Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is...
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2004
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1998
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Edna Curtis
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1980
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In her third and final Perry Mason appearance, Fay Wray is incongruously cast as voodoo dancer Mignon Germaine, the mother of...
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1965
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In her second Perry Mason appearance, onetime King Kong leading lady Fay Wrayis cast as fading movie star Lorna Thomas. Years...
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1959
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1959
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Teenager Rick Martin (Gary Clarke) promises his loving mom (Fay Wray) that he won't get into any fights any more-certainly no...
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Mrs. Martin
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1958
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Philip Larkin (Terry Becker) is murdered, and his stepfather Joseph Harrison (John Hoyt) is charged with the crime. A key...
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1958
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Summer Love is a sequel to 1957's Rock Pretty Baby, with John Saxon repeating his role as aspiring musician Jim Daley. When...
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Beth Daley
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1958
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Roald Dahl's classic short story A Dip in the Pool has been dramatized numerous times on both radio and TV, though never more...
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1958
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Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is a cynical newspaper columnist in San Francisco, handling women's advice -- by chance one...
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Alice Pope
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1957
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Debbie Reynolds stars as Tammy in this romantic comedy of a country girl living in the South who cares for pilot Peter Brent...
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Mrs. Brent
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1957
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In this upbeat drama, a reformed father returns to the Arkansas farm of his estranged family after having spent too many...
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1956
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A must-see for students of 1950s pop culture, Rock, Pretty Baby was Universal-International's earliest acknowledgement of the...
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Beth Daley
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1956
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Hell on Frisco Bay is a slam-bang return to the sort of gangster fare turned out by the yard at Warner Bros. in the 1930s....
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Kay Stanley
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1955
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Queen Bee offers a stinging portrait of a mad, manipulative woman and chronicles her downfall and that of those around her in...
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1955
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1955
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1953
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Treasure of the Golden Condor is a Technicolor remake of 1942's Son of Fury; both films were based on the same novel by...
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1953
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In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more...
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Play Author
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1944
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1942
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For some reason or other, Melody for Three seems to be the most frequently revived of RKO Radio's "Dr. Christian." As ever,...
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Mary Stanley
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1941
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Ingrid Bergman stars in Adam Had Four Sons, her second American film appearance. Based on a novel by Charles Bonner, the...
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Molly
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1941
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Seven years after helping to rescue RKO Radio from bankruptcy as the heroine of King Kong, Fay Wray returned to the studio as...
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Ted Dawson
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1940
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In this espionage drama, a G-man keeps an enemy spy from stealing highly classified plans for military equipment. While...
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Eleanor Dunlap
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1939
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A federal agent and a petty Naval officer are both investigating the theft of top-secret defense plans. Since neither one is...
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Carol
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1939
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Universal ran into censorship problems with this farfetched but well-acted courtroom drama directed by silent screen veteran...
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Linda Ware
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1938
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In this romantic mystery, a defense attorney attempts to get his lovely client acquitted of murder charges. As he and the...
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Kay Cabot
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1937
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By 1937, everyone was tired of films about silent stars who couldn't make the transition to talkies (and would be until...
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1937
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In this comedy, a model finds herself inadvertently embroiled in the theft of a society woman's valuable pearl necklace...
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Mary
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1936
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In this adventure, a wealthy socialite falls in love and decides to stow away on her would-be lover's airplane as it takes...
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Joyce Reid
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1936
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After several years in India, Sir Guy De Vere (Jack Buchanan) returns to England where he has inherited his ancestral castle....
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Lady Rowena
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1936
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After her success in Lady for a Day, elderly character actress May Robson was starred in a number of features. She's...
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Jean
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1935
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Claude Rains is a phony psychic who makes a good living fleecing the suckers with his wild prognostications. But after Rains...
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Rene
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1935
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Hilda
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1935
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British musical comedy star Jack Hulbert plays an amateur sleuth who takes over for the "real" Bulldog Drummond...
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Ann Manders
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1935
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Joan Mitchell
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1935
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The Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer's popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life...
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Angela
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1934
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Janet Krueger
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1934
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Sylvia Vernon
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1919 and 1927, Max Marcin's stage success Cheating Cheaters made its talking-picture bow courtesy of...
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Nan Brockton
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1934
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In this bizarre drama, a young wife and mother begins dabbling in voodoo and soon finds herself hopelessly entangled in...
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Gail
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1934
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This drama was adapted from a minor story by Dashiell Hammett and chronicles the attempts of an ex-con to stay on the...
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Louise Lorimer
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1934
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One of several variations of the "Mata Hari" and "Fraulein Doktor" legends, Universal's Madame Spy is set during WW I....
