In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha...
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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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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1945
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Bumbling high schooler Henry Aldrich (Jimmy Lydon) finds himself in hot water once more when he offends school principal Mr....
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1944
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1944
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1942
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Three disparate young men struggle to become Army Air Corps pilots in this rousing drama that earned an Oscar for its...
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1941
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Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy...
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1941
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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Though he doesn't speak his first line of dialogue until the film's final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the...
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1940
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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1940
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A model of precision and economy, the MGM "B" thriller Tell No Tales represented the feature-film directorial debut of former...
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1939
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In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies...
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1939
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1939
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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1938
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Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his portrayal of Father Edward J. Flanagan--then promptly turned the statuette over to...
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1938
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In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and...
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in...
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1936
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Previously filmed as a vehicle for Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1922, Laura E. Richard's Captain January was warmed up as a...
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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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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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1935
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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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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1934
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Though the story isn't much, this actioner does offer a neat behind-the-scenes look at the travails of Hollywood stuntmen as...
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1933
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Silent star Betty Compson takes on a Swedish accent in this romantic melodrama based on a story by Martin Flavin. She is...
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1931
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In this low-budget romantic musical, a sweet-young-thing heads for the South Seas to be with her betrothed. A typhoon brews...
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Armstrong
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1930
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Milton Sills, one of the silent era's great matinee idols, starred in this follow-up to his sound debut in the part-talkie...
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Alstair de Vries
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1929
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The Girl From Woolworth's was an appropriate title for this bargain-counter musical. Alice White stars as Pat King, a...
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1929
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Director Frank Lloyd was nominated for an Academy Award for this rather sappy gangster melodrama starring...
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1929
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Several of Hollywood's best Chinese actors are prominently featured in the mystery melodrama Peacock Fan. The titular prop is...
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1929
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Produced by small-scale firm Peerless, this silent melodrama told the ancient story of the girl whose refusal to "put out"...
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1928
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Diminutive screen cowboy Bob Steele stars in this minor Western from action melodrama factory Film Booking Office (later...
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1928
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1922 WAMPAS Baby Star Jacqueline Logan starred in this mystery drama as Dixie Mowbray, a young girl fleeing from a mysterious...
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1928
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Blond Helen Foster, who was 22 at the time, played the title role in this moralistic silent drama about teenaged Cynthia...
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Howard De Hart
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1928
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Dynamite, one of canine star Rin-Tin-Tin's many imitators, starred in this silent action melodrama from Universal, in which...
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1928
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In this melodrama, a wealthy girl decides to disguise herself and work as a laborer in her father's factory so she can be...
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Howard Cariwr
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1928
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Under the supervision of Cecil B. DeMille, character actor Alan Hale handled the directing chores in Wedding Song. DeMille...
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1925
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1924
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This low-budget action-thriller marked the film debut of "Arrow Collar man" (or, rather, the most famous of several Arrow...
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1923
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This implausible crime drama had the benefit of Betty Compson's presence: she was best known for playing lady criminals....
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1923
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Hiram Scudder (Tyrone Power, Sr.) is a blind cobbler, whose son Tommy (Tom Douglas) is in love with the pretty but ambitious...
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Alec Campbell
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1921
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Secret agent George Johnson (Coit Albertson) recalls the story of two orphan girls to a pair of cohorts at a Paris cafe. The...
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1921
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Silent era film exhibitors knew the real draw of handsome Conway Tearle -- "Tell the girls that Tearle looks great in...
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Philip Colt
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1920
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This low-budget drama finds a millionaire's son (Gladden Jones) falling for a pretty Red Cross worker (Gail Kane). The boy's...
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1920
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Surprisingly, Marion Davies' first film was not financed by her companion, William Randolph Hearst, but by her former beau...
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1917
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This silent cautionary tale warns against those who would blindly believe gossip as it chronicles the ruination of a young...
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1917
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1917
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Norma Talmadge plays a pretty young secretary who must dress dowdily to avoid the licentious overtures of her male employers....
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1916
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British stage favorite Kitty Gordon made her American film debut in As in a Looking Glass. Gordon plays an alluring espionage...
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1916
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Released in most markets under the simplified title Sylvia Gray, this four-reel Vitagraph effort was one of several starring...
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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