Granny is both astonished and flattered when she finds herself courted by two distinguished suitors: Milburn Drysdale's...
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1966
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At the request of gallant Colonel Fairchild (Charles Ruggles) and his lovely daughter Patty Lou (Julie Parrish), Ben...
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Col. Fairchild
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1966
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Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old...
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John Everett Hughes
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1966
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In the conclusion of a two-part story arc, Mrs. Drysdale's aristocratic -- and perennially broke -- father, Lowell Farquhar...
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1965
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Herman (Fred Gwynne) may be up for a better-paying position at the mortuary, but only if he can get a special hearse-driving...
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1965
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Hedley Patridge
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1965
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Dr. Pruitt
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1965
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Aunt Bee finds a soulmate in the form of retired US Congressman John Canfield (Charlie Ruggles). Before long, both of the...
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John Canfield
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1965
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Charles Ruggles makes the first of several appearances as Lowell Farquhar, Mrs. Drysdale's "aristocatic," Boston-born...
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1965
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When Darrin expresses frustration over his inability to come up with a suitable slogan for the Caldwell Soup Company,...
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Caldwell
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1964
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Dr. Crandall
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1964
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This charming tale is about a young girl's father and his slightly erratic behavior after sampling a refreshing alcoholic...
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Grandpa Anthony Ghio
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1963
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Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the...
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1963
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1961
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We get a double dose of Hayley Mills in this Disney vehicle: she plays 13-year-old identical twins Susan and Sharon, who meet...
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Charles McKendrick
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1961
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1961
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The first half of this 1961 Walt Disney Presents episode shows the work that went behind the delightful animated opening...
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1961
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This highly anticipated and lavishly publicized semi-musical TV adaptation of Kay Thompson's "Eloise" stories stars...
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1956
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Included are four Christmas episodes from '50s television shows: A Date with the Angels, Racket Squad, The Ruggles and...
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1955
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Adapted from a play by Honore de Balzac, Lovable Cheat offers a veritable smorgasbord of Hollywood's top character actors....
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Claude Mercadet
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1949
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The short but colorful life of American musical comedy star Marilyn Miller is given the standard prettified Hollywood...
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Caro Miller
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1949
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This early-'50s TV situation-comedy show featured Charles Ruggles. ~ Rovi...
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1949
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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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Toby
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1948
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This cowboy drama from Hungarian director Andre De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author...
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Ben Dickason
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1947
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It Happened On Fifth Avenue was easily the most ambitious movie made by the then-newly-organized Allied Artists for at least...
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Michael O'Connor
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1947
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In this romantic melodrama, Bette Davis plays twin sisters for the first time (she would do so again in 1964's Dead Ringer)....
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Freddie Lindley
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1946
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In later years, director Fred Zinneman seldom referred to My Brother Talks to Horses as one of his career highpoints. Even...
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Richard Pennington Roeder
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1946
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Producer/director William A. Wellman also co-scripted this biopic devoted to John J. Montgomery (Glenn Ford), the unsung...
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1946
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If the Perfect Marriage in this romantic comedy were truly perfect, there wouldn't be any story, would there? Outwardly an...
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Dale Williams, Sr.
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1946
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Incendiary Blonde is a highly entertaining if historically suspect biopic of "Queen of the Nightclubs" Texas Guinan. As...
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Cherokee Jim
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1945
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Her Favorite Patient is the TV title for Bedside Manner, an improbable comedy directed by future master of "realism"...
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Doc Fredericks
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1945
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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1944
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Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Three Is a Family is a 1940s farce that frequently substitutes noise for humor....
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Sam Whitaker
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1944
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay was based on the lighthearted joint autobiography of actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and humorist...
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1944
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Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation...
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Pa Dugan
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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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Henry Block
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1942
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Chuckawalla Bill Redfield
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1941
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The real-life marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was already on the rocks when they costarred in Model Wife. The...
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Mr. Milo Everett
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1941
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Ubiquitous 20th Century-Fox contractee Lynn Bari is the heroine of The Perfect Snob. Carefully raised by her social-climbing...
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Dr. Mason
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1941
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Ann Sheridan and her then-husband George Brent did their expected box-office duty in the Warner Bros. comedy Honeymoon for...
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Harvey Wilson
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1941
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Taking a vacation from her "Blondie" movies, Penny Singleton plays an Eastern girl who follows Horace Greeley's advice and...
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Jim Pendergast
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1941
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Dispensing with the melodramatic excesses of Universal's previous "Invisible Man" films, 1941's The Invisible Woman aims...
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George
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1940
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This zany comedy-mystery gets under way when wiseguy reporter Jimmie Daniels (Robert Paige) and tipsy sports editor Buzz...
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Buzz Nelson
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1940
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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Nicksie North
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1940
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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Dick Piper
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1940
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Communism-the American variety-is given a hilarious going-over in 20th Century-Fox's Public Deb No. 1. Spoiled society girl...
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Milburn
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1940
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S.N. Behrman's hit Broadway show about a guy who writes hit Broadway shows comes to the screen in this comedy. Gaylord...
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Philo Swift
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1940
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In this domestic comedy, a husband and wife manage an apartment building owned by the husband's pal. Meanwhile they must...
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Homer C. Fitch
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1939
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It may sound like a teenage-romance comedy, but Boy Trouble is actually a sentimental effort about middle-aged parents....
