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2010
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Robert Opel's fifteen minutes of fame came in a truly 1970s manner: during the 1974 Academy Awards telecast, Opel streaked...
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2009
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This documentary poses a number of theories about the life and career of pop star Michael Jackson, focusing on his final...
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2009
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Photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber has often made his enthusiasms and obsessions a part of his work, and he introduces...
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2004
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2002
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Four of Tinseltown's greatest glamour queens came together for this tartly comic made-for-TV movie which pokes gentle (and...
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Beryl Mason
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2001
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1997
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Frustrated that the "FYI" team openly mocks new anchorman Miller Redfield (Christopher Rich) on the air, Miles (Grant Shaud)...
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1996
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The good (if not fully evolved) citizens of Bedrock make their way to the big screen in this live-action adaptation of the...
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1994
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The citizens of Springfield are being inundated with advertisements heralding the arrival of something called "Gabbo,"...
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1993
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1990
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Alexandre Del Lago
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1989
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1989
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Nadina Bulicioff
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1988
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1988
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1988
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We've been told that Poker Alice, a Boston-bred lady of means who managed a wild-west gambling hall and bordello in the...
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Alice Moffit
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1987
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1986
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In this drama, a formerly famous star returns from an insane asylum and tries to make a comeback. Despite the objections of...
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1986
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When the made-for-TV The Rumor Mill first aired on May 12, 1985, it bore the title Malice in Wonderland. This joyously...
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Louells Parsons
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1985
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The expensively mounted miniseries North and South was originally telecast in six two-hour installments between November 3...
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1985
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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1984
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In this drama, two disparate divorcees become close friends after an automobile collision. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1983
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One of television's most beloved commedians and one of Hollywood's greatest love goddesses appear together for the first time...
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Deborah Shapiro
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1983
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The history of anti-Semitism and the Nazi mass murder of the Jewish people. ~ Rovi...
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1981
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Marina Gregg
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1980
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1979
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A spinster college teacher falls in love with one of her students. ~ Rovi...
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1978
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Aside from newspapers, most people in the 1930s got their news from movie newsreels. In this British documentary, the...
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Research
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1977
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Desiree
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1977
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The American Film Institute put together this movie of film clips from all eras of American filmmaking as a Bicentennial...
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1976
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The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen...
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Light,Maternal Love,Mother,Witch
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1976
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Within months after the spectacular July 4, 1976 rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe airport, there were two competing...
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Edra Vilnovsky
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1976
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In this documentary, narrated by Stacy Keach, the tragic screen-icon James Dean is remembered. Footage from early television...
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1975
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A beautiful but mysterious woman goes on a journey that has dangerous consequences for her and those around her in this...
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1974
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It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off...
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Narrator
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1974
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Night Watch a suspenseful, under-rated thriller tells the story of a lonely, unhappily married woman who believes that she...
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Ellen Wheeler
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1973
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A woman undergoes a surgeon's scalpel in a last-ditch attempt to win back her husband in this drama. Barbara Sawyer...
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Barbara Sawyer
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1973
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Originally made for television, this production features divorce from two perspectives: in the first half, the husband...
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1972
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More commonly known as Zee & Co., this cautionary tale of extramarital discretions finds a threatened and desperate wife...
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Zee
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1972
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Loosely based on the Faust legend, Hammersmith is Out stars Richard Burton as the title character, a mental patient confined...
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Jimmie Jean Jackson
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1972
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This film is a faithful rendition of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' last major poem, Under Milk Wood. It affectionately examines...
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Rosie Probert
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1971
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Two star-crossed losers are looking for diversion but find love instead in this romantic drama. Fran Walker...
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Fran
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1970
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Anne of the Thousand Days is the belated film adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1948 stage play. The story concentrates on the...
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1969
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Helen of Troy
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1968
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Flora Goforth
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1968
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Secret Ceremony was based on a prize-winning short story by Argentine civil servant Marco Denevi. Elizabeth Taylor plays...
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Leonora
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1968
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1968
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Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy,...
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Producer, Katherine
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1967
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The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story...
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Martha Pineda
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1967
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This dreary story of the latent desires of the sexually repressed and psychologically tormented is taken from the 1944 novel...
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Leonora Penderton
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1967
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"You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games." Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of...
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Martha
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1966
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One subject that has always been popular in the movies -- and is likely to stay that way for a long time to come -- is...
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1965
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Laura Reynolds
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1965
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Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an...
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Frances Andros
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1963
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In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic...
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Cleopatra
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1963
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1963
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A woman who has long been short on feelings falls in love with a married man in this emotional drama. Gloria Wondrous...
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Gloria Wondrous
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1960
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Produced by Mike Todd Jr., Scent of Mystery was a misguided attempt to introduce a new gimmick to motion pictures. The plot...
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1960
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In this lush, lurid adaptation of the 1957 Tennessee Williams one-act, Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn play a...
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Catherine Holly
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1959
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This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern...
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Maggie Pollitt
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1958
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Conceived as a Gone With the Wind for the CinemaScope generation, Raintree County wasn't quite as successful as its role...
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Susanna Drake
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1957
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George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and...
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Leslie Lynnton
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1956
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Helen Ellswirth
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1954
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Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled...
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Louise Durant
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1954
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Elephant Walk was several weeks into production when the film's original leading lady, Vivien Leigh, was replaced by...
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Ruth Wiley
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1954
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As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell....
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Patricia Belham
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1954
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A good man tries to warn his daughter away from a bad man who has stolen her heart in this melodrama. Steve Latimer...
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Jean Latimer
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1953
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Produced by MGM's British facilities, the Technicolor Ivanhoe starred Robert Taylor in the title role. Returning to England...
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Rebecca
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1952
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Though completed in 1950, Love Is Better Than Ever was held back from release until 1952, due in great part to the "political...
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Anastacia Macaboy
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1952
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Kay Dunstan
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1951
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was...
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Angela Vickers
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1951
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Callaway Went Thataway is an amiable spoof of early television's "Hopalong Cassidy" craze. Fred MacMurray and...
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1951
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Nobody sits on the fence so far as The Big Hangover is concerned. Leonard Maltin considers it "predictable, as well as silly...
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Mary Belney
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1950
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Spencer Tracy received an Oscar nomination for his performance in this classic comedy. Stanley T. Banks (Tracy) is a securely...
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Kay Banks
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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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Amy March
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1949
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Elizabeth Taylor played her first grown-up romantic lead in the Anglo-American melodrama Conspirator. Taylor portrays Melinda...
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Melinda Greyton
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1949
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Susan Packett
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1948
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Carol Pringle
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1948
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Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in the innocuous MGM confection Cynthia. Taylor plays the...
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Cynthia Bishop
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1947
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The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947....
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Mary Skinner
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1947
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This is the one where Lassie plays a war veteran with amnesia. Actually Lassie isn't even Lassie, but a male collie named...
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Kathie Merrick
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1946
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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1944
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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Velvet Brown
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1944
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Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have...
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1943
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A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding...
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1942
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