This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to...
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1948
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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If Republic's skating star Vera Hruba Ralston could go "dramatic", so too could Monogram's skating star Belita. Produced by...
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Harry
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1946
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Director Joseph Kane adapted his own story Diamond Carlisle for the screenplay of In Old Sacramento--the third film version...
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Jim Wales
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1946
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A snooty blue-blooded English family learns a bitter lesson about the realities of lower class living in this British comedy....
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Mr. Pidgeon
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1945
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In this crime drama, a naive, honest young woman falls for a louse who takes her to illicit gambling houses. When one of...
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1945
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In this wartime comedy, a spoiled socialite attempts to endure army life after marrying a lieutenant. The constant traveling...
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H.B. Preston
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1944
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Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and...
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Senator Bigbee
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1944
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Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was...
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Jenkins
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1944
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Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively...
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Barney Briggs
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1944
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In this musical romance, an ice skater comes to America to represent her country at a Lake Placid carnival. Unfortunately,...
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Carl Cermak
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1944
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Originally titled simply Sensations, this musical comedy was the final starring film for dancer Eleanor Powell and the final...
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Gus Crane
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1944
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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Tom Waggoner
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1943
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On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many...
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1943
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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Gregory Warner
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1943
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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1943
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Sgt. Andy Mason Jr. (James Ellison) is on the eve of shipping out from New York with his unit -- he's the son of Andrew Mason...
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Mr. Mason, Sr.
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1943
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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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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In this Victorian-era adventure, a blue-blooded girl is dismayed to discover that her recently deceased father, a compulsive...
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Steve Adams
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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Mr. Billingsley
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1942
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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Nicely Nicely Johnson
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1942
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In this screen version of the James Thurber-Elliot Nugent Broadway play of the same name, Henry Fonda stars as bespectacled,...
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Ed Keller
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1942
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In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?"...
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Bunker
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic, The Earth in Flames. It is slated to...
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Gregory Martin
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1941
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Corn Cob Kelly (Marvin Stephens) is a young jockey whose ambition is dwarfed only by his ego. All set to ride in his first...
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Duke Martin
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1941
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Mr. Pike
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1941
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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Elmer the Butler
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1941
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Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film. Walter Brennan plays Tom Keefer, a man who is...
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1941
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Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but...
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Lucius K. Winfield
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1941
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What's a modern guy to do when his wife's ideas about marriage are a bit too modern for his taste? Andre Casall...
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George Hastings
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1941
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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1940
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The mystery surrounding the gender of infant film star Baby Sandy was finally solved in her penultimate vehicle, Sandy is a...
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P.J. Barnett
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1940
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This account of Thomas Alva Edison's boyhood depict him as a brilliant but rambunctious teenager (Mickey Rooney), often...
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Mr. Nelson
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1940
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In this drama, set in Paris, a devout communist is slowly seduced into becoming a capitalist by a persuasively pretty young...
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Maurice Duval
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1940
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In It's a Date, the teenage diva Deanna Durbin is cast as Pamela Drake, the daughter of celebrated stage actress Georgia...
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Governor
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1940
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This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing...
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Fray Felipe
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1940
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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Chick McGann
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1939
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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1939
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Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized...
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James Clinton
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1939
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1938
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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1938
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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John R. Frost
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1937
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In this comical murder mystery, three playwrights use $500 in advance money to get an apartment in which to write a mystery....
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Babe
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1937
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In this drama, a milque-toast socialite is drowning in San Francisco Bay. Fortunately, he is saved by a kindly Italian...
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1937
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A naive gas station attendant's life takes a turn for the better when he is adopted by an eccentric, boozy travelling...
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Raymond Q. Nash
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1937
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Mr. Wheeler
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1937
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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1937
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Alexander Bullock
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1936
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1936
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Stranded in Shanghai, orphaned Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the ward of Chinese missionaries, is rescued from harm by...
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The Colonel
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1936
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Dishonor Bright draws upon the talents of two master farceurs from Britain's Aldwych Theatre, Tom Walls (star-director) and...
