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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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Returning from WW II, gambler Joe Miracle (Glenn Ford) discovers that his partner is dead, his gaming house has been sold,...
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1949
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In this funny tale of deception and romantic fireworks, a rather prissy New England school marm finally gets a chance to...
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1948
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The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947....
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Mrs. Wiggins
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1947
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Philo Vance, the infuriatingly brilliant amateur detective created by S. S. Van Dine, hadn't been seen on screen for seven...
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Stella Blendon
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1947
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Art Linkletter had only recently taken over the popular audience-participation radio series People are Funny from Art Baker...
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1946
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This thriller is set in early 20th-century London where a series of nasty murders have recently occurred. An aunt then tells...
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1946
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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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1946
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1946
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Don Ameche stars in this semi-screwball comedy as a handsome, eccentric 19th century inventor. Myrna Loy is his golddigging...
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1946
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This lesser "Inner Sanctum" entry stars Lon Chaney Jr. as unhappily married lawyer Wayne Fletcher. In love with his secretary...
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Belle Kincaid
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1945
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Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a...
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1945
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Judging by such films as Shadows of Suspicion, it's too bad that leading man Peter Cookson eventually elected to leave the...
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1944
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1944
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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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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1943
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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1943
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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Director Rouben Mamoulian completed a three-picture 20th Century Fox deal with this airy comic romance that attempted to ape...
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1942
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Jane Darwell is the whole show in the 61-minute 20th Century-Fox programmer Private Nurse. The formidable Ms. Darwell is...
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1941
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In the last of the Marx Brothers' MGM films, The Big Store, Groucho Marx plays two-bit detective Wolf J. Flywheel, hired by...
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1941
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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The Nurse's Secret is a low-budget remake of Miss Pinkerton (1932), which in turn was based on a play by Mary Roberts...
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1941
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In the 1930s and 1940s, Warner Bros. developed a positive genius for remaking earlier films in new, disguised fashion,...
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1941
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Dreaming Out Loud represented the film debut of radio favorites Lum 'N' Abner, aka Chester Lauck and Norris Goff. Proprietors...
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a young woman is sent to a National Youth Administration camp after her father is arrested for...
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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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1940
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Though the peak productivity of Monogram's "rural romance" films was the mid-1930s, the studio continued to put together...
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1940
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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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1939
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This musical presents a romantic and sanitized biography of distinguished American songwriter Stephen Foster. The story...
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1939
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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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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and...
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1939
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In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his...
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1939
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Even geniuses have to eat, and when Mark Twain was offered a substantial sum of money to slap together a quickie sequel to...
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1939
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Mickey Rooney may have been born to play Mark Twain's legendary hellraiser Huck Finn, but 1939's The Adventures of...
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1939
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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1938
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RKO Radio's ace short-subjects director Leslie Goodwins graduated to features with the economically produced Crime Ring....
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Phoebe Sawyer
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1938
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A concert singer goes blind after a rival throws acid in his face and leaves his New York girlfriend to return to his...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act....
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1938
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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 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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Alice Faye stars as aspiring playwright Judith Poe Wells. She falls in love with producer George Macrae (Don Ameche), which...
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1937
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League of Frightened Men was the second and last entry in Columbia's short-lived mystery series based on the "Nero Wolfe"...
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1937
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A young wife butts head with her beautiful best friend after her husband hires the latter to be his personal secretary and...
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Agatha Kingdon
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1937
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1937
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Small Town Boy was the 33rd release from the burgeoning "B"-picture factory of Grand National Pictures. Stuart Erwin plays...
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Mrs. Armstrong
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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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1936
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When David O. Selznick produced the film version of the 1000-plus page novel Gone with the Wind, he declared he could not...
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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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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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1936
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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Anne Shirley is the teenaged "lady" in this filmization of Elizabeth Jordan's novel My Daddy and I. Shirley plays the...
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Miss Dell
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1936
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Adapted by director Karl Brown from a novel by Charles M. Sheldon, In His Steps was the first release from the newly formed...
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1936
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This obscure Damon Runyon adaptation stars Jean Parker as Princess O'Hara, the spirited granddaughter of Central Park...
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1935
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In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the...
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1935
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In one of his few movie leading roles, Victor Jory plays an unmarried small-town creamery owner. Jory falls in love with...
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1935
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In this drama, a traveling ice show comes to a small southern town run by an amiable mayor. His mischievous younger brother,...
