The story of a boy and his fish is chronicled in this heartwarming children's drama. The story centers around Raymie, a...
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R.J. Parsons
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1960
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A dramatization of the Philip Barry play about a rich society divorcee who is looking for a real romance and meets a...
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1958
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Mr. Raff
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1955
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Veteran showman Charles Winninger appears in this episode as Barney Kurtz, the former vaudeville partner of Fred Mertz...
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Barney Kurtz
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1954
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Capt. Eph Allan
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1953
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Director John Ford, notoriously difficult to please, regarded The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite film. Laurence...
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Judge William Pittman Priest
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1953
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Based on William Fay's short story The Disappearance of Dolan, Champ for a Day stars Alex Nicol as young pugilist George...
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Pa Karlsen
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1953
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Mark Stevens stars as a Navy pilot named Bingham in this paean to the modern-day submarine service. Covering the years 1941...
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Peabody
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1953
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Father is a Bachelor is a pleasant throwback to the "rural" comedies of the 1930s. William Holden plays Johnny Rutledge, a...
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Prof. Mordecai Ford
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1950
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Charles Winninger plays the head of a vaudevillian family who, when jobs become scarce, takes a humble factory job. He dreams...
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Albert Norwick
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1948
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Few major directors made "small" films with such frequency and expertise than the ubiquitous Allan Dwan. Set in 1933, Dwan's...
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1948
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Despite MGM's insistence that star Gene Kelly, just returning from military service in 1947, appear exclusively in big-budget...
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D. Rutherford Morgan
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1947
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Deanna Durbin stars in the musical shaggy dog story Something in the Wind. When the wealthy uncle of the Read family dies, he...
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Uncle Chester
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1947
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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Pa Williams
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1946
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Abel Frake
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1945
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Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees...
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1945
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The plot of the overinflated MGM musical Broadway Rhythm can be summed up briefly: Musical comedy producer Jonnie Demming...
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Sam Damming
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1944
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Belle Of The Yukon is standard backstage musical fare, featuring Randolph Scott as a reformed con man who has fled north from...
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Pop Candless
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1944
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Charles Winninger plays an old seaman who rules the roost in his family, which resides on a Florida houseboat. His oldest...
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Grandfather Osborne
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1944
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin...
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Judson Craig
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1943
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1943
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Waco
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1943
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Everything clicks in this tuneful, colorful and profitable Betty Grable musical. The star plays Katie Farley, a gyrating...
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Finnegan
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1943
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In this remake of the 1925 silent film, the breakup of a lifelong friendship between two German millionaires is chronicled....
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Karl Pfeiffer
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1942
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Dr. Josiah Glass
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1941
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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James Stewart once classified Pot O' Gold as his worst film, though this may have stemmed from his reported inability to get...
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C.J. Haskell
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1941
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My Life with Caroline is a dizzy boy-chases-girl affair with a twist: the girl being chased is the boy's own wife. Wealthy...
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Bliss
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1941
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Judy Garland performs her only on-screen death scene early in the proceedings of Little Nellie Kelly. But despair not!...
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Michael Noonan
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1940
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Olivia DeHavilland stars as a music student whose education is secretly subsidized by the aging owner of a phonograph factory...
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Julius Malette
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1940
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Michael O'Brien
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1940
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In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed....
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Joe Johnson
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1940
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Judson Craig
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1939
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The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of...
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Samuel J. Cady
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1939
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Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object...
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Wash Dimsdale
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1939
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Joe Moran
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1939
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Goddbye Broadway is wrapped up by two stage & screen veterans, Alice Brady and Charles Winninger. The stars play...
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Pat Malloy
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1938
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Big Ben Richards
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1938
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This early feminist tale was a box-office flop that was released after years of script doctoring. Producer Samuel Goldwyn...
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B.J. Nolan
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1937
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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Von Reigble Van Pelter Van Butterworth
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1937
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Cafe Metropole stars Tyrone Power as an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe...
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Joseph Ridgeway
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1937
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Alice Faye stars as aspiring playwright Judith Poe Wells. She falls in love with producer George Macrae (Don Ameche), which...
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Sam Gordon
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1937
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An intrepid amputee must pass a test to prove his devotion to his sweetie in this romantic drama. The hero lost his leg...
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Cappy Ricks
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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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Dr. Enoch Downer
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1937
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In this musical, the only one singer/dancer Alice Faye, made for Universal, a Broadway producer is in a quandary when he...
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Chuoka Charlie
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1937
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Capt. Andy Hawks
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1936
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Based on Jack London's famous story of the same name, White Fang was first filmed in 1925. It is set in the Gold Rush era in...
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Doc McFane
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1936
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Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in...
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Judson Craig
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1936
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Though she certainly didn't need the money, silent film favorite Colleen Moore made a comeback bid during the 1933-34 film...
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"Jonesie"
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1934
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God's Gift to Women demonstrated conclusively that Warner Bros. would never make a movie star out of Broadway comedian...
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Mr. Churchill
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1931
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William Wellman's Night Nurse survives as a potentially interesting but ultimately unsatisfying melodrama about a nurse...
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Dr. Arthur Bell
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1931
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In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is...
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1931
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1931
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A naive, wealthy small-town girl, bored with her routine life, falls for a dashing con artist who has come looking for fresh...
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1931
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The patience of a long-suffering wife is finally rewarded in this drama. The devoted wife has known that her husband has...
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1931
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Flying High was a nonsensical Broadway musical hit of 1930 starring Bert Lahr. The film version, made one year later by MGM,...
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Dr. Brown
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1931
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Advertised variously as a "musical romance" and an "operetta style drama", Children of Dreams was the last of three Warner...
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Dr. Joe Thompson
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1931
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Tack Gillup
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1931
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Popular Broadway comedian Ted Healy (sort of a Milton Berle without the charm) was tapped for potential movie stardom by Fox...
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Schmidt
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1930
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Summer Bachelors is predicated on a hot-weather ritual which was later satirized to the hilt in George Axelrod's...
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1926
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Pop Tyson
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1926
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1924
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