The genesis for Queen for a Day was the Dorothy Parker short story Horsie, all about a homely woman who takes a job as a...
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1951
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Jason (William Holden) is a World War II veteran going to college on the GI Bill in the hope of bettering himself. He has...
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1948
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The romantic hills and valleys of an advertising agency secretary provide the basis of this comedy drama. Unlike her...
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1938
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Despite the presence of Busby Berkeley in the director's chair, Comet Over Broadway contains nary a single musical number....
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1938
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1937
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1936
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Chesterfield Films, one of the busiest (though not necessarily one of the best) poverty-row operations of the 1930s, was...
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1936
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Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith Baldwin novel upon which...
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1936
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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1933
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In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner. The husband feels demeaned by...
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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1932
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Illicit office romances provide the basis of this melodrama. The story centers around an older man's secretary who drops her...
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1930
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