A young girl is adopted into a small town family, but instead of finding happiness, she finds her life a living nightmare due...
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Minta Hagen
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1947
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Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and...
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1946
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1946
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Directed by Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, a sadly tragic film noir, is the story of the doomed love of married...
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1944
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In this drama, a young couple ignores the advice of their elders and get married. Soon afterward, the young groom is...
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Mrs. Benson
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1944
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more...
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1944
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In this melodrama, two young lovers secretly elope after the woman is involved in a hit-and-run accident. The young groom...
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1944
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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1943
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In this downbeat drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck (which was also adapted for the stage), German troops invade Norway...
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1943
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On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two...
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1943
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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Man in the Trunk is a variation on the "Topper" theme, with Raymond Walburn carrying the weight of the film as a restless...
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Lola DeWinters
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1942
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Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years...
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1941
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Henry Aldrich for President was the second of Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series to star Jimmy Lydon in the teenaged title...
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1941
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Corn Cob Kelly (Marvin Stephens) is a young jockey whose ambition is dwarfed only by his ego. All set to ride in his first...
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1941
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Pleasing time-fillers at best, Columbia's "Five Little Peppers" films were otherwise undistinguished spinoffs of the...
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Mrs. Pepper
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1940
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The W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty was successful Americanized as Too Many Husbands (British title: My Two...
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Gertrude Houlihan
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1940
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Having struck pay dirt with its Blondie films, Columbia Pictures launched another "domestic" film series, based on Margaret...
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Mrs. Pepper
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1940
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Like the other entries Columbia's "Five Little Peppers" series, The Five Little Peppers at Home is based on characters...
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Mrs. Pepper
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1940
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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1940
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Musical comedy favorite Elsie Janis, who gained renown in WW1 as "The Sweetheart of the AEF", returned to the screen after a...
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1940
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In this patriotic wartime drama set during WW II, a test plane crashes killing all aboard and causes the locals to accuse...
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1939
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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1939
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Jackie Cooper and Freddie Bartholomew, both recent graduates of the MGM production factory, are reteamed in Universal's Two...
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Kathleen O'Donnell
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1939
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In this, the first entry in four-part series, children's movie, Polly Pepper takes care of her siblings while her mother...
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Mrs. Pepper
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1939
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It matters not at all that the famed "wrong way" flight of aviator Douglas Corrigan, who in 1938 tried to fly from New York...
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1939
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Warner Bros.' Girls on Probation was, and is, a potboiler, redeemed slightly by its cast. The fascinating, underused...
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1938
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Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite...
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Annie Decker
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1938
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Hunted Men is part of Paramount's unofficial B-picture series based on the J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding....
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1938
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German director Joe May brought a decidedly Teutonic ambience to his American film Confession--no surprise, since the film...
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1937
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For a studio specializing in glossy soap operas, costume pictures and musicals, MGM made an inordinate number of "B"-grade...
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1937
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This musical chronicles 15 years in the life of a New York City Street. In 1912, 52nd Street is a peaceful residential...
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1937
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Two brothers exchange lifestyles in this drama. The older brother, a gambler, wants to lead a clean, crime-free life while...
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1937
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Mrs. McCarthy
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1937
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The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s:...
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1936
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The well-publicized (and overexploited) birth of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 formed the basis of The Country Doctor....
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Nurse Katherine Kennedy
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1936
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1928, the beloved Gene Stratton-Porter novel Freckles again went before the cameras in 1935....
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1935
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A crusading physician supervises his own life-threatening operation in this farfetched potboiler from MGM, which marked...
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1935
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1935
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In this drama, a studio script girl works very hard to support her no-account family. One day she wins a lottery, gives her...
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1935
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Though usually a supporting player in Warner Bros' A pictures, Barton MacLane was permitted an occasional leading role in the...
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Bessie
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1935
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1935
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1934
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Baroness Von Hausmann
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1934
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Based on the barnstorming stage play by George W. Peck, Peck's Bad Boy stars Jackie Cooper in the title role. Cooper's...
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Aunt Lily
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1934
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Female executive Doris (Genevieve Tobin) is hardly "uncertain" in the business world, but she's not so secure in her home...
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1934
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In this melodrama set in San Francisco, a businesswoman gives a job to an unemployed, homeless sailor. Later she becomes his...
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1934
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Based on the best-selling Gladys Hasty Carroll novel of the same name, As the Earth Turns covers four seasons in the life of...
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1934
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Gangster Cagney allows his powerful political connections to appoint him "deputy inspector" of a state reform school. There...
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1933
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Mae West's second starring vehicle, I'm No Angel casts the divine Miss West as the star performer in a seedy circus. Though...
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1933
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The Big Executive is Ricardo Cortez, to whom success is less important than the pursuit of success. Having lost as many...
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Mrs. Conway
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1933
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The most exciting thing about Reform Girl is its title. Released from prison, hard-boiled Lydia Johnson (Noel Francis)...
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Mrs. Putnam
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1933
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In this family drama, a married couple work in a department store. He is a shipping clerk; she works in the dress...
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1933
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In this drama, an ambitious lawyer doesn't think twice about convicting an innocent man on circumstantial evidence to...
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Mrs. Wallace
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1932
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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1932
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Annie Marble
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1932
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The moral of this drama could very well be for people to exercise caution with what they wish for as they just might get it....
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Mrs. Miller
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1932
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In this romance a school marm takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to a crippled...
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Helen Grover
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1932
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1932
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Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the...
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Psychopathic Patient
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1932
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A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of...
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Mary Fitzpatrick
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1932
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Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their...
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1932
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1932
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Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper...
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1932
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Virtually none of the male characters in The Thrill of Youth could pass muster as a role model. As an old man preaches...
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions for MGM release, Feller Needs a Friend teams child-star...
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Mrs. Randall
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1932
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Very loosely based on Booth Tarkington's novel The Plutocrat, Business and Pleasure stars Will Rogers as Earl Tinker, a newly...
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Mrs. Tinker
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1932
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In this two-hanky drama, a physically challenged boy wants his overprotective parents to relinquish their tight control so...
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1932
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The peripatetic spouses referred to in the title are all travelling salesmen, scooting to and from their wives via train. In...
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1931
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Though he'd intended to retire when talkies came in, silent-screen matinee idol Thomas Meighan kept returning to the screen...
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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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Mrs. Dale
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1931
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Mrs. Schofield
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1931
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In this melodrama, a cub reporter falls for the society editor who is already the mistress of the publisher. The two men...
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1931
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Based on a novel by Geoffrey Barnes, Party Husband is a weak-tea drawing room comedy utterly dependant upon the charms of its...
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Kate
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1931
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Charles Dickens' novel Dombey and Son is set in 1931 America in this interesting drama that centers on an egotistical,...
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1931
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In this drama, a hard-working New York model abandons her family values for the love of a suave, handsome man who offers her...
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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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Mary K. Williams
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1930
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