Claudette Colbert made her first screen appearance in 25 years in the 2-part TV movie The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. The story...
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Alice Grenville
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1987
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Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Frank Capra. Included are excerpts from:...
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1982
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One subject that has always been popular in the movies -- and is likely to stay that way for a long time to come -- is...
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1965
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A scenic, tobacco-road soap opera by director Delmar Daves, known more for his westerns, Parrish features Troy Donahue in the...
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Ellen McLean
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1961
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire,...
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1957
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In this episode of the dramatic anthology series, Claudette Colbert stars as a writer struggling to help a convict get out of...
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1957
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Claudette Colbert makes a long-overdue entree into the Western genre in Texas Lady. Looking at least a decade younger than...
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Prudence Webb
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1956
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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Mme. de Montespan
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1954
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This film is comprised of three vignettes focusing upon women and war. The first episode, set in WW II, chronicles the sad...
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1954
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Elisabeth
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1954
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Liz Frazer
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1952
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Charlotte Hastings' West End stage hit Bonaventure was adroitly translated to the American screen as Thunder on the Hill. The...
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Sister Mary Bonaventure
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1951
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Let's Make It Legal begins at the end--the end of the long marriage between beautiful grandmother Miriam (Claudette Colbert)...
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Miriam Denham
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1951
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The Secret Fury works best if one is willing to suspend one's disbelief from the outset. Claudette Colbert stars as Ellen, a...
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Ellen
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1950
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Agnes Keith
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1950
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Nora Shelly
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1949
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In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the...
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Katie Armstrong Jordan
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1948
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Alison Courtland
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1948
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Betty MacDonald
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1947
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Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical...
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Elizabeth (MacDonald) Hamilton
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1946
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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Christopher "Kit" Madden
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1946
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The Secret Heart is a psychological drama starring June Allyson as a disturbed teenager obsessed with the memory of her dead...
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Lee Addams
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1946
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This screwball comedy stars Claudette Colbert as Mary, the wife of bumbling but likeable banker Chris (Dick Foran). Foreign...
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Mary
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1945
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Anne Hilton
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1944
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Peggy Martin
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1944
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Mitchell Leisen utilizes his stylistic pizzazz to enliven this romantic comedy that proves the old adage "opposites attract"...
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Katherine Grant
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1943
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Lt. Janet Davidson
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1943
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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Gerry Jeffers
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1942
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Nora Trinell
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1941
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Lydia Kenyon
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1941
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Clark Gable is "Big John" and Spencer Tracy is "Square John"; both "Johns" seek their fortunes in the Texas oil fields. They...
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Betsy Bartlett
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1940
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A serious journalist is sent to France and forced to write fashion fluff pieces. Tiring of this, she decides to sneak off to...
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Augusta Nash
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1940
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The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by...
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Songwriter, Zaza
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1939
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In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still...
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Edwina Corday
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo...
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Eve Peabody/"Baroness Czerny"
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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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Lana Borst Martin
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1939
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Nicole de Loiselle
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1938
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Kay Denham
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1937
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Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the...
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Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna
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1937
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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Barbara Clarke
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1937
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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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Cigarette
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1936
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Jeanette Desmereau
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1936
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Julia Scott
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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Marylin David
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1935
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The first major film about psychiatry, Private Worlds stars Claudette Colbert as a psychiatrist with more than a few problems...
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Dr. Jane Everest
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1935
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Cleopatra
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1934
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Beatrice "Bea" Pullman
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1934
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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Ellie Andrews
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1934
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Cecil B. DeMille's least characteristic sound feature, Four Frightened People is a character study about a quartet of...
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Judy Cavendish
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1934
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In this musical drama from directors Alexander Hall and George Somnes, Claudette Colbert stars as Sally Trent, a children's...
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Sally Trent/Mimi Benton
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1933
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Princess Nadya
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1933
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Max Miller's best-seller forms the basis of this romantic melodrama about cynical, hard-drinking reporter Joe Miller...
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Julie Kirk
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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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Elizabeth Rimplegar
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1933
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Claudette Colbert plays a dizzy socialite who wants to become an actress. She buys her way into an audition for the part of a...
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Helen Steele
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1932
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Legendary songwriter and vaudevillian George M. Cohan made his first appearance in a sound film with this satiric musical...
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Felicia Hammond
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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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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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Empress Poppaea
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1932
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Margaret Hughes (Claudette Colbert) returns from a trip abroad to discover that her sweetheart, crusading attorney David...
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Margaret Hughes
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1932
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The "Enoch Arden" theme is trotted out and slicked up for The Man From Yesterday. Nurse Claudette Colbert marries army doctor...
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Sylvia Suffolk
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1932
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In this drawing room drama, an impetuous heiress goes on a cruise and ends up marrying a Latin gigolo on a whim. Her father...
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Helen Blake
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1931
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Julia Traynor
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1931
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In this drama, a remake of Sal of Singapore(1929), the captain of a freighter becomes an instant father when his crew rescues...
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Sally Clark
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1931
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Franzi
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1931
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Poor but honest district attorney Fredric March, sick of the "one law for rich, one law for poor" imbalance, sentences...
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Lydia Thorne
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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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Ann Vaughn
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1930
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Le Grande Mare is the French-language version of Paramount's The Big Pond (1930), with Maurice Chevalier and...
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Barbara Billings
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1930
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L'Enigmatique Monsieur Parkes is the French-language version of the American romantic melodrama Slightly Scarlet. Replacing...
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Lucy de Stavrin
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1930
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Jean Oliver
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1929
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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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Joyce Roamer
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1929
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Recently fired by comedian Harry Langdon, young director Frank Capra found it difficult to line up any new projects. He was...
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Mary
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1927
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