In this gentle, non-melodramatic drama, an elderly, wealthy widow will not leave her apartment even after her building is...
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Mrs. Chandler
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1957
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This highly anticipated and lavishly publicized semi-musical TV adaptation of Kay Thompson's "Eloise" stories stars...
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1956
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The 1955 NBC TV special Remember...1938 would be worth seeing again (if indeed a kinescope exists) if only for its...
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1955
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Young at Heart is a soft-pedaled, musicalized remake of 1938's Four Daughters. Robert Keith takes over the Claude Rains role...
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Aunt Jessie
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1954
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This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous...
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Mrs. Pennicott [Mademoiselle]
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1953
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A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953...
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1953
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Allida de Bronkhart
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1952
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An abundance of subplots are expertly woven together by screenwriter/director Richard Brooks in Deadline - USA....
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Mrs. Garrison
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1952
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This remake of the 1935 version is considered far superior to the original. It is the harrowing story of a kindly old...
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Mary Harries
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1951
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Glenn Ford plays a convict who breaks out of a 19th century Nevada prison in the company of several less handsome inmates....
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Granny
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1951
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan
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1950
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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Mother Superior
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1949
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Elia Kazan directed this, one of Hollywood's early attacks on racism, starring Jeanne Crain as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson....
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Miss Em
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1949
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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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Grandmother
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1949
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That Midnight Kiss served to introduce the film-going public to MGM's newest singing sensation, Mario Lanza. Just as he did...
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Abigail Budell
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1949
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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While...
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Miss Spinney
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1948
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All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring...
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Grandma
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1948
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Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her...
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Sophie Horfield
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1947
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A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in...
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Lady Sterling
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1947
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In this melodrama, a brilliant pianist is struck blind in an accident and stops working on his equally brilliant concerto. A...
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Aunt Willey
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1947
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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Mrs. Morley
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1947
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The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the "old dark house, lady in distress"...
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Mrs. Warren
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1946
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Cary Grant delivered Oscar-calibre performances all his life, but only when he played against type in None But the Lonely...
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Ma Mott
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1944
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1943
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1933
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It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous...
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Empress Alexandra (The Czarina)
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1932
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Adapted from a series of short stories by Edna Ferber, Our Mrs. McChesney was transformed into a stage vehicle for...
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1918
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The Whirlpool was based on the novel of the same name by Victoria Morton. Alice Brady stars as Belle Cavello, the mercenary...
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1918
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Nan Baldwin (Ethel Barrymore) winds up as a dance hall singer in a Western town after the death of her father, who was...
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1917
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One would liked to have been a fly on the wall of the set of Life's Whirlpool. Its leading lady was the imperious...
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1917
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1917
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Actor/director Frank Reicher, most familiar to modern movie fans as "Captain Englehorn" in King Kong (1933), wielded the...
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1917
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This picture, based on the novel by Margaret Deland, featured a narrative device considered novel at the time -- the...
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1916
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1914
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