New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking,...
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1957
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This medium-budget western is also known as My Brother, the Outlaw and Outlaw Brother. Mickey Rooney plays an Eastern dude...
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1951
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Wallace Beery's final film was the curiously endearing "black comedy" Big Jack. Set in 1820, a time when "science was a crime...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Acclaimed playwright George S. Kaufman made his directorial debut with this broad political satire. Senator Melvin G. Ashton...
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1947
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The famous outlaw rides again in this fictionalized western that chronicles Billy's turn from criminal to fine upstanding...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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Screen Story
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1940
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Rhythm Romance is the television title for the 1939 Bob Hope comedy Some Like It Hot (the change was made to avoid confusion...
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Play Author
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1939
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Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the...
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Screen Story
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1937
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In this detective adventure, a young woman is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from her boss and takes off for Spain...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this murder comedy, a young woman is no sooner acquitted of poisoning her father when she finds herself suspected of...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its comparative realism....
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Screen Story
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1936
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Adventurer-for-hire Victor McLaglen is hired by a political faction in a mythical European kingdom. McLaglen's job is to...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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The third screen version of Jack London's classic adventure story was also the first with sound, and it toyed with the...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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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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Play Author
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1934
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In this romantic musical, a carnival knife thrower's assistant falls for a Parisian tour guide who earns money wearing a...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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What Price Hollywood is often referred to as the "first" version of the oft-filmed A Star is Born. While there are strong...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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An eager cub reporter visits a roadhouse, stumbles across a corpse and decides to drum up a little notoriety for himself by...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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A Grand Hotel derivation set in a major metropolitan train terminal, Union Depot features most of the reliable Warner Bros....
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Play Author
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1932
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John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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