Nina Hoss stars in this adaptation of a novel by Klaus Mann as Marion von Kammer, a singer who leaves Germany for Zurich as...
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1999
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Samuel and Bella Spewack's English adaptation of French playwright Albert Husson's morbidly humorous stage piece...
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1955
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Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a...
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1954
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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After several years of domestic squabbles, the marriage of Nina and Robert Tracy (Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon) goes "phffft"!...
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1954
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Ted Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, wrote and helped design this eccentric fantasy about a young boy named Bart...
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1953
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1952
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1952
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This period melodrama stars Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a woman who inherits a substantial fortune from her...
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1951
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1951
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In this 1951 comedy Irene Dunne stars as Kay, a Manhattan-based songwriter who marries widowed rodeo cowboy Chris...
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1950
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One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of...
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1950
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Garson Kanin's Broadway hit was transferred to the screen with only a few passing nods to the stricter censorship required by...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Joseph Cotten stars in Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale, a fugitive criminal who decides to hide out in a small Midwestern...
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1950
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1949
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The Dangerous Profession of the title is the bail-bond business. George Raft stars as Kane, a former cop turned professional...
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1949
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It doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figure out that Smith Ohrig, the character played by Robert Ryan in Caught, is a...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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Set in the early 1900s, Adventure in Baltimore is a romantic comedy about the woman's suffrage movement. Shirley Temple plays...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, but one set...
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1948
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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In this comedy, two stepsisters fight for the love of the same man. One of the sisters is good-looking and vivacious. She is...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1948
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On a trip from France to Allied-occupied Berlin, a group of travelers -- a mysterious and very secretive European woman...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1948
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The 1931 George Arliss vehicle The Millionaire was updated and retailored in 1947 as That Way With Women. Sidney Greenstreet...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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Under the aegis of veteran program-feature producer Bryan Foy, the fledgling Eagle-Lion company made great strides during its...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of Burbank, star in the Warner Bros. musical The Time, the Place...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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Romantic comedy was never Errol Flynn's forte, but he occasionally gave it the old college try in such films as...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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Charmless films like The Bride Wore Boots helped to kill the postwar revival of the "screwball comedy" genre almost before it...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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If the Perfect Marriage in this romantic comedy were truly perfect, there wouldn't be any story, would there? Outwardly an...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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The novel The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill had been filmed in 1928 as The Perfect Crime and again in 1934 as The Crime...
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1946
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1946
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1946
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1945
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Yes, even Ida Lupino occasionally starred in screwball comedies during the 1930s and 1940s. Pillow to Post casts Lupino as...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1945
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Filmed some 18 months before its release, Conflict is one of two melodramas in which Humphrey Bogart self-consciously...
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1945
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit continued humming profitably along with 1943's Tornado. Chester Morris (who eventually appeared...
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Songwriter
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1943
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1943
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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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1943
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Wings for the Eagle is an overbaked but sincere tribute to the wartime defense workers at the Lockheed Aircraft Plant, where...
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1942
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Footsteps in the Dark is a comedy/mystery, starring Errol Flynn as a wealthy investment counselor who secretly doubles as a...
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1941
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A daffy romantic comedy released in Great Britain under the title Good Morning Doctor, this film reunites the two stars of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Robert Montgomery plays saxophone-playing boxer Joe Pendleton, who insists upon piloting his own plane, much to the...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1941
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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1941
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The South Seas romance is set on the scenic island of Tahiti where the island chief betroths his son to a woman and then...
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Songwriter
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1941
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The W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty was successful Americanized as Too Many Husbands (British title: My Two...
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1940
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1940
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Victory was the first of Joseph Conrad's novels to be adapted to film, way back in 1919. The earliest talkie version,...
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1940
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1940
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The moral of Preston Sturges' first directorial effort The Great McGinty seems to be: If you're a crook, stay a crook,...
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1940
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1940
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This studio-bound jungle yarn is uplifted by the spirited performances of its stars. After the death of her aviator lover,...
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1940
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten...
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Songwriter
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1940
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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Songwriter
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1940
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The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1939
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Idealism vs. Practicality is the Disputed Passage in this lavishly mounted soap opera. Based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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Songwriter
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1939
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1939
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Jack Benny goes to London in this frothy musical. He plays a Broadway producer and while in London begins pining for the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo...
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1939
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1938
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1938
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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Songwriter
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1938
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1937
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Edward Arnold once again plays a self-made businessman who inadvertently engineers his own downfall in John Meade's Woman....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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1937
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1937
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1936
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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Songwriter
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1936
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In this frothy romantic adventure, Marlene Dietrich plays Madeleine de Beaupre, a devious jewel thief. After sneaking a...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1936
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After nearly a decade of nominal "leading lady" roles, Carole Lombard landed her first genuine starring vehicle with Hands...
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Songwriter
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1935
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In this musical the Empress' hairdresser finds herself mistaken for the Empress by a deranged aristocrat. Mayhem and music...
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1933
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Songwriter
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1933
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In this British romance, a German duke falls passionately in love with the owner of a beautiful singing voice, even though...
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Composer (Music Score), Director
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1933
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Also known as Tempest and Storm of Passion, Stuerme der Leidenschaft was the first of Robert Siodmak's two directorial...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1932
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The title translates as Schoeller Boarding House, which is where 95% of the film's action takes place. The hero, Phillip...
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1932
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1932
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The "great yearning" of the title refers to the desire of heroine Camilla Horn to become a famous movie star. Fortunately,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1931
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Released in America as The Song of Life, this German film stirred up quite a tempest back in 1931 for its depiction of a...
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Songwriter
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1931
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Robert Siodmak's second solo directorial effort was the breathless comedy-melodrama Der Mann, Der Seinen Moerder Sucht...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1931
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Das Gelbe Haus des King Fu was adapted from the stage melodrama The Yellow House of Rio. The film is an extended exercise in...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1931
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Einbrecher (Burglars) is a vehicle for Lillian Harvey and Willy Fritsch, designed as a follow-up to their copacetic pairing...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1931
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Marlene Dietrich became an immediate international star on the strength of her performance as the temptress Lola Frohlich in...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1930
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Flagrant Delit (Caught Red Handed) is the French-language version of a popular early-talkie German musical. Blanche Montel...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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The career of German actress Camilla Horn is profiled in this film as Horn depicts herself along the road to stardom. ~ Rovi...
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Songwriter
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1930
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This mediocre drama laid on the pathos in an attempt to draw in the sentimental audiences of the early '20s. Amos Tilden...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1922
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