In this romantic comedy, a young basketball star proposes to a tall and intelligent coed while attending Custer College. She...
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1960
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This 1959 episode is set in "the future" -- precisely, July 13, 1980. Worn to a frazzle by his domineering old mother-in-law,...
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1959
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As the Oregon Territory prepares to welcome settlers in 1846, wagons traveling the Oregon trail face increasing hostility...
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1959
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Four little old ladies become fascinated by Mr. O'Finn (Dennis Morgan), the homicide detective who is investigating a murder...
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1958
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Mrs. Casey
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1957
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Like father, like son: having been given a set of drums, Little Ricky (Richard Keith) is proving to be as musically talented...
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Mrs. Trumbull
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1956
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Cornell Woolrich, whose written works have served as the basis for many an Alfred Hitchcock production, was the author of...
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1956
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While boarding the USS Constitution on the first leg of the Ricardos' and the Mertzes' trip to Europe, Lucy (Lucille Ball)...
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Mrs. Trumbull
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1956
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A contest in which the participants must guess the number of jellybeans in a jar has been rigged by a gang of crooks. Clark...
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1956
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After rescuing a cat owned by eccentric Mrs. Peabody (Elizabeth Patterson), cub reporter Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) is given a...
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1955
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This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of...
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1955
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Kathryn Card makes her first appearance as Mrs. MacGillicuddy, the flamboyant mother of Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball). Upon...
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Mrs. Trumbull
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1955
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1955
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1955
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Mrs. Trumbull
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1954
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One of the most famous of all I Love Lucy story arcs gets under way when a Hollywood talent scout (Frank Nelson) arrives at...
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Mrs. Trumbull
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1954
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More sensitive than usual -- if such a thing is possible -- Lucy (Lucille Ball) becomes convinced that everyone has forgotten...
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Mrs. Trumbull
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1953
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The neighborhood is currently being held in thrall by an elusive female burglar known only as "Madame X." Through a series of...
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Mrs. Trumbull
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1953
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The truth inherent in the title of this episode is vividly illustrated when the Ricardos sell their old washing machine to...
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Mrs. Trumbull
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1953
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Elizabeth Patterson makes her first series appearance as Mrs. Trumbull, the Ricardos' elderly, cranky neighbor. Disturbed by...
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Mrs. Mathilda Trumbull
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1953
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Because of a minor error on their wedding license, Lucy (Lucille Ball) is convinced that she is no longer legally married to...
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Mrs. Willoughby
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1952
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Washington Story stars Van Johnson as mildly liberal congressman Joseph T. Gresham. For reasons that he can't fathom, Gresham...
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1952
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Katherine "Katie" Standish (Ann Blyth) has been raised in a restrictive small town by her prudish Aunt Priscilla...
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1951
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Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native...
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1950
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1950
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Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New...
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1949
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Intruder in the Dust is one of the best of Hollywood's postwar "racial tolerance" cycle--a cycle that would come to an abrupt...
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Miss Habersham
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1949
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Though her acting range was limited, Wanda Hendrix was cute as all get out, and this cuteness is pretty much all that's...
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1949
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A woman stands to inherit a fortune if she can get all her brothers and sisters in one place...which is far more complicated...
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1948
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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Mrs. Gilley
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1947
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In this musical set in late 19th-century Boston, a suffragette secretary finds that her political beliefs are standing in the...
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1947
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If Eagle-Lion's Out of the Blue looks more like a slick Warner Bros. product at times, it's because the film was peopled by...
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1947
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As its fortunes grew in the mid-1940s, Republic Pictures occasionally strayed from its usual manifest of westerns and...
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1946
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The Secret Heart is a psychological drama starring June Allyson as a disturbed teenager obsessed with the memory of her dead...
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1946
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Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
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1945
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Based on a novel by Barry Fleming, Colonel Effingham's Raid stars Charles Coburn in the title role. Upon retiring from the...
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Emma
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1945
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It took nerve for writer/director Preston Sturges to lampoon the whole concept of hero worship in the middle of World War...
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1944
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The title Together Again referred to the fact that frequent costarsIrene Dunne and Charles Boyer were once more united on...
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Jessie
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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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1944
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Mrs. Fisher
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1943
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It's Dorothy Lamour again, sarong and all, in the South Seas wish-dream Beyond the Blue Horizon. Lamour plays Tama, a...
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1942
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Robert Paige pursues the hand of a singer Jane Frazee when he wants to get out of a dreaded engagement. She agrees to the...
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1942
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1942
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Rosalind Russell plays aspiring Ohio journalist Ruth Sherwood, who heads for New York to seek her fortune, accompanied by her...
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1942
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No one will ever know what possessed MGM's reigning screen queen Norma Shearer to select the tired old stage farce Her...
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Eva
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1942
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When a young woman inherits $1 million she finds herself the target of a criminals who wants her money too! ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Ada Lester
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1941
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The Vanishing Virginian was adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Rebecca Yancey Williams. Newcomer...
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1941
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1941
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Sarah
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1941
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Aunt Emma
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1940
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Based on a novel by Medora Field, Who Killed Aunt Maggie? would appear to be an attempt by Republic Pictures to launch a new...
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Aunt Maggie Ambler
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1940
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Brett Halliday's flippant Irish-American private eye Michael Shayne was first brought to the screen by 20th Century-Fox in...
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Aunt Olivia
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1940
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1940
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British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief Felice (Isa Miranda), tricking her out of some...
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Nellie
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1940
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Future blacklistee John Howard Lawson co-wrote this remake of Samuel Goldwyn's 1920 drama Earthbound, presented here as a...
