Young Robert Fontaine, Jr. (Billy Gray) lives with his hard-working father (George Murphy) and mother (Nancy Davis), who is...
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Robert Fontaine, Sr.
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1952
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Inspector Belden
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1952
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Barry Sullivan plays an eager young lawyer who is willing to sacrifice any and all scruples on the upward climb. He is put on...
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Inspector Matt Duggan
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1951
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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1950
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Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM...
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Ernest "Pop" Stazak
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1949
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As far removed from a "typical" MGM picture as it was possible to get back in 1949, Border Incident is a gritty, realistic...
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Jack Bearnes
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1949
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Filmed in 1946, Tenth Avenue Angel is yet another treacly vehicle for little Margaret O'Brien. The juvenile star is cast as...
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Steve Abbott
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1948
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MGM's all-purpose title The Big City was deployed once more for this treacly 1948 drama. To prevent orphaned Midge...
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Patrick O'Donnell
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1948
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On the whole, the films of producer-writer-director Arch Oboler seldom came up to the lofty standards of his radio work, but...
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Ted Parkson
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1947
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Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in the innocuous MGM confection Cynthia. Taylor plays the...
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Larry Bishop
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1947
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MGM's first "Maisie" entry in two years, Up Goes Maisie once more stars Ann Sothern as eternally stranded showgirl Maisie...
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Joseph Morton
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1946
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Having Wonderful Crime spotlights Michael J. Malone, the murder-solving attorney created by author Craig Rice. The film is...
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Jake Justus
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1945
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After a year's absence, entertainer Eddie Cantor returned to the screen in the self-produced Show Business. The plot is...
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George Doane
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1944
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The plot of the overinflated MGM musical Broadway Rhythm can be summed up briefly: Musical comedy producer Jonnie Demming...
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Johnnie Damming
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1944
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Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was...
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Gordon Miller
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1944
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In 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer and the United States Office of War Information collaborated on Bataan with the official goal...
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Lt. Steve Bentley
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1943
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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Jerry Jones
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1943
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1943
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For the benefit of those who came in late, the John Robert Powers modelling agency was at one time the most famous and...
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Jimmy Hendricks
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1942
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For Me and My Gal, a leisurely period musical, represents the first on-screen dancing of MGM's new star Gene Kelly....
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Jimmy K. Metcalf
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1942
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In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them...
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Joe Jonathan
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1942
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A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net...
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Sands
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1942
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Broke and stranded once more, golden-hearted showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) finds herself in upstate New York in...
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Skeets Maguire
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1941
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Working girl Ginger Rogers (who dresses like movie star Ginger Rogers, despite her meager salary!) cannot decide which of her...
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Tom
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1941
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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Claudis, "Coffee" Cup
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1941
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Jack Oakie is near the top of his form as Boley Bolenciecwcz, the best college football player to come down the pike in a...
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Jimmy M'Gonigle
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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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Eddie Kerns
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1940
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Judy Garland performs her only on-screen death scene early in the proceedings of Little Nellie Kelly. But despair not!...
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Jerry Kelly
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1940
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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King Shaw
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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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Alan Blake
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1940
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Dan Clifford
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1939
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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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Rusty
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1938
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Roger Wendling
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1938
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Barry Paige
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1938
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London by Night was filmed entirely on the MGM back lot, which admittedly looked more like England than England. Adapted from...
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Michael Denis
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1937
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In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story...
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Ted Lane
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1937
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In this musical, the only one singer/dancer Alice Faye, made for Universal, a Broadway producer is in a quandary when he...
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Hall Adam
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1937
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This third entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series may not have been the biggest or best, but thanks to a masterpiece of...
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Sonny Ledford
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1937
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In this comedy drama, a newspaper report discovers that a popular religious cult is really a scam. Unbeknownst to him, his...
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Bill Raeburn
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1937
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A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin,...
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Keat Shevlin
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1936
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In this tuneful crime drama, a falsely convicted man escapes from prison and hides out with a comely chorine. She discovers...
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Jerry Davis
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1935
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In this lively comedy, a cocky reporter follows a gangster aboard an ocean liner. While on board, the overconfident fellow...
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Red Foster
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1935
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The marital strife of a newlywed couple is chronicled in this drama. The couple, and engineer and a former actress, have...
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Carl Brent
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1935
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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Jerry Lane
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1934
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In this drama, a fighter's fiancee refuses to marry him until he can overcome his insane jealousy. He does and they marry....
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Larry O'Roark
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1934
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