This hour long profile of Gary Cooper, one of Hollywood's most beloved stars was originally aired on A&E's Biography in 1998....
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2000
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This program features a compilation of promotional film shorts produced during the 1930s as part of the Hollywood on Parade...
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2000
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1997
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This collection of bloopers and outtakes is largely from Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Included are such sights...
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1986
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Combining familiar newsreel footage with freshly shot material, David Helpern's Hollywood on Trial is a documentary...
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1976
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1964
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1962
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There is nothing like suspecting your husband of murder to add suspense to a marriage, at least that is the case in this...
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George Radcliffe
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1961
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Gary Cooper narrates this documentary that looks past the heroic stereotypes of the Western frontier to present a realistic...
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1960
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Originally aired as an NBC special on Sunday, January 10, 1960, this program went head-to-head with the hit Ed Sullivan Show...
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1960
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Gary Cooper plays a frontier doctor with a checkered past who works in a rowdy Montana mining camp. Cooper falls in love with...
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Doc Joe Frail
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1959
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Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he...
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1959
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Gary Cooper stars in one of his final roles in They Came To Cordura, Robert Rossen's moody study of the thin dividing line...
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Maj. Thomas Thorn
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1959
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Talented special effects and adventure director Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) keeps the suspense going...
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Gideon Patch
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1959
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Ten North Frederick is a generally satisfying adaptation of one of John O'Hara's weaker novels. Gary Cooper plays wealthy...
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Joe Chapin
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1958
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Anthony Mann's final foray into the western genre is a disturbing examination of man's baser instincts, rising in intensity...
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Link Jones
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1958
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Frank Flannagan
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1957
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Jess Birdwell
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1956
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1955
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In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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Brig.-Gen. William Mitchell
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1955
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Produced by Burt Lancaster's own company, Vera Cruz teams Lancaster with the venerable Gary Cooper. The story, set during the...
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Benjamin Trane
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1954
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Hooker
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1954
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Jeff Dawson
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1953
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Mr. Morgan
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1953
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Maj. Alex Kearney
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1952
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This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon...
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Will Kane
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1952
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As originally syndicated on television in late 1952, Abbott and Costello: The Christmas Show presents approximately one hour...
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1952
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Filmed on location in Florida's Everglades, Distant Drums stars Gary Cooper as Indian fighter Quincy Wyatt. At the height of...
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Capt. Quincy Wyatt
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1951
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Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce, directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine...
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Lt. John Harkness
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1951
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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Texas
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1950
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Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native...
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Brant Royle
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1950
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With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde...
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Blayde "Reb" Hollister
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1950
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1949
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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Howard Roark
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1949
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In pageant-like fashion, Warner Bros.' Task Force traces the history of the American aircraft carrier, as experienced by a...
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Jonathan L. Scott
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1949
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Small-town department store manager Sam Clayton (Gary Cooper) is a born "Good Samaritan", which in his case translates as...
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Sam Clayton
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1948
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Capt. Christopher Holden
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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Prof. Alvah Jasper
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1946
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Col. Clint Maroon
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1945
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Gary Cooper added "producer" alongside "star" on his resume with this light-hearted Western about a mild-mannered cowboy...
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Producer, Melody Jones
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1945
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Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
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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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Casanova Brown
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1944
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Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
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Robert Jordan
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1943
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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Lou Gehrig
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1942
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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Long John Willoughby
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1941
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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Sgt. Alvin C. York
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1941
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Prof. Bertram Potts
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1941
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The town of Vinegaroon, TX, is the home to Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), who calls himself "The Only Law West of the...
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Cole Hardin
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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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Dusty Rivers
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1940
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Set during the turn-of-the-century Moro uprising in the Philippines, The Real Glory stars Gary Cooper as an American Marine...
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Dr. Bill Canavan
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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Michael "Beau" Geste
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Michael Brandon
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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Marco Polo
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1938
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After an eccentric young woman (Merle Oberon) is left on her father's estate to keep her from spoiling his Presidential bid,...
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"Stretch" Willoughby
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1938
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Wild Bill Hickok
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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Michael "Nuggin" Taylor
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1937
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General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) is a politically ambitious Chinese bandit who holds the Northern districts in a grip of terror....
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O'Hara
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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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Longfellow Deeds
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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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Tom Bradley
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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"I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of...
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Peter Ibbetson
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1935
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Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India....