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Maria
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1934
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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Teresa
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1934
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Columbia's Once to Every Woman was the first of A. J. Cronin's medical novels to be adapted for the screen. The drama of the...
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Head Nurse Fanshawe
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1934
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Ralph Bellamy is incongruously cast as a he-man deep sea diver in the Columbia meller Below the Sea. The plot is set in...
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Diane Templeton
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1933
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Perennial sidekick George E. Stone is given the leading role in The Big Brain. Stone plays a small-town barber, short of...
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Cynthia Glennon
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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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Lucy Calhoun
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1933
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In this melodrama a superb female lawyer finds that her success has emasculated her husband, a rather average architect, who...
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Ann Carver
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1933
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One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as Kay Walling, a woman who is...
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Kay Walling
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1933
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In this adventure, a brave hero races across Middle-Eastern desert dunes to win the love his best friend's wife, the manager...
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Vida Corew
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1933
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The Mystery of the Wax Museum begins in London in the 1920s. Lionel Atwill plays Ivan Igor, a brilliant sculptor who manages...
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Charlotte Duncan
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1933
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Gary Cooper is a small town dentist dissatisfied with his lot. Though married to the lovely and affectionate Frances Fuller,...
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Virginia Brush
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1933
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"How would you like to star opposite the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood?" Enticed by these words, brunette leading...
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Ann Darrow
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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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Wildeth Christine
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1933
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The first of many official and unofficial screen versions of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game was put together by...
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Eve Trowbridge
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1932
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1932
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Fay Wray screams when she first lays eyes on Lionel Atwill in Doctor X, but don't let that fool you. Atwill plays Fay's...
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Joanne Xavier
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1932
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Bloodsucking winged creatures who may take human shape appear to have returned after centuries of dormancy to the...
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Ruth Bertin
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1932
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A depressed dance hall girl causes all kinds of problems when she stows away on a freighter and is discovered by the second...
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1932
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The names have all been changed, but this hard-hitting gangster tale is based on an actual newspaper headline story...
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Marcia Collins
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1931
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1931
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In this courtroom drama, a lawyer defends his sister's fiance after he is accused of murder. The lawyer knows his client is...
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Kay Roberts
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1931
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Columbia spent the 1920s and 1930s dusting off its reliable "two guys/one girl" military plotline and dressing it up in a...
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Helen Pierce
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1931
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In this western, three disreputable cowboys begin pursuing a beautiful lady because she possesses a map to a valuable gold...
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Lee Carlton
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1931
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The Conquering Horde is a remake of the 1924 western epic North of 36, using generous amounts of stock footage from the...
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Taisie Lockhart
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1931
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Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is...
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Ynez Dominguez
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1931
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Camille de Jonghe
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1931
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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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Lora Nixon
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1930
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With a title like The Texan and a star like Gary Cooper, one might assume that this 1930 actioner is a western -- and one...
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Consuelo
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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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Daisy
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1930
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Joan Randall
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1930
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In this convoluted drama, the jolly painted face of a circus clown is but a mask for an avaricious, ruthlessly ambitious,...
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Marie Gardoni
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1930
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Mary/ "Ritzy"
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1929
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Street of Sin was the final American film of Scandinavian director Mauritz Stiller, whose inability to adapt to Hollywood...
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Elizabeth
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1928
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Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur...
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Mitzi Schrammell
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1928
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Director William Wellman's follow-up to Wings was based in part on his own WWI experiences with the Lafayette Flying Corps....
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Christine Charteris
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1928
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Anna Lee
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1928
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This was the third screen version of A.E.W. Mason's oft-filmed novel about one soldier's triumph over cowardice and was the...
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Ethne Eustace
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1928
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Directed by Ernst Laemmle, a nephew of the studio's diminutive owner, this typical Universal oater starred Fred Humes and...
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1927
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Universal cowboy ace Art Acord once again rescued a damsel in distress from a runaway carriage in this well made silent...
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1927
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Universal's rough-hewn Art Acord squared off against former real-life bandit Al Jennings in this 5-reel "Blue Streak"...
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1927
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This typical Hoot Gibson Western starred the rumpled cowboy as Jeff Morgan, Jr., the son of a famous outlaw...
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1926
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Lila Rogers
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1926
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In the mid-'20s Hal Roach gave James Finlayson his own starring series of one-reel comedies. They weren't very successful,...
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1925
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Producer Hal Roach often claimed that Your Own Back Yard was his favorite of all the Our Gang silent comedies produced by his...
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1925
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One of Charley Chase's co-stars in this comic short is Oliver Hardy. The two comedians knew each other from other studios,...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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Coast Patrol was a threadbare silent 5-reeler starring Kenneth MacDonald as an officer in the titular patrol. Nothing much...
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Beth Slocum
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1925
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1923
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1919
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