Obviously filmed several years before its 1938 release, Meet the Mayor serves as a vehicle for popular Broadway comedian...
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1938
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Filmed on a microscopic budget, the independently-produced Island Captives is purportedly set in the South Seas (though it...
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Tom Willoughby
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1937
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The Man Betrayed in this Republic actioner is hero Eddie Nugent, though this doesn't occur until the film is half over....
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1937
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One of the advantages of holding an MGM stock-company contract in the 1930s was the occasional opportunity to star in one of...
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1937
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Skids Brannigan
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1937
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Two Minutes to Play is a cheap but energetic Sam Katzman-produced vehicle for Olympic champion Herman Brix. The star plays...
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Jack Gaines
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1937
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The first of 20th Century-Fox's college musicals, Pigskin Parade is also close to the best of them in musical terms -- though...
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1936
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One of the few non-western releases from Sam Katzman's Victory Productions, Put on the Spot stars Eddie Nugent as G-Man Bob...
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Bob Andrews
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1936
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Though now all but forgotten, early 20th Century actor Charles Ray once reigned as one of the most popular comedic film...
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1936
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Doughnuts and Society is the first of several attempts by Republic Pictures to create a new screen team comparable to MGM's...
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Jerry Flannagan
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1936
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Prison Shadows was put together by the Mercury Productions division of Puritan Pictures, the same folks responsible for the...
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Gene Harris
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1936
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In this crime drama, a G-man goes on vacation and ends up pursing a crook disguised as an honest lawyer. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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Bob Andrews
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1936
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Mr. Glab
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1936
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Future best-selling novelist Irwin Shaw made his screenwriting bow with the modest RKO Radio sports drama The Big Game. The...
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1936
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What would such second-echelon studios as Republic have done without the popular "rural" novels of Gene Stratton-Porter? This...
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1936
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Dancing Feet stars Joan Marsh as Judy, a society deb who lands a job as a dime-a-dance girl to spite her wealthy grandfather...
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Jimmy
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1936
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Never mind the title and the musical content: College Scandal is at heart a murder mystery, and a pretty suspenseful one at...
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1935
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In this now-campy drama, a patriotic state college football team takes on a subversive radical group determined to undermine...
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1935
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Lost in the Stratosphere is one of three Monogram vehicles for James Cagney's look-alike brother William (later a successful...
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Wood
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1935
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In this countrified musical, a farm boy and his girl head for the big city to find fame on the radio. When he becomes popular...
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Rudy Nash
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1935
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In this crime drama, a courageous and daring detective endeavors to perfect techniques for preventing crime in the friendly...
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1935
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, Baby Face Harrington features actor Charles Butterworth as Willie, a meek clerk who unintentionally...
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1935
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In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are...
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Redfern
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1935
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Long before its "Teen Agers" series of the 1940s, Monogram Pictures went to college in the minor musical Girl of My Dreams....
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Larry Haynes
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1935
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In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild...
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1935
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In this crime drama, a jockey, wrongfully imprisoned for riding at an "illegal" racetrack, escapes from prison just prior to...
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1935
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In their never-ending efforts to transform contract actress Pat Paterson a major star, Fox Studios cast the lovely lady...
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1935
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad...
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1935
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Buzz Jones
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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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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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1933
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Joe
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1933
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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1933
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Patrick Gibbs, Jr.
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1933
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A former opera star loses her voice, her career evaporates, and she takes to drinking heavily and blaming her son for her...
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1933
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Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle....
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Don Merrick
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1933
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An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the...
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1933
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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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1932
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In this newspaper drama, a cub reporter is puzzled when he is consistently scooped out of big crime stories by a rival. His...
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Daniel Gridley
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1932
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1932
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Priscilla Dean was one of the major star names of the early 1920s. By the time the all-talking quickie Behind Stone Walls was...
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1932
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In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life...
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1931
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In this romance, an aspiring writer encounters a wealthy publisher who gives him an advance on the first two chapters of his...
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1931
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Wally Pierce
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1931
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No relation to the 1935 Mascot programmer of the same name, Girls Demand Excitement offers an early starring appearance by...
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1931
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In this drama, a wild young punk is assigned to spend time with a man who specializes in helping juvenile delinquents. The...
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1931
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Actor Robert Montgomery would serve as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WWII, but he was just a lowly seaman in...
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1931
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William Wellman's Night Nurse survives as a potentially interesting but ultimately unsatisfying melodrama about a nurse...
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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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Constance Bennett, Hollywood's favorite "wronged" heroine, is the star of the misleadingly titled Bought. Thing of it is,...
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1931
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In this comedy, a radio announcer works at the same station as a bogus psychic who while ostensibly answering fan letters on...
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1930
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Clancy (Charles Murray) is a pugnacious Irish-American plumber in partnership with parsimonious Scotsman Andy MacIntosh...
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Donald MacIntosh
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1930
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A young woman stands to inherit a million bucks in this comedy. The deal is thus: her aunts will give her a cool million if...
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1930
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War Nurse was based on the anonymous memoirs of an American nurse who served with the French Army during WWI. Since the...
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1930
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In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and...
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1929
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In his movie debut, Rudy Valley portrays the crooning saxophone player who falls in love with a beautiful young woman....
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1929
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Popular silent-screen star Leatrice Joy made an adequate talking-picture debut in MGM's The Bellamy Trial. The film was based...
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1929
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In this comedy, an aging fellow falls in love with a free-spirited flapper. His crush causes the normally dignified...
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Dickie
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1929
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This drama tells the victories and defeats of 6 U.S. Navy Academy graduates at flying school working to win their wings. ~...
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1929
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Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in...
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1929
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Directed by James Cruze, this silent drama stars William Haines as Duke, a wealthy young heir who takes up prizefighting in...
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1929
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Flying Fleet was one of the first script-writing efforts of Lt. Commander Frank "Spig" Wead, who came to Hollywood after the...
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Dizzy
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1929
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Reg
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1929
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The "man in hobbles" (a reference to his unique trousers) is young professional photographer John Harron. Upon marrying...
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1928
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Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can...
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1928
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