Considering the fact that it was the only Universal horror film directed by cult favorite Joseph H. Lewis, it's a shame that...
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Patricia Wentworth
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1942
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Lt. Com. Frank V. Martinek's widely circulated comic strip Don Winslow of the Navy was brought to the screen in this...
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1942
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Gladys La Verne
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1942
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1942
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In this war comedy, an army reject becomes a war hero by rounding up a ring of Nazi spies. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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1941's The Black Cat is neither a remake of the 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear the slightest...
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1941
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The third of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's starring films, In the Navy was released second; Universal had just made a bundle...
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Dorothy Roberts
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1941
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The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly...
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Alma Brehmer
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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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1940
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In this cautionary tale from the late 1930s, a woman surgeon must rush to the hospital on her wedding anniversary to save a...
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Gail
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1939
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Fast Company was another attempt by MGM to match the success of its "Thin Man" films. Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star...
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Julia Thorne
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1938
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Nancy, a jilted bride-to-be, is played by Janet Gaynor in one of her last starring films. The three loves are novelist...
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Vivian Herford
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1938
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Herman Bahr's German play The Yellow Nightingale from 1907 became Paramount's 1938 entry in the then-popular operetta cycle....
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Countess Monica Foldessy
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1938
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Sidney Toler made his first appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in 1938's Charlie Chan in Honolulu,...
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1938
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In this comedy drama, a newspaper report discovers that a popular religious cult is really a scam. Unbeknownst to him, his...
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Claire Raeburn
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1937
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Perry Mason (Warren William) actually marries his secretary, the redoubtable Della Street (Claire Dodd) in this, the fourth...
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Della Street
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1936
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This drama is set at a struggling radio station. To drum up more listeners, the station owner dredges up an old mystery and...
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1936
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Strictly for Al Jolson's most fervent fans, The Singing Kid casts Jolie as neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson. Facing...
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1936
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A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best...
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Bernice
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1936
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Nurse Sarah Keate, the middle-aged crime-solver created by mystery novelist Mignon Eberhardt, was reshaped as a much younger...
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Janice Thatcher
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1936
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The hero of The Pay-Off is somewhat denser than usual, making his ultimate victory all the more amazing. James Dunn plays...
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Maxine
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1935
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Errol Flynn makes his Hollywood screen debut as a corpse in this funny, fast-paced whodunit, the third of six Perry Mason...
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Delia Street
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1935
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High-rolling gambler "Odds" Owen (Warren William) establishes an American insurance agency created along the lines of Lloyd's...
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Marilyn Young
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1935
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Venerable character actor Ferdinand Gottschalk dominates the proceedings in the Universal crime meller Secret of the Chateau....
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Julie Verlaine
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1935
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Janet Henry
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1935
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In this bedroom farce, an ex-wife overhears her former hubby's new wife and her lover planning a tryst for the weekend while...
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Connie Thurston
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1935
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1935
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"I Sell Anything" is the boast of penny-ante auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler (Pat O'Brien), and he more than makes good his boast...
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Millicent Clark
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1934
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Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler....
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Sheila Aiken
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1934
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Warner Bros. grabbed up the rights to Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel of middle America, soon after publication in...
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Tanis Judique
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1934
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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Norma
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1934
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A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars Ruth Chatterton as Françoise...
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Odette Florey
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1934
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Patricia Merrill
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1934
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A battling married couple come to blows and afterwards the battered wife seeks legal council. This drama chronicles the...
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Anita
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1934
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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1933
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The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight...
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1933
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In this romantic sex-comedy from director Robert Florey, Bette Davis stars as Helen Bauer, a free-spirited, self-sufficient...
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Iris Van Hugh
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1933
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Hard to Handle stars James Cagney as a fast-talking promoter who pounces upon every current fad and foible to make a quick...
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Marlene Reeves
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1933
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Set during the Depression, this crime drama centers upon a basically honest girl who is forced into prostitution by...
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Gladys La Mann
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1933
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After suffering magnificently in picture after picture at RKO and Paramount, Helen Twelvetrees was subjected to even more...
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Muriel Bennett
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1933
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In this melodrama a superb female lawyer finds that her success has emasculated her husband, a rather average architect, who...
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Carole Rodgers
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1933
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Mrs. Newberry
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1933
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Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because...
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Evelyn
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1933
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The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like...
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1932
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1932
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In her first film under contract to Warner Bros., Kay Francis plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband Fred (Kenneth...
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1932
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Sudden success can be a double-edged sword as this drama aptly proves. An aspiring musician finds success when his manager...
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1932
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In this drama, a bandleader thinks that his young friend will be corrupted by his budding relationship with a taxi dancer....
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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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1932
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In this western, a lovely Mexican woman falls in love with the gringo pilot whose plane crashed nearby. Unfortunately, her...
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1932
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A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't...
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1932
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1932
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A Bavarian orphan, raised by a wealthy family, grows up to become a promising physician (Richard Barthelmess). Meanwhile, the...
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1932
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Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions....
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1931
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Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls". They work the convention...
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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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1931
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1930
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1930
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1930
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