Unlike the typical Bob Hope and Lucille Ball vehicles, The Facts of Life is essentially a domestic drama with comic...
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1960
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War Arrow is another of Universal's efficiently produced A plus/B minus Technicolor westerns of the early 1950s....
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1953
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James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after...
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1952
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Generous helpings of stock footage from the 1944 film Buffalo Bill help make Pony Soldier seem far more expensive and...
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1952
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1952
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At Sword's Point is about the sons of Dumas' Three Musketeers--one of those "sons" being of the female persuasion, played by...
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1951
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A remake of the French Le Corbeau ("The Raven"), The Thirteenth Letter is a film noir in a curious setting -- a rural village...
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1951
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In this inspiring drama, William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary...
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1951
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David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David...
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1951
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Jean Peters is at her feisty best in Anne of the Indies. Harboring a grudge against all men (and not without reason), Anne...
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1951
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The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat...
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1951
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The mudlark is Andrew Ray, an illiterate London street urchin of the mid-19th century. Having seen a picture of Queen...
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1950
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Stella is an out-of-left-field black comedy in which star Anne Sheridan is upstaged by an uproarious supporting cast. At a...
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1950
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The Jackpot is a generally pleasing satire of quiz programs. James Stewart stars as Bill Lawrence, an average Joe who picks...
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1950
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No relation to the 1937 screwball comedy of the same name, Easy Living is a film about the world of professional sports....
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1949
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Set in the early 1900s, Adventure in Baltimore is a romantic comedy about the woman's suffrage movement. Shirley Temple plays...
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1949
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1949
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In this dark crime drama, the trouble begins when a San Francisco bookie attempts to lead an honest life by marrying a...
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1948
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One of the best "psychological" westerns of the 1940s, RKO Radio's Blood on the Moon stars Robert Mitchum as itinerant cowboy...
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1948
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George Stevens's charming film version of Kathryn Forbes' collection of short stories entitled Mama's Bank Account features...
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1948
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Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do...
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1947
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Somehow the titles of the films of hardcase actor Lawrence Tierney seemed to be extensions of the man's personality, as...
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1947
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Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first...
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1947
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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1947
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Irving Pichel's They Won't Believe Me is the flashback unfolding of Larry Ballentine's (Robert Young) witness-stand testimony...
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1947
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That new-fangled swing music is the focus of this musical comedy. The trouble begins when a music school dean boards a train...
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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1946
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The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the "old dark house, lady in distress"...
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1946
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In this romantic drama, Bill and Susan Cummings (Mark Stevens and Joan Fontaine), a couple from the Bronx, look back at the...
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1946
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Barbara Hale landed her first A-picture starring role in the engaging romantic comedy Lady Luck. Hale is cast as Mary Audrey,...
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1946
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What a Blonde gets under way when wealthy lingerie manufacturer Fowler (Leon Errol) runs out of valuable gas-ration coupons....
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1945
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Inspired by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin's famous painting, this seminal horror film marked the first of three collaborations...
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1945
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Officially based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, Experiment Perilous would seem to be more inspired by MGM's psychological...
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1945
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Having Wonderful Crime spotlights Michael J. Malone, the murder-solving attorney created by author Craig Rice. The film is...
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1945
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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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Pearl S. Buck's novel China Sky is boiled down to a wartime romantic triangle, courtesy of commercial-minded RKO....
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1944
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Officially a sequel to Val Lewton's psychological-horror classic Cat People (1942), Curse of the Cat People is in fact an...
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1944
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In this WW II-era drama set in a small town, most of the adults are so busy fighting the war or working in the local defense...
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1944
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One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as...
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1944
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This irresistably-titled comedy is arguably the best of RKO Radio's Wally Brown-Alan Carney vehicles. The daffy duo is cast...
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1944
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Higher and Higher was advertised by RKO Radio as "The Sinatra Show", and small wonder: In his first major film role, Frank...
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1944
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Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was...
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1944
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Originally titled Passport to Destiny, RKO's Passport to Adventure manages to be both whimsical and melodramatic all at once....
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1944
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One of the few failures for RKO Radio's resident "prestige programmer" producer Val Lewton, Mademoiselle Fifi is based on two...
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1944
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John Garfield was borrowed from Warner Bros. by RKO Radio for the tense espionage melodrama The Fallen Sparrow. Garfield is...
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1943
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Olivia De Havilland hadn't wanted to star in RKO's Government Girl, but was forced to do so by her home studio Warner Bros....
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1943
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Behind the Rising Sun is a rarity: a WW2 film with a handful of sympathetic Japanese characters. His eyes slanted by the RKO...
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1943
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In this drama, set at a WW II munitions plant, the lives of five workers are chronicled. Their stories are told via...
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1943
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The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism...
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1943
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RKO horror producer Val Lewton dished up seven reels of brooding psychological terror with The Ghost Ship. Richard Dix stars...
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1943
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The first "Mexican Spitfire" entry of 1942, Mexican Spitfire at Sea is set mainly on a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Combining...
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1942
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Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was...
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1942
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Orson Welles had planned to produce, direct and star in RKO's Journey Into Fear, but prior commitments compelled him to...
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1942
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Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in...
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1942
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One of the less laudable results of the United States' wartime "good neighbor" policy with South America was the relentlessly...
