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1991
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This made-for-cable documentary traces the filming of the imperishable classic Gone with the Wind, from its inception to its...
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1989
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This documentary highlights the careers and lives of some of the most famous actresses of early cinema. Some of the ladies...
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1989
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Rather than a compilation of a series of hilarious bloopers, plus scenes of current stars never-before shown to the public,...
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1983
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The first of documentary producer Robert Youngson's feature-length silent comedy compilations, The Golden Age of Comedy began...
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1958
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1943
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Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of...
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Maria Tura
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1942
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Ann Smith aka Ann Krausheimer
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1941
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Like its predecessors, this third cinema version of Sidney Hoiward's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted...
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Amy Peters
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1940
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A dedicated nurse in a British hospital takes a nervous rookie under her wing. When the new nurse messes up and causes a...
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Anne Lee
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1940
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Based on Memory of Love, a novel by Bessie Breuer, In Name Only is soap opera par excellence, blessed with a peerless cast....
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Julie Eden
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1939
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Jane Mason
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1939
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In her only Warner Bros. starring film, Carole Lombard plays a Hollywood movie actress who makes the park-bench acquaintance...
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Kay Winters
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1938
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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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Helen Bartlett
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1937
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"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each...
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Hazel Flagg
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1937
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Maggie King
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1937
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Irene Bullock
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1936
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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Princess Olga
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1936
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Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith Baldwin novel upon which...
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Kay Colby
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1936
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A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American...
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Diane Harrison
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1935
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After nearly a decade of nominal "leading lady" roles, Carole Lombard landed her first genuine starring vehicle with Hands...
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Regi Allen
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1935
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Mary Magiz
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1934
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Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka...
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Mildred Plotka/Lily Garland
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1934
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We're Not Dressing is a bouncy musical-comedy variation of J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton -- complete with a happier...
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Doris Worthington
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1934
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Ne'er-do-well Gary Cooper is so desperate for quick cash that he's willing to sell the custody rights of his own daughter...
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Toni Carstairs
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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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Helen Hathaway
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1934
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"Alabam" Georgia Lee
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1934
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In this campy "adult-oriented" drama from the early 1930s, the ruthless manager of a Malaysian rubber plantation marries a...
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Songwriter, Judith Denning
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1933
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A nightclub singer with a strong work ethic marries a freeloading heir in this romantic drama. Trouble ensues when the...
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Abby Fane
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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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Anne Holt
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1933
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Beautiful Lady
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1933
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The world of horse racing provides the backdrop for this episodic drama. Much of the story is set at the Luray Springs Hotel...
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Colly Tanner
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1933
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Roma Courtney
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1933
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Connie Randall
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1932
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The title Virtue should be a good tip-off that the central character is a step below virtuous. Carole Lombard, still not...
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Mae
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1932
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Paramount Pictures seldom fully utilized the talents of contract player Carole Lombard, as witness such tedious programmers...
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Doris Blake
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1932
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Beautiful but impractical socialite Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard) has convinced herself that "the perfect marriage" is an...
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Penelope Newbold
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1932
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In this romance, an aspiring writer encounters a wealthy publisher who gives him an advance on the first two chapters of his...
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Anne Merrick
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1931
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Kay Dowling
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1931
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A remake of a 1919 silent film based on the stage farce by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, the light romantic comedy...
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Mary Grayson
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1931
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Still in his "sophisticated cad" period, William Powell essays the title role in Man of the World. Powell plays a smooth...
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Mary Kendall
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1931
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Rachel Fendley
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1931
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In this lightweight musical comedy, an aspiring songwriter tries to make it big on Broadway. Later his uncle decides to show...
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Pauline
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1930
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Alice O'Neil
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1930
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Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has...
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1930
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Warner Baxter, who had won an Academy Award for playing the Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona (1929), is at it again, fake Spanish...
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Virginia Hoyt
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1930
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In one of her first talking pictures, Carole Lombard played a girl crook falling in love with a handsome lineman (William...
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Billie Davis
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1929
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Jennie
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1929
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This late-20s gangster movie features Carole Lombard as a young gal who agrees to marry a smooth-talking gangster in exchange...
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Rhoda Philbrooke
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1929
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1929
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Margaret Banks
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1929
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Another Dame
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Millie Claudert
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1928
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1928
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Me, Gangster was director Raoul Walsh's third 1928 film -- and, according to some historians, the blueprint for such future...
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1928
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The ebullient Eddie Quillan made his talking-picture bow in the Pathe part-talkie Show Folks. After a chance meeting with...
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Cleo
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Although it ran a very scant four reels (it was actually 3,303 feet in length), comedy producer Mack Sennett marketed this...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1926
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The Fox company, who championed Buck Jones as Western star Tom Mix's possible heir, began cutting back a bit with Gold and...
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1925
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Cowboy ace Tom Mix allowed himself a change of pace with this costume adventure produced by Fox. Mix plays the legendary...
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1925
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A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands starred Buck Jones in the title role, a rancher falsely...
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Ellen Boyd
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1925
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1925
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The Fox company signed young Carole Lombard (billing her "Carol") to a contract after she tested for and won the female lead...
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Sybil Estabrook
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1925
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The homely but likable Monte Blue teams up with director Allan Dwan for this pleasing comedy-drama, adapted from a short...
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1921
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"Campus Carmen," "As Luck Would Have It" and "Her Bridal Nightmare" are the silent short stories featured in this series from...
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1920
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