Patrick McGoohan stars in this thriller as a loutish talk-show host who is held hostage by a band of terrorists who plan to...
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Screenwriter
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1981
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Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a...
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1956
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The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics, The Babe Ruth Story is definitely in the "So Bad It's Good" category. An...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1948
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It Happened On Fifth Avenue was easily the most ambitious movie made by the then-newly-organized Allied Artists for at least...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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In this costume drama, a woman travels from New England to California's Barbary coast to avenge her brother's death. There...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1945
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In this tuneful comedy adventure, a free-spirited fellow with a keen eye for easy money is assigned to sail to a remote...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1945
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This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1945
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In this swashbuckler, a princess is raised by gypsies and becomes their queen. The trouble really begins when a count is...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter
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1944
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On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away from her tranquil South...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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In this crazy comedy, a casino worker writes a book about headhunters and finds himself the target of the leader of an...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1943
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The general perception of the Technicolor costume adventure movies that Maria Montez and Jon Hall made for Universal in the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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There's a joke currently making the rounds amongst underpaid civil servants in the state of Vermont: "Moonlight in Vermont-or...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1943
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The 43-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" Dudes are Pretty People was one of three films teaming Jimmy Rogers (son of Will) with...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Instant recall allows a man to become a very valuable Good Samaritan in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Hal Roach Studios' Brooklyn Orchid was one of three "streamliners" (films running between 40-50 minutes) starring...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1941
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Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1941
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Hal Roach's first Technicolor production was the 48-minute musical Fiesta. The story takes place on the Mexican ranch owned...
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Songwriter
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1941
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This 48-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" represents a rare directorial assignment for veteran Hollywood choreographer...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time,...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1940
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Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1940
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring, My Son My Son stars Brian Aherne as a self-made success determined to give his son...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1940
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This is the second episode in the Maisie series, which focused upon the exploits of a feisty, clever, smooth-talking...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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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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Songwriter
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1940
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Stronger Than Desire is a streamlined remake of 1934's Evelyn Prentice. Instead of the earlier film's William Powell and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Lana Turner (a mere 19 years old at the time) stars in this lighthearted musical comedy as Patty Marlow, a dancer fighting...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1939
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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This remake of Penthouse (33) stars Walter Pidgeon as a smooth attorney with a few embarrassing friends. One of these is a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1939
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In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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A plucky orphan girl runs away from the orphanage. Her only possession is her beloved Bible in which she has complete faith...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Pulp-novel detective Nick Carter was created in the 1880s, but most film versions of the character have been updated to...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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In this off-beat love story, wealthy socialite Linda Bronson (Greer Garson) is about to marry Sky Ames (Lou Ayres) but then...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Stablemates is a typically treacly vehicle for Wallace Beery, who goes through his usual slobbery paces as an eternally...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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The second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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Director Sam Wood always seemed most comfortable with cozy family-oriented films like Lord Jeff. Freddie Bartholomew plays...
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Composer (Music Score)
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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Hold That Kiss is a cute story cutely played by the irresistably cute Maureen O'Sullivan. She plays working girl June Evans,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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Obviously filmed several years before its 1938 release, Meet the Mayor serves as a vehicle for popular Broadway comedian...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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Love may be a headache, but without it, how would MGM programmers like this one ever have been made? Franchot Tone is cast as...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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Nobody really takes a Vacation from Love in this MGM programmer, though it's not from lack of trying. Dennis O'Keefe and...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1938
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Directed by Richard Thorpe, this costume drama stars Luise Rainer as 16-year-old southern belle Gilberta, who, upon her...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his portrayal of Father Edward J. Flanagan--then promptly turned the statuette over to...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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This drama chronicles the fate of two disparate brothers, both of whom work at the same power plant. One of them is...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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In this comedy drama, a newspaper report discovers that a popular religious cult is really a scam. Unbeknownst to him, his...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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MGM's Navy Blue and Gold prettily dresses up some of the oldest cliches in the "military cadet" movie genre. The film charts...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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Good Old Soak was based on a story by Don Marquis, creator of the immortal "Archy and Mehitabel." Wallace Beery is well-cast...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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Mannequin stars Joan Crawford as Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements (though this being an MGM film, her slum dwellings...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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The Longest Night is a curious title choice for this fast-paced mystery; at 50 minutes, it was the shortest feature film ever...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1936
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Moonlight Murder takes place virtually in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl. Despite dire warnings by a sinister mystic...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1936
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Sinner Takes All shines with the production gloss only MGM could create; the prettiness of the images helps to hide the plot...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1936
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Sworn Enemy stars Robert Young as "Hank" Sherman, a law student who earns extra cash by working...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1936
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Composer (Music Score)
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1936
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Ace reporter Casey (Stu Erwin) and city editor Blaine (Paul Kelly) are agreed on only one point: women are trouble! This is...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1936
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In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1935
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Riff-Raff begins riff-raffing when boastful fisherman Dutch (Spencer Tracy) marries down-to-earth cannery worker Hattie...
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Composer (Music Score)
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1935
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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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Composer (Music Score)
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1935
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Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has been a source of speculation and controversy ever since...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1935
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Though habitually unlucky in love, wealthy London recluse Mary Herries (Aline MacMahon) succumbs to the charms of handsome...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1935
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1934
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Edmund Gwenn makes his American film debut in this lighthearted adaptation of Frederick Jackson's stage play The Bishop...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1933
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In this melodramatic blend of romance and adventure set in the South Seas, Stella Blackney (Betty Compson) is married to Tom...
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Songwriter
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1930
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A newlywed countess is asked to make a tremendous sacrifice for her husband and herself in this musical comedy-drama. Count...
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Additional Music, Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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Songwriter
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1929
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Show Girl was based on a novel by J.P. McEvoy, which also inspired the long-running comic strip Dixie Dugan (Actress...
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Songwriter
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1928
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