"Movies like Getting Straight are ceasing to be tolerable" complained one conservative movie magazine of 1970. Today, the...
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1970
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When an aging philanthropist falls on hard times, her butler starts to rob the rich so that she can keep on giving to the...
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1967
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Monsignor Ryan
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1967
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1966
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1966
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An unusually long pre-credits sequence establishes the roots of faded Southern belle Charlotte's (Bette Davis) insanity;...
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Harry
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1965
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Forced into retirement, disgruntled truck driver Harold K. "Smitty" Smith (Arthur O'Connell) decides to get even with his...
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1965
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In his efforts to help museum curator Wilbur Canfield (Cecil Kellaway)--and incidentally, to expand the cultural horizons of...
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1964
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Though it was made in 1964, this romantic farce was not released until 1971. It stars an aging Ginger Rogers as a prosperous...
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1964
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Santa
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1964
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Tom Tryon plays the title role in this Otto Preminger version of the Henry Morton Robinson novel. In his matriculation from...
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1963
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Charles Beaumont adapted this hauntingly-poignant 60-minute Twilight Zone episode from his own short story "Song for a Lady."...
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Burgess
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1963
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TV actor Tom Poston stars as Prof. Jonathan Jones in this early feature-film appearance, a standard comedy-fantasy oriented...
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Dean Updike
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1962
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In this emotional romance, the young backwoods girl Tammy lives in a houseboat on the river. She is very sad because she...
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1961
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This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious...
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Cardinal Hugolino
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1961
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This parody of Genesis caused an uproar before and during its release (the final version was reworked and cut) though its...
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1961
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Adapted for television by Charles Beaumont from his own short story, the Twilight Zone episode "Elegy" was first telecast...
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Jeremy Wickwire
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1960
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Tom Wyatt (John Hudson) might have become rich by inventing a cure for a rare fish disease called gilled fever, but for the...
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1959
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This is a routine Disney comedy-fantasy about a boy who turns into a large sheep dog at the most inopportune moments. That is...
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1959
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A gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while...
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Dr. Enos Davis
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1958
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In this gentle, non-melodramatic drama, an elderly, wealthy widow will not leave her apartment even after her building is...
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Tom McKay, Chandler chauffeur
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1957
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James Fusenot
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1956
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An original story by no less than Jackie Gleason was the basis of this one-hour drama, originally telecast live on the CBS...
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1956
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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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1955
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Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence....
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Bill Lawrence
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1955
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This movie is ideal for those in the mood for something steamy, overwrought and wonderfully trashy. Billed as a mystery, it...
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Osbert Sorenson
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1955
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The messed up love relationships between friends is addressed by a visiting Westerner. ~ Rovi...
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1953
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A longtime "dream" project of production designer-turned-director Eugene Lourie, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms sees the...
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Prof. Thurgood Elson
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1953
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During the early days of East Indian independence in 1947, a native rebellion threatens a hotel full of Britishers, Europeans...
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Dr. Willoughby
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1953
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1953
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A Big Apple nightclub singer inherits a riverboat from his late grandfather and learns, via flashback, the interesting story...
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Thadius Jackson
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1953
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This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of...
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1953
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Blue-collar gal Henrietta Smith (Anne Sheridan) is mistaken for a woman of wealth by plumber Fred Newcombe (John Lund)....
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Pop Smith
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1952
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Rev. Chamberlain
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1952
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Lord Herbert
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1951
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Even at age 38, Loretta Young could successfully pull off her ingenue duties in the innocuous comedy Half Angel. Young plays...
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Mr. Gilpin
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1951
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Katherine "Katie" Standish (Ann Blyth) has been raised in a restrictive small town by her prudish Aunt Priscilla...
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Nathaniel B. Wakely VI
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1951
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Col. Travers
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1951
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MGM's The Reformer and the Redhead was the first directorial collaboration of longtime screenwriting partners Norman Panama...
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Dr. Kevin G. Maguire
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1950
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This whimsical fantasy about a local drunk's 6' 3 1/2" imaginary rabbit pal was a smash hit (and a Pulitzer Prize winner) on...
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Dr. Chumley
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1950
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1950
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This full-blooded saga of the 19th century whaling industry stars Lionel Barrymore as tough old salt Captain Bering Joy and...
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Slush Tubbs
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1949
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A semi-fantasy with sociological overtones, The Luck of the Irish stars Tyrone Power as an American journalist named Stephen...
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Horace Lee
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1948
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In this drama, a poor young boy must choose between his divorcing parents. With the help of a kind judge, he tries to get...
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Judge Adamson
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1948
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Jean Le Maistre
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1948
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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While...
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Mr. Matthews
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1948
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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1947
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In this frothy, star-studded Warner Brothers outing, tightwad tycoon Jonathan Turner, believing himself at death's door,...
