Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Billy Wilder. Included are excerpts from the...
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1986
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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1984
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Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the...
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1978
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In this made-for-television drama, a retired businessman's obsession with the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle increase...
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1975
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Ned Chadwick
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1974
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Finding that he hasn't much time left to live, a man makes needed changes in his life with the help of an angel in this...
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1973
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Adapted from the book and play of the same name, The Happiest Millionaire is the (mostly) true story of eccentric...
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Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
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1967
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Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old...
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Lemuel Siddons
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1966
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Behind every great woman, there's a man who isn't so sure he's happy to be there -- or at least that's the state of affairs...
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Thad McCloud
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1964
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Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the...
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Prof. Ned Brainard
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1963
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An Indiana family embarks on their dream vacation to France. The Willard family, led by Harry (Fred MacMurray) and Katie...
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Harry Willard
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1962
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One of Disney's most entertaining forays into live-action, this hit family comedy stars Fred MacMurray as a college professor...
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Prof. Ned Brainard
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1961
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Widely regarded as a comedy in 1960, The Apartment seems more melancholy with each passing year. Jack Lemmon plays C.C....
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J.D. Sheldrake
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1960
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Steve Douglas
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1960
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As the Oregon Territory prepares to welcome settlers in 1846, wagons traveling the Oregon trail face increasing hostility...
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Neal Harris
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1959
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This is a routine Disney comedy-fantasy about a boy who turns into a large sheep dog at the most inopportune moments. That is...
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Wilson Daniels
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1959
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Even with the guiding hand of talented action director Paul Wendkos, and good performances by the cast, this routine western...
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Jim Larson/Ray Kincaid
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1959
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Fred MacMurray is the beleagured hero of the Universal western Day of the Badman. MacMurray plays circuit judge Jim Scott,...
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Judge Jim Scott
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1958
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The Springdale, NE, bank is held up and robbed by a well organized gang. One of the members is Eddie Campbell (Robert Vaughn...
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Ben Cutler
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1958
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Fred MacMurray plays the head of an outlaw band trying to escape across the Mexican border. The gang is able to elude the law...
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Gentry/John Coventry
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1957
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Having inherited a huge cattle ranch from his late father, Will Keough (Fred MacMurray) wants nothing more than to tend to...
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Will Keough
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1957
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There's Always Tomorrow is a remake of a 1934 film of the same name. Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife...
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Clifford Groves
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1956
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Adaptation of "Call Northside 777" features a reporter who locates new evidence to an 11-year-old murder case. ~ Rovi...
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1955
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Jack Wright
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1955
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The Untamed West is the reissue title of the Pine-Thomas production The Far Horizons. This romanticized retelling of the...
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Meriwether Lewis
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1955
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Tom Ransome
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1955
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Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly-minted ensign assigned to the destroyer/minesweeper...
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Lt. Tom Keefer
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1954
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Two bank robbers get away with 250,000 dollars in unmarked, unrecorded bills, murdering a guard in the process. The police...
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Paul Sheridan
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1954
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In this subtle 1954 comedy with feminist overtones, Clifton Webb plays Gifford, an executive with a large automobile...
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Sid
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1954
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Disreputable wanderer Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) has been thrown in a frontier town calaboose, accused of being a...
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Wes Anderson
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1953
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Republic Pictures' notion of an "epic", Fair Wind to Java manages to pack in enough entertainment value to send the adventure...
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Capt. Boll
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1953
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This compilation tape contains episodes from four 1950s TV drama and comedy series, including The Jack Benny Show with guest...
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1952
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Callaway Went Thataway is an amiable spoof of early television's "Hopalong Cassidy" craze. Fred MacMurray and...
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Mike Frye
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1951
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In this old-fashioned screwball comedy, Christy Sloane (Eleanor Parker) is a secretary with a large legal firm who is sent to...
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood
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1951
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This crime melodrama with humorous undertones involves the investigation of dope smugglers on the Mexican border. Americans...
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Johnny Macklin
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1950
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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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Chris
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1950
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First came 20th Century-Fox's Mother Was a Freshman; then, a few months later, the same studio's Father Was a Fullback....
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George Cooper
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1949
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An Innocent Affair was the original release title for the tame marital comedy Don't Trust Your Husband. Making her first film...
