Burlesque queen Ann Corio took time out of her runway activities in the 1940s to star in three Monogram features, of which...
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Gracie
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1944
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Meeting at Midnight is the reissue title of Black Magic, a Charlie Chan "B" effort from Monogram Studios. A murder occurs...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian teams up with a barber and becomes a smash hit. The barber also finds himself falling...
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1943
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Speed Limited is an apt title; the speed in this quickie is limited to that of the proverbial tortoise. Ralph Graves heads...
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1940
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In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their...
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1940
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This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the...
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1938
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Yvonne Cartier
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1937
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The first entry in a proposed series of six Westerns starring Ken Maynard and produced for Grand National by M.H. Hoffman,...
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Alice
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1937
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If the big-time studios could score in the "screwball comedy" genre, then small-time Monogram Pictures could join the club...
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Helen
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1937
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A cowboy turned G-Man looks into a series of mysterious plane crashes in this low-budget but fairly engrossing B-Western...
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Natalie Brent
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1936
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Having peaked as a big-studio leading man, Conrad Nagel accepted a brief contract at cost-conscious Pacific Pictures in 1936....
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Fay Temple
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1936
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1936
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Alice Sayre
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1935
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Little Spanky McFarland's appointment as treasurer of the Ancient and Honery Order of Woodchucks occurs on the same day as...
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1935
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An overly verbose screenplay all but sinks this otherwise standard whodunit from Poverty Row company Reliable Pictures Corp....
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1935
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Produced by Mitchell Leichter's low-rent Beaumont Pictures, this inexpensive but fairly effective oater was the first of four...
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1935
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The legendary so-bad-it's-good serial The Lost City manages to keep the audience on its toes for 12 full chapters. It all...
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1934
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1934
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The first in a brace of "Our Gang" fantasy outings, "Mama's Little Pirate" begins when the mother of Spanky McFarland refuses...
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1934
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Slow moving, overly complicated, and badly acted in key roles, this low-budget melodrama from Poverty Row company Progressive...
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Barbara Hammond
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1933
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1933
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1932
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Inspired, it was stated at the time, by a real event, this minor but well-made Poverty Row mystery features Claudia Dell as...
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Enid Van Buren
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1932
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1932
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Midnight Lady is a low-budget variation of the evergreen stage and screen meller Madame X. In one of her rare starring roles,...
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Jean Austin
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1932
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In this newspaper drama, a dedicated small-town reporter works hard and becomes the editor of a major New York paper....
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Dorothy Pepper
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1932
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Frenchy
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1932
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Patricia
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1931
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Joe E. Brown had a fondness for playing milquetoast characters forced into situations calling for acute athletic prowess,...
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Sally Dunlap
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1931
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Sporting Chance is a prime example of how once-prominent silent screen personalities ended up grasping at straws on Poverty...
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Mary Bascom
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1931
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Peggy
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1931
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A typical pre-code era comedy, Bachelor Apartment was the creation of its leading man, silent screen matinee-idol Lowell...
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Lita Andrews
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1931
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Cole Porter's Broadway musical 50 Million Frenchmen was brought to the screen in 1931 with one minor alteration -- all of the...
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Looloo Carroll
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1931
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This historical drama, set in 18th-century England, chronicles the romance between a free-spirited coquette and a...
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
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1930
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Big Boy may well be the closest a modern audience will ever come to seeing what a genuine Al Jolson Broadway musical looked...
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Annabel Bedford
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1930
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