Magician-turned-actor John Calvert, previously the suave leading man of Film Classics' "Falcon" series, is a curious choice...
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1952
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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Fire Chief Duggan
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1950
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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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1949
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In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King...
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Jim Kurstyn
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1949
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Both Van Johnson and Gregory Peck were considered for the role of baseball star Monty Stratton in the 1949 biopic The...
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Barney Wile
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1949
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The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
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1948
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Uncle Sid
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1948
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The 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least,...
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1947
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When an actor attempts to produce an elaborate movie, disaster ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Himself
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1946
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Frank Morgan plays a turn-of-the-century shipbuilder who dies of a sudden heart attack. Morgan is summoned to Heaven by the...
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Sam Griggs
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1946
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Barbara Hale landed her first A-picture starring role in the engaging romantic comedy Lady Luck. Hale is cast as Mary Audrey,...
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William Audrey
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1946
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This is the one where Lassie plays a war veteran with amnesia. Actually Lassie isn't even Lassie, but a male collie named...
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Harry McBain
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1946
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Yolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at...
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Victor Budlow Trout
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1945
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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Hiram Porter Dunn
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1944
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When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes...
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Mr. Ferris
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1944
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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Willie Grogan
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1943
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John Josephus Grant
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1943
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The once-notorious theatrical chestnut White Cargo was toned down for public consumption in this 1942 MGM-ized adaptation...
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Doctor
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1942
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Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted...
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"The Pirate"
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1942
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The Vanishing Virginian was adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Rebecca Yancey Williams. Newcomer...
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Robert Yancey
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1941
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With a little extra effort, Washington Melodrama might have passed muster as an A picture. Frank Morgan stars as millionaire...
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Calvin Claymore
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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Judge Cotton
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1941
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In this comedy drama, a medicine show con-man pretends to be a wealthy man to impress his long-lost daughter who is slated...
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J. Daniel Thompson
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1941
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In addition to his supporting-player duties at MGM, Frank Morgan could always be counted upon to star in the studio's...
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Harry C. Thomas
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1941
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Frank Morgan and Billie Burke, who'd previously costarred in MGM's Wizard of Oz, head the cast of the minor but entertaining...
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Vern Adams
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1940
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The Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a...
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Professor Victor Roth
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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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Hugo Matuschek
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1940
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It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that the MGM programmer Hullabaloo bears no relation to the 1960s rock-and-roll series...
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Frank Merriweather
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1940
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Clark Gable is "Big John" and Spencer Tracy is "Square John"; both "Johns" seek their fortunes in the Texas oil fields. They...
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Luther Aldrich
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1940
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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Bob Casey
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1940
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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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The Wizard of Oz
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1939
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Cornelius Collier, Jr.
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1939
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In this romantic musical, a Russian prince sees a lovely singer in a town cafe and falls head-over-heels. Realizing that he...
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Ivan Danchenoff
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1939
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Frank Morgan stars as vaudevillian Henry Conroy, who puts show business behind him when he inherits a dilapidated Arizona...
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Henry Conroy
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1939
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King Frederic Romanikoff
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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Felix Lehman
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1938
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James Whale directed this screen adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's French classic Fanny. Madelon (Maureen O'Hara) is a lovely...
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Panisse
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1938
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Not a remake of the 1932 James Cagney vehicle of the same name, The Crowd Roars is set in the sweat-stained world of...
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Brian McCoy
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1938
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Rudolph Tobler / Edward Schultze
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn's association with RKO Radio Pictures came to an abrupt end when she refused to star in the studio's...
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1938
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Lord Francis Kelton
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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Jesse Kiffmeyer
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1937
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Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As...
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Col. Baron Suroff
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1937
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In this entertaining comedy, an American expatriate lives in Paris and fancies himself a clever con artist. Getting cocky,...
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Ingraham Steward
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1937
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This lavish Shirley Temple starrer is set in New York, sometime in the 1850s. While lovable pickpocket "Professor" Eustace...
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Prof. Eustace Appleby
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1936
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Dancing Pirate was the second feature-length production by Pioneer Pictures, whose earlier effort Becky Sharp was the first...
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Alcalde
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1936
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Though its title and cast suggests a lighthearted romantic comedy, Trouble for Two is actually a fairly faithful adaptation...
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Col. Geraldine
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1936
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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Billings
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1936
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Mr. Crocker
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1936
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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Bentley
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1935
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Set in the Washington of World War I, Escapade stars William Powell as a newspaper editor eager to sign up for an overseas...
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Karl
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1935
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Celebrated British musical comedy star Cicely Courtneige was given a chance at American movie stardom in Perfect Gentleman....
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Maj. Chatteris
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1935
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Enchanted April was adapted for the screen from the novel by "Elisabeth" and play by Kane Campbell. Neglected by her novelist...
