Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of...
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1953
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Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police...
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1951
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Nick Robey (John Garfield) is a down-on-his-luck two-bit hood, fast on his feet but a little slow on the uptake. His running...
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Mrs. Robey
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1951
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An excellent cast brings distinction to the pedestrian goings-on in Silver City. Per its title, the film is set in...
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Mrs. Barber
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1951
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Warner Bros. made good use of its backlog of Harry Warren/Al Dubin tunes in its 1951 Doris Day musical Lullaby of Broadway....
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Jessica Howard
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1951
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Liz Crow
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1950
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Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native...
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1950
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Lute-Mae Saunders
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1949
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Alias a Gentleman is impeccably tailored to the slovenly talents of MGM star Wallace Beery. He's cast as Jim Breeden, an...
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Madge Parkson
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1948
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In this earnest, sentimental drama, a mother does all she can to keep her rebellious daughter from making the same tragic...
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1947
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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1946
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In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a...
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Penelope Webster
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1945
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Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story...
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Valerie de Merode
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1944
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Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian...
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Mae White
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1944
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Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United...
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Mme. Zenobia
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1943
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In this musical, the teenage daughter of a popular movie star tires of being ignored by her separated parents and decides to...
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1943
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In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway...
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Lily Emery
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1942
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After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it...
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Iva Archer
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1941
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German director Joe May was light-years removed from his glory days at UFA when he helmed the "Little Tough Guys" entry Hit...
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Molly Ryan
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Elsie
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1941
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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Florette
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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Mary Bogale
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1940
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This is the third film based on a story by Lajos Biro and Jules G. Furthman. The first two were silent films,...
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Anna Kriza
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1940
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In this drama, a miserable wife takes her son and leaves her alcoholic spouse. She ends up traveling to England to begin her...
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Clara
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1939
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In this comedy, a Missouri mule breeder faces financial ruin after the market collapses. He takes his best mule to a Kansas...
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Julie Bliss
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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Panama Smith
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1939
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Love may be a headache, but without it, how would MGM programmers like this one ever have been made? Franchot Tone is cast as...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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Sam Wood directed this fourth version of the Alexandre Bisson weeper, buffed to a high gloss by shimmering M.G.M. production...
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Jacqueline Fleuriot
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1937
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In this WW II era drama, a timid, pacifistic clerk is befriended by a gutsy circus barker while they are in the military....
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Rose Duffy
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1937
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Gladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word...
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Carrie Snyder
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1936
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Based on John Golden's stage play Four Walls, MGM's Straight is the Way offers the monumentally miscast Franchot Tone as...
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Shirley
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1934
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This so-so light comedy vehicle for Douglas MacLean was based on the Saturday Evening Post story, "Yancona Yillies," by...
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Julia Stoneman
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1921
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Cora and Frank Rodham (Wanda Hawley and Forrest Stanley) are happily married until Frank lands a lucrative position. He...
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1921
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Isabel Grace
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1921
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1920
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1920
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