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Busby
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1936
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In this comedy, an sheltered heiress bets her father that she can make it in New York city on only $150 per week. She does...
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Campbell Duncan
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1936
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In this comedy, Uncle Rodney, the host of a kiddie show, finds himself assuming guardianship of a bratty lad at the behest...
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Doc Kraft
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1936
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Bette Davis plays a facial cream heiress in this middling comedy, which Warner Bros. filmed partially in Florida. Mistaking...
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Mr. Meyers
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1936
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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Sheriff Rufe Jeffers
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1935
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, Baby Face Harrington features actor Charles Butterworth as Willie, a meek clerk who unintentionally...
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Uncle Henry
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1935
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Binnie Barnes stars as Rina Sorel, a glamorous kleptomaniac who steals for the thrill of it. Specializing in uncut diamonds,...
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Kleinsilber
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1935
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Wealthy American Joe Martin (Eugene Pallette) purchases an ancient Scottish castle and then has it dismantled and transferred...
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Joe Martin
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1935
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The Black Sheep is professional gambler John Dugan (Edmund Lowe), who gets his kicks out of fleecing wealthy suckers during a...
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Col. Upton C. Belcher
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1935
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Paramount Pictures decided in 1935 to create a new romantic team, thus cast singing stars Carl Brisson and Mary Ellis in the...
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Con Conley
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1935
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Paul Muni stars in this drama about a romantic triangle that leads to madness and murder. Overly enthusiastic Mexican...
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Charlie Roark
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1935
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Warren William delivers a curiously subdued performance as dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Dragon Murder Case. The plot...
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Sgt. Ernest Heath
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1934
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Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance...
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1934
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Completed just before the Production Code went into effect, I've Got Your Number is delightfully racy, risque entertainment....
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Flood
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1934
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Six writers were involved in the RKO Radio musical comedy Strictly Dynamite; ironically, the plot concerns a radio comedian...
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1934
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In this British comedy, a mild mannered editorial writer for a right-wing newspaper becomes fed up with the constant...
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Wynn Rixey
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1934
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In this off-beat crime drama, a philandering husband murders his wife in the midst of a department store by skewering her...
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1934
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1933
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In the tradition of Bureau of Missing Persons, Warner Bros's From Headquarters offers a methodical, semi-documentary look at...
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Sgt. Boggs
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1933
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A conflict between the Serbs and the Hungarians provides the framework of this drama that centers on a love triangle between...
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Janos
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1933
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In this military adventure, a Navy lieutenant is stripped of his rank and booted out after he fires at communist ships in...
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Lobo Lonergan
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1933
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Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
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Sgt. Ernest Heath
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1933
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Heroine Mona (Sally Eilers) is "made" in more ways than one in this free-wheeling spoof of the press-agent business. A...
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Terwilliger
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1933
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Hell Below transcends its hackneyed World War I plot to emerge as a drama of rare originality and gutsiness. Walter Huston...
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MacDougal
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1933
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Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama weepie, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil...
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Horner
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1932
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Achilles
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1932
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This drama, made while New York mayor Jimmy Walker was still being reviled by newspapers for similar actions, follows a...
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1932
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William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old...
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1932
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Also known as The Hidden Corpse, Strangers of the Evening is an effective blend of horror and humor. There's dirty work at...
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Detective Brubacher
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1932
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In this drama, a bandleader thinks that his young friend will be corrupted by his budding relationship with a taxi dancer....
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Gus
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1932
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1932
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Bret Harte's story Salomy Jane's Kiss provided the basis for a play (by Paul Armstrong and a number of films, including...
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1932
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Sam Salt
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1932
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Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious...
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1931
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1931
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Stub Wallack
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1931
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1931
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Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls". They work the convention...
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Benjamin Thomas
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1931
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Two of Paramount's best contract comedians made a rare joint appearance in Dude Ranch. Jack Oakie heads the cast as Jennifer...
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Judd
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1931
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A remake of a 1919 silent film based on the stage farce by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, the light romantic comedy...
