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Uncle William
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures. ~...
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1945
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Although coming in at an odd running time -- 40 minutes -- this interesting, low-budget drama looks at the adventures, or...
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Bradley
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1944
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Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John...
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1943
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Barker
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1942
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On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War One pilot Steve Britt (Preston Foster) trains flyers to fight in World War...
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1942
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1942
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One of the shortest and sweetest of Betty Grable's Technicolor musicals, Song of the Islands casts the Leggy One as Eileen,...
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Harper
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1942
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In this romance, a wealthy young heiress marries an avaricious foreigner to please her father and then dreams of finding...
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R.C. Baldwin
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1941
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In this musical, the cruise that salesgirl Nan Spencer (Alice Faye) worked so hard to pay for is cut tragically short when...
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1941
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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1941
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1941
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In this B- romance, an innocent young man endeavors to find his fortune in the Big Apple and ends up finding a dog instead....
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J.W. Barrett
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1941
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In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and...
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Mr. Peyton
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1941
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In this musical romance, a plucky young woman decides to save her town from financial ruin by marrying a wealthy captain of...
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Uncle Si
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1940
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after...
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1940
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Uncle Dan
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1939
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In this off-beat love story, wealthy socialite Linda Bronson (Greer Garson) is about to marry Sky Ames (Lou Ayres) but then...
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1939
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British leading man Barry McKay made a respectable if unsuccessful bid at Hollywood stardom in Republic's Stolen Cargo. The...
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Franklin
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1939
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Newspaper editor Steve Drum (Preston Foster) is willing to pull any dirty trick in the book to boost his rag's circulation....
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Clanahan
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1939
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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Major Blair
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1939
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While the "Tarzan" series was going full blast at MGM, several independent producers managed to secure the screen rights to...
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Roger
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1938
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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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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Kublai Khan
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1938
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Sonja Henie is the "lucky star" in this enjoyable 20th Century-Fox musical. Henie plays Kristina Nelson a humble department...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, the Ritz Brothers inherit a racehorse but are unable to make money from him because they cannot come...
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Drake
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1938
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This tuneful campus comedy features aging star John Barrymore as a sly, blustery Southern governor with his eye on the Senate...
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1938
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Thanks for Everything is an unjustly forgotten lampoon of media promotional stunts. Jack Haley wins a contest sponsored by an...
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1938
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Hold That Kiss is a cute story cutely played by the irresistably cute Maureen O'Sullivan. She plays working girl June Evans,...
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Mr. Peirpont
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1938
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Girl with Ideas was Universal Pictures' version of MGM's matchless Libeled Lady. Wendy Barrie plays a society girl miffed at...
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John F. Morton
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1937
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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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Commodore Caraway
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1937
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1937
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I. Ketts
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1937
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This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple...
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J.P. Todhunter
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1937
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It's a black night in Hollywood when matinee idol Neil DuBeck (Rod LaRoque) is murdered at the preview of his latest film....
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1936
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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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1936
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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1936
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Horace Stanton
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1936
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Spendthrift gives the modern viewer a pretty good idea how Hollywood planned to "mold" the image of new star Henry Fonda. The...
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Uncle Morton Middleton
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1936
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Mr. Cary
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1936
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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Based on a barnstorming stage play by Gus Hill, McFadden's Flat seemed charmingly anachronistic in the mid-1935s....
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1935
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The classic comedians Burns and Allen are featured in this fast-paced farce that includes an assortment of corny vaudeville...
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Harrison Allen
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1935
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A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town...
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Colonel Joseph Abercrombie
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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1935
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The title doesn't refer to mosquitoes but to the amount of money that could be earned in the radio business of the 1930s....
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1935
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In this musical campus comedy, trouble ensues when a meddlesome, overprotective father enrolls in the same college as his...
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John Roberts, Sr.
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1935
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1935
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A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. One day he...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a Parisian businessman heads for South American for a busman's holiday. There he hopes to have some...
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1934
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Paramount Pictures' annual college musical of 1934 is a pip, as they used to say. Jack Oakie plays Finnegan, a conceited...
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1934
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Elmer and Elsie was adapted from To the Ladies, a play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Former movie tough guy...
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John Kincaid
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1934
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German actress Dorothea Wieck, who achieved international fame in Maedchen in Uniform, was given a brief shot at Hollywood...
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MacCready
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1934
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A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars Ruth Chatterton as Françoise...
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Chautard
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1934
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Department-store owner Horatio Allen's (George Barbier) biggest mistake is to name his scatterbrained daughter Gracie...
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Horatio Allen
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1934
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King Achmed
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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Jake Mayo
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1934
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1934
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Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had...
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Pete Evans
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1933
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In this western, a US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers. The history behind the film is as interesting...
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1933
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Capt. Fogg
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1933
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This western is an adaptation of a Zane Grey novel and chronicles the exploits of a simple-minded cowpoke who proves his...
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1933
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Reported to have cost a whopping $2 million, this musical was actually made for far less -- and looks it. But unlike She Done...
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1933
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A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse in this uproarious farce from Paramount. Naming the...
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1933
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Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts star as Mark and Connie, a pair deceptively innocent-looking con artists. Connie has made a...
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Jasper B. Ogden
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1933
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Mr. Kirkwood
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1933
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Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle....
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1933
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Beautiful but impractical socialite Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard) has convinced herself that "the perfect marriage" is an...
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Andrew Newbold
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1932
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Disparate twin brothers, a phony will, and a beautiful woman provide the main ingredients for this romantic comedy. The...
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Mr. Merrow
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1932
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Based on a play by Arthur M. Brilant, The Case of Clara Deane stars Wynne Gibson, repeating her original Broadway role....
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Ware
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1932
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Confidence woman Martha Hicks (Alison Skipworth), better known to those who know her at all as "the Countess," is a career...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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This early musical is a bit slim on story but features a number of vintage performances by a stellar cast, including some of...
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Clapsaddle
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1932
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In this romance, an impoverished Viennese aristocrat becomes a gigolo. While on the job, he encounters a Yankee widow who is...
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Heinrich Fischer
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1932
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Mr. Randall
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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1932
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In this western, a lovely Mexican woman falls in love with the gringo pilot whose plane crashed nearby. Unfortunately, her...
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Luther Farley
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1932
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Legendary songwriter and vaudevillian George M. Cohan made his first appearance in a sound film with this satiric musical...
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Jim Ronkton
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1932
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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1932
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Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls". They work the convention...
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1931
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24 Hours is all it takes for tippling married man Jim Towner (Clive Brook) to go from social respectability to convict...
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Hector Champion
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1931
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King Adolf
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1931
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In this gridiron drama, a college football coach and ex-All American will stop at nothing to have a winning team. The trouble...
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Jerome Gehring
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1931
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Le Grande Mare is the French-language version of Paramount's The Big Pond (1930), with Maurice Chevalier and...
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Mr. Billings
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1930
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Based on a short-lived stage comedy, The Sap from Syracuse stars Jack Oakie in the title role. A humble laborer on a luxury...
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Senator Powell
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1930
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The still photographs of this costume picture, showing Rudolph Valentino wearing foppish 18th century finery, are actually...
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1924
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