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Capt. McGregor
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1935
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Tony Barrett
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1935
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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Capt. Jack Gailliard
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1934
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Ne'er-do-well Gary Cooper is so desperate for quick cash that he's willing to sell the custody rights of his own daughter...
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Jerry Day
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1934
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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A love triangle forms the basis of this drama set during WWI. The screenplay was written by the story's original author...
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Richard Bogard
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1933
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Gary Cooper is a small town dentist dissatisfied with his lot. Though married to the lovely and affectionate Frances Fuller,...
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Bitt Grimes
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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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George Curtis
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1933
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A mentally unstable naval officer goes mad with jealousy when his wife's recent lover shows up as a lieutenant on the...
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Lieutenant Sempter
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1932
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Lt. Frederick Henry
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1932
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Steven Gallagher
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1932
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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1932
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1931
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Clint Belmet
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1931
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Never one to hide his talent under a bushel basket, director Rouben Mamoulien proudly proclaimed that, while there were ten...
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The Kid
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1931
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In this drama, a remake of Sal of Singapore(1929), the captain of a freighter becomes an instant father when his crew rescues...
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Capt. Sam Whalan
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1931
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Tom McNair
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1931
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Like so many campaigners before him, Gary Cooper joins the Foreign Legion to "forget." At a smoky cabaret in Morocco, Cooper...
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Tom Brown
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1930
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Amidst the furor of the Civil War a courageous Union captain, nursing a broken heart, volunteers for spy duty. Masquerading...
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Capt. James Braydon
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1930
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1930
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Out of sympathy, a grown lad fighting for Canada in World War I agrees to let an older childless woman adopt him, becoming...
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Kenneth Downey
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1930
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This third film version of Rex Beach's rugged Yukon novel The Spoilers was also the first talkie adaptation. This time,...
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Roy Glenister
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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Guest Star
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1930
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With a title like The Texan and a star like Gary Cooper, one might assume that this 1930 actioner is a western -- and one...
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Enrique "Quico," Liano Kid
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1930
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Andre Frey
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1929
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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The Virginian
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1929
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If Hollywood gossip columnists can be believed, Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez were lovers -- and very passionate ones -- when...
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Sam Lash
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1929
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Mulligan Talbot
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1928
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William Tyler
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1928
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1928
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"Doomsday" is the name of a valuable patch of British farm property owned by self-made millionaire Percival Fream...
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Arnold Furze
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1928
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This silent romantic adventure is set in the Sahara desert, and purports to be a sequel to the successful Beau Geste. Like...
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Maj. Henri de Beaujolais
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1928
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George Fitzmaurice directed this romantic World War I drama, which was First National Pictures' entry into the epic...
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Capt. Philip Blythe
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1928
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Director William Wellman's follow-up to Wings was based in part on his own WWI experiences with the Lafayette Flying Corps....
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Gale Price
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1928
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Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is...
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Cadet White
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1927
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Young Paramount stars Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the latter a recent graduate of the studio's acting school, starred in...
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Nevada
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1927
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Kitty Flanders (Yvonne Pelletier), Jean Waddington and Ted Larrabee (Don Marion) are all "children of divorce" -- the two...
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Ted Larrabee
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1927
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No relation to the earlier John Ford western of the same name, The Last Outlaw was a vehicle for Paramount's up-and-coming...
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Sheriff Buddy Hale
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1927
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Contrary to popular belief, Clara Bow was already Paramount's biggest box-office draw when she starred in this delightful...
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1927
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After a lengthy apprenticeship in bits and secondary roles, Gary Cooper was promoted to stardom in the Zane Grey western...
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Dave Soulter
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1927
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1926
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Although some elements of this drama smack of the tired ploys of Drury Lane melodramas -- the demand for either the payment...
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1926
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A very popular silent western, this film features two engineers vying for the affections of the adoptive daughter of a...
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Abe Lee
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1926
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Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past...
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1926
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Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went...
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1926
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Cowboy ace Tom Mix allowed himself a change of pace with this costume adventure produced by Fox. Mix plays the legendary...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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Either you loved Tom Mix or you disapproved of his turning westerns into three-ring circuses. The Lucky Horseshoe presented...
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1925
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The Paramount team of Richard Dix and Lois Wilson starred in this top-notch silent western in which a Native American is the...
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1925
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This silent Western, starring Dutch-born trick rider Marilyn Mills, is remembered solely for an unbilled appearance by a very...
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1925
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Zane Grey's 1925 story of the great Buffalo hunts became a sprawling silent Western produced by Paramount and starring the...
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1925
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