Another delightful entry in the Bell Science Series, The Unchained Goddess represents a felicitious collaboration between...
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1958
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Edward Chodorov's stage farce Oh, Men! Oh, Women! is somewhat unnecessarily overburdened by star names in this 1957 film...
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Steamship Clerk
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1957
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Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of...
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1957
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Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied...
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1949
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1949
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This cute film is Doris Day's film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her...
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1948
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In this musical comedy, Louise Ginglebusher (Deanna Durbin) is a girl from a small town who comes top New York City with...
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1947
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The Italian-American Her Wonderful Lie is based on the novel Latin Quarter by Murger. This literary work is better known as...
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1947
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In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving...
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1947
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Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite...
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Formfit Franklin
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1947
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If Paramount could rake in the bucks by teaming singer Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope in a series of Road pictures, then...
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1946
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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1946
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Hollywood and Vine is set in a drugstore located at the intersection of the title. James Ellison plays a successful...
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Reggie
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1945
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Bearing little relation to the hit Broadway play on which it was based, See My Lawyer was the last and least of Olsen and...
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1945
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In this musical, a humble cigarette girl dreams of auditioning for the handsome bandleader at the nightclub. Her many...
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Horace Lovelace
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1945
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"You can live a long time in three days -- sometimes when you're in a tight spot, you can live a year in ten seconds." US...
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1945
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Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at...
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1945
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Reckless Age is a by-the-numbers Universal musical, elevated by the presence of perky songstress Gloria Jean. The star plays...
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Mr. Thurtle
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1944
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A druggist's pretty assistance ignores the call of the bright lights and audience that runs in the veins of her show biz...
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1944
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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Dr. Heywood
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1944
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It took nerve for writer/director Preston Sturges to lampoon the whole concept of hero worship in the middle of World War...
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1944
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In their last starring film, The Ritz Brothers play the Three Funny Bunnies, a trio of nightclub comedians. The plot...
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1943
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1943
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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1943
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Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she...
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Ives
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1943
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A man trying to leave his fame behind discovers the perils of choosing to be the wrong unknown person in this farcical...
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1943
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat...
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Mr. Pinkney
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1943
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Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce,...
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Cathcart
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1943
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Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the...
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Vernon Lewis
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1943
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A college student's passion for swinging music leads him to found his own band. When he starts spending more time playing...
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1942
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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1942
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1942
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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1942
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There's plenty cookin' in this brisk, breezy Andrews Sisters vehicle. The plot, such as it is, concerns the efforts by a...
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1942
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The Carter Case was the second and last Republic film based on the popular radio series Mister District Attorney. Like the...
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Charley Towne
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1942
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1942
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Though musical-comedy favorite Jane Frazee was well established at Universal in mid-1942, every so often she'd head to...
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1942
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Universal's "Baby Sandy" series officially ended with Sandy Gets Her Man, but the infant star still had one picture left on...
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Williams
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1941
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Producer, Esoteric Studios
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1941
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Previously brought to the screen as a Marion Davies vehicle in 1927, Russ Westover's long-running comic strip Tillie the...
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1941
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Mr. Casalais
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1941
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Boasting a script cowritten by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell from a story by Budd Schulberg, Weekend for Three should have...
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1941
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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Pet Shop Owner
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1941
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1941
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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1941
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In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and...
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Digby
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1941
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Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using...
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1940
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1940
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In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio...
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1940
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One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
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1940
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Communism-the American variety-is given a hilarious going-over in 20th Century-Fox's Public Deb No. 1. Spoiled society girl...
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1940
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In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a...
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1940
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W.C. Fields plays Egbert Souse, a bibulous denizen of Lompoc who supports his family by winning radio contests. When a...
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J. Pinkerton Snoopington
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1940
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1939
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A wealthy older man and a poor young woman each get a chance to see how the other half lives in this comedy. Alfred Borden...
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1939
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Except for a few clips from 1937's Topper, Cary Grant is absent from the proceedings of the 1939 sequel Topper Takes a Trip,...
