Lana Turner takes the lead in the seventh film version of Alexandre Bisson's glossy soap opera. Holly Parker (Turner) is...
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Estelle Anderson
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1966
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Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a...
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1954
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Based on a story by Paddy Chayefsky, this is the tale of a man who is being forced to retire from his job, at the age of 65,...
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Lucille McKinley
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1951
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Angel on the Amazon gives the viewer a pretty good notion of what Lost Horizon or She might have looked like had they been...
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Dr. Karen Lawrence
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1948
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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Paula Rogers
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1948
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Jane Moynihan
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1947
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Otto Preminger directed this romantic musical (something of a change of pace for the rather serious-minded director) set in...
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Zenia Lascalles
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1946
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Producer
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1945
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This remake of the 1934 WW I melodrama Madame Spy has been updated to the WW II era. Once again accepting a role unworthy of...
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Joan Bannister
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1942
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Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her liking. Dietrich was...
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Kye Allen
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1942
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Joan Madison
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1941
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Attempting to Americanize Greta Garbo to appeal to American audiences (since most of the foreign markets for Hollywood...
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Griselda Vaughn
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1941
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It's hard to believe that Wild Bill Hickok Rides is a Warner Bros. picture-and harder still to believe that Constance Bennett...
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Belle Andrews
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1941
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The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is...
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Christine Blaine
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1940
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The exploits of female pilots are followed in this high-flying drama. These women are extremely competitive and will stop at...
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Gerry Lester
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1939
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In this frothy comedy-drama, a businesswoman owns a successful service bureau for the filthy rich. Her service does...
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Helen Murphy
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1938
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Jerry Kilbourne
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1938
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Except for a few clips from 1937's Topper, Cary Grant is absent from the proceedings of the 1939 sequel Topper Takes a Trip,...
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Marion Kerby
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1938
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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Marion Kerby
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1937
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Ladies in Love transplants 20th Century-Fox's favorite film plot--three girls on the prowl for rich husbands--into the...
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Yoli Haydn
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1936
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A stellar Hollywood cast gives an extra boost to the atmospheric British feature Everything is Thunder. The story involves a...
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Anna von Stucknadel
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1936
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Sharon Norwood
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1935
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Outcast Lady is a heavily censored version of Michael Arlen's once-notorious novel The Green Hat, previously filmed by...
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Iris March
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1934
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Helen Hall/Racquel
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1934
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The Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer's popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life...
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Duchess of Florence
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1934
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Released in Great Britain as Sealed Lips, this WWI melodrama stars Constance Bennett as Carla, aka Russian spy "K-14." Though...
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Carla/K-14
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1933
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In this sassy dramatic comedy, two reform-school girls finally graduate and as soon as they get out decide to board a New...
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Lorry Evans
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1933
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1933
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Our Betters is adapted from Somerset Maugham's play about the shallowness and hypocrisy of the idle rich. American heiress...
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Pearl Grayston
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1933
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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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Dell Hamilton
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1932
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This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and...
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Venice Muir
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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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Judy Carroll
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1932
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What Price Hollywood is often referred to as the "first" version of the oft-filmed A Star is Born. While there are strong...
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Mary Evans
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1932
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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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Laura Murdock
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1931
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A wealthy man's mistress abandons her luxurious life as a kept woman to be with the struggling Paris artist she has come to...
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Valerie West
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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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Stephany Dale
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1931
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A WWI American nurse stationed in London (Constance Bennett) meets a handsome flier and finds only sorrow in this three-hanky...
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Doris Kendall
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1931
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Ahead of its time for liberated thinking, this is still really just a classic romance with a love triangle thrown in on the...
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Sylvia Brenner
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1930
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First filmed in 1926, the venerable stage melodrama Three Faces East was remade as a talkie in 1930. Set during WWI, most of...
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Frances Hawtree/Z-1
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1930
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Adapted from a story by Rex Beach, Son of the Gods stars Richard Barthelmess as Sam Lee, a young Chinese-American, anxious to...
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Allana
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1930
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Ellen Neal (Constance Bennett) is a "nice" girl -- just turned 18 -- who's been picked up in a raid on a speakeasy where she...
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Ellen Neal
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1930
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In this comedy, a lonesome fellow returns from Peru with a fortune and begins looking for a wife. While still single, he has...
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Ann Marvin
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1929
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In this romantic drama, a wealthy, young heiress suffers from ennui and begins rebelling against the restrictions of her...
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1929
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Marcia Livingston
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1926
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Georgie May
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1925
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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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Hazel Woods
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1925
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While his reputation has faded next to stronger talents such as Cecil B. DeMille, Erich Von Stroheim, and King Vidor, James...
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Lois Ingals
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1925
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Alla Nazimova, an ethereal Russian actress who preferred to bill herself as just plain Nazimova, tops the cast of My Son. The...
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1925
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Based on a musical comedy by Edward Dowling, this picture was Joan Crawford's breakthrough film. Her Charleston in this and...
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Sally
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1925
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Constance Bennett, still a very new star in 1925, has a more serious role than her usual light, sophisticated fare in this...
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1925
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As their 25th anniversary approaches, Stuart Borden (Huntley Gordon) and his wife (Irene Rich) are not exactly happily...
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Aileen Alton
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1925
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There were two versions of Into the Net -- a 15-reel serial and a seven-reel melodrama. The story was written by...
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Madge Clayton
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1924
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn gave his usual top-drawer treatment to Cytherea, making this pulpish romance seem more important than...
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Annette Sherman
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1924
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The answer to the burning question posed by this low-budget domestic drama was that they tended to want more from life than...
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Elise Bascom
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1922
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This satisfying drama was one of Elaine Hammerstein's better vehicles. When Florette, an actress (Hammerstein), marries...
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Edith
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1922
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Post-World War I youth were a different breed from prior generations, and this drama, adapted from the Cosmo Hamilton story,...
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1922
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1916
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