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1935
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Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man...
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1934
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In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief. After his latest job,...
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Aunt Margaret
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1934
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Based on the best-selling Gladys Hasty Carroll novel of the same name, As the Earth Turns covers four seasons in the life of...
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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In this drama, a fighter's fiancee refuses to marry him until he can overcome his insane jealousy. He does and they marry....
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1934
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In this comedy, based on a popular play by George Kelly, an office clerk masquerades as a railroad magnate to impress a young...
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1934
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1934
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The Sisters Under the Skin in this Columbia "continental" romantic seriocomedy are middle-aged Elinor Yates (Doris Lloyd) and...
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Miss Gower
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1934
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First adapted for the screen in 1928, Carl Ed's popular comic strip Harold Teen was cinematized a second time in 1934. This...
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1934
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1934
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Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had...
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1933
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Warner Oland returns as wily, philosophical oriental detective Charlie Chan in this expensive-looking series entry. This...
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1933
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Three-Cornered Moon is regarded by many film buffs as the first of the genuine "screwball comedies." Claudette Colbert stars...
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1933
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On the outs at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll was "punished" by being sent to Columbia for the lachrymose Child...
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Aunt Sophie
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1933
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Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle...
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1933
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Gary Cooper is a small town dentist dissatisfied with his lot. Though married to the lovely and affectionate Frances Fuller,...
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1933
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In this romance, an con-artist leaves an unsuccessful carnival gig to become a successful phony psychic. He is assisted by...
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1933
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1933
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An espionage drama set in the early 20th century, Ever in My Heart stars Barbara Stanwyck as a New England naif who marries a...
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1933
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1932
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Constance Bennett suffers nobly in this outdated but fairly engrossing melodrama in which a seemingly hardened debutante...
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1932
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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1932
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Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the...
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1932
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Barbara Stanwyck overcomes a veritable ocean of clichés and manages to make her "shopworn" heroine come to life in this...
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Mrs. Livingston
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1932
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Despite a troubled production that witnessed the exits of both leading man (Phillips Holmes) and director (George...
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1932
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An elderly gentleman finds himself in a difficult situation when he finds himself faced with becoming a burden on his...
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1932
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1932
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Based on a play by Arthur M. Brilant, The Case of Clara Deane stars Wynne Gibson, repeating her original Broadway role....
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1932
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Officially released as The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, this William Haines vehicle was snappily adapted by...
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1931
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1931
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Joan Crawford is her usual upwardly mobile self in this melodrama co-starring Clark Gable. She plays Marian Martin, a cynical...
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1931
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In this marital drama, a wife fears that her checkered past will be revealed when she and her husband move to the city to...
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1931
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In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. They frantically...
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1931
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Aunt Polly
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1931
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1931
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Most existing prints of the 1931 melodrama Drums of Jeopardy are in pretty bad shape, but it's worth enduring the tinny...
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1931
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Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle...
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1931
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A man who unthinkingly sullied the honor of a virtuous girl now must deal with his own ethical downfall in this drama. Willi...
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1931
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In this melodrama that was considered utterly scandalous in its day, an impoverished, beautiful young ghetto girl quickly...
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1931
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Constance Bennett, Hollywood's favorite "wronged" heroine, is the star of the misleadingly titled Bought. Thing of it is,...
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1931
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A sophisticated, expensively-dressed group of people gather in a spooky old mansion to watch the first performance of a...
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Aunt Mildred
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1931
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1931
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Greta Garbo appears here (in her second talking film) as an Italian singer who seduces a young priest into falling for her....
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1930
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This touching drama follows the exploits of a big-hearted businessman. The financier is just about to close a major deal...
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Martha Wagenkampf
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1930
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The popular silent-film screen team of Richard Arlen and Mary Brian was carried over into talkies with such films as Burning...
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1930
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Tom Sawyer, Paramount's 1930 Christmas release, was the first talkie version of Mark Twain's beloved novel. A rapidly...
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1930
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Ma Fisher
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1930
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In this comedy, a plumber does a job for a fellow and ends up conned into marrying his daughter. The daughter only agrees to...
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1930
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In this western based on a novel by Zane Grey, Buck Duane (George O'Brien) is a cowboy who is forced to kill a man in an act...
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1930
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1930
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It can be said that matronly stage comedienne May Irwin was the first female film star, by virtue of her appearance in the...
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1914
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