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1938
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James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were "an item" when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one...
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1938
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Whenever things got slow at 20th Century-Fox, the studio revved up its old reliable "three girls looking for millionaires"...
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1938
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1938
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and...
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1938
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1938
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The plot of She Married an Artist is summed up by the title, as was often the case in such 1930s romantic comedies. European...
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1938
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1938
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"Discovered" for American films by Cecil B. DeMille, popular Hungarian actress Franceska Gaal made the last of her three...
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1938
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A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars:...
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1938
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Obviously filmed several years before its 1938 release, Meet the Mayor serves as a vehicle for popular Broadway comedian...
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1938
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1938
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Just Around the Corner is the film in which little Shirley Temple ends the Depression all by herself! The story starts...
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1938
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Bing Crosby plays the melodic medico of the title. To help cover for his ailing policeman pal (Andy Devine), Crosby takes the...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, a girl with a lively imagination gets in hot water when she tries to make her tall tales real. Gloria...
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1938
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There was some novelty value in the fact that an actor whose initials were E.Q. was cast as intellectual sleuth Ellery Queen...
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Mellish
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1937
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The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press...
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1937
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The Dangerous Number of the title is madcap showgirl Elinor (Ann Sothern). Notorious throughout Manhattan for her zany...
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1937
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Hoping to ape the success of Sol Lesser's Bobby Breen musicals, Republic Pictures fashioned Dangerous Holiday as a movie...
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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1937
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1937
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Filmed on a budget of about 78 cents, High Hat was a foredoomed attempt to turn radio singer Frank Luther into a movie star....
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Mr. Breton
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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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Mr. Forsythe
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1937
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1937
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An airy screwball comedy, Danger--Love at Work explores the lives of a wealthy but wacky family. Ann Sothern plays the...
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1937
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1937
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In this romantic comedy, a married couple, tired of constantly bickering, separate. The woman heads to France where she...
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1937
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In this romance, a secretary is awarded a legacy. Later she meets a male secretary who begins protecting her from an...
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1937
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1937
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Previously teamed in six early-1930s films, James Dunn and Sally Eilers bring the total up to seven with their last...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately,...
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1937
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A remake of Rafter Romance (1933), which starred Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster, Living On Love treats the story of two...
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1937
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Department store owner Elliot Dinwiddy (Charlie Ruggles) never makes a decision without first consulting his astrologer Dr....
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1937
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Love on Toast was one of several mid-1930s Hollywood films helmed by E. A. DuPont, a once-celebrated German filmmaker then on...
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1937
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"Camp Romance," a place for the romantically challenged, provides the setting of this musical. The story centers on a frumpy...
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1937
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A naive gas station attendant's life takes a turn for the better when he is adopted by an eccentric, boozy travelling...
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1937
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1937
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In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no...
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1937
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1937
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Tala Birell, one of the more talented of the Garbo wannabes of the 1930s, stars in the Universal quickie She's Dangerous. The...
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1937
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The "they" who want to marry in this RKO Radio programmer are news photographer Jim Tyler (Gordon Jones) and cute society deb...
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1937
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In this comedy, an sheltered heiress bets her father that she can make it in New York city on only $150 per week. She does...
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1936
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1936
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In this melodrama a chorine endeavors to become a star, but it isn't easy. Her wealthy boyfriend wants to marry her until...
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1936
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Doughnuts and Society is the first of several attempts by Republic Pictures to create a new screen team comparable to MGM's...
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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1936
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Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in...
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1936
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Charismatic Polish opera singer Jan Kiepura made his Hollywood debut in Give Us This Night. His thick Slavic accent...
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1936
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In this drama, an honest gambler tries to go straight. Although the gambling house he runs is illegal, the man insists that...
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1936
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Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy star as a husband and wife who've been married ten years...but they might not make it to eleven....
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1936
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1935
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This typically lightning-paced Mascot Studios production stars Heather Angel as the title character, a thrill-seeking...
