Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vacation comes up, he goes to...
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1919
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The Cost is what wayward lass Violet Hemming must endure for lovely not wisely but too well. Seeking an escape from the...
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1920
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Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of...
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1927
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As indicated by its "catchphrase" title, Okay America is one of several early-1930s films based on the exploits of gossip...
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1932
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1932
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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1932
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Eric Linden is a bellhop who has the extreme misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in gangster era of...
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1932
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It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous...
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1932
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In this drama, Diana (Myrna Loy) is a beautiful tourist from the United States who is visiting Cairo, accompanied by her...
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1933
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In this crime-comedy, an aspiring pulp writer elopes with a young woman and ends up in a boot-legger's lair. There he...
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Jake Dillon
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1933
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1933
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When the actress girlfriend of a rich man is pursued by a producer, the rich man hires bodyguard Lowe to protect her, but...
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Orson Bitzer
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1933
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In this mystery, an aspiring mystery writer breaks into a home and finds it inhabited by dangerous gangsters. ~ Sandra...
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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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Big Bill Barton
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1933
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This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses. ~...
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Sen. Brander
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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This tight little melodrama opens with a group of wealthy people staying at a luxurious European mansion. According to...
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Commissioner Forster
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1933
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Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with...
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MacCarthy
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1934
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Frank Rodie
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1934
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Ray Phillips
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1934
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Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man...
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1934
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One of several variations of the "Mata Hari" and "Fraulein Doktor" legends, Universal's Madame Spy is set during WW I....
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Schultz
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1934
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In this romance, a bootlegger finds himself unemployed when he is finally released from prison and discovers that...
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Vincent Shelton
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1934
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A European princess heads for New York in order to see if the U. S. will back her country's bond issue. Unfortunately, she...
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Richard Gresham
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1934
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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Jack Brennon
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1934
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In the first of Columbia Pictures' "Inspector Trent" whodunits, the inspector (Ralph Bellamy) is called in to investigate the...
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1934
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Inspector Porfiry
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1935
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In the wake of The Thin Man, every studio in Hollywood scrambled to churn out sophisticated mystery-comedies wherein murders...
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Danny Harrison
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1935
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Released generally as Cardinal Richelieu, this George Arliss vehicle was based on the popular 19th-century blank-verse play...
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Louis XIII
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1935
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In this romantic drama a woman with a scandalous past tells all in an autobiography. It seems the woman, an artist, received...
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Feydak
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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Diamond Jim Brady
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1935
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Paul Madvig
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1935
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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John Sutter
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1936
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Rex Stout's overweight, under-exercised detective Nero Wolfe was first brought to the screen in 1936 in the portly person of...
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Nero Wolfe
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1936
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Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the...
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Barney Glasgow
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1936
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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J.B. Ball
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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Jim Fisk
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1937
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Edward Arnold once again plays a self-made businessman who inadvertently engineers his own downfall in John Meade's Woman....
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John Meade
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1937
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A female con artist becomes involved in the abduction of a miner. The target of the con is a wealthy Easterner. The con...
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Ira Collins
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1937
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Anthony P. Kirby
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1938
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Not a remake of the 1932 James Cagney vehicle of the same name, The Crowd Roars is set in the sweat-stained world of...
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Jim Cain
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1938
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Jack Benny goes to London in this frothy musical. He plays a Broadway producer and while in London begins pining for the...
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Sir John Arlington
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1939
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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Jim Knox
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1939
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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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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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Jim Taylor
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1939
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Achille Weber
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1939
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Robert Cain, Sr.
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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Doc Ramsey
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1940
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The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly...
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Vincent Cushing
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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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Diamond Jim Brady
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1940
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T.T. Ralston
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1941
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Judson M. Blair
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1941
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In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI...
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Martin "Stuff" Nelson
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1941
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Daniel Webster
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Cork
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1941
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If Edward G. Robinson thought he'd get away from tough-guy roles by moving from Warners to MGM, he was sorely mistaken....
