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Short Story Author
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1956
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Despite its ebullient title and the presence of lightweight dancing star Dan Dailey, Meet Me at the Fair has a lot more meat...
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Book Author
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1952
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In this drama, a musically talented child prodigy ends up exploited by his greedy manager who wants to become the lad's...
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Screenwriter
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1951
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The old one about the much-exploited child prodigy is given a new coat of paint in the English-Austrian Entfuhrag ins Gluck...
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Screenwriter
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1950
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The British That Dangerous Age is based on Autumn, a play by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surgutchoff. Myrna Loy heads the cast...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in...
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Producer
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1947
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Bandleader Orrin Tucker and his featured vocalist "Wee" Bonnie Baker are the stars of the Paramount pocket musical You're the...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1941
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When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily...
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Associate Producer
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1940
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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Producer
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1940
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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Associate Producer
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1940
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Communism-the American variety-is given a hilarious going-over in 20th Century-Fox's Public Deb No. 1. Spoiled society girl...
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Producer
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1940
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Though it takes a few liberties with the Arthur Conan Doyle original -- not the least of which is turning Sherlock Holmes...
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Associate Producer
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1939
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Producer
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1939
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Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this...
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Producer
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1939
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Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make their second screen appearances as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in The Adventures of...
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Associate Producer
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1939
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Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is...
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Associate Producer, Director
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1938
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Three manicurists hope to become entertainers through the auspices of their wisecracking agent (Fred Allen). Sally...
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Producer
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1938
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This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century...
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Associate Producer
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1938
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In this musical comedy of errors, David Brassard, Sr. (William Collier, Sr.) has his heart stolen from him by a conniving,...
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Producer
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1938
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The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally...
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Producer
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1938
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Director Roy Del Ruth and singing star Dick Powell were raided from the Warner Bros. stables for this frothy musical comedy...
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Associate Producer, Screenwriter
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1937
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Producer
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1937
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When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In...
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Book Author
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1936
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French actress Simone Simon made her American film debut in Girls' Dormitory. Simon portrays a twentyish student in a Swiss...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Private Number is the old saw about the wealthy young man who marries his family's serving girl. This time Richard Winfield...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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The all-purpose title The Big Noise was dusted off twice in 1936, once by Hollywood's Warner Bros. and once by 20th...
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Short Story Author
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1936
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To finance such major productions as Ramona and Lloyds of London, 20th Century-Fox had to maintain a quota of such minor but...
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Producer
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1936
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Screenwriter
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1935
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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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Screenwriter
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1934
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Now known simply as Fashions, the lavish Warner Bros. musical Fashions of 1934 stars the unlikely but copacetic team of...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Produced by Warner Bros. in 1934, A Modern Hero was the only American talkie directed by the great German filmmaker...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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This weepie, adapted from a play by Philip Dunning and George Abbott, is a vehicle for Ruth Chatterton as the titular Lilly....
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed,...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1933
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Loaned to MGM by her home studio of Warner Bros., Loretta Young suffers her way through the title role in Midnight Mary. A...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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This complex '30s film is based upon a play by Pirandello which involved a hapless amnesiac. In As You Desire Me, the...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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No relation to the 1949 Bob Hope comedy of the same name, The Great Lover stars that master of sartorial splendor,...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1931
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Though silent star John Gilbert's talking pictures were habitual money-losers, the stubborn actor insisted that MGM honor his...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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In this comedy, set during the 1900s, a Florodora girl slowly falls for a gentle millionaire. Songs include: "My Kind Of...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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The title character, played by Ian Keith, is wealthy diamond merchant Rupert Endon. Falling in love with gorgeous Eve Marlay...
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Short Story Author
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1930
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This tuneful tale revolves around a shy warehouse clerk who, at the encouragement of his girlfriend finally musters up his...
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Short Story Author
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1929
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This is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a...
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Book Author
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1929
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Popular radio crooner Morton Downey (yes, the father of talk-show host Morton Downey Jr.) stars in this sentimental...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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The great British stage star Gertrude Lawrence was seldom seen to her best advantage in films. In Paramount's Battle of...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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In this musical, a singing Yankee stable boy works for a rich Irishman. When he meets his boss's granddaughter and they soon...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Second-string Universal cowboy Fred Humes starred in this familiar silent Western about a returning war veteran who finds...
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Short Story Author
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1927
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Based on a magazine serial by Gene Markey, this film was turned into a perfect vehicle for Universal's lackadaisical cowboy...
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Short Story Author
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1923
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