My Friend Irma was supposed to be a straightforward adaptation of the popular radio sitcom of the same name. The film's focus...
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1949
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William Powell stars in Take One False Step as a happily married college professor who foolishly agrees to a reunion supper...
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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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1948
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A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director...
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1948
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An unusually elaborate film from the bargain-basement PRC studios, Her Sister's Secret is set in New Orleans at Mardi Gras...
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Pepe
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1946
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Produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the 18-minute Don't Be a Sucker was designed as a cautionary fable for returning...
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1946
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This A-minus musical stars Evelyn Keyes in the uncharacteristically comic role of Vicki Dean, the divorce-bound wife of...
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1946
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As its fortunes grew in the mid-1940s, Republic Pictures occasionally strayed from its usual manifest of westerns and...
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Frederick Hassman
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1946
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A moody but extremely talented clarinet playing band-leader is contracted to write a symphonic, bluesy soundtrack for an...
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Hugo
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1946
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In their third film together, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn created one of the box-office sensations of 1945, a...
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1945
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In this a briefcase containing four wills is found next to the unconscious body of a man. He lies beside a plane crash. Each...
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1945
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Fred Zinnemann directed this World War II drama, considered one of the best anti-Nazi dramas produced by Hollywood during the...
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1944
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MGM's notion of a "B" picture would be an "A" production at any other studio, and Blonde Fever is no exception. Philip Dorn...
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Johnny
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1944
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Those willing to accept Carmen Miranda as a "typical" 1920s type will be able to swallow the rest of the lavish but rather...
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Hofer
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1944
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Hoping to achieve a brilliant career as a violinist, Julia Seabrook (Ann Sothern) divorces her husband Jeff (Melvyn Douglas),...
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Mr. Anton Ottaway
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1943
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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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1943
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One can only imagine the reaction of arch-conservative MGM head Louis B. Mayer when Song of Russia first tumbled over the...
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Petrov
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1943
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An innocent man is put on trial, but is he really as innocent as he claims? Diplomat David Talbot (William Powell) and his...
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Dr. Andre Tessier
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1942
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When the US marines land in Iceland during WW2, camp lothario John Payne wastes no time scoping out the local female...
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Papa
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1942
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Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of...
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Greenberg
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1942
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Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills....
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Dr. Ladislaus Milic
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1941
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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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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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Having tried to wrest Shirley Temple away from 20th Century-Fox for nearly seven years, MGM was finally able to put the...
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Mr. Schoner
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1941
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Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences...
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Dr. Max Breslar
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1941
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Humphrey Bogart is a gangster again, this time as counterpoint to the comic elements of It All Came True. On the lam from the...
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1940
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Based on a novel by Ethel Vance, Escape stars Robert Taylor as a young American, the son of a widowed European woman (Alla...
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Fritz Keller
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a...
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Max
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1940
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The Shop Around the Corner is adapted from the Hungarian play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred...
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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1940
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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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Vanya
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1940
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This musical presents a romantic and sanitized biography of distinguished American songwriter Stephen Foster. The story...
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Henry Kleber
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1939
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Veteran German director William Thiele managed to add a continental flavor to the MGM assembly-line romance Bridal Suite....
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1939
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"Garbo Laughs!" declared the ads for Ninotchka. In the face of dwindling foreign revenues, MGM decided to put Greta Garbo, a...
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Buljanoff
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1939
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1939
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1935
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Johannes George Holzapfel
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1933
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1933
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The "terror of the garrison" referred to in the title is diffident Army private Felix Bressart, who simply can't follow the...
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1932
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The "office manager" of the title is Joachim Reinsnagel, played by Felix Bressart. Employed by lawyer Fritz Barke (Herman...
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Joachim Reisnagel
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1932
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Felix Bressart, later one of the most delightful members of the Ernst Lubitsch "stock company," plays the title character in...
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Hirsekorn
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1931
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Jean
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1931
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Richard
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1931
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The German film industry seemed to have cornered the market in early-talkie military comedies, if Trara um Liebe (Trumpet...
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1931
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Hasel
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1931
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Boecklein
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1931
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1930
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If a poll had ever been conducted amongst fans of international musical-comedy star Lillian Harvey, the actress's most...
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1930
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1930
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1928
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