This concert and interview documentary features the racy wit of Canada and the U.S.'s most popular female comedians,...
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1991
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This collection of bloopers and outtakes is largely from Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Included are such sights...
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1986
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Originally aired on Shelley Duvall's family-oriented HBO television series, this lively retelling of the classic tale...
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1984
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Part of the Broadway Theater Archives, this stage production of Lewis Carroll's children's fantasy Alice in Wonderland was...
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1983
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Given the runaway success of Grease, which became the biggest-grossing movie musical of all time, it was all but inevitable...
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1982
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1982
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In this comedy, a hotel becomes a chaotic place during the 1938 filming of The Wizard of Oz, when it is inundated with groups...
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Duchess
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1981
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TV sitcom icon Eve Arden appears as a pscyhologist who runs a TV talk show for teenagers. Everyone at the diner is delighted...
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1980
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Old-time Hollywood director Vincent Sherman brings a glossy studio-bound look to The Dream Merchants, a two-part, four-hour...
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1980
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"Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California,...
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Principal McGee
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1978
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The made-for-TV Guide for the Married Woman was conceived by screenwriter Frank Tarloff as an "answer" to his frolicsome 1968...
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1978
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Kurt Russell returns as Dexter Riley, the dedicated student of Medfield College who just can't stay out of trouble, in this...
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Harriet
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1975
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A daughter is the recipient of a wonderful wedding quickly organized by her mother in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
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1973
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Robert Young stars as Judge Charles Raleigh in the made-for-television All My Darling Daughters. The Judge happens to have...
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1972
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Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by Stuart Palmer, was the central character in a series of RKO "B" films...
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Hildegarde Withers
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1972
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This by-the-numbers TV movie features an all-star cast in a comedy of marital mix-ups and misunderstandings. Consultants...
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1969
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Eve Hubbard
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1968
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Eve Hubbard
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1967
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First telecast January 13, 1966, "And Then There Were Three" is the historic Bewitched episode wherein Samantha and Darrin...
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Nurse Kelton
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1966
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The Beauty Jungle can hardly be considered an expose of the beauty-contest business, since most of what happens in the film...
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1966
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In this comedy, a hapless Army sergeant's plans to marry are temporarily delayed after he accidentally ends up launched into...
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1965
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Robert Preston plays the flip side of his eternally ebullient Professor Harold Hill in Dark at the Top of the Stairs....
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Lottie Lacey
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1960
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Maida
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1959
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Our Miss Brooks had been a radio and TV sitcom hit thanks to the considerable input of star Eve Arden. The film version of...
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Miss Constance Brooks
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1956
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In this comedy, a housewife schemes to make her dreams of feeling the soft touch of mink on her hardworking shoulders a...
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Gladys Jones
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1953
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Connie Brooks
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1952
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Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star...
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1952
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Based on a play by Fay Kanin, this comedy drama follows a successful congresswoman's emotional journey back to her alma...
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Woody
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1951
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That Letter to Three Husbands was an uninspired gender-switch reworking of 1949's Letter to Three Wives was less obvious when...
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1950
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Inspired by the 1949 hit A Letter to Three Wives, this takes the other side of the coin with a deceased playboy leaving...
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Lucille McCabe
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1950
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Tea for Two is a Technicolor adaptation of the 1924 Broadway musical No No Nanette, previously filmed under its own title in...
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Pauline Hastings
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1950
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Tommy Thompson
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1950
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Curtain Call at Cactus Creek is a combination of the western, comedy and musical genres. Donald O'Connor plays Edward...
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Lily Martin
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1950
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Vivian Martin
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1949
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Though she may have won an Oscar in 1948, Jane Wyman still had a Warner Bros. contract to fulfill, even if it meant appearing...
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Susan Wayne
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1949
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The spirit of love is back, and she's working in retail in this bubbly romantic musical comedy. Eddie Hatch (Robert Walker)...
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Molly Grant
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1948
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In this drama, a California artist becomes a New York prizefighter after he falls in love with a married singer. Her husband...
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Chris
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1948
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On the whole, the films of producer-writer-director Arch Oboler seldom came up to the lofty standards of his radio work, but...
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Vivian Delwyn
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1947
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John Van Druten's Broadway hit The Voice of the Turtle was purchased by Warner Bros. as a vehicle for...well, in all...
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Olive Lashbrooke
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1947
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Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes...
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Mme. de Talavera
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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Paula
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1947
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Ann Westley
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1946
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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Ginna Abbott
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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Gabrielle
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1946
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Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies....
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Tex Donnelly
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1945
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Jean Mathews
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1945
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A journalist for a popular travel magazine goes looking for interesting stories in Latin America and finds love instead in...
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Hoppy
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1945
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Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M....
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Ida
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1945
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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1944
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Cornelia (Stonewall) Jackson
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1944
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Let's Face It is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the old Norma Mitchell/...
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Maggie Watson
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1943
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Change of Heart is the reissue title of the Republic musical Hit Parade of 1943. The studio had been turning out these annual...
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Belinda Wright
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1943
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Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg...
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Barbara Stevens
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1941
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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1941
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Alice Hinsdale
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1941
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In this romantic comedy, a blue-blooded girl falls in love with a wealthy rake who wants to settle down and marry her....
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Sally Long
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1941
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With Paramount abandoning its "Zane Grey" western series in 1941, 20th Century-Fox took up the cudgel with such films as The...
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Kate
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1941
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San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong...
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Gabby Trent
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1941
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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Space O'Shea
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1941
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Despite its alluring title, Bedtime Story is an innocent little domestic comedy about a bickering married couple....
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Virginia Cole
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1941
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Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in...
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1941
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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Ernst Lubitsch's That Uncertain Feeling was previously filmed by the director in 1925 as Kiss Me Again; both versions were...
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1941
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The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly...
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1940
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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1940
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No, No, Nanette was the second film version of the popular Otto Harbach-Vincent Youmans Broadway musical. Though slightly...
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1940
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A half-hearted derivation of Ninotchka, Comrade X stars Clark Gable as an American news reporter stationed in Russia. Gable...
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Jane Wilson
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1940
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Sigrid Gurie, the Swede from Brooklyn who in 1938 was touted as Sam Goldwyn's answer to Garbo, was taking whatever work she...
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Carrie Ashburn
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1939
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It was once said of actor Barton MacLane that he never spoke when shouting would do. Cast as the title character in Big Town...
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Susan Warren
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1939
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Kay Francis was anxious to complete her Warner Bros. contract when she agreed to appear in this lower-berth drama. Francis...
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1939
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A distinct letdown from their previous MGM films, the Marx Bros.' At the Circus nonetheless contains intermittent moments of...
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1939
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1939
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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1938
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1938
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The legendary Cocoanut Grove nightclub is the setting for this all-star Paramount musical. Fred MacMurray heads the cast as...
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1938
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In this black comedy, a twitchy hypochondriac ends up conned into giving up his $500,000 inheritance in exchange for $50,000...
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Shirley Truman
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1937
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1937
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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1933
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Although forgotten today, Broadway chanteuse Belle Baker was important enough for Columbia Pictures to herald her much...
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1929
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