It's the Bowery Boys again, in their 35th feature film. Sach (Huntz Hall) buys a battered oil lamp, which turns out to have...
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1955
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Sir Wimbley
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1950
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Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the...
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Mr. Toad
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1949
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Wind in the Willows was originally released as the second half of the 1949 Disney animated feature Ichabod and Mr. Toad....
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1949
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The Marx Brothers' final starring feature Love Happy began life as a solo vehicle for Harpo. The financiers wouldn't go for...
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1949
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This cute film is Doris Day's film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her...
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1948
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In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break up a ring of diamond...
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1947
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Though Republic's Winter Wonderland sounds like a vehicle for the studio's resident skating star Vera Hruba Ralston, she's...
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Luddington
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1947
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Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, ventures into Sherlock Holmes territory in this series entry. When a cache of...
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Jamison
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1947
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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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1946
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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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1946
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Three years after its previous "Lone Wolf" entry Passport to Suez, Columbia Pictures revitalized the B-picture series with...
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Jamison
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1946
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If Penthouse Rhythm is paced more like a two-reel comedy than a mini-musical, it may be because the director was...
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Ferdy Pelham
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1945
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In 1912, John Bunny and Flora Finch starred in the one-reel farce The New Secretary, wherein Bunny's wife hires a homely...
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1945
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl,...
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Billings
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1945
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Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family....
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Nelson
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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A man trying to leave his fame behind discovers the perils of choosing to be the wrong unknown person in this farcical...
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1943
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1943
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Capt. Nichols
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1943
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1943
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In this wartime drama, an ex-gangster proves himself a decent man when he helps defeat the Nazis while he is hiding out on a...
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Spike
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1943
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In this entry in the "Lone Wolf" series, the sleuth and former jewel thief, the Lone Wolf finds himself accused of killing a...
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1943
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Though it's not made readily apparent by the title, Passport to Suez was the 10th entry in Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series....
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Jameson
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1943
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1943
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In this lighthearted musical comedy, Marjory Stuart (Mary Martin) is a girl who works in the hatcheck room at a Manhattan...
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1942
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Jamison
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1942
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A partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining tour de force for the great...
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Mr. Hartford
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1941
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The title of this series entry may strike some as a tad redundant: After all, isn't crook-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka...
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Jamison
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1941
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Sir Alfred McGlennon-Keith
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1941
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Faith, Hope and Charity motivate the wacky storyline of Columbia's Three Girls About Town--or to be more exact, gorgeous...
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1941
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Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his...
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1941
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1941
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Digby
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1941
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Fred MacMurray is a breezy New York street photographer; Mary Martin is a small town girl hoping to make her fortune in the...
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1941
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1941
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Michael Lanyard, the reformed criminal known as the Lone Wolf, is played in this Columbia B picture by the suave...
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Jamison, the Butler
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1941
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1941
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1940
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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1940
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Boasting Tony Martin and Rita Hayworth and bandleader Andre Kostelanitz as its leading players, it's surprising that Music in...
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Griggs, Butler
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1940
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1940
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Horace Parker
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl...
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Jamison
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1940
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The lady in question in this delightful whodunit is Joan Bradley (Jean Muir), a former secretary who is about to marry her...
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Jamison
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1940
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Earl of Puddlestone was released minus a director credit out of respect for megger Gus Meins, who committed suicide shortly...
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1940
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Warren William is back as suave thief-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, alias the Lone Wolf, in Columbia's The Lone Wolf Keeps a...
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Jamison
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1940
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A wealthy man's valet, Blore, concocts a blackmail scheme about an attempted poisoning when his employer passes out at a...
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1939
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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Henry
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1939
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Herbert
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1939
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1938
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American mousetrap salesmen Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy journey to Switzerland, reasoning that where there's cheese, there's...
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Edward Morton
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1938
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In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have...
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Trump
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1938
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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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Cosmo
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1937
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Based on a story by Jules Verne and featuring battle footage from a French film version of the tale, this epic...
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1937
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Recruiting Sergeant
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1937
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Butch
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1937
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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Cecil Flintridge
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1937
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Digges
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1937
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Bayliss
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1936
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Stokes
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1936
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The sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting...
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Mr. Gordon
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1936
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Ann Sothern is a magazine model looking for a rich husband. Wealthy Gene Raymond attends a photo shoot; Sothern mistakes him...
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Philbean
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1936
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Wandering around in the darkness, an amnesiac (Walter Abel) can't shake the feeling that he's murdered someone. When it...
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a pacifistic song-and-dance man is compelled to don a military uniform for one of his acts. Before...
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Hobson
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1936
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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Grove
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1935
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A wealthy young heir rebels when his snooty parents refuse to allow him to marry a lovely young secretary. Deciding to teach...
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1935
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Bolton
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1935
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In this musical campus comedy, trouble ensues when a meddlesome, overprotective father enrolls in the same college as his...
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1935
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Margaret Sullavan graduates from a girl's orphanage to an usherette's job at a Budapest movie theatre. Bibulous millionaire...
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1935
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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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Sampson Fox
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1935
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If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with...
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Roger Briggs
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1935
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Francois
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1935
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1935
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S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case....
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1935
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Hugh Herbert plays a middle-aged bumbler who is about to inherit a multimillion dollar estate. But there's a catch: Herbert...
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Hawkins
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1935
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It's "Never the twain shall meet" time again, this time in London's Limehouse district. George Raft stars as Harry Young, a...
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1934
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1934
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1933
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1933
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In all three of her 1931-32 movie vehicles, Tallulah Bankhead played variations of that familiar soap opera standby, the...
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1931
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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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Laughter is a sophisticated romantic comedy belying the "fact" that most early talkies were stiff and dull. Nancy Carroll...
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1930
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1926
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