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1956
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Abie's Irish Rose, the surprise hit of the 1922-23 Broadway season, was old-fashioned when it was first filmed in 1928, and...
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Director, Producer
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1946
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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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Director
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1945
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Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed...
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Director
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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Director, Editor
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1944
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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Director
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1943
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A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net...
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Director
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1942
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RKO Radio's Army Surgeon is something of a rarity: A WW2 drama set mostly in WW1. On board a transport ship bound for Europe,...
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1942
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How could anyone resist a 1940s film starring Bert Lahr, June Havoc, Buddy Ebsen and Patsy Kelly-even a film as relentlessly...
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Director
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1942
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Perhaps nine lives weren't enough, but 63 minutes was plenty of time to relate the plot of this Ronald Reagan vehicle. Reagan...
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Director
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1941
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The virile Warner Bros. programmer Steel Against the Sky stars Lloyd Nolan and Craig Stevens as steelworkers Rocky and Chuck...
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Director
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1941
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Dispensing with the melodramatic excesses of Universal's previous "Invisible Man" films, 1941's The Invisible Woman aims...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers...
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1939
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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1937
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Another of Paramount's efforts to transform Metropolitan Opera diva Gladys Swarthout into a popular movie star, Champagne...
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1937
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1936
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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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Director
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1935
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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Director
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1935
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Insanely jealous of his wife, wealthy zoologist Lionel Atwill uses his knowledge of animals to dispose of any would-be...
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Director
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1933
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Hollywood responded to the exigencies of the Depression with such glorious nonsense as International House. The plot is...
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Director
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1933
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There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays...
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Director
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1933
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Although the photography of the beautiful South Seas island and the musical score of this movie (by Alfred Newman) make this...
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Director
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1932
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A Parisian flower girl is trotted out as the missing Grand Duchess Anastasia in this fast-moving thriller based on a popular...
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Director
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1932
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Hoping to match the success of his boisterous (and Oscar-winning) silent comedy Two Arabian Knights, and at the same time...
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Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1932
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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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Director
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1931
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In this comedy, a bumbling rube from a small town manages to get involved in a gang war. The trouble really begins when one...
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Director
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1931
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Eddie Cantor plays Eddie Simpson, a shy and jumpy young fellow who spontaneously bursts into song whenever he gets nervous....
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Director
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1931
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A well-meaning but dimwitted electrical worker-turned-lyricist Frederick Martin Stevens (Jack Oakie) arrives in New York...
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Director
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1931
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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Director
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1930
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Based on a short-lived stage comedy, The Sap from Syracuse stars Jack Oakie in the title role. A humble laborer on a luxury...
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Director
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1930
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William Powell was still in his tux-and-top-hat period when he starred in Pointed Heels. The scene is Broadway, where...
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Director
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1930
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In this high-spirited satire of competitive sports, boxer Marco Perkins is creamed during a fight and decides to play polo...
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Director
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1930
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The popular silent-film screen team of Richard Arlen and Mary Brian was carried over into talkies with such films as Burning...
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Director
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1930
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This comedy chronicles the rise of a country rube who becomes a baseball legend for the New York Yankees. Not only does he...
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Director
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1929
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This tuneful tale revolves around a shy warehouse clerk who, at the encouragement of his girlfriend finally musters up his...
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Director
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1929
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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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Director
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1929
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A vaudevillian working in a third-rate burlesque show suffers marital turmoil when success swells his head in this silent...
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1929
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1928
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Bebe Daniels once again plays an intrepid -- and somewhat foolhardy -- girl reporter in Paramount's What a Night!. A spoiled...
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1928
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1928
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A follow-up to the enormously successful Behind the Front, We're in the Navy Now reteams the stars of the earlier film,...
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Director
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1927
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Love's Greatest Mistake was based on the serialized Liberty Magazine story of the same name. It all begins when Honey McNeill...
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Director
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1927
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Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the...
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1927
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Fireman Save My Child is an exceptionally well-constructed slapstick comedy, utilizing the talents of stars Wallace Beery and...
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1927
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1926
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W.C. Fields' It's the Old Army Game is an expansion on four Fields stage skits, originally performed in the Broadway revue...
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Director, Producer
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1926
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Breezy Raymond Griffith became a full-fledged screen star with this highly entertaining comedy. Alexis (Griffith), the prince...
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Director
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1925
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Bebe Daniels stars in this action-packed comedy -- one of Edward Sutherland's first directoral efforts. Susan Van Dusen...
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Director
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1925
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Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford (Thomas Meighan) marries Alice Rand (Lila Lee), the daughter of his boss, John...
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Director
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1925
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Sam Warner, of the pioneering Warner Bros., produced this minor oater starring 1910s serial queen Juanita Hansen as an...
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1923
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Millionaire Mr. Magruder (Harvey Clark) makes the acquaintance of two out-of-work actors, Nancy Moore and Jazz...
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Jazz Hennessy
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1922
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Although the spirited Bebe Daniels was sorely miscast as a long-suffering orphan in this comedy-drama, she somehow managed to...
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Jack Halliday
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1922
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The Prince
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1921
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Roving Kate (Eugenie Besserer) is a half-mad homeless woman who is searching for the fatherless child she lost twenty years...
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Barton Baynes
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1921
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This drama, made a year before William Desmond Taylor was mysteriously murdered, is one of the few films he directed which...
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Clay Whipple
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1921
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For some mysterious reason, producer Adolph Zukor decided to set the slapstick aside for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's first...
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1920
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