Based on a novel by Netta Syrett, A Woman Rebels is the story of Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn), whose mission in...
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1936
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First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a...
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Raymond
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1936
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Still hanging on in 1935 despite several financial setbacks, brave little Majestic Pictures continued turning out such...
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David Mannering
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1935
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The title might not mean much now, but in 1935 Jalna was familiar to readers everywhere as the best-selling first novel by...
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1935
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Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has been a source of speculation and controversy ever since...
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Edwin Drood
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1935
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In this adaptation of author de la Roche's chronicle of the passionate lives of the strange Whiteoaks of Jalna, their...
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Eden
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when...
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1934
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The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie...
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Peter Allison
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1934
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In this melodrama, set backstage at the theater, a fading, but still egotistical Hungarian star and his actress wife who has...
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Larry Kenyon
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1934
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Comparatively little known, this Monogram thriller is a remarkably concise adaptation of Wilkie Collins' lengthy 1868 mystery...
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Franklin Blake
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1934
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused...
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Jean
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1933
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A large urban hospital provides the setting for this drama. The staff there has seen it all and this is reflected in their...
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Dr. Nichols
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1933
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The world of horse racing provides the backdrop for this episodic drama. Much of the story is set at the Luray Springs Hotel...
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Wesley Burt
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1933
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While Tonart Studios is filming a gangster movie, one of the actors is killed in a shooting accident. After several other...
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Franklyn Drew
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1933
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In this racy (for 1933) satire set in 800 BC, an overbearing band of Amazon women rule their men with an iron fist. They live...
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Theseus
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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Josephus
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1933
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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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Michael Gardner
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1933
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The old reliable Paul Frank/Ladislaus Fodor stage play The Church Mouse was streamlined for the movies in the form of Beauty...
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1932
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Zoë Akins' archetypal "gold-digger" stage comedy The Greeks Had a Word for It was transferred to the screen in 1933, with the...
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Dey Emery
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1932
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Though only 19, Loretta Young was an established Hollywood star in 1932, appearing in six films in that year alone. In They...
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James Decker
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1932
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Sudden success can be a double-edged sword as this drama aptly proves. An aspiring musician finds success when his manager...
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Teddy
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1932
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Homespun vaudeville monologist Chic Sale repeats his "old geezer" characterization in Warner Bros.' Stranger in Town. Sale is...
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Jerry
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1932
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Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by...
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Kit Humphrey
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1932
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Frank Whemple
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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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Donnie Wainwright
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1932
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In her first film under contract to Warner Bros., Kay Francis plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband Fred (Kenneth...
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Tom Sherman
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1932
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Curiously reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway's Sun Also Rises, The Last Flight dramatizes the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s....
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Shep Lambert
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1931
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A minister's daughter finds fame as an evangelist but struggles with her own lack of faith in Frank Capra's impassioned...
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John Carson
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1931
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George Arliss is the millionaire of the title, a retired auto tycoon who's been ordered by his doctor to rest and avoid...
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Bill Merrick
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1931
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Dick Cheney
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1931
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"I am....Drac-u-la. I bid you velcome." Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his presence in the 1931 screen version of Bram...
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John Harker
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1931
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Having labored to raise her children properly, a grief-stricken mother watches helplessly as their lives take diverse paths...
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Artie Williams
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1930
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Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role...
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Caliph Abdallah
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1930
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"Sweet Mamma," a phrase popularized in the Barney Google comic strip, referred to a pretty girl, usually blonde, who attached...
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Jimmy
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1930
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In this melodrama, two young people fall in love and desire to wed, but their union is opposed by their families. As a...
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Joe Copeland
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1930
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R.C. Sherriff's forceful drama about men at war, a long running hit in London as well as New York, is brought to the screen...
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Second Lieutenant Raleigh
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1930
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The Truth About Youth is the third film version of Henry V. Esmond's play, When We Were Twenty-One. Richard Dane (David...
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Richard Dane the Imp
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1930
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Two romances are included in this film. In the first, a freeloading novelist abandons his devoted girlfriend and latches...
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Austin Lowe
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1930
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