This represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the...
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1976
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Long before organizing Troma Pictures with Michael Herz, filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman ground out the 16-millimeter comedy Battle...
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1971
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Neighbors in suburban Los Angeles segue a meeting to stop freeway construction into a sexual romp. A housewife (Ann Summers)...
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1970
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The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet...
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1963
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In this romantic melodrama, a light-skinned black woman abandons her family to pretend that she is white. She soon marries a...
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1960
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In this routine business-story-cum-romantic-comedy, James Garner is Cash McCall, a wheeling and dealing tycoon, and...
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1959
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This routine drama is helped by good acting and well-known stars like Rossano Brazzi as an unfaithful French husband,...
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1959
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Rod Serling's first original screenplay for the Big Screen was the psychological western Saddle the Wind. In one of his best...
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1958
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In the psychological WW2 drama Torpedo Run, Glenn Ford plays submarine commander Barney Doyle, who is obsessed with sinking...
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1958
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After a string of such serious projects as The Shrike and I Accuse, director-star Jose Ferrer lightens up a bit with the...
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1958
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Based on a novel by William Chamberlain, Imitation General has a bit more story depth and character development than the...
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1958
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House of Numbers might have worked better as a farce comedy than a deadly serious melodrama, but everyone involved tries hard...
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1957
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In this 1957 psychological action drama, Robert Taylor plays Lloyd Tredman, a WWII American airman plagued by guilt over the...
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1957
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In this western, a pacifistic store owner does all he can to avoid association with his father, a notorious gunfighter. One...
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1956
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MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline...
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1956
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The MGM melodrama These Wilder Years marked the first onscreen pairing of Hollywood stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck....
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1956
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Based on a novel by Howard Swiggert, The Power and the Prize sets up a premise that had far more relevance in 1956 than it...
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1956
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1955
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Hit the Deck is the second film version of the same-named 1927 hit Broadway musical. Though updated for the 1950s, the basic...
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1955
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Rescuing Daniel Norton (Dewey Martin) from a watery grave, two-bit fight promoter Willy Wurble (Keenan Wynn) senses potential...
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1954
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Based extremely loosely on the Stephen Vincent Benet story Sobbin' Women," Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is one of the best...
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1954
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Leave it to MGM to turn the Korean War into a splashy, big-budget, all-star extravaganza. Men of the Fighting Lady is set on...
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1954
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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1954
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1954
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Previously adapted to film in 1923, Ben Ames Williams' rousing sea adventure All the Brothers Were Valiant was given the...
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1953
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Who else but Esther Williams could star in a romantic drama (with musical numbers) bearing a title like this? In Million...
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1952
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The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the...
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1952
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Ray Milland plays a happily married college professor whose wife and child perish in a fire. Despondent, Milland loses...
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1951
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Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former...
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1951
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1951
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A minor but effective MGM programmer, Shadow in the Sky stars Ralph Meeker as a shell-shocked World War II veteran. He is...
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1951
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The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as...
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1951
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Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet...
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1951
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Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl...
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1950
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Nobody sits on the fence so far as The Big Hangover is concerned. Leonard Maltin considers it "predictable, as well as silly...
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1950
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So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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1949
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1948
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In this drama, set in England, an honorable textbook writer in a village becomes friends with a pregnant girl. The...
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1947
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The 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least,...
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1947
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The Secret Heart is a psychological drama starring June Allyson as a disturbed teenager obsessed with the memory of her dead...
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1946
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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1946
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1946
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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1946
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This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride....
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1946
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The Clock was designed by MGM as a "small" picture--though characteristically, it was a bigger production than most "A"...
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1945
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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1944
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Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM...
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1944
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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1943
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Hoping to achieve a brilliant career as a violinist, Julia Seabrook (Ann Sothern) divorces her husband Jeff (Melvyn Douglas),...
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1943
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MGM's Rio Rita is an in-name-only remake of the 1929 RKO Radio musical blockbuster, itself based on the long-running Ziegfeld...
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1942
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1942
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Grand Central Murder was intended as a followup to the MGM "sleeper" Kid Glove Killer, with the earlier film's star, Van...
