Herman Bahr's German play The Yellow Nightingale from 1907 became Paramount's 1938 entry in the then-popular operetta cycle....
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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Before he became the high priest of realism, producer/director Andrew L. Stone was fascinated with classical music (he'd...
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1938
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In this musical comedy of errors, David Brassard, Sr. (William Collier, Sr.) has his heart stolen from him by a conniving,...
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1938
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1937
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Cafe Metropole stars Tyrone Power as an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe...
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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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1937
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Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the...
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1937
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Veteran movie leading man Bert Lytell warmed the director's chair for Along Came Love. Irene Hervey plays a shopgirl, while...
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1937
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1936
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1936
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Social butterfly Rena Allen (Doris Nolan) is bored unto tears by her stuffy fiance Throckton Van Cortland...
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1936
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This light-hearted musical romance follows the exploits of Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star who stows...
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1936
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As the Panama Canal is under construction, a group of doctors try to find a cure for yellow fever, or "Yellow Jack," a deadly...
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Dr. Fontaine
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1936
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Anxious to graduate from 2-reel comedies to feature films, producer Hal Roach began phasing out his short-subject manifest in...
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1935
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If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with...
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1935
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Venerable character actor Ferdinand Gottschalk dominates the proceedings in the Universal crime meller Secret of the Chateau....
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Chief Inspector Marotte
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1935
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1935
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In this mystery, an international news correspondent is fatally shot with three bullets. Now three men stand accused of the...
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Prof. Varney
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1935
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Katharine Hepburn suffers nobly while her philandering conductor husband Charles Boyer dallies with the likes of Helene...
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1935
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Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the...
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1935
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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's...
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1935
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American opera baritone George Houston, who later gained a measure of fame as a western hero, made his film debut in The...
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1935
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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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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1935
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1935
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Another of Thorne Smith's slyly naughty fantasy novels, Night Life of the Gods was transferred to the screen with reasonable...
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1935
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The old British musical-hall ditty "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" provides the title for this lightweight...
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1935
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The Istanbul Express provides the setting for this crime drama that centers around a courier carrying the priceless Karenina...
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1935
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Francis Lederer stars as the prince of a mythical European kingdom. To mingle with the "common folk" while on a visit to New...
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1935
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Poverty Row studio Monogram took a stab at musical production with King Kelly of the U.S.A., a cinematic blunder starring...
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1934
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Universal's Bombay Mail adheres to the pattern established by Paramount's Shanghai Express, with a group of Calcutta-bound...
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1934
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Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler....
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1934
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1934
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"I Sell Anything" is the boast of penny-ante auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler (Pat O'Brien), and he more than makes good his boast...
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1934
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John Barrymore is the Long Lost Father in this lightweight seriocomedy. Barrymore is felicitously cast as Carl Bellairs, who...
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1934
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In this courtroom thriller, a hypnotic psychic uses his gift for dubious ends by running a gambling den. The trouble begins...
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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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1934
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No boring historical pageant this, Warner Bros.' Madame DuBarry is a fast-paced, often hilarious romantic romp. Her Mexican...
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1934
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Glamorous American jewel-thief Sophie Lang (Gertrude Michael) not only regularly outwits Scotland Yard, but has great fun...
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1934
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In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
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1934
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A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip...
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1934
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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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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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1933
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The missing girl in this weak whodunit from Warner Bros. is redheaded Peggy Shannon, once seen as the successor of "It Girl"...
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1933
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1933
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In this comedy, two rubes from Montana find a fortune after they discover radium on their ranch. The nouveau riche ranchers...
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1933
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In this romantic drama, a woman inadvertently assists a con artist in his scheme to rob a store manager and ends up in...
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Taylor
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1933
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1933
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Paul Lukas plays a nightclub headwaiter who rises to fame as a bridge expert. He marries hat check girl Loretta Young,...
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1933
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In this racy (for 1933) satire set in 800 BC, an overbearing band of Amazon women rule their men with an iron fist. They live...
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1933
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Sol Glass (Ferdinand Gottschalk) is a man with a problem -- in the depths of the Great Depression, his garment business can't...
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1933
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Adapted from John Balderston's successful stage fantasy (itself based on a story by Henry James), Berkeley Square is the...
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1933
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In this romantic sex-comedy from director Robert Florey, Bette Davis stars as Helen Bauer, a free-spirited, self-sufficient...
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1933
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Everybody in The Midnight Club is seeing double, and it's all the handiwork of slick London criminal mastermind Colin Grant...
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1933
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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed,...
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1933
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The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was...
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1933
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1932
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This war drama, set in a snow covered Tyrolean pass during WW I, chronicles a strange situation between an Austrian...
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1932
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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1932
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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1932
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Rudig
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1931
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As a play, Zaza had been around for some 30 years and had already been filmed once before when Allan Dwan updated it and made...
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Duke de Brissac
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1923
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