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1941
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My Life with Caroline is a dizzy boy-chases-girl affair with a twist: the girl being chased is the boy's own wife. Wealthy...
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1941
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is...
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1941
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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1941
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John Wayne stars in this hard-driving oater which was co-written by character actor Paul Fix. Wayne plays Rocklin, a...
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1941
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The much-maligned Playmates callously offers the appalling spectacle of a thoroughly dissolute John Barrymore in his final...
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1941
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This Victorian-era drama is based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hughes. It follows the exploits of a young boy forced to...
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1940
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Like its predecessors, this third cinema version of Sidney Hoiward's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted...
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1940
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No, No, Nanette was the second film version of the popular Otto Harbach-Vincent Youmans Broadway musical. Though slightly...
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1940
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1940
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Now immortalized as the film on which Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met, Too Many Girls is a faithful adaptation of the...
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1940
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In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene...
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1940
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Johan David Wyss' novel Swiss Family Robinson had been in print for nearly fifty years before the first film version was made...
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1940
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A gold-digger facing middle-age decides to pass her special talents on to a younger woman. Her young student learns quickly...
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1940
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In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home...
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1940
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1940
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1939
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Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star"...
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1939
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In this espionage drama, a young woman enrolls in the US Army Intelligence Corps so she can avenge her brother's death. She...
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1939
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Based on Memory of Love, a novel by Bessie Breuer, In Name Only is soap opera par excellence, blessed with a peerless cast....
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1939
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In this drama, a department store owner is deeply saddened to learn that none of his grown sons are interested in taking...
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1939
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An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to...
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1939
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According to RKO Radio's publicity folks, Beauty for the Asking was supposed to have been an expose of the lucrative...
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1939
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Lucille Ball plays young starlet Sandra Sand in That's Right -- You're Wrong, the 1939 musical comedy directed by...
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1939
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1939
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Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a...
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1939
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Sorority House is based on Mary Coyle Chase's short story Chi House. Anne Shirley plays a middle-class college student who is...
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1939
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The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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Katharine Hepburn's association with RKO Radio Pictures came to an abrupt end when she refused to star in the studio's...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles...
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1938
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Joan Fontaine was still two years away from full stardom when she appeared in the B-plus comedy Maid's Night Out. Future...
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1938
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The Saint, Leslie Charteris' charming but deadly criminal-turned-sleuth, made his first film appearance in RKO Radio's...
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1938
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Set in New York City's famed music hall and featuring an all-star cast, this musical chronicles the desperate search of two...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately,...
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1937
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Its title notwithstanding, We Who Are About to Die has nothing to do with Roman Gladiators. Rather, the film is based on the...
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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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1937
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1937
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In this actioner, a tough Coast Guard officer endeavors to marry his lovely daughter to a handsome sailor. The trouble is,...
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1937
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This musical parody follows the exploits of American performers in Hungary. The story begins as a Yankee wrestling trainer...
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1937
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New Faces of 1937 was supposed to be the vanguard of a series of annual musical comedies -- RKO Radio's latest attempt to...
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1937
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Poor Barry Trent (John Morley) has Too Many Wives in this RKO programmer. Actually, Barry starts out with no wife at all,...
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1937
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In this comedy, the shady editor of a newspaper does all he can to keep his best reporter from marrying a journalist from a...
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1937
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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1937
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The "they" who want to marry in this RKO Radio programmer are news photographer Jim Tyler (Gordon Jones) and cute society deb...
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1937
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In this musical, a nightclub singer (Lily Pons) secretly aspires to sing at the Met. To help her, her agent (Jack Oakie)...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a highly superstitious racehorse owner spends his time off the track helping the less fortunate in any...
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1937
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Hotshot attorney Jimmy Hughes (Preston S. Foster) prides himself on never backing down from a dare. Thus, when he is goaded...
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1937
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In this comedy drama (a remake of 1932's Ladies of the Jury), an apparently bubble-headed but mule-stubborn jurist is...
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1937
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1936
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Fulton Oursler, the prolific Reader's Digest editor whose range extended from detective stories to religious books, tried his...
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1936
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This light-hearted musical romance follows the exploits of Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star who stows...
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1936
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A woman framed for a bond theft gets out of prison and takes a job at a waterfront cafe, where she witnesses a murder. She...
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1936
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Dithery ZaSu Pitts is miscast as novelist Stuart Palmer's crime-solving schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers in The Plot Thickens....
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1935
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1933
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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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1932
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown...
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1931
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In this western, three rambunctious young cowboys head for the hills after spending a night painting a town red and...
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1931
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Reformed gold-digger Barbara Stanwyck falls in love with a womanizing and wealthy aspiring artist and tries to convince him...
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1930
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This lavish musical is based on a play by Oscar Hammerstein II and tells the story of a young girl who inadvertently causes a...
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1930
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The sacrifice of a socialite is chronicled in this romantic drama. To be with her beloved musician, the wealthy woman gives...
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1930
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When silent star Colleen Moore nervously faced a microphone for her first "sound" test, the results were so positive that...
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1929
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Recreating her famous Broadway role from 1920, former Ziegfeld star Marilyn Miller took to the Warner Bros. soundstages with...
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1929
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