This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by...
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1953
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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1949
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Elmer Rice's clever stage comedy Dream Girl is Hollywoodized and "dumbed down" almost beyond recognition in this 1948 film...
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1948
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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Low-hanging clouds and low-cut blouses dominate the brooding British melodrama Jassy. Margaret Lockwood is at her...
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Screenwriter
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1948
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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1948
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In this crime drama, a convict is freed after he agrees to join the military during WW II. After he is discharged he gets a...
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1948
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A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The...
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1947
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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1947
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Beneath the proper, prurient exterior of a spinster college professor beats the passionate, seductive heart of a sexy...
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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Magnificent Rogue is the title of a less than magnificent Republic programmer. Warren Douglas plays the title role, a...
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1946
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A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann...
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1946
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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1946
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With the profits of the Abbott & Costello films in decline, Universal decided to experiment with the comedians' standard...
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1946
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In this comedy, a spoiled, temperamental and filthy rich aunt is committed to an asylum by her nephew after he learns that...
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1946
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Like the same-named 1934 and 1935 films, RKO Radio's 1945 musical George White's Scandals uses the eponymous Broadway revue...
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1945
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Surprisingly, leading lady Marjorie Weaver isn't the Fashion Model in this tongue-in-cheek Monogram meller. When two...
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Mme. Celeste
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1945
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1945
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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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1945
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1944
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Yet another tuneful Roy Rogers Western named after a song, The Cowboy and the Senorita features Roy and sidekick Teddy Bear...
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1944
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Few B-picture factories ground out topical wartime dramas with as much regularity as Monogram. In Army Wives, Elyse Knox...
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1944
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When an instructor dies mysteriously at an exclusive girl's school, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), a devil-may-care sleuth known...
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1943
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In this charming episodic comedy, a giddy group of adolescent girls form a movie-star fan club. Their favorite pastime is...
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1943
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In this Gene Autry Western, the valley is threatened by a weed capable of poisoning the cattle. When burning the range proves...
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1941
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In hopes of cashing in on the popularity of "Number One Cowboy" Gene Autry, a fly-by-night firm called Times Pictures...
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Queen Tika
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1940
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1939
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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1939
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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Alice Faye stars as aspiring playwright Judith Poe Wells. She falls in love with producer George Macrae (Don Ameche), which...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Both Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) survive the airplane crash no worse for wear but are quickly picked...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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Despite the deadly radium beam, Frankie Baxter (Frankie Darro) manages to pull the lever that opens the surface entrance to...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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In the opening chapter of the Mascot serial The Phantom Empire, a stagecoach is held up for its content -- musical...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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In the final chapter of The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry is saved by Oscar (Smiley Burnette) and Pete (William Moore), who...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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1935
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In his first starring role, Gene Autry must perform daily on Radio Ranch or forfeit his contract. Meanwhile, local kids...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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I've Been Around hinges on an unlikely case of mistaken identity. Society girl Drue Waring (Rochelle Hudson) mistakes...
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1935
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Saved from electrocution by the sudden appearance of a trap door operated by the traitorous Lord Argo (Wheeler Oakman), Gene...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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Seconds before his automobile crashes over a cliff, Gene Autry is saved by Frankie (Frankie Darro), Betsy (Betsy Ross King)...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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Although the Thunder Riders sever his rope, Gene Autry manages to grab hold of a tree limb, climb to safety and return to...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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Both Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) manage to parachute to safety. Meanwhile, 25,000 feet below the...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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Gene Autry is saved in the nick of time by Frankie Frankie Darro, who smartly pulls him off the conveyor belt. Murania is now...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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On Queen Tika's orders, a lifeless Gene Autry) is brought to Murania's Radium Reviving Room, the queen (Dorothy Christy)...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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Binnie Barnes stars as Rina Sorel, a glamorous kleptomaniac who steals for the thrill of it. Specializing in uncut diamonds,...
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1935
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Gene Autry, Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) all escape the tunnel explosion courtesy of the Junior...
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Queen Tika
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1935
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1934
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Birdlike ZaSu Pitts and gangly Slim Summerville are together again in the Universal programmer Love Birds. The stars are cast...
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1934
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One of the least known of Cary Grant's starring vehicles, Kiss and Make Up was based on a European play by Stephen Bekeffi....
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1934
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Inasmuch as the film was based on a novel by Swedish author Sigrid Boo, Fox's Servant's Entrance is logically set in Sweden....
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1934
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A popular fad of the early 1930s provided the framework for this Joe E. Brown romp. Hoping to impress his girlfriend Phyllis...
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1934
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1934
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Sally Eilers plays Sandra, a secretary who falls for her boss in this passable marital drama from Fox. The attraction is...
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1933
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In this drama, an unmarried pregnant woman is forced to marry a complete stranger to maintain a sense of propriety. The man...
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1933
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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1933
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In this romantic drama, an ambitious young dress designer decides to make an upward career move by making a play for her...
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1932
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In 1932, Monogram Pictures was essentially the clearing house for the films of independent production firms. Monogram was...
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1932
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In this comedy, a nursemaid steals the heart of a wealthy socialite and thereby saves him from marrying a conniving...
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Evelyn Smythe
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1932
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In this romance, a man runs a beautiful woman over with his car and falls in love with her. She loves him too, but...
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1932
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Short story writer Thomas attempts to solve a murder involving blackmail, stabbings and mysterious notes. Another interesting...
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1932
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A mentally unstable naval officer goes mad with jealousy when his wife's recent lover shows up as a lieutenant on the...
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1932
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This was the next-to-last entry of the Cohens and Kellys series, which were becoming increasingly more tiresome with each...
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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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Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious...
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Angelica Embrey
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1931
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Set in India, Arabia, and Darkest Africa, this 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial had been created for Harry Carey and...
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1931
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1931
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In this melodrama, a recently-abandoned wife consoles herself by heading for Reno and falling in love. Her new lover is...
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1931
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Seldom was there a less appropriately named film company than Artclass Pictures, a firm which specialized in the lowest of...
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Constance Forbes
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1931
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In this mystery-thriller, set on Broadway, a cynical reporter looks into the killing of a New York actor who was found...
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Mrs. Merle
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1931
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Tessie
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1931
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Loretta Young briefly contemplates using her sexual allure to get ahead in business in this sometimes frank but ultimately...
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1931
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Olga
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1930
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In this sparkling musical comedy, a bungling waiter (Maurice Chevalier) loses his job at a tony restaurant. His employment...
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1930
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Leila
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1930
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She Got What She Wanted was director James Cruze's second "special" for Tiffany Pictures in 1930. Betty Compson, previously...
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1930
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Will Rogers' second starring talkie feature was a spiritual twin of the first, They Had to See Paris, albeit with a...
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1930
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The marriage between Jim and Esther Hamilton (Owen Moore and Dorothy Christy) spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases...
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Esther Hamilton
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1930
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1929
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