mid-'20s release. But being an...
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1924
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1924
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This domestic comedy-drama seems to owe a lot of its spirit to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who made quite a few similar...
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1924
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This compelling and exceptionally well-executed silent drama, from new MGM studio executives Irving Thalburg and producer...
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1924
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Aileen Pringle plays the Queen of Sardalia (one of your average, everyday mythical European principalities), who is unhappily...
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1924
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This mystery-melodrama had a lot of action and featured a good cast. Railroad magnate Luke Carson (William Worthington) has...
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1923
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1923
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Eastern boy Malcolm McGregor takes a job in a Western lumber camp to improve his manliness. In his job as overseer, he meets...
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1922
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Filmed on location at Monterey, CA, and starring exotic stage dancer Mlle. Doraldina, this long-lost South Seas romance...
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Screen Story
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1921
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Barbara (Olive Tell) has grown tired of the endless chores at her mother's boarding house so she decides to get rid of her...
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1920
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