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Jonathan Turner
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1947
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This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but...
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J.B. Allenbury
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1946
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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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Nick Smith
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1946
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Frank Morgan plays a turn-of-the-century shipbuilder who dies of a sudden heart attack. Morgan is summoned to Heaven by the...
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Tom Carter
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1946
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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was...
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Count D'Armand
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1946
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Ayn Rand wrote this adaptation of Chris Massie's book Pity Mr. Simplicity, about a soldier who falls in love with a former...
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Mack
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1945
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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Thomas Gainsborough
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1945
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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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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Edward, Prince of Wales
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1944
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Marvin P. Meglin
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1944
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William
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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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1943
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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King O'Hara
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1943
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1943
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Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United...
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1943
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For reasons unknown, Paramount Pictures decided to dust off the 1926 George S. Kaufman-Herman Mankiewicz stage comedy The...
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Jim Hilton
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1943
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Daniel
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1942
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Long underappreciated by film buffs, The Lady Has Plans is a screwball comedy disguised as an espionage melodrama. The title...
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1942
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Take a Letter, Darling is from the "boss lady" school of 1940s comedies. Fred MacMurray is Darling (that's his last name), an...
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1942
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In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?"...
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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A solid Jonathan Latimer screenplay is one of the "plusses" of the medium-budget mystery A Night in New Orleans....
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1942
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A most uncharacteristic assignment for director Robert Siodmak, My Heart Belongs to Daddy was scripted by F. Hugh Herbert, of...
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Alfred
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1942
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Ayn Rand's Broadway stage hit The Night of January 16th was distinguished by a clever gimmick, wherein members of the...
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1941
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Mr. Randall
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1941
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This action film is set in Asia during World War II and follows the exploits of a truck driver who must investigate the...
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Angus McBragel
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1941
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Fred MacMurray is a breezy New York street photographer; Mary Martin is a small town girl hoping to make her fortune in the...
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1941
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1941
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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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1941
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What's a modern guy to do when his wife's ideas about marriage are a bit too modern for his taste? Andre Casall...
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1941
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In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from...
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1941
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Though it isn't obvious from the outset, A Very Young Lady is a remake of 20th Century-Fox' Girl's Dormitory; both films were...
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1941
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In this third of RKO's "Mexican Spitfire" series, star Lupe Velez doesn't get any further west than Reno, Nevada. Lupe feels...
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Chumley
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1940
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The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna...
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1940
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The second entry in MGM's three-film "Nick Carter" series, Phantom Raiders is undeniably the best, and not just by default....
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1940
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Egyptian mystic Andoheb (George Zucco) is ordered by his High Priest (Eduardo Ciannelli) to stand guard over the sacred mummy...
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Solvani the Great
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1940
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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1940
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Characterized by some critics as a "South African western", Diamond Frontier stars Victor McLaglen as ruthless diamond hunter...
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Noah
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1940
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British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief Felice (Isa Miranda), tricking her out of some...
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with...
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1940
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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Inspector Sampson
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1940
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1940
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This fine adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale about a cursed family opens with a title card that reveals how the...
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1940
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1939
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The excellent response to RKO Radio's The Girl from Mexico prompted the studio to fashion an entire series based on the...
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1939
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Cherubic Cecil Kellaway heads the cast of the Australian Mr. Chedworth Steps Out. The title character is a milquetoast clerk...
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1939
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Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a...
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1939
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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Charles Moler
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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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It's Double Danger for detective-story writer Robert Crane (Preston Foster) whenever he pursues his "secret life" as a suave...
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1938
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Better known today as the father of actors Bob Einstein and Albert Brooks, comedian Harry Einstein achieved radio fame in the...
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1938
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Joan Fontaine was still two years away from full stardom when she appeared in the B-plus comedy Maid's Night Out. Future...
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1938
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When two lovers are framed for a jewelry store robbery in which the clerk was killed, the only person capable of saving them...
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1938
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In this romantic comedy a millionaire must somehow dissuade his daughter from marrying a money-grubbing social-climber. In...
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1938
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Zany actress Annabel goes on a promotional tour in this lively comedy, the second in the Annabel series. During her tour,...
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1938
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In this comedy, designed to exploit the then current national craze for picture puzzles, an alcoholic advertising exec...
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Beyers
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1938
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This RKO Radio "expose" film is loosely based on the career of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who'd previously gotten the...
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1938
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In this comedy, a marriage-license clerk is proud of the fact that during his 20-year career not one of the couples he has...
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Hardy
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1938
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In this Australian comedy, a rancher discovers that his ancestors were royalty. He takes his family to Britain to meet his...
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Screen Story, Hubert Blaydon
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1937
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