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Homer C. Fitch
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1939
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Pop Hardy
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1939
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In this romantic musical, a Russian prince sees a lovely singer in a town cafe and falls head-over-heels. Realizing that he...
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Pvt. Nicki Popoff
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1939
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In this comedy, a milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company. When the...
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Tripp
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1938
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Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite...
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Samuel Terwilliger
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1938
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In this frothy comedy-drama, a businesswoman owns a successful service bureau for the filthy rich. Her service does...
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Scott Robinson
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an...
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Maj. Horace Applegate
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1938
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Department store owner Elliot Dinwiddy (Charlie Ruggles) never makes a decision without first consulting his astrologer Dr....
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Elliott Dinwiddy
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1937
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In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just...
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Orville
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1937
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Tod Swain
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1937
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Chester Beatty
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1936
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In this crime comedy, a street-savvy gangster involves himself with a Miami socialite. Together, they conspire to turn her...
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1936
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It's a black night in Hollywood when matinee idol Neil DuBeck (Rod LaRoque) is murdered at the preview of his latest film....
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1936
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In this bedroom farce, a writer rails against marriage and touts the benefits of staying single. He then convinces his...
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Homer Bigelow
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1936
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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Rev. Dr. Moon
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1936
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A remake of 1928's Glorious Betsy (itself based on a stage play by Rida Johnson Young), Hearts Divided is based, believe it...
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Napoleon
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1936
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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1935
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Henry Wilton
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by...
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Egbert Floud
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1935
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MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good...
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Edgar Holmes
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1935
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In this British comedy, a mild mannered editorial writer for a right-wing newspaper becomes fed up with the constant...
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Nathan "Asaph" Holliday
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1934
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Harry Beaumont, a director-composer most closely associated with MGM's musical product, does a nice job handling the...
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Scott
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1934
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Radio tenor Lanny Ross made a game but unsuccessful bid for film stardom in Paramount's Melody in Spring. Though Ross, cast...
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1934
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J. Pinkham Whinney
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1934
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Aaron Kirkland
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1934
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Goodbye Love is a lampoon of what was once designated the "alimony racket." Refusing to meet his wife's exorbitant alimony...
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1934
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Insanely jealous of his wife, wealthy zoologist Lionel Atwill uses his knowledge of animals to dispose of any would-be...
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Peter Yates, Zoo Press Agent
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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Wilbur Todd
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1933
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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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Vergil Crock
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1933
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In this suspenseful mystery, a murderous psychopath aboard a luxury liner begins a series of grisly but creative murders....
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1933
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A multi-character drama set in a suburban neighborhood, The Night of June 13th takes place in four households. One of these...
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Philo Strawn
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1932
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Adolph
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1932
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This adaptation of the Puccini opera jettisons all the music and retains only David Belasco's timeworn libretto. American...
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Lt. Barton
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1932
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Cary Grant made his feature film debut in 1932's This is the Night. Grant plays the Olympic-athlete husband of Thelma Todd,...
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Bunny West
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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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Goliath Whitney
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1932
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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1932
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Henry Peabody
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1932
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One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight...
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Viscount de Varese
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1932
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The Major
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1932
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In this romance, an impoverished Viennese aristocrat becomes a gigolo. While on the job, he encounters a Yankee widow who is...
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Bimfel
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1932
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Melody Cruise, director Mark Sandrich's first feature film, is an unofficial extension of Sandrich's Oscar-winning RKO short...
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Pete Wells
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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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Johnny Moran
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1932
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Max
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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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Clyde Saunders
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1931
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The continental-flavored comedy drama Beloved Bachelor was based on a play by Edward H. Peple. Unmarried sculptor Paul Lukas...
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Jerry Wells
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1931
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Monty Dunn
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1931
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Though he'd been given top billing at other studios, Charles Ruggles attained star status at his home lot of Paramount for...
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Charlie Floyd
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1931
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Clara Bow's career as one of Hollywood's liveliest leading ladies was drawing to a close when she made this early sound...
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Bertie Bird
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1930
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In this musical comedy, two partners in the garter business fight for control and decide to play a round of poker to settle...
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T. Boggs Johns
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1930
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Jimmy Durante made his movie debut in Roadhouse Nights, a strange amalgam of musical comedy and gangster melodrama. In truth,...
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Willie Bindbugel
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1930
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Lord Babberly
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1930
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In this sports drama, Toby McLean, a sportswriter encounters another journalist, Ann Vaughn at the Tunney-Jack Dempsey fight....
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Shorty Ross
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1930
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When blue-blooded widower Robert Rossiter (Walter Huston) announces his plans to marry salesgirl Joyce Roamer (Claudette...
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Charlie Tyler
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1929
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In this dark drama, based on a play by Ward Morehouse, the life of a tough newspaperman is chronicled. The man is a...
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Charlie Haven
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1929
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The great British stage star Gertrude Lawrence was seldom seen to her best advantage in films. In Paramount's Battle of...
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Zizi
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1929
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Agnes Ayres stars as Muriel Gray in the lightning-paced comedy Heart Raider. Described in an introductory title as "a speed...
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Gaspard McMahon, an Insurance Clerk
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1923
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1915
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This first feature-length version of Henrik Ibsen's 1867 stage epic Peer Gynt was based on the recent Broadway staging by...
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1915
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