Although many genre filmmakers have managed to blend horror and humor with great success, movies employing this formula often...
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1988
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One of the most renowned blues festivals in America takes place in San Francisco, against the scenic backdrop of the bay and...
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1983
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Clark Gable's next-to-last MGM film was the Cold War melodrama Never Let Me Go. Filmed in England, the story finds American...
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Producer
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1953
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During the Vatican Holy Year of 1950, confidence trickster Joe Brewster (Paul Douglas) disguises himself as a priest and...
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Director, Producer
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1952
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Plymouth Adventure earned a footnote in film history as the last directorial effort by the prolific Clarence Brown....
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Director
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1952
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Though not the most profitable baseball comedy ever made, Angels in the Outfield is one of the most likeable and enduring....
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Director, Producer
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1951
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Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He...
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Director, Producer
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1950
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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Director
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1950
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The oft-filmed Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden was given the usual plush MGM treatment in 1949. Tempestuous...
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Producer
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1949
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Intruder in the Dust is one of the best of Hollywood's postwar "racial tolerance" cycle--a cycle that would come to an abrupt...
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Director, Producer
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1949
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Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine...
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Director, Producer
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1947
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Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling is set in post-Civil War Florida. Claude Jarman Jr. plays Jody...
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Director
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1946
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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Director
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1944
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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Director
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1944
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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Director, Producer
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1943
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James Stewart's last Hollywood film before entering military service, Come Live with Me teams Stewart with the hauntingly...
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Director, Producer
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1941
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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1941
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1940
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1939
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1939
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1938
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Director
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1937
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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Director
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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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Director
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1936
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This second filmization of Leo Tolstoy's novel is widely regarded as the best version. Greta Garbo plays the title character,...
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Director
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1935
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad...
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Director
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1935
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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Director
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1934
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Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained....
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Director
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1934
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A much-married man of the world is found murdered in this typical low-budget whodunit and each and every one of his fifteen...
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1934
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Director
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1933
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A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had...
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Director, Producer
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1933
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Based on a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, this drama chronicles the tangled web woven by a poisonous New York socialite who...
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Director
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1932
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San Francisco's Chinatown provides the setting of this dramatic romance set in 1911. At this time in China, a major uprising...
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Director
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1932
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Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper...
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Director
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1932
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In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family,...
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Director
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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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Director, Producer
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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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Director
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1931
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Director
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1930
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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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Director
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1930
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Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo made her "talking picture"...
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Director, Producer
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1930
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Stage favorite Peggy Wood (later the star of the popular TV series Mama) made her screen debut in the MGM part-talkie Wonder...
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Director
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1929
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The strange and terrible things that the lust for gold can do to the soul comprise the message of this innovative, epic...
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Director
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1928
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1928
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Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could...
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Director
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1928
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Director
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1926
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A bulky, verbose novel by Herman Suderman was the source for the exquisitely silent Flesh and the Devil. On leave from the...
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Director
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1926
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The Goose Woman was inspired by the notorious Hall-Mills murder case, wherein a woman known as the "Pig Woman" was wheeled...
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Director
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1925
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Smouldering Fires is a first-rate silent "soap opera," immaculately performed by its superb cast and brilliantly directed by...
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Director
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1925
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Director
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1925
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Although Universal billed this tense drama as a "Super Jewel," there's nothing epic about it -- it's a straightforward,...
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1924
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Director
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1924
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Before hitting his stride at MGM later in the 1920s, director Clarence Brown was contracted to make five "Super-Jewels" for...
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Director
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1923
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Director
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1923
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Actress Hope Hampton and her producer, Jules Brulatour, were sort of a low-rent Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst --...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Although Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives had been released only a few short months earlier, the title to this drama...
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Director
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1921
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Outlaw Dan Malloy (House Peters) is notorious throughout the West. After his latest train robbery, he seeks refuge in a cabin...
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Director
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1920
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Maurice Tourneur was the original director on the 1920 silent version of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, but he...
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Director
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1920
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