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Merrill Lambert
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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D.B. Norton
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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John Benson Farrell
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1941
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In this WW II propaganda piece a wealthy American society matron refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war...
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Elliott Fulton
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1942
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Edward Arnold made the first of his two screen appearances as Bayard Kendrick's blind detective Captain Duncan McLain in...
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Capt. Duncan Maclain
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1942
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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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Mr. Lawrence Lyons
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1943
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Janie, adapted from the Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams, was one of a 1940s cycle of stage-to-film...
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Charles Conway
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1944
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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Amory Stilham
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1944
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The overcrowding in WWII-era Washington, D.C., provided the concept for this comedy, as well as another film from the...
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T.J. Todd
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1944
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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Mansur, the Grand Vizier
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1944
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Produced by the same team responsible for MGM's Crime Does Not Pay short subjects, Main Street After Dark is an energetic...
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Lt. Lorrigan
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1944
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The Hidden Eye was the second of two MGM films featuring mystery writer Baynard Kendrick's blind detective Duncan McLain. As...
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Capt. Duncan Maclain
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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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Martin X. Edley
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1945
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In later years, director Fred Zinneman seldom referred to My Brother Talks to Horses as one of his career highpoints. Even...
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Mr. Bledsoe
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1946
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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1946
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Charles Conway
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1946
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Mike Glenson
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1946
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In this WWII musical, a young hero and his buddy decide to celebrate his receiving the Medal of Honor by partying. He is...
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Hobart Canford Stiles
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1946
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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Theodore Findley
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1946
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Adapted from the popular stage play of the same name, Dear Ruth features Mona Freeman as teenaged Miriam Watkins, who can't...
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Judge Harry Wilkins
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1947
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When he was first offered the film version of the best-selling Frederick Wakeman novel The Hucksters, Clark Gable turned it...
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Dave Lash
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1947
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After 15 entries, MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series came to a quiet end with Dark Delusion. Although Dr. Leonard Gillespie...
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1947
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1948
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MGM's all-purpose title The Big City was deployed once more for this treacly 1948 drama. To prevent orphaned Midge...
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1948
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In this comedy, two stepsisters fight for the love of the same man. One of the sisters is good-looking and vivacious. She is...
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Mr. Linnett
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1948
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Jeanette MacDonald made her first screen appearance in five years in the MGM confection Three Daring Daughters. Looking at...
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Robert Nelson
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1948
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Judge Wilkins
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1949
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Senator McKinley
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1949
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Wallace Beery's final film was the curiously endearing "black comedy" Big Jack. Set in 1820, a time when "science was a crime...
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Mayor Mahoney
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1949
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So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their...
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Joe Lorgan
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1949
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Judy Garland was originally slated to star in MGM's film version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, but she was forced to...
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Pawnee Bill
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1950
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Adm. Homer Thorndyke
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1950
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Martin Creavy
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1950
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Dear Brat was the second sequel to the 1947 comedy hit Dear Ruth (the first sequel, in case you're interested, was Dear Wife...
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Sen. Wilkins
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1951
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Myrna Loy returns as Mrs. Gilbreth -- efficiency expert, industrial engineer, and mother of twelve -- in this sequel to...
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Sam Harper
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1952
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Penrod Biddel
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1953
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After several years of supporting roles, Edward Arnold once again enjoys top billing in the independently produced Man of...
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J.R. Compton
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1953
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The Mayor
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1954
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One of the many "exposes" of corporate corruption filmed in the 1950s, Houston Story was ground out with stingy efficiency by...
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Paul Atlas
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1956
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Like most Sam Katzman efforts of the late 1950s, Miami Expose laid claim to being "torn from today's headlines." Lensed on...
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Oliver Tubbs
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1956
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Spike Jones, America's first great master of musical mayhem, challenges the hit parade to a wrestling match -- best two falls...
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1956
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The offspring of the American ambassador to France (the star was then living in Paris with her journalist husband),...
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1956
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This collection of bloopers and outtakes is largely from Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Included are such sights...
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1986
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