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1942
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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1942
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Incredible as it may seem, rambunctious 18-year-old Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) finally makes it to college in Andy Hardy's...
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1942
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On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) realizes that it's time to appoint a new...
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1942
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The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score)...
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1941
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James Stewart's last Hollywood film before entering military service, Come Live with Me teams Stewart with the hauntingly...
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1941
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When MGM decided to move up-and-coming star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a startlingly...
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1941
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MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer...
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1941
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This brief (56-minute) MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Naturally, a few plot twists and...
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1941
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Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills....
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1941
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Two Girls on Broadway is an updated reworking of MGM's Oscar-winning 1929 musical Broadway Melody. Joan Blondell and...
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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1940
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This remake of Penthouse (33) stars Walter Pidgeon as a smooth attorney with a few embarrassing friends. One of these is a...
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1939
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1939
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It's "Never the Twain Shall Meet" time again in the MGM romantic melodrama Lady of the Tropics. The lady in question is...
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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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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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1938
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1938
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1938
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Mannequin stars Joan Crawford as Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements (though this being an MGM film, her slum dwellings...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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A remake of 1928's Glorious Betsy (itself based on a stage play by Rida Johnson Young), Hearts Divided is based, believe it...
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1936
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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Though habitually unlucky in love, wealthy London recluse Mary Herries (Aline MacMahon) succumbs to the charms of handsome...
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1935
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For 20 years, Jeff Williams (Clark Gable) has been in love with his childhood playmate Mary Clay (Joan Crawford). Alas, Jeff...
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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1935
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Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained....
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1934
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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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1934
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In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the...
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1934
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Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle...
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1933
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A conflict between the Serbs and the Hungarians provides the framework of this drama that centers on a love triangle between...
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1933
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A remarried war widow's attempts to raise her son to be a pacifist are thwarted when a second world war (this film was made...
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1933
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After the death of her circus-aerialist husband, Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) dedicates herself to transforming her daughter...
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1933
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1933
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Margaret Hughes (Claudette Colbert) returns from a trip abroad to discover that her sweetheart, crusading attorney David...
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1932
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Claudette Colbert plays a dizzy socialite who wants to become an actress. She buys her way into an audition for the part of a...
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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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1932
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1932
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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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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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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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1931
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Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld brought his legendary "Follies" to the silver screen in Glorifying the American Girl....
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1930
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Laughter is a sophisticated romantic comedy belying the "fact" that most early talkies were stiff and dull. Nancy Carroll...
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1930
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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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1930
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In this drama, a prominent society woman causes a scandal when she begins a torrid affair with the dashing lifeguard who...
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1930
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1930
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Having long enjoyed a near-legendary status because of its general unavailability, Dangerous Nan McGrew inevitably...
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1930
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1930
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In this dark drama, based on a play by Ward Morehouse, the life of a tough newspaperman is chronicled. The man is a...
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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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1929
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1929
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1929
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1929
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Stage director Rouben Mamoulian jolted the (at the time) moribund sound-film industry with innovative sound experiments and...
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1929
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Unable to utilize the original George Gershwin score, this silent version of the Broadway musical Lady Be Good concentrates...
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1928
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In the tradition of Colleen Moore's best films, Her Wild Oat is nowhere near as "naughty" as its title. Moore is cast as Mary...
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1927
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The dazzlingly gorgeous Billie Dove is appropriately cast as the title character in American Beauty. This is the story of...
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1927
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Ladies at Play was based on Loose Ankles, a stage comedy by Sam Janney. Heroine Ann Harper is thrilled to discover that she...
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1926
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Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama -- not exactly the forte of either of these stars. Charming but...
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1925
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The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes...
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1924
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This drama about Cuba's unsuccessful 1850 revolution was based on the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer. Andres Escobar...
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1923
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Although the spirited Bebe Daniels was sorely miscast as a long-suffering orphan in this comedy-drama, she somehow managed to...
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1922
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1921
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Education of Elizabeth was adapted for the silent screen from a play by Roy Horniman. The film version was designed as a...
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1921
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