This documentary about the history of popular music in America focuses on music hall style, taking a look back at the...
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1976
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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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1960
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Though billed fifth, Mary Astor is the one to watch in the Ross Hunter-produced soapera Stranger in My Arms. Astor portrays a...
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Vance Beasley
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1959
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Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While...
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Benjamin Franklin
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1959
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Based on a successful stage play, The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker loses in this adaptation to film by becoming more serious...
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Grampa
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1959
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Pamela Livingstone tries to persuade Bob to go birdwatching with her in Griffith Park. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1958
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Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of...
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1957
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This satire takes a sharp poke at the intrinsic laziness of British aristocracy who would rather die of starvation than...
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Uncle George
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1957
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Town on Trial! begins with the murder of a good-time girl in a small suburb of London. Scotland Yard inspector John Mills is...
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Dr. John Fenner
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1957
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Based on a novel by Howard Swiggert, The Power and the Prize sets up a premise that had far more relevance in 1956 than it...
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Guy Eliot
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was...
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Tweed
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1955
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Based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, The Long Wait stars Anthony Quinn as an amnesiac who may or may not have committed a...
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Gardiner
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1954
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The strangest aspect of the low-budget fantasy effort The Rocket Man is the fact that one of its screenwriters was...
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Mayor Ed Johnson
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1954
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"Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." These words were spoken not by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi but...
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Father Burke
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1953
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Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei...
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Sir Francis Beekman
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1953
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Oliver Oxly
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1952
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Samuel Fulton
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1952
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Lord Walters
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1951
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Mr. Abel Burnside
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1950
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Peggy Brookfield (Diana Lynn) is one of many aspirants for the position of Queen of the annual Tournament of Roses in...
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Prof. Brookfield
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1950
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Bing Crosby stars as Paul Merrick, an irresponsible songwriter in Mr. Music. Merrick's improvidence and prodigality has made...
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Alex Conway
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1950
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One of the better Universal "budget" musicals of the postwar era, Yes Sir, That's My Baby serves as an excellent showcase for...
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Prof. Jason Hartley
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1949
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Though he doesn't know it at first, industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) shouldn't trust his wife Irene...
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Lieutenant Quincy
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1949
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For some reason, whenever Universal used the word "Gal" in a film's title, Yvonne de Carlo usually headed the cast. In Gal...
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1949
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Major Blair
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1949
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Glenn Ford first appeared under the MGM banner in The Doctor and the Girl. Ford stars as Dr. Michael Corday, scion of a...
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1949
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In this drama, based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, the relationship between humans and animals is paralleled as they struggle to...
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Beaver
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1948
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B.F. Fulton
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1948
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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Inspector Temple
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1947
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Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her...
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Sir Simon Flaquer
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1947
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Alexander "Dandy" Gow
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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Max Dreyfus
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1945
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Ernst Lubitsch was the original director for A Royal Scandal, but illness forced him to bow out; his replacement was...
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Chancellor Nicolai Ilyitch
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1945
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Based on a play by Ruth Gordon, Over 21 represents the felicitous teaming of two middle-aged but attractive film favorites....
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Robert Gow
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1945
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Based on a novel by Barry Fleming, Colonel Effingham's Raid stars Charles Coburn in the title role. Upon retiring from the...
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1945
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In this crime drama, a former card shark finally gets paroled and decides to take his singing niece to Chicago to make a new...
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"Colonel" Appleby
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1945
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Prof. Henry Holmes
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1944
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The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this...
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Peter Stuyvesant
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1944
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In this domestic comedy, a housewife nervously awaits the return of her husband from military service. They married after a...
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William Smith
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1944
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The title Together Again referred to the fact that frequent costarsIrene Dunne and Charles Boyer were once more united on...
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Jonathan Crandall, Sr.
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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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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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Uncle
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1943
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On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many...
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Hugo Van Cleve
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1943
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Rudyard Morley
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1943
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To fully appreciate The More the Merrier, it is important to know that, during WW2, there was an acute housing shortage in...
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Benjamin Dingle
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1943
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Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in...
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Charles Churchill
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1943
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Uncle Stanley
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1942
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In This Our Life is not a "for the ages" classic of the Golden Age of Cinema, but as a highly effective and entertaining...
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William Fitzroy
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1942
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MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the...
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Mr. Pulham, Sr.
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1941
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Dumped by wife Ellen Drew, musician Melvyn Douglas goes into a creative slump. His gloom is lifted when he falls in love with...
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Prof. Drake
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1941
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A seemingly quiet Midwestern town is the hiding place for a number of sordid secrets in this melodrama based on Henry...
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Dr. Henry Gordon
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1941
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"Colonel" Harry Harrington
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1941
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The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest...
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John P. Merrick
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1941
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From first frame to last, foxy Charles Coburn thoroughly dominates the proceedings in the bubbly RKO Radio comedy Unexpected...
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Seton Manley
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1941
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This touching romance is based on a play by Rachel Crothers. An aging sea captain squanders his fortune on a bad business...
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Capt. Abe Peabody
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1940
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Joshua Mallon IV
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1940
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The Refugee was the original release title for the offbeat John Wayne vehicle Three Faces West. Wayne, Sigrid Gurie and...
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Dr. Braun
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1940
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Gen. Powell
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1940
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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Hofer
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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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Mr. Richard Walker
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1939
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Judge Joseph Doolittle
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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Lord Tyce
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1939
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Dr. Waldersee
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1939
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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J.B. Merlin
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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Gardner Hubbard
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1939
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Director Sam Wood always seemed most comfortable with cozy family-oriented films like Lord Jeff. Freddie Bartholomew plays...
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Capt. Briggs
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1938
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Dr. Charles Shingle
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1938
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The Sidney Howard/Paul de Kruf Broadway play Yellow Jack was transferred to the screen by MGM in 1938. The film is set at the...
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1938
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James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were "an item" when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one...
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Peter Morgan, Sr.
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1938
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1935
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This British musical showcase presents a number of cockney variety acts as it tells the story of two ailing and impoverished...
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1934
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