This concert and interview documentary features the racy wit of Canada and the U.S.'s most popular female comedians,...
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1991
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In this compelling and unusual psychological melodrama Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), a woman tormented by her secret...
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1949
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The Girl From Manhattan is a minor but watchable variation on the old "mortgage-on-the-farm" plot device. The girl of the...
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1948
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Mrs. Atwater
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1948
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The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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Julia Gibbs
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1947
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A man's youthful indiscretions come back to haunt him in this droll drawing room comedy. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams)...
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1947
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This grade-A example of "film noir" stars Mark Stevens as Brad Galt, an embittered ex-convict who returns to the private...
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1946
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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was...
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1946
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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A young, naive schoolteacher gets in over her head when the advances of a suitor grow too ardent. To escape his unwanted...
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Mrs. Breckenridge
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1940
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Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars...
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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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Nathalie
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1939
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In this satire of British-American relations, Edward G. Robinson stars as Dan Armstrong, a hard-sell American saleman whose...
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The Duchess of Glenavon
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1937
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Catherine Luther
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1937
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In this romance a run away schoolgirl impersonates a socialite to hook a handsome RAF pilot. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1937
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Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though...
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1937
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In this drama, "The Rat" is the moniker for a notorious jewel thief whose life suddenly changes when a friend facing life...
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Play Author
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1937
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1937
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David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of...
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1936
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French actress Simone Simon made her American film debut in Girls' Dormitory. Simon portrays a twentyish student in a Swiss...
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Prof. Augusta Wimmer
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1936
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Adventurer-for-hire Victor McLaglen is hired by a political faction in a mythical European kingdom. McLaglen's job is to...
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1936
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Aunt Melissa
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1935
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"I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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1934
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Screenwriter
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1925
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This was the first time William Balfe's popular romantic opera was filmed. Although other operas made successful transitions...
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The Gypsy Queen
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1922
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Screenwriter
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1921
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1920
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1919
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Still in the leading-lady phase of her career, veteran stage actress and drama coach Constance Collier was top-billed in the...
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1916
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This gripping crime drama is based on the true story of the events surrounding the destruction of New York City's...
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1916
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