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Mellersh Wilkins
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1935
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Margaret Sullavan graduates from a girl's orphanage to an usherette's job at a Budapest movie theatre. Bibulous millionaire...
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Konrad
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1935
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This follow-up to RKO Radio's near-perfect adaptation of Little Women was produced by small but enterprising Mascot Pictures...
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1935
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Governor Gaspard d'Annard
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1935
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Adapted from a play by Ernest Denny, this was one of director Michael Powell's "quota quickies" that lived up to the name,...
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1935
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An amoral capitalist is the protagonist of this drama written by one of Hollywood's famous "Ten" (the first people in the...
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Raymond Merritt
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1934
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The Sisters Under the Skin in this Columbia "continental" romantic seriocomedy are middle-aged Elinor Yates (Doris Lloyd) and...
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John Hunter Yates
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1934
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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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Alessandro, Duke of Florence
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1934
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Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is...
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1934
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In this melodrama, a devoted father begins feeling unappreciated at home and so embarks upon a clandestine friendship with a...
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Joseph White
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1934
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Daudet
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1934
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This is the second movie version of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning novel that tells the story of a bride-to-be whose...
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Daniel Forrester
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1934
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Rogers Woodruff
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1933
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William Hartman
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1933
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Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and...
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Mayor Hastings
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1933
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Broadway to Hollywood is a through-the-years saga about a show business family. Frank Morgan and Alice Brady play vaudeville...
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Ted Hackett
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1933
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Horror film icon James Whale directed this well-detailed thriller about a man questioning his wife's honesty after a friend...
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Dr. Paul Held
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1933
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Anton
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1933
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This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean...
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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Pop Burns
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1933
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J. Phineas Stevens (Lee Tracy) is a personal injury lawyer whose practice has become a nightmare to any number of defendants,...
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Dr. Prescott
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1933
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Merle Farrell
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1932
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Joe Smith and Charlie Dale, the Jewish-dialect comedy team famous for their "Dr. Kronkheit" sketch, provide comic relief in...
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1932
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In this comedy, a convict uses his skills as a masseur and a fight manager to get out of prison and become the private gym...
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Masterson
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1932
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A Parisian flower girl is trotted out as the missing Grand Duchess Anastasia in this fast-moving thriller based on a popular...
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Francois St. Cyr
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1932
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Bronson Lenox
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1930
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In this musical comedy, two partners in the garter business fight for control and decide to play a round of poker to settle...
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1930
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Laughter is a sophisticated romantic comedy belying the "fact" that most early talkies were stiff and dull. Nancy Carroll...
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C. Morton Gibson
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1930
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Having long enjoyed a near-legendary status because of its general unavailability, Dangerous Nan McGrew inevitably...
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Muldoon
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1930
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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Love's Greatest Mistake was based on the serialized Liberty Magazine story of the same name. It all begins when Honey McNeill...
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William Ogden
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1927
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When Billy Laidlaw (Kenneth Harlan) sees Peggy Laurence (Bebe Daniels) and her partner, Matt Wilde (T. Roy Barnes),...
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Bert Caswell
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1925
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The Scarlet Sinner was based on The Mand Who Played Fidele by Gerald Beaumont. Heroine Fidele Tridon (Mary Astor) has grown...
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Baron Kurt Badeau
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1925
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Tom Macaulay (Thomas Meighan) and his brother Edwin (Russell Griffin) both hold positions at the bank belonging to their...
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Lon Morris
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1925
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A young socialite will do almost anything to get her errand husband back in this society comedy starring the on (and off)...
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1924
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Although an executive at Paramount came up with the racy title for this comedy-drama, the plot came from a Saturday Evening...
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Arno Riccardi
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1924
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1918
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Inspired by the recent Russian Revolution, At the Mercy of Men casts Alice Brady as Vera Souroff, a Petrograd music teacher....
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1918
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S. Rankin Drew, son of noted stage star Sidney Drew, directed this feature and co-starred in it, along with lovely...
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1917
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In her sixth consecutive starring vehicle, 17-year-old ingenue June Caprice essayed her standard characterization, that of an...
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1917
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Margaret Mayo's stage hit Baby Mine was a very slight piece, but evidently held out infinite fascinations for filmmakers: no...
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1917
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Author E.W. Hornung's charismatic rogue was tailor-made for John Barrymore. As Raffles, he wins the heart of Mrs. Vidal...
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1917
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Joyce (June Caprice) and Polly (Betty Prendergast) are sisters; their mother's task is to get Polly, the elder girl, married...
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1917
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When a group of reformers, led by Mrs. Bowers (Gladys Fairbanks), closes down the red light district, district attorney...
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1917
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The trade magazine Variety hailed Vitagraph's The Daring of Diana as a "return" to old-fashioned melodrama -- as if this...
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1916
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1916
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