Eric (Robert Dhery) is the beleaguered husband of a harridan wife who works as a writer of advertising slogans. When he...
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1970
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Damn Yankees is a frothy, faithful adaptation of the 1956 Broadway hit. In an amusing slant on the "Faust" legend, aging...
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1958
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Future Tonight Show host Johnny Carson made one of his rare acting appearances in this 1957 Playhouse 90 adaptation of George...
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1957
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The Broadway musical Pajama Game was based on Seven and a Half Cents. a comic novel about labor relations written by...
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1957
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Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute...
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1955
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Where's Charley?, Frank Loesser's hit Broadway musical version of Brandon Thomas' evergreen stage farce Charley's Aunt, was...
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1952
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The Broadway musical Beat the Band was boiled down to B-picture terms in this RKO Radio programmer. The plot concerns Damon...
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1947
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If there were any doubts that little Shirley Temple was all grown up by 1945, those doubts were disippated by her appearance...
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1945
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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1942
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In this crime drama, a remake of Heat Lightning(1931), a robber kills a bank teller during a robbery and then takes his wife,...
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1941
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Now immortalized as the film on which Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met, Too Many Girls is a faithful adaptation of the...
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1940
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1940
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In this musical, a composer abandons vaudeville in favor of the legitimate stage. He soon finds himself entangle with a...
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1939
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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1938
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Having paid $255,500 for the rights to John Murray and Allen Boretz' Broadway hit Room Service, RKO Radio then scouted about...
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1938
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1936
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Based on John Golden's stage play Four Walls, MGM's Straight is the Way offers the monumentally miscast Franchot Tone as...
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1934
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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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1933
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A remarkably ambitious endeavor from low-budget World Wide Studios, Those We Love was adapted by F. Hugh Herbert from a play...
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1932
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1931
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In this drawing room drama, an impetuous heiress goes on a cruise and ends up marrying a Latin gigolo on a whim. Her father...
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1931
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In all three of her 1931-32 movie vehicles, Tallulah Bankhead played variations of that familiar soap opera standby, the...
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1931
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This Depression-era melodrama chronicles the travails of a wealthy family that is nearly destroyed by a wife's compulsive...
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1931
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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join...
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1930
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The Fall Guy isn't Lee Majors in this 1930 RKO Radio programmer but instead a hapless druggist played by Jack Mulhall. Upon...
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1930
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The search for sunken treasure provides the basis for this adventure that begins when a treasure hunter's dive is sabotaged....
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1930
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Poor but honest district attorney Fredric March, sick of the "one law for rich, one law for poor" imbalance, sentences...
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1930
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This early musical features several song-and-dance numbers in the midst of a story about underworld criminals. Nick...
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1929
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A young boxer on his way to the top is scheduled for an important championship fight in this sports melodrama. He meets a...
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1929
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Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible...
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1929
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In this 1929 comedy, two white minstrel comedians, Moran and Mack, in black-face, re-create their most beloved routines in...
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1929
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Coquette is Mary Pickford's first talkie, based on the play by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers. The story was already...
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1929
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In this murder mystery, set in a carnival, a performer loses her boyfriend, a trapeze artist, when his partner "accidently"...
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1929
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Starring Joan Crawford and John Gilbert, this suspenseful, silent crime-drama follows the exploits of a gangster who does his...
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1928
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1927
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