Tommy Tune and others talk about the unique childhood acting and dancing career of Shirley Temple in this video. Her...
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1994
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A beautiful English model encounters the romantic advances of an Egyptian ruler. She's more interested in a soldier she's...
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1956
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Bonar Colleano, who spent the war years playing brash Americans in British films, makes his final screen appearance in the...
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1952
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25-year-old Julie Harris convincingly recreates her Broadway role of 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams in the 1952 screen...
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1952
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Juvenile actor Dickie Moore starred in the title role of this 15 chapter serial as a teen-aged Buffalo Bill Cody, who with an...
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1950
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Killer Shark was another of actor Roddy McDowall's self-produced film efforts for Monogram release. McDowall stars as Ted,...
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1950
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Roddy McDowall was both star and co-producer of the compact actioner Tuna Clipper. Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec...
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Frankie
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1949
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In 1947, Variety Clubs International, a showbiz charitable organization, was responsible for the frothy musical Variety Girl....
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1949
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1949
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Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake (Herbert Heyes), free from prosecution...
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1948
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16 Fathoms Deep was a curious choice as the first effort from Arthur Lake Productions. Heretofore known best as Dagwood...
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1948
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In this melodrama, a young juvenile delinquent convinces other teens to join his gang. The gang raids a warehouse and there...
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1947
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Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first...
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1947
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A Guest in the House is an involving psychological melodrama, well directed and acted, concerning a young woman's obsessive...
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1945
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In this musical, a youthful trombonist is thrilled when he is allowed to play with Benny Goodman's Orchestra. Afterward he...
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1944
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1944
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In this WW II-era drama set in a small town, most of the adults are so busy fighting the war or working in the local defense...
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1944
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An Iowa drugstore owner (Don Ameche) becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that...
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many...
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1943
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With a title like Jive Junction, this just has to be a wartime musical. In one of his few top-billed roles, teenaged actor...
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Peter
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1943
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14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular...
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Marty White
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1942
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1942
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Glenn Ford plays Martin Eden, an aspiring writer who signs on a merchant ship as a sailor. Tormented by the ship's sadistic...
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Johnny
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1942
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The Great Mr. Nobody is an easygoing classified ad salesman, appropriately nicknamed Dreamy (Eddie Albert). All Dreamy wants...
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1941
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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1940
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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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Filmed in Technicolor, the 2-reel Lincoln in the White House was one of a series of "patriotic" short subjects produced by...
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1939
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Jack Holt is impossibly heroic as usual in the Columbia quickie Hidden Power. In his quest to perfect a cure-all for severe...
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Steve
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1939
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The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean....
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1939
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In this comedy drama, a Yale tennis star endeavors to be a good sport at every turn. He finds a girl and together they...
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1938
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Bobby
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1938
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The ever-suffering Kay Francis once again makes an assault on the audience's tear ducts in My Bill. Francis is cast as Mary...
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1938
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In its never-ending efforts to find a "rustic" screen personality to replace the late Will Rogers, Hollywood turned to...
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1938
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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1937
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1937
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Two of Hollywood's finest juvenile actors, Frank Coghlan Jr. and Dickie Moore, top the cast of The Little Red Schoolhouse....
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Dickie Burke
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1936
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In this drama, a middle-aged housewife decides that she has had enough of her philandering husband's neglect and her...
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1919, the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel Timothy's Quest was remade as a talkie in 1935. Dickie Moore plays...
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Timothy
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1936
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"Every time Paul Muni parts his beard and looks through a microscope, we lose a million dollars." Producer Jack Warner's...
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1936
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This follow-up to RKO Radio's near-perfect adaptation of Little Women was produced by small but enterprising Mascot Pictures...
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1935
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Wallace Ford plays Terry McCall, a small-town baseball star with a monumental ego. Terry's gift for self-aggrandizement...
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Billy Malone
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1935
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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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1935
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So Red the Rose is a Civil War drama that plays like a warm-up for Gone With the Wind--and, unlike Wind, has two genuine...
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1935
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In this crime drama, a woman loses custody of her baby boy after her rich husband dies. She later gets a job working in a...
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1935
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Like many Chesterfield-Invincible films of the era, In Love with Life is built around the talents of a prominent character --...
