Adapted from a French movie entitled Un Carnet de Bal, this is a story of love unrequited. In one of her best performances,...
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Granny
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1941
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Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining...
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Catherine de Bourgh
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1940
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Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this...
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Aunt Phoebe Hovland
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1939
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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and...
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Mrs. Sarah McKlennar
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1939
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Many of the "preparedness" films of the years just prior to World War II sidestepped censorship by depicting past outrages of...
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Countess de Mavon
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1939
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Maggie Sutton
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1939
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Aunt Julia Kunkel
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1938
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Sarah Wendling
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1938
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Queen
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1938
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Mrs. Atherton
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1937
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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Aunt Bea
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1937
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Nurse to Juliet
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1936
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Though it wasn't RKO Radio's final "Hildegarde Withers" mystery, Murder on a Honeymoon represented the final appearance of...
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Hildegarde Withers
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1935
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MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good...
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Fanny Townsend
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1935
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David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer...
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Betsey Trotwood
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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Miss Pross
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1935
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Trying a bit too hard to qualify as a "screwball" comedy, RKO Radio's We're Rich Again is based on Alden Nash's stage play...
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Maude
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1934
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Hildegarde Withers
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1934
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Dying New England millionaire Cabot Barr (George Arliss) doesn't trust any of his relatives as they flock to his bedside, and...
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Augusta
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1934
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In this comedy, two impoverished cousins inherit a British mansion and decide that one of them should marry a wealthy...
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1934
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In this comedy, a man masquerading as the notorious Baron Munchausen and his partner arrive from the African jungles and...
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Dean Primrose
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1933
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This 1933 movie version of Sinclair Lewis's novel Ann Vickers stars Irene Dunne in the title role. Left alone and pregnant by...
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Malvina Wormsor
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1933
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George Cukor directed this classic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental novel with a shimmering lavishness that is a...
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Aunt March
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1933
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Curley Fletcher's famous lament "The Strawberry Roan became Ken Maynard's favorite Western and went a long way to popularize...
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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In this romantic drama, set at the turn of the century, a womanizing Irish motorman ignores his marital vows, but only to a...
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Madame Talma
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1933
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In this musical science fiction adventure a handsome Brazilian playboy finds himself in the enviable position of being the...
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Dr. Prodwell
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1933
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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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Leona
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1933
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Edna May Oliver portrays a society dowager called for jury duty on a murder trial wherein a pretty young woman is accused of...
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Mrs. Crane
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1932
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Edna May Oliver makes the first of three appearances as Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by mystery...
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Hildegard Withers
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1932
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Violet Jones
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1932
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This Depression-era morale-booster looks at the ups and downs of a banking family from the 1870s to the 1930s (and borrows...
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Matilda Blake
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1932
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1932
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Forbidden Adventure is the British title of the American film comedy Newly Rich. Edna May Oliver was borrowed from RKO by...
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Bessie Tate
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1931
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This Depression-era comedy takes place in the boarding house run by the indomitable Sarah Austin (Edna May Oliver). Sarah's...
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Sarah Austin
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1931
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Aunt Minnie Varden
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1931
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The inimitable Edna May Oliver makes a meal of the title role in the Technicolor backstage drama Fanny Foley Herself. The...
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Fanny Foley
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1931
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1930
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1930
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1930
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Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible...
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1929
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This characteristically free-wheeling Greg LaCava production was based on The Man From Mexico, a play by Harry A. Douchet....
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1926
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The physical attributes of lovely leading lady Esther Ralston are amply displayed in American Venus. This satire of beauty...
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1926
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After a few films that did not showcase her talent well, Bebe Daniels was able to redeem herself in this comedy based on the...
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Amelia Pincent
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1925
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During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virgina...
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1925
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If the plot to this breezy romantic comedy sounds like something that would have starred the late Wallace Reid, there's a...
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Auntie McDee
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1925
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It seems like the flashier Cecil B. DeMille made his films, the more intimate were those made by his older brother William C....
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Hannah
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1924
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With this comedy-melodrama, Richard Dix was bumped up from leading man to star status. This also marked the first film for...
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Mrs. Trapes
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1924
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Elizabeth Winthrop (Constance Binney) refuses to listen to her conservative parents (Edmund Breese and Mary Carr) and parties...
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1923
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1923
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When Philippa (Mary Thurman) fails to impress the man of her dreams Norman (Edmund Lowe), she conspires to break his heart in...
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1923
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