With great reluctance, Ricky (Desi Arnaz) allows Lucy (Lucille Ball) to purchase a new gown at the trendy establishment owned...
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Herself
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1955
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Gypsy Colt was based on a story by Eric Knight, better known for his enduring dog saga Lassie Come Home. This time, a...
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Em MacWade
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1954
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Robert Jordan is a television star. Robert Jordan likes things orderly, on time and properly executed. In his world children...
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Helen Jordan
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1953
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1953
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Fans of Loretta Young were rather taken aback by the early scenes of Because of You, wherein Young is seen as brash,...
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Susan Arnold
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1952
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Just before filming All About Eve, Bette Davis starred in the marital melodrama Payment on Demand. Davis plays Joyce Ramsey,...
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School teacher
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1951
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Columbia and Universal were the leading purveyors of well-crafted "little" pictures in the 1950s. It was Universal who put...
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Mrs. Linaker
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1951
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When the family land is threatened with foreclosure, honest, hard-working rancher Ross McEwen (Joel McCrea) resorts to bank...
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Fay Hollister
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1948
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Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with...
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Marie de Varenne
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1947
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Lynn Andrews
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1945
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An Iowa drugstore owner (Don Ameche) becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that...
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Agnes Marsh
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1943
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RKO producer Val Lewton seemed to thrive upon taking the most lurid film titles and coming up with pocket-edition works of...
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Betsy Connell
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1943
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This lighthearted romantic comedy stars William Holden as working stiff Michael Stewart and Frances Dee as wealthy socialite...
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Candace Goodwin
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1942
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The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War...
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Marie Steiner
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1941
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Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion...
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Sabra Cameron
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1941
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In this action film two Coast Guard pilots fall in love with the same woman. She chooses the more macho of the two, but soon...
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Nancy Bliss
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1939
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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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Katherine de Vaucelles
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1938
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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Margaret Tarryton
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1937
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Justine
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1937
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In this murder comedy, a young woman is no sooner acquitted of poisoning her father when she finds herself suspected of...
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Allison Lang
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1936
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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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Mirabel
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1935
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Now famous as the first feature film produced in the three-strip Technicolor process, Becky Sharp is also an enjoyable effort...
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Amelia Sedley
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1935
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The touching bond between a cavalry horse and the doughboy whose life he saves provides the basis for this syrupy war drama....
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Marjorie Deane
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1934
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Sally Athelny
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1934
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In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young...
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Joy Stanhope
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1934
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George Cukor directed this classic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental novel with a shimmering lavishness that is a...
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Meg March
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1933
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The scandalous doings behind the high-toned exterior of a private school for rich young women provides the framework for...
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Virginia Radcliff
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1933
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In this campy adventure, a man raised in the mysterious African jungles by a pride of lions is captured by circus people and...
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Anne Rogers
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1933
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This unique thriller chronicles the exploits of a doctor who will do almost anything to please his young, second wife. She...
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Doris Brandt
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays one of those selfless general practitioners that seem to exist exclusively in the movies in One Man's...
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Joan Stockton
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1933
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Roland Brown's Blood Money (1933) has lost none of its ability to entertain and startle over the seven decades since its...
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Elaine Talbert
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1933
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Headline Shooter is a brisk comedy/melodrama about a newsreel photographer (William Gargan). He prefers to risk his neck to...
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Jane Mallory
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1933
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Sidney Howard's once-controversial play about the smothering aspects of Mother Love, The Silver Cord was filmed in 1933 with...
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Hester Phelps
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1933
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Based on a play by Arthur M. Brilant, The Case of Clara Deane stars Wynne Gibson, repeating her original Broadway role....
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Nancy
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1932
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A multi-character drama set in a suburban neighborhood, The Night of June 13th takes place in four households. One of these...
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Ginger Blake
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1932
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A 1930 stage play by William A. Grew was the source for the 1932 Universal film Nice Women. Sidney Fox stars as Bess Girard,...
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Jerry Girard
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1932
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1932
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1932
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An early comedy about the generation gap, this 1932 movie was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who went on to write and...
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Lois Ingals
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1932
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James Cagney was originally pegged to play brash Broadway columnist Jimmy Russell in this pleasant if somewhat lightweight...
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Mary Wodehouse
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1932
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Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions....
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Sondra Finchley
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1931
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Charles Dickens' novel Dombey and Son is set in 1931 America in this interesting drama that centers on an egotistical,...
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Ann Trumbull
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1931
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In the wake of such cinematic Calamity Janes as Jean Arthur and Doris Day, it comes as a shock to find a film in which the...
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1931
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Before he settled down to a long career as a jovial character actor, Lloyd Corrigan functioned as screenwriter and director...
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Elinor Farrington
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1931
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Working Girls is a slight, dated, but still entertaining comedy, typical of its era. Louise Adams (Frances Dee) and her...
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1931
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A well-meaning but dimwitted electrical worker-turned-lyricist Frederick Martin Stevens (Jack Oakie) arrives in New York...
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Edna Baker
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1931
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1930
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In this sparkling musical comedy, a bungling waiter (Maurice Chevalier) loses his job at a tony restaurant. His employment...
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Yvonne Phillibert
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1930
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Clara Bow's flat Brooklynese voice seems perfectly suited for the rowdy goings-on in True to the Navy. The "It" girl plays...
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1930
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This musical, based on a Broadway show, was filmed in two-color technicolor. Set upon a golf course, it chronicles the...
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1930
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In this college campus musical comedy from director James Tinling, the first film in which John Wayne received billing...
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1929
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