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Boy
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1934
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The Human Side was adapted by Frank Craven and Ernest Pascal from a play by Christine Ames. Long married and the parents of...
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1934
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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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Tommy Stream
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1934
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Deedy
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1934
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Four of the "Our Gang" kids fabricate elaborate excuses to get out of school so they can go fishing. Unfortunately, the boys...
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Dickie
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1933
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In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights....
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Dickie Chester
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1933
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This time around, the Our Gang Kids are residents (or rather, inmates) of the Bleak Hill Boarding School, where the crabby...
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Dickie
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1933
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The son of a famed race car driver is so traumatized by witnessing his father's fatal racetrack crash that he refuses to...
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1933
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Dickie Allen
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1933
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1933
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In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece --...
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Jimmy Vetter
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1933
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A partial remake of the 1924 Our Gang: Cradle Robbers, "Forgotten Babies" finds the Gang members trying to escape their...
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Dickie
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1933
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In this classic "Our Gang" comedy, Dickie Moore, Spanky McFarland and Dorothy DeBorba play siblings who, through a...
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Dickie
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1933
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This Depression-era romantic drama, which offers a surprisingly potent and unsentimental view of the economic hardships of...
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1933
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Based on Dicken's classic novel, this is the first sound version of the oft-filmed tale of a plucky orphan who struggles to...
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Oliver Twist
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1933
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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1932
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Dirk (younger)
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1932
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Alexander Carr, a Jewish-dialect comedian usually confined to small roles, is practically the whole show in the sentimental...
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Tommy Burns
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1932
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An elderly gentleman finds himself in a difficult situation when he finds himself faced with becoming a burden on his...
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Dickie
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1932
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The troubled career of a luckless motorcycle cop provides the basis for this police drama. His difficulties begin when he...
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1932
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Gabby Denton (Edmund Lowe) is a slightly down-on-his-luck bettor with a taste for alcohol and the ladies. To tide himself...
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Buddy Evans
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1932
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A superb combination of belly laughs and pathos, the "Our Gang" comedy "Birthday Blues" was originally released on November...
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Dickie
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1932
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Originally released on August 27, 1932, Hook and Ladder was a remake of the 1926 "Our Gang" comedy The Fourth Alarm, with...
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Dickie
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1932
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A Grand Hotel derivation set in a major metropolitan train terminal, Union Depot features most of the reliable Warner Bros....
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1932
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Fascinated by the story of Aladdin's magic lamp, the Our Gang kids gather together every electric light fixture in the...
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Dickie
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1932
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James Cagney stars as a popular prizefighter who loses his winnings through too much partying and too many women. Cagney's...
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1932
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Confined to a neck brace, poor little rich boy Dickie Moore would like to play with the neighborhood kids, but his...
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Dickie
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1932
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Marlene Dietrich stars as Helen Faraday, a German cabaret singer in the States whose husband, Ned, falls ill and his only...
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Johnny Faraday
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1932
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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1931
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Silent star Betty Compson takes on a Swedish accent in this romantic melodrama based on a story by Martin Flavin. She is...
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Sonny Hanson
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1931
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Star Witness starts out as a homey family comedy and develops into a rather gutsy thriller. Chic Sale plays a cantankerous...
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1931
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In this three-hanky melodrama, an aspiring writer abandons his wife and five children to work more closely with a beautiful...
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1931
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The patience of a long-suffering wife is finally rewarded in this drama. The devoted wife has known that her husband has...
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1931
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"There is never a suggestion of subtlety in this tale" was the New York Times' acidic but accurate assessment of the...
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1931
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In the South Seas, half-caste Ilanu (Raquel Torres) refuses to marry Kahea (Donald Reed), as she loves Jimmy Bradford...
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1931
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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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1930
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In this drama, a two wealthy cousins find themselves involved in an unfortunate love triangle. The trouble begins when the...
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1930
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In this drama, an impoverished girl defies her mother and marries her employer. When she becomes pregnant, her husband...
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1929
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Alexandre Brisson's weepy 1906 play had already been filmed three times when the 1929 talkie Madame X made its debut....
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1929
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Hal Roach's enduring Our Gang comedy shorts tickled audiences between 1922 and 1944. Originally an off-shoot from the...
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