This romantic comedy finds Candida (Barbara Ferris) going to live with her elderly spinster aunts after the death of her...
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Aunt Mary
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1969
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Adapted from the book and play of the same name, The Happiest Millionaire is the (mostly) true story of eccentric...
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Aunt Mary Drexel
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1967
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1964
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A woman named Helen (Barbara Barrie) awakens in a hospital run completely by women, with nary a man in sight. This is...
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Laura
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1964
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This eerie Twilight Zone entry was scripted by Richard Matheson from his own short story "Long Distance Call." In her third...
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Miss Elva Keene
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1964
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Mrs. Higgins
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1964
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1964
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Mrs. Raydon
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1963
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Charles Beaumont adapted this hauntingly-poignant 60-minute Twilight Zone episode from his own short story "Song for a Lady."...
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Millie McKenzie
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1963
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Mrs. Karoudjian
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1963
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In Volume 12 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, scientists attempting to...
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1963
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Wanda Dunn
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1962
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Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number of characters and their adventures at a British seaside...
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1958
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After her first two husbands die under mysterious circumstances, Mrs. Marguerite Gillespie (Gladys Cooper) prepares to marry...
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1957
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Framed in flashback form, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined...
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Caroline
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1955
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At Sword's Point is about the sons of Dumas' Three Musketeers--one of those "sons" being of the female persuasion, played by...
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Queen Anne
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1951
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Charlotte Hastings' West End stage hit Bonaventure was adroitly translated to the American screen as Thunder on the Hill. The...
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1951
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MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by...
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1949
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The oft-filmed Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden was given the usual plush MGM treatment in 1949. Tempestuous...
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Mrs. Medlock
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1949
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Aunt Inez
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1948
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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1948
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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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Sophie Patourel
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1947
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When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds...
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Mrs. Hamilton
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1947
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Grandma Leckie
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1946
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Frank Morgan plays a turn-of-the-century shipbuilder who dies of a sudden heart attack. Morgan is summoned to Heaven by the...
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1946
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Based on a novel by Stefan Zweig, this is the story of a baroness who believes she has found love with an officer but...
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Klara Condor
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1946
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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1945
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Ayn Rand wrote this adaptation of Chris Massie's book Pity Mr. Simplicity, about a soldier who falls in love with a former...
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Beatrice Remington
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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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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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Mrs. Henry Barringer
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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Sister Vauzous
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1943
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One of Cary Grant's most financially successful 1940s vehicles, Mr. Lucky finds Grant atypically cast as a shifty,...
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Capt. Steadman
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1943
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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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1943
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With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who...
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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Mrs. Henry Windle Vale
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1942
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Lady Nelson
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1941
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When the film rights to its "Saint" series proved too expensive to renew, RKO Radio came up with a lookalike property in the...
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Maxine
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1941
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1941
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1941's The Black Cat is neither a remake of the 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear the slightest...
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1941
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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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1940
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The Iron Duke is one of the best of the George Arliss biopics -- and one of the few that can claim near-total accuracy (with...
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Duchess of Angouleme
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1934
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This second-rate Western melodrama had a lot of action but made little sense. Bob Ryan (a wooden Pete Morrison) is in love...
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Madge Mullins
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1922
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This was the first time William Balfe's popular romantic opera was filmed. Although other operas made successful transitions...
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Arline
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1922
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