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Cyrus Martin
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1931
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When Lt. Bob Denton (John Wayne) tells his girlfriend Evelyn (Laura La Plante) that he has no intention of marrying her, she...
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1931
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1930
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Bunco Davis
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1930
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This musical, based on a Broadway show, was filmed in two-color technicolor. Set upon a golf course, it chronicles the...
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J.C. Effingham
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1930
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1930
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Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin (Evelyn Brent) hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French...
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1930
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Here we go again. Sailor "Searchlight" Hogan (Jack Oakie) has a yen for every pretty girl who crosses his path. Imagine his...
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Hyacinth Nitouche
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1930
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Paramount star Richard Arlen heads a strong cast in this early talkie western about a sheepherder falsely accused of killing...
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1930
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The search for sunken treasure provides the basis for this adventure that begins when a treasure hunter's dive is sabotaged....
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"Square Deal" McCarthy
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1930
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William Powell was still in his tux-and-top-hat period when he starred in Pointed Heels. The scene is Broadway, where...
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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Sergeant Ernest Heath
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1930
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In this sparkling musical comedy, a bungling waiter (Maurice Chevalier) loses his job at a tony restaurant. His employment...
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Pierre Bourdin
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1930
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The early Paramount talkie The Dummy represented a collaboration of sorts between screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who...
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1929
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This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it...
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1929
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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"Honey" Wiggin
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1929
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In this early "talkie," William Powell stars as sophisticated detective Philo Vance, who is brought in to investigate the...
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Sgt. Heath
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1929
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Look up "suave and sophisticated" in the dictionary, and one might very well find a picture of Adolphe Menjou. In His Private...
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Yvette Bergere
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1929
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The newly constructed Paramount sound stages were used as a backdrop for the Pirandellian thriller The Studio Murder Mystery....
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1929
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Director Ernst Lubitsch's first talking picture, The Love Parade was a witty souffle about a royal "marriage of state."...
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Minister of War
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1929
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In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly...
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1929
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Gaston Glass stars in this fast-moving melodrama as dashing Parisian pickpocket Bibi-Ri. Filching one purse too many, our...
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1928
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Contrary to popular belief, no one speaks into microphones hidden in vases in this, the first 100% "all-talking" feature...
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1928
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Originally released on April 7, 1928, "Barnum & Ringling, Inc." was the first "Our Gang" silent comedy to be released with a...
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1928
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At 9 reels, The Good-Bye Kiss was comedy producer Mack Sennett's most ambitious feature to date. Eschewing the usual Sennett...
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1928
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1928
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Laurel is Canvasback Clump, an underfed and thoroughly clueless prize-fighter, and Hardy his rather overly optimistic...
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1927
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Laurel and Hardy are stripe-suited convicts in a cramped penitentiary cell. Seemingly model prisoners, they actually spend...
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1927
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Although they had appeared together in several films before this two-reeler was made, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were still...
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1927
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Based on a real-life incident, Maurine Watkins' semi-satirical novel and play Chicago was first brought to the screen in...
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Casley
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1927
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Clara Bow plays an inveterate flirt who impulsively marries much-older mountain man Ernest Torrence. When city lawyer...
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E. Wesson Woodbury
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1926
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Based on a 1921 story by Jackson Gregory, this silent Western starred Buck Jones as Montgomery Wilson Fitzsmith, a roaming...
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1926
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Yellowstone National Park was the setting for this delightful Tom Mix western that also featured a two-color Technicolor...
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1926
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This drama was filmed on location in Alaska, including the largest fox farm in the Northwest (fur was very much in demand in...
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1926
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Gaunt, aristocratic-looking character-actor H.B. Warner was slightly miscast as author Frank Hamilton Spearman's popular...
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1926
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Stalwart movie hero Kenneth Harlan has the situation well in hand during most of The Fighting Edge. Disguised as half-breed,...
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1926
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1926
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This melodrama of the English upper class was independently made. Sir Melmoth Craven (Rockliffe Fellows) is running against...
