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2006
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This musical documentary depicts Berlin's legacy of patriotic tunes. Film clips and interviews with the stars that sang the...
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1986
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1985
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This hour-long documentary is culled from the mid-1970s TV series That's Hollywood. As one can gather by the title, this is a...
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1984
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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1984
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Hurriedly assembled to capitalize on the Paramount feature of the same name, Magna Pictures' Harlow was shot in less than two...
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Mama Jean
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1965
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Lesley Ann Warren plays the title role in this television production of the classic Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III...
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Queen
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1964
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Though it was made in 1964, this romantic farce was not released until 1971. It stars an aging Ginger Rogers as a prosperous...
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1964
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Edward Chodorov's stage farce Oh, Men! Oh, Women! is somewhat unnecessarily overburdened by star names in this 1957 film...
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Mildred Turner
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1957
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Ginger Rogers ended her 23-year association with RKO Radio with the indifferent musical comedy western The First Travelling...
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Rose Gilray
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1956
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Teenage Rebel was the misleadingly lurid title bestowed upon this film version of Edith R. Sommer's Broadway play A Roomful...
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Nancy Fallon
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1956
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Tight Spot is based on Leonard Kantor's novel Dead Pigeon, which in turn was obviously inspired by Virginia Hill's appearance...
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Sherry Conley
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1955
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Lottie
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1954
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Johnny Victor
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1954
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1954
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Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a...
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Beatrice Page
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1953
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Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star...
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Ramona Gladwyn
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1952
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Dreamboat stars Clifton Webb as Thornton Sayre, the perfectionist professor of literature at a sedate Midwestern university....
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Gloria Marlowe
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1952
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Edwina Fulton
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1952
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Since someone had already used the title The Bride Wore Boots, it follows that there'd eventually be a film called The Groom...
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Abigail Furnival
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1951
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Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of...
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1951
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Marsha Mitchell
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1950
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Terry Scott
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1950
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The Barkleys of Broadway became Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "reunion" picture purely by accident. Originally conceived as...
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Dinah Barkley
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1949
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Victoria Stafford
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1947
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Director Frank Borzage and star Ginger Rogers both came acropper in the lavish but dull historical biopic Magnificent Doll....
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Dolly Payne Madison
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1946
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Arlette Lafon
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1946
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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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Irene Malvern
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1945
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Ginger Rogers gives a dramatic performance in this moving romantic drama in which a woman named Mary Marshall, who was...
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Mary Marshall
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1944
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Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of...
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Liza Elliott
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1944
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1943
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A bit treacly at times, Tender Comrade is nonetheless a fascinating distillation of the American mindset during WW2. Ginger...
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Jo
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1943
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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Diane
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1942
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A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic...
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Susan Applegate
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1942
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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Roxie Hart
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1942
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The surrealistic opening sequence, featuring a WW2 calendar as written "by A. Hitler", should be indication enough that Once...
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Katie O'Hara
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1942
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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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Janie
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1941
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Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald...
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Jean Newton
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1940
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In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen...
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Ellie May Adams
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1940
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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Kitty Foyle
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1940
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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Polly Parrish
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1939
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A wealthy older man and a poor young woman each get a chance to see how the other half lives in this comedy. Alfred Borden...
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Mary Grey
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1939
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Irene Castle
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1939
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Amanda Cooper
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1938
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James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were "an item" when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one...
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Francey Brent
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1938
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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Teddy Shaw
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1938
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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Linda Keene
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1937
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Jean Maitland
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1937
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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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Sherry Martin
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1936
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The sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting...
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Penelope "Penny" Carrol
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1936
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Dale Tremont
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1935
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Countess Scharwenka,Lizzie Gatz
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1935
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After suffering a nervous breakdown (at least that's what she calls it), imperious movie star Carol Corliss (Ginger Rogers)...
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Carol Corliss
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1935
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Donna Mantin
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1935
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A satire on radio crooners, Twenty Million Sweethearts stars Dick Powell as a singing waiter--fake handlebar mustache and...
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Peggy Cornell
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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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Lilly Linder
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1934
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1932 through 1934 saw the production of "Hollywood on Parade" shorts by Paramount Studios, featuring nearly every big star...
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1934
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Mimi Glossop
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1934
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Sylvia Dennis
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1934
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Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas,...
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Madge Roundtree
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1934
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The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was...
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1933
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A spoiled rich girl marries a gas station owner in this dated romance starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon....
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Marje Harris
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1933
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An earthy, fun-loving radio pitchwoman finds it difficult to live up to her squeaky-clean public persona as the "Purity Girl...
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Glory Eden
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1933
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The scandalous doings behind the high-toned exterior of a private school for rich young women provides the framework for...
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Pony
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1933
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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Ann Lowell/Anytime Annie
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1933
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Flip Daly
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1933
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Set in New York's Greenwich Village (specifically, on Bleecker Street), William Seiter's Rafter Romance is a cute romantic...
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Mary Carroll
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1933
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Dorothy
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1933
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The second of two low-budget murder melodramas starring Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot, A Shriek in the Night is not quite as...
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Patricia Morgan
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1933
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A man's addiction to betting on the horses severely disrupts his love life in this comedy. He, a plumber, and his fiancee, a...
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Molly Gilbert
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1933
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Honey Hale
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1933
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Based on a novel by Rian James, Hat Check Girl stars Sally Eilers as the title character, a pert little number named Gerry...
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Jessie King
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1932
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A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd is the robust star of this logging camp melodrama which also featured a very young Ginger...
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Honey
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1932
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The butt of many a practical joke at the office where he works as a clerk, Joe Holt (Joe E. Brown) is nonetheless determined...
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Alice Brandon
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1932
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Thirteen years after a dinner party where the wealthy host dropped, the thirteen guests are invited to reassemble at the...
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Marie Morgan
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1932
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Ruth
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1932
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A boxer and his girl try to dissuade their friend from getting involved with a Mafioso's gal. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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Baby Face
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1931
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Doris Blake
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1931
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Coney island vendors Baltimore Clark (Bill Boyd), Dutch Herman (Robert Armstrong) and Skeets O'Reilly (James Gleason) spend...
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Sally
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1931
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In this sports drama, Toby McLean, a sportswriter encounters another journalist, Ann Vaughn at the Tunney-Jack Dempsey fight....
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Puff Randolph
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1930
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Mary Brennan
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1930
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In this musical comedy, two partners in the garter business fight for control and decide to play a round of poker to settle...
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Polly Rockwell
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1930
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In this musical short, Ginger Rogers plays a secretary whose co-worker has a crush on her. Unfortunately, Rogers only has...
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Miss Gravis
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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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Ellen Saunders
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1930
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1929
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1929
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1929
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