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Vincent Doane
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1948
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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Bill Dunnigan
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1948
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In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the...
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Grant Jordan
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1948
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Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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Al
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1948
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A post-WWII romantic comedy that explores the effects of the war on American marriage, this film stars Fred MacMurray and...
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Peter Morely
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1947
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Returning to Singapore after a five-year absence, WWII veteran Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) mournfully recalls his romance...
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Matt Gordon
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1947
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Bob MacDonald
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1947
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Clint Barkley
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1946
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Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air...
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Edward Rickenbacker
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1945
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Though it comes on much too strong at times, Murder, He Says fully justifies its present "cult" status. Professional pollster...
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Pete Marshall
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1945
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Producer, Eddie York
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1945
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In this engagingly silly musical fantasy from the waning days of WW2, Fred MacMurray stars as Bill, who wants to serve his...
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Bill
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1945
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Lt. (S.G.) Daniel Bellamy
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1944
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Walter Neff
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1944
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And The Angels Sing is an odd smorgasbord of musical-comedy and romance -- part screwball comedy, part backstage musical,...
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Happy Morgan
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1944
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The overcrowding in WWII-era Washington, D.C., provided the concept for this comedy, as well as another film from the...
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Lee Stevens
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1944
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1943
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Mitchell Leisen utilizes his stylistic pizzazz to enliven this romantic comedy that proves the old adage "opposites attract"...
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Jim Ryan
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1943
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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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Richard Myles
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1943
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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Randy Britton
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1943
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Take a Letter, Darling is from the "boss lady" school of 1940s comedies. Fred MacMurray is Darling (that's his last name), an...
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Tom Verney
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1942
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Dr. Corey McBain
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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Don Stuart
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1942
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Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake (Fred MacMurray), Lt. Tim Griffin (Regis Toomey), and Lt. Swede Larson (Louis Jean Heydt) are...
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Cmdr. Joe Blake
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1941
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Fred MacMurray is a breezy New York street photographer; Mary Martin is a small town girl hoping to make her fortune in the...
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Victor Ballard
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1941
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One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in...
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Dwight Houston
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1941
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If Selznick could make a Gone With the Wind, reasoned Paramount Pictures in 1941, anyone can. Paramount's own spin on Scarlet...
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Stonewall Elliott
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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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Bill Cardew
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1940
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Charles Browne
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1940
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Gil Farra
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1940
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John Sargent
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1940
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Chick O'Bannon
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1939
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Albert 'King' Cole
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1939
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Bill Burnett
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1939
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Chronic gambler Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) is a source of great consternation for his loving mother (Elizabeth Patterson), who...
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David Beebe
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1938
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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Pat Falconer
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1938
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The legendary Cocoanut Grove nightclub is the setting for this all-star Paramount musical. Fred MacMurray heads the cast as...
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Johnny Prentice
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1938
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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Roger Coverman
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1937
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Ralph Houston
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1937
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Skid Johnson
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1937
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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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Kenneth Bartlett
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1937
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Another of Paramount's efforts to transform Metropolitan Opera diva Gladys Swarthout into a popular movie star, Champagne...
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Buzzy Bellew
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1937
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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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King Mantell
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1936
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers (who never met a publicity gimmick they didn't like), this...
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Jim Hawkins
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1936
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Cyrus Anderson
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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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Jack Hale
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1936
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Making a transcontinental plane flight in only thirteen hours was quite an achievement when this film was made in 1936 -- but...
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Jack Gordon
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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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Theodore Drew III
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1935
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Ross Martin
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1935
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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Richard Hood/Dick Grant
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1935
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Like the contemporaneous Columbia feature Party Wire, RKO Radio's Grand Old Girl paints a surprisingly bleak and cynical...
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Sandy
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1935
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Arthur Russell
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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Peter Dawes
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1935
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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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1934
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In this British comedy, a mild mannered editorial writer for a right-wing newspaper becomes fed up with the constant...
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1934
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In this romantic adventure, a feisty young woman (Velez) toys with the affections of a railroad worker (Withers) and a...
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1930
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In this drama, a young woman gets angry when her boyfriend's father, a motorcycle cop, stops her for speeding, refuses her...
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1929
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