This stage performance of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears' 1948 adaptation of composer John Gay's seminal three-act ballad...
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1963
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1948
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Based on the lives of big-band stars Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, this biographical chronicle begins with their childhood in an...
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1947
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In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's...
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1946
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The wonderful newfangled world of television provides the backdrop for this musical. The tale begins as an advertising...
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1946
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In her second starring film, teenaged singing sensation Jane Powell plays Cheryl Williams, a 15-year-old music student who is...
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1945
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A beautiful child (14-year-old Jane Powell in her feature film debut) star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises...
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1944
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For the benefit of those who came in late, the John Robert Powers modelling agency was at one time the most famous and...
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1942
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1941
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In this romantic comedy, a blue-blooded girl falls in love with a wealthy rake who wants to settle down and marry her....
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1941
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The Star Maker is the story (with variations) of vaudeville enterpreneur Gus Edwards, here played by Bing Crosby. Determining...
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1939
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The Carter Family finds itself in serious financial difficulty when its patriarch, druggist Doc Carter (Frank Craven), is all...
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1939
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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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1937
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In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no...
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1937
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In this wartime drama, a young woman nearly comes unhinged when her husband, a Navy pilot, is transferred to Pearl Harbor on...
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1937
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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Gloria Stuart's trouble only begins when she inherits a newspaper in this routine, but at times, quite hilarious comedy from...
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1936
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1936
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Four Days Wonder is adapted from the A. A. Milne novel of the same name. New Universal contractee Jeanne Dante stars as...
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1936
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In this comedy, an sheltered heiress bets her father that she can make it in New York city on only $150 per week. She does...
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1936
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1936
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On New Year's Eve, aspiring actress Julia Wayne (Joan Bennett) and chronic gambler Larry Stevens (Joel McCrea), both flat...
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1936
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Based on a barnstorming stage play by Gus Hill, McFadden's Flat seemed charmingly anachronistic in the mid-1935s....
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1935
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1935
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Vaudeville humorist Walter C. Kelley, who toured for years as "The Virginia Judge," repeated the characterization in this...
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1935
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This drama is set within a carnival and centers on a young woman who falls in love but is unable to act upon her feelings...
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1934
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In this melodrama, set backstage at the theater, a fading, but still egotistical Hungarian star and his actress wife who has...
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1934
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Usually consigned to the supporting cast, eccentric comic actress ZaSu Pitts was occasionally rewarded with a leading role....
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1934
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1934
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Paramount's Eight Girls in a Boat was a remake of the 1932 German film of the same name. Impregnated by medical student David...
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1934
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In this comedy, a Tennessee lad, enrolled in art school wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he...
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1933
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This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive...
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1933
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A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Chester Morris stars as ambitious...
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1933
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Based on an 1830 opera entitled "Fra Diavolo" by Daniel F. Auber, the parts of two bit bandits were built up for Laurel and...
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1933
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This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much...
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1933
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1933
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A goodly portion of this boxing drama was filmed on location at the real-life Madison Square Garden. Jack Oakie stars as...
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1932
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The tragic death from peritonitis of leading man Robert Williams marred the production of this oppressive triangle drama set...
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1932
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A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd is the robust star of this logging camp melodrama which also featured a very young Ginger...
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1932
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This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star...
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1932
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A Woman Commands is often cited as silent screen star Pola Negri's first talking picture. Actually, it was her first...
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1932
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This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and...
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1932
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Coney island vendors Baltimore Clark (Bill Boyd), Dutch Herman (Robert Armstrong) and Skeets O'Reilly (James Gleason) spend...
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1931
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Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets....
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1931
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In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man...
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1931
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A wealthy man's mistress abandons her luxurious life as a kept woman to be with the struggling Paris artist she has come to...
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1931
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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1931
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Writer/director Tay Garnett reunited the stars of his fabulously successful Her Man (1930) for the 1931 RKO crime drama...
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1931
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A boxer and his girl try to dissuade their friend from getting involved with a Mafioso's gal. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1931
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A late entry in First National's series of silent Ken Maynard Westerns, this film starred the athletic Maynard and his...
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1929
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Set during the Civil War, this rousing silent Western starred Ken Maynard in top form as a federal agent tracking down a gang...
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1929
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By 1929, strapping cowboy Ken Maynard had become First National's ace western star. The former stunt rider was being afforded...
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1929
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Unable to utilize the original George Gershwin score, this silent version of the Broadway musical Lady Be Good concentrates...
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1928
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Racehorse movies were a dime a dozen in 1927, meaning that the few good ones tended to be lumped together with the bad. One...
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1927
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Man Crazy is the rather blatant title of this cinemadaptation of Clarissa and the Post Road, a novel by Grace Sartwell Mason....
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1927
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1927
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John Smith (Percy Marmont) comes to Hollywood with dreams of writing a successful screenplay. He rents a room at a...
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1924
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