Man Alive is an inventive and consistently amusing farce dominated by stars Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou. The former plays...
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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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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1941
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Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title...
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1938
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In this drama, a wealthy, aristocratic New Yorker, thinking his son is a bit of a panty-waist, decides to make a real man of...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation,...
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1937
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Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined...
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1937
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Making a transcontinental plane flight in only thirteen hours was quite an achievement when this film was made in 1936 -- but...
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1936
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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1936
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One of four MGM "B"-pictures ground out in quick succession by director George B. Seitz, Woman Wanted is a crime melodrama...
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1935
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In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by...
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1935
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In this drama, an impoverished dreamer saves a group of people during a terrible storm by leading them to shelter in a ghost...
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1935
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Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been...
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1934
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The Key is a story of the Irish "troubles" which avoids taking sides, but spends most of its screen time with the British...
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1934
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Birdlike ZaSu Pitts and gangly Slim Summerville are together again in the Universal programmer Love Birds. The stars are cast...
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1934
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James Cagney manages to retain his pre-Code cockiness within post-Code limitations in the likeable St. Louis Kid. Cagney and...
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1934
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A large urban hospital provides the setting for this drama. The staff there has seen it all and this is reflected in their...
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1933
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Hoping to immediately cash in on its blockbuster hit King Kong (1933). RKO Radio commissioned producers Willis O'Brien and...
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1933
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A whole slew of former silent-film favorites shows up in Mayfair's Secret Sinners. Dilettante songwriter Jack Mulhall falls...
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1933
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Marlene Dietrich stars as Helen Faraday, a German cabaret singer in the States whose husband, Ned, falls ill and his only...
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1932
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1931
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Last Dance was loosely based on the real-life story of a newspaper mogul who married a Broadway taxi dancer. For the purposes...
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Sybil Kelly
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1930
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1930
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A devoted valet takes a vacation in this lively drama. After 15 years of faithful service, he has earned it. He goes to...
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1930
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In this western, set aboard a California bound stagecoach, a man and woman passenger begin a flirtation that is interrupted...
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1929
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Blonde Broadway dancer Marie Saxon came to the screen in 1929 courtesy of Columbia Pictures, who starred her opposite popular...
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1929
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Capricious Constance Bannister (Sally Eilers) has had 12 fiances, but has yet to take her marital vows. Fiance number 13,...
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1929
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1929
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Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for...
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1929
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Failing miserably in the business world, a college hero becomes a lifeguard and falls for a pretty concessionaire in this...
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1928
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This drama starring Evelyn Brent is a barometer of the moral tone of the late '20s. Sales clerk Dolly Morton (Brent) gets a...
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Maisey Duncan
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1927
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Long believed to be a "lost" film, The Show resurfaced in the mid-1970s, proving to be a real treasure trove for aficionados...
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Lana
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1927
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'That's either your wife or your sister-in-law!" declares Gwen Lee to Aileen Pringle in the middle of Adam and Evil. This...
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Dora Dell
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1927
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Marion Davies has the lead role of Tillie in this adaptation of Russ Westover's popular 1920s comic strip. Tillie is bored by...
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1927
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Belle Bennett stars as Odette, who early in life is forced to give up all dreams of love so that she can look after her...
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1926
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The screen popularity of "All American Boy" Charles Ray was fading in the mid-1920s, forcing the 34-year-old actor to return...
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Cabaret Dancer
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1926
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1926
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Few leading ladies appeared in as many films in 1926 as the vivacious Clara Bow. In My Lady's Lips, Bow plays the feisty...
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1925
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The Other Woman's Story begins as Bennett Colby (Robert Frazer) is convicted of the murder of Robert Marshall...
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Mildred Van
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1925
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1925
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This satirical film was based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Neil McRae (Edward Everett Horton) is a...
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Gladys Cady
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1925
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This drama, based on the play by Marion Fairfax, concerns a woman who talks big, but does not practice what she preaches....
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1925
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Director Dallas M. Fitzgerald made this film independently, and he convinced star May McAvoy to invest in it. According to...
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Mame McGuire
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1925
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While this light comedy (based on the novel by Edwin Bateman Morris) was nothing really special, it still was an amusing...
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Nell Mangan
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1924
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Although John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem Barbara Frietchie, it was actually the Clyde Fitch play that served as...
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1924
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Victor Schertzinger both wrote and directed this melodrama. John Corbin (Percy Marmont) works for years on an invention, only...
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1923
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When the down-market O'Tooles inherit a fortune, the entire clan -- including the dog, Rags -- moved to upscale Pasadena,...
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1923
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This clever comedy-drama was based on the famed stage play by Avery Hopwood. All the actors gave enjoyable performances, even...
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Topsy St. John
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1923
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It seems like nearly everything written by George Barr McCutcheon found its way to the silent screen. Castle Craneycrow was...
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1923
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In this comedy romance, Claude Gillingwater plays a Southern Colonel who has the impossible task of keeping Viola Dana away...
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1923
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In spite of an original beginning, this Hoot Gibson picture quickly gets down to the usual Western business, with the hero at...
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Potato Polly
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1922
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From the beginning of her film career, Billie Dove showed a knack for playing chorus girls (it only made sense since she was...
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1922
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Silent matinee idol Wallace Reid played a speed demon in quite a few popular light comedies for Paramount. Here he takes a...
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Justine Tate
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1922
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Bebe Daniels stars in this adaptation of the Miriam Michelson novel (and play), In the Bishop's Carriage. Thief Tom Dorgan...
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1921
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Cowboy star William S. Hart plays Jefferson "Riddle" Gawne, a man who really carries a grudge. When he finds his brother...
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1918
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Coming as it did on the heels of what many consider to be Mary Pickford's greatest triumph, Stella Maris (1918), this film...
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1918
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Many film critics felt that Wallace Reid graduated from mere leading man to full-fledged star in his 1917 vehicle...
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1917
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This first version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's frequently filmed children's classic A Little Princess starred 23-year-old...
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1917
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Juvenile actress Gertrude Short, later the pleasingly plump star of a series of "telephone girl" 2-reelers of the 1930s,...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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