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1925
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Based on a 1910 novel by Hamlin Garland, Cavanagh, Forest Ranger; a Romance of the Mountain West, this silent Western from...
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1925
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Veteran Western director William K. Howard does a solid job with this routine Zane Grey story. Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and...
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1925
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A trained seal stole the limelight in this silent farce produced by Thomas H. Ince. Sydney Chaplin, brother of Charlie,...
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1924
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Richard Armstrong (Reed Howe) has invented a carburetor that will enable his car to win a road race. Until that happens,...
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1924
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This is melodrama, not a horror film, and it's booze, not a full moon, that changes John Gilbert's character from man to...
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1924
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1924
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1924
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Even though this Western used the convenient "dream" premise, it still managed to please audiences. Cowboy Tod Musgrave...
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1923
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Cowboy star Tom Mix takes a break from the far West to play a rancher headed for the far North in this action-adventure....
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1923
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Leading lady Lois Wilson considered this fine western her favorite of six films she starred in opposite virile leading man...
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1923
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1923
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The plot here, based on the novel, Judith of Blue Lake Ranch, by Jackson Gregory is typical Western fare -- an Easterner...
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1922
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This contrived and complicated tale of crooked politics would have been a poor vehicle for William Farnum if not for his...
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1922
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This drama, based on the play by Eugene Walter, begins in a rather novel way -- the two leads are shown watching a play, Paid...
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Bob Reynolds
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1921
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Aramis
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1921
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1920
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For their screen debut, stage stars Mr. and Mrs. Carter DeHaven played Signor Monti and Blanche Hawkins in the bedroom farce...
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1920
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1920
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1919
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Blanny Wheeler (May Allison) has a husband, Jack (Pell Trenton), who frequently neglects her to go play cards, while Laura...
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1919
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Expert farceur Emmy Wehlen plays the title character in The Amateur Adventuress. A plain girl of modest means, Wehlen decides...
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1919
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Viola Dana stars in this Metro five-reeler. While Captain Jabez Scudd (Russell Simpson) is away on a ship, his sweetheart,...
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1918
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1918
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1918
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Although Henry Walthall's career went downhill after he stopped working with D.W. Griffith, occasionally he would appear in a...
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1918
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Jimmie Farrell (J. Warren Kerrigan) is a newly-rich Oklahoma oilman. He plays cards with gambler "Ace High" Burdette and...
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1918
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Japanese film star Sessue Hayakawa carries the dramatic weight of this "Never the Twain Shall Meet" melodrama. Rhandah...
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1917
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1917
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This drama starring Wallace Reid offers a lot of action and little else. Bob Fulton (Reid) is the superintendent of a mine in...
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1917
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Actor George Beban took his lighthearted Italian characters in and out of many different situations; here he brings Guido...
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1917
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Inasmuch as J. Warren Kerrigan was (in the eyes of his female fans at least) the embodiment of virility, the actor was...
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1917
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Dorothy Gish stars as Gretchen, the daughter of Dutch immigrant Ralph Lewis. Doing her best to adjust to her strange new...
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Rogers
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1916
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1916
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Veteran Biograph leading man/director Wilfred Lucas essays the title role in Hell-to-Pay Austin. A rough-and-tumble...
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1916
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Arthur Vincent
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1916
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After they become parents, crooks Grace and John Remington (Norma Talmadge and Ralph Lewis) go straight, and John becomes a...
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1916
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The late film historian William K. Everson has cited the 1916 De Wolf Hopper vehicle Sunshine Dad as one of the earliest...
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1916
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1915
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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1915
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San Francisco's Chinatown is the scene for this two-reel melodrama of crime and miscegenation. The cruel saloonkeeper Pat...
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Hop Woo
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1915
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1915
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Manfredi
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1915
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Symbolic special effects highlight this early one-reel morality tale directed by Tod Browning. Writer John Penhallow (Eugene...
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John Penhallow
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1915
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1914
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1914
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1913
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1913
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