Narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William...
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1995
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Lucy (Lucille Ball) temporarily leaves her bank job to train as a flight attendant...
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1967
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1962
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A good girl goes bad in the face of peer pressure in this exploitation outing from the late '50s. The girl is new in town...
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Producer
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1958
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In this B-picture western,Anthony Dexter, plays Billy the Kid, the outlaw of the title and a victim of society. The parson of...
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1957
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An Innocent Affair was the original release title for the tame marital comedy Don't Trust Your Husband. Making her first film...
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Claude Kimball
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1948
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Adventures of Don Coyote is the third of five "streamliners", a group of under-an-hour features made by Mary Pickford and...
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Producer
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1947
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Stork Bites Man was the last of five short-length features from Comet Productions, a company owned by Mary Pickford, her...
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Producer
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1947
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Running a mere 56 minutes, Little Iodine was the first of five "streamliners" produced by Comet Productions, a company formed...
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Producer
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1946
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Abie's Irish Rose, the surprise hit of the 1922-23 Broadway season, was old-fashioned when it was first filmed in 1928, and...
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1946
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This lesser Laurel and Hardy vehicle casts Stan and Ollie as the proprietors of the "Arthur Hurry" dance studio. Despite a...
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1943
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1943
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Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost looks more like a Columbia two-reel comedy than an RKO feature film. Star Lupe Velez, her...
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Dennis Lindsay
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1942
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Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn...
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1942
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Directed by serial specialist Spencer Gordon Bennet, They Raid by Night is a PRC "special" dealing with the activities of the...
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1942
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The first "Mexican Spitfire" entry of 1942, Mexican Spitfire at Sea is set mainly on a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Combining...
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1942
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In this drama, a female horse trainer works on her grandpa's farm training trotters. Trouble ensues when he is forced to...
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Dean MacArdle
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1941
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Even non-fans of RKO Radio's "Mexican Spitfire" series will garner a few healthy laughs from Mexican Spitfire's Baby. This...
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Dennis Lindsay
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1941
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In this comedy, funny Langdon and Rogers end up working at a bean factory and getting into deep trouble when they...
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1941
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Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg...
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Larry Hays
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1941
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Jack Kent
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1937
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This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The fact that Grable plays the new...
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1937
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In this Paris-set comedy, a clerk gets a chance of a lifetime when he is unable to deposit his firm's receipts before the...
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Pierre
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1937
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1936
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Pierre
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1936
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Stan and Ollie play proprietors of an electric store, anxious to make friends with neighboring grocer Charlie Hall....
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1935
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In this musical campus comedy, trouble ensues when a meddlesome, overprotective father enrolls in the same college as his...
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Johnny Rogers
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1935
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Movie star-turned-bandleader Buddy Rogers heads the cast of the British tunefest Dance Band. The star is appropriately cast...
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Buddy Morgan
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1935
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1934
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1934
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Jimmie Hartman
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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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Kenneth Raleigh
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1933
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Drafted into the army during World War I, those muddled misfits Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy make a shambles of Training Camp...
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1932
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An early comedy about the generation gap, this 1932 movie was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who went on to write and...
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Bradley Ingals
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1932
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Two-reel comedy favorites Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made their feature-film debut (excluding their guest appearances in...
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1931
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Working Girls is a slight, dated, but still entertaining comedy, typical of its era. Louise Adams (Frances Dee) and her...
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1931
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In this courtroom drama, a lawyer defends his sister's fiance after he is accused of murder. The lawyer knows his client is...
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1931
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Before he settled down to a long career as a jovial character actor, Lloyd Corrigan functioned as screenwriter and director...
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1931
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In this drama, a twice married woman tries one more time with number three. Unfortunately, her wedding is suddenly halted...
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Tom Wood
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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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William Butler Reynolds
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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Aerial photography highlights this early sound actioner, set during World War I. Lt. Robert Banks (Charles "Buddy" Rogers),...
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Lt. Robert Banks
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1930
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In this actioner, a Coast Guard ensign must investigate a yacht suspected of smuggling alcohol. While aboard, he falls for a...
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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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1930
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In this murder mystery, set in a carnival, a performer loses her boyfriend, a trapeze artist, when his partner "accidently"...
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1929
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This tuneful tale revolves around a shy warehouse clerk who, at the encouragement of his girlfriend finally musters up his...
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1929
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In this melodrama set in the South, a plantation owner's son finishes his education in Philadelphia and returns to his...
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Tom Rumford/Col. Blake
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1929
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1929
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Carlee Thorpe (Buddy Rogers) and Claire Jernigan (Nancy Carol) enjoy considerable success with their vaudeville magic act....
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Carlee Thorpe
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1929
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Anne Nichols' Broadway comedy Abie's Irish Rose was almost universally panned when it opened in 1923. But despite the moans...
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Abie Levy
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1928
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1928
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William Shelby
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1928
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Red Lips was based on the novel The Plastic Age by Percy Marks, previously filmed under its original title in 1925....
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1928
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Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is...
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John "Jack" Powell
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1927
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1927
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Mary Pickford stars as the "Miss Fix-it" for her eccentric family. Pickford's job at a dime-store keeps her postman dad...
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Joe Grant
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1927
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The third of Ken Maynard's new starring series for First National, Overland Stage casts the cowboy star as shotgun rider on a...
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1927
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Fascinating Youth was designed as a showcase for the winners of Paramount's Junior Star contest of 1926. Newcomer...
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1926
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Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who had recently graduated from Paramount's talent school, has one of the leads in this comedy-drama,...
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1926
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Based on Mr. Bisbee's Princess, a story by Julian Street, So's Your Old Man was the first of two felicitous collaborations...
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1926
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