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1935
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1935
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Steamship captain Steve Andrews (Ralph Bellamy) is demoted to second officer when Marge Walker (Ann Sothern), daughter of...
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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1935
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Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Robert Pryor can't spend $720,000 in twelve...
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1935
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Based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich, Manhattan Love Song charts the misadventures of the madcap Stewart sisters, Jerry...
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Garrett Weatherby
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1934
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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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Brockton
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1934
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1934
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Department-store owner Horatio Allen's (George Barbier) biggest mistake is to name his scatterbrained daughter Gracie...
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1934
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Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS...
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1934
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1934
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Frank Craven, the actor-playwright best known for his performance as The Stage Manager in the original Broadway production of...
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1934
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Paramount Pictures' annual college musical of 1934 is a pip, as they used to say. Jack Oakie plays Finnegan, a conceited...
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1934
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1934
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Six writers were involved in the RKO Radio musical comedy Strictly Dynamite; ironically, the plot concerns a radio comedian...
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1934
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1933
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Emerson Treacy stars in this Mack Sennett-produced comedy short as Clarence, a hapless would-be lover (a "quivering mass of...
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1933
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In this crime comedy, a stenographer is kidnapped after she witnesses a mob hit. The hostage soon finds herself the object...
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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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1933
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1933
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Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen....
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Mr. Douglas
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1933
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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1933
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It is time for Spanky McFarland and his family to have a group portrait taken, and prissy photographer Otto Phocus is the man...
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1933
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This is a musical comedy which starred Bing Crosby and included the song "Auf Wiedesehn". ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1933
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In this sassy dramatic comedy, two reform-school girls finally graduate and as soon as they get out decide to board a New...
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1933
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Hollywood responded to the exigencies of the Depression with such glorious nonsense as International House. The plot is...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1933
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An earthy, fun-loving radio pitchwoman finds it difficult to live up to her squeaky-clean public persona as the "Purity Girl...
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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1932
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Stepping Sisters was a variation on Fox Studio's favorite plots, "three girls on the make," the difference being that the...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Upon her release from prison, Joyce Greeley (Edwina Booth) is promptly and mysteriously murdered. Fledgling crime reporter...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Helen Twelvetrees became a major star in this laundered version of the "naughty" Broadway play Frankie and Johnny. A singer...
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1930
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1930
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Laurel and Hardy weren't the only comics to employ the "tit for tat" idea of reciprocal destruction in their comedies. Here,...
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1930
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Leach
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1930
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A pre-Dagwood Arthur Lake plays a hapless hayseed who becomes a popular crooner in this fluffy musical comedy that begins...
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1930
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In this melodrama, a husband gets on with his life after his wife goes to Europe to get a divorce. Thinking the deed done,...
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1930
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The Sap is Edward Everett Horton, a small-towner with big plans, but lacking the wherewithal to put them in motion. Even...
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1929
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1929
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1929
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First filmed 1917, the Elmer Rice play On Trial was remade as a talkie eleven years later. The original stage version was...
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1928
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1928
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Produced by Cecil B. DeMille, Friend from India was directed by, of all people, prissy character actor Franklin Pangborn, who...
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1928
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As a follow-up to the successful marital farce Up in Mabel's Room, PDC Productions came out with a film version of the...
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1927
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Previously filmed in 1914, the popular turn-of-the-century stage farce Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary was remade in 1927. This...
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1927
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Girl in the Pullman is a standard door-slamming farce in the fine tradition of Up in Mabel's Room and...
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1927
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Hardly an important film, Finger Prints pleased the crowd with its heady combination of slapstick comedy and old-dark-house...
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1927
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This offbeat comedy-drama concerns Tommy Valentine, a young man whose path crosses with that of Barbara, the niece of local...
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1927
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Howard Drake
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Exit Smiling is perhaps the only film that ever fully utilized the comic genius of the incomparable Beatrice Lillie. The star...
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1926
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