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1940
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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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Mrs. Perkins
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1939
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride is the next-to-last entry in Paramount's series of "Drummond" B-pictures. It goes without saying...
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1939
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The penultimate entry in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series, Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police once more stars John Howard...
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Aunt Blanche
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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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The classic "old dark house" motif is given sterling treatment in this second filmed version of the hit play. Bob Hope's...
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1939
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A big city lawyer returns to his tiny home town to enter the firm of his late father. His father's partner is happy to have...
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Aunt Tillie Clark
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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1939
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Chronic gambler Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) is a source of great consternation for his loving mother (Elizabeth Patterson), who...
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Mrs. Beebe
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1938
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Though John Barrymore is top-billed in Bulldog Drummond's Peril, the aging matinee idol is consigned to the supporting role...
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1938
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Aunt Hedwige
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1938
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1938
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Sons of the Legion is a showcase for Paramount's juvenile-talent pool-specifically, Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee and Billy...
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Grandmother Lee
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1938
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In this often funny crime melodrama, a librarian moves to a small town and finds herself the butt of local gossip. While the...
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1938
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A remake of 1929's The Greene Murder Case, Paramount's Night of Mystery was the first "Philo Vance" thriller not to use the...
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Mrs. Tobias Greene
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1937
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A remake of 1932's Guilty as Hell, Night Club Scandal also borrows a page from 1934's Murder at the Vanities by depicting the...
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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Grandma Cortlandt
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1937
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In this sports drama, framed by the annual Army-Navy football game, a freshman footballer at the Naval Academy falls in love...
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Grandma Holland
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1937
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To fully accept the premise of Her Master's Voice, one must also accept the notion that Edward Everett Horton is radio...
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Mrs. Martin
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1936
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In this remake of the 1920 Will Rogers comedy Honest Hutch, Wallace Beery stars as the eponymous Hutch, the ne'er-do-well...
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Mrs. Hutchins
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1936
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Araminta Sedley
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1919, the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel Timothy's Quest was remade as a talkie in 1935. Dickie Moore plays...
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Vilda Cummins
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1936
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1936
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1936
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In this musical, a young lady is sent to an East coast finishing school. She doesn't realize that it is a bogus school run by...
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1936
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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1935
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So Red the Rose is a Civil War drama that plays like a warm-up for Gone With the Wind--and, unlike Wind, has two genuine...
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1935
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O.P. Heggie plays an ageing Parisian book collector who has spent four decades tracking down a rare volume. The trail leads...
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Mlle. Prefere
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1935
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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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Ma Miller
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1934
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An espionage drama set in the early 20th century, Ever in My Heart stars Barbara Stanwyck as a New England naif who marries a...
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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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1933
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A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Chester Morris stars as ambitious...
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1933
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Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to...
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1933
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The infernal machine in question is a bomb controlled by a wireless operator and set aboard a New York bound ocean liner. No...
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Elinor's Aunt
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1933
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William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary was a notorious bestseller upon its publication in 1931, and while it was successful...
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1933
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There's nothing wrong with Hold Your Man that a little editing wouldn't cure. Clark Gable plays a raffish young petty crook...
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1933
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In this comedy a maid and a butler work for a very rich man. The trouble begins when their employer dies and leaves his...
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1933
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1933
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Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by...
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1932
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In this drama, a politician must deal with the aftermath of a young girl's damning accusation. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Cora Pugmire
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1932
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Though only 19, Loretta Young was an established Hollywood star in 1932, appearing in six films in that year alone. In They...
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1932
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1932
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Constance Bennett suffers nobly in this outdated but fairly engrossing melodrama in which a seemingly hardened debutante...
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1932
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An elderly gentleman finds himself in a difficult situation when he finds himself faced with becoming a burden on his...
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1932
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Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the...
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1932
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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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1932
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New Morals for Old was the teasing title for a somewhat sedate film about the ongoing rejection of middle-class values by the...
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1932
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One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight...
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1932
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1932
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In her first film under contract to Warner Bros., Kay Francis plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband Fred (Kenneth...
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1932
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A very young Loretta Young stars in this domestic drama in which a naïve department store clerk falls for an inveterate...
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1932
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In this murder mystery, a nurse with an unusual eye for detail solves a puzzling case. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1932
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Renowned American-born London stage star Tallulah Bankhead made her feature sound film debut in this drama based on...
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1931
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1931
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Janet Gaynor plays a teenaged orphanage waif who protects the younger children from the harshness of the supervisors. One of...
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1931
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The patience of a long-suffering wife is finally rewarded in this drama. The devoted wife has known that her husband has...
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1931
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While on a riverboat traveling on the Mississippi River, Ayres finds out that his father is an impostor and that man...
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Vergie
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1931
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1931
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Sarah Martin
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1930
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Shortly before retiring from films to become an actor's agent (and, incidentally, Mrs. Alan Ladd), the ebullient Sue Carol...
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1930
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1930
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This comedy features Collier unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Churchill keeping the suitors away from her daughters...
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1930
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In this comedy drama, a very early talkie, set in the splendiferous South Seas, a French lassie charms a sea captain who...
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Sarah
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1929
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In this college campus musical comedy from director James Tinling, the first film in which John Wayne received billing...
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1929
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No relation to the much-later musical comedy of the same name, The Boy Friend focuses on the misadventures of dreamy-eyed...
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1926
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The venerable David Belasco stage piece The Return of Peter Grimm was first brought to the screen in 1926, with...
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1926
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