Producer Hal Roach's postwar attempt to create a new bunch of "Our Gang" kids resulted in two misfire Cinecolor comedies, the...
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1948
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Honeymoon stars an attractively grown-up Shirley Temple as Barbara, the sweetheart of a GI corporal named Phil (Guy Madison)....
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1947
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Blondie's Anniversary invades territory already mapped out by Columbia's two-reel Hugh Herbert comedies. Blondie...
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1947
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This 20th entry in Columbia's long-running "Blondie" series finds poor Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) in financial trouble...
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1947
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Reminiscent of the classic "screwball" comedy-mysteries of the prewar years, Columbia's The Corpse Came C.O.D stars Warner...
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1947
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It Happened On Fifth Avenue was easily the most ambitious movie made by the then-newly-organized Allied Artists for at least...
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1947
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1946
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1946
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This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but...
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1946
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John Steinbeck cowrote this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching study of small-town hypocrisy. Shiftless Benny...
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1945
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Filmed some 18 months before its release, Conflict is one of two melodramas in which Humphrey Bogart self-consciously...
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1945
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Though running a mere 15 minutes, Watchtower Over Tomorrow boasts some very impressive credits. Written by Ben Hecht, this...
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1945
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This screwball comedy stars Claudette Colbert as Mary, the wife of bumbling but likeable banker Chris (Dick Foran). Foreign...
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1945
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Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle...
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1945
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More expensive-looking than most PRC productions, Crime Inc. is based on a story by former crime reporter Martin Mooney....
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Wayne Clark
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1945
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Her Favorite Patient is the TV title for Bedside Manner, an improbable comedy directed by future master of "realism"...
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1945
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Based on a novel by Barry Fleming, Colonel Effingham's Raid stars Charles Coburn in the title role. Upon retiring from the...
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1945
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In this high-spirited musical comedy, J. Newport Bates (Eddie Bracken) is a millionaire who finds women are only interested...
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Uncle Ralph
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1945
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1944
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In this domestic comedy, a housewife nervously awaits the return of her husband from military service. They married after a...
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1944
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1944
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In this drama, a young couple ignores the advice of their elders and get married. Soon afterward, the young groom is...
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Mr. Benson
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1944
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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1944
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Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was...
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1944
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Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...
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1944
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All By Myself is another of Universal Pictures' "instant" musicals of the 1940s, built tenuously around the popular title...
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J.D. Gibbons
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1943
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Making her first film appearance since 1941, Deanna Durbin plays the title role in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Truth to tell,...
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1943
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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1943
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This lighthearted romantic comedy stars William Holden as working stiff Michael Stewart and Frances Dee as wealthy socialite...
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Mr. Goodwin
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1942
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In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot...
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1942
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Rosalind Russell plays aspiring Ohio journalist Ruth Sherwood, who heads for New York to seek her fortune, accompanied by her...
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1942
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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1942
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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1942
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Written by real-life intelligence agent Ladislas Fodor, Cairo is both a spoof of espionage thrillers and a good-natured...
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O.H.P. Boggs
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1942
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1941
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Footsteps in the Dark is a comedy/mystery, starring Errol Flynn as a wealthy investment counselor who secretly doubles as a...
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1941
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An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college...
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1941
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1941
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In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
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Joshua Mason
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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The physically challenged bride of the title is played by Lynne Roberts, but it's reporter Ted North who's the film's true...
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1940
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Humphrey Bogart is a gangster again, this time as counterpoint to the comic elements of It All Came True. On the lam from the...
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1940
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1940
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This upbeat domestic drama chronicles the struggles of a newlywed couple as they try to keep their marital status secret from...
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Jones
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1940
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Olivia DeHavilland stars as a music student whose education is secretly subsidized by the aging owner of a phonograph factory...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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1940
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Father is a Prince is a scaled-down remake of the 1934 comedy-drama Big Hearted Herbert, itself based on a play by Sophie...
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John Bower
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1940
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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1939
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District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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In this third installment of MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, Dr. James Kildare (Lew Ayres) comes to the rescue when his...
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1939
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1939
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In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that her husband invite a...
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Ernest Headley
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1939
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In this entry in the long-running series, the Dead End Kids are freshly out of reform school when they find themselves...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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In this socially conscious drama, a man is appointed warden at a boys reformatory on the condition that he can keep unwanted...
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Arnold Frayne
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1938
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Peck's Bad Boy and his gang of mischievous misfits (including Spanky McFarland) make all kinds of trouble around the circus....
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1938
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In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone...
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1938
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Andrea Leeds, whose career had shifted into hyperdrive after her brilliant performance in Stage Door (1937), stars in the...
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1938
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Though Kay Francis' Warner Bros. vehicle had slipped from "A" attractions to B-plus programmers by 1938, she was still worth...
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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While drunk at a party, millionaire Stephens Cormack (Neil Hamilton) playfully marries footloose Clarice Andrews...
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Burton Williams
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1937
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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1937
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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Marty Crawford
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1936
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Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in...
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1936
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1936
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The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s:...
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1936
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Edmund Lowe made his only screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Garden Murder Case. The...
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Markham
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1936
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To fully accept the premise of Her Master's Voice, one must also accept the notion that Edward Everett Horton is radio...
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Twilling
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1936
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Moonlight Murder takes place virtually in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl. Despite dire warnings by a sinister mystic...
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1936
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Aspiring actress Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) puts her career on hold when she marries ambitious newsman Christopher...
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Michael Jennings
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1936
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1936
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With little plot but incredible photography and choreography, Gold Diggers of 1935 was exactly what you would expect a...
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Louis Lamson
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1935
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In this comedy-drama, an enterprising college football coach's desire to win overshadows his common-sense when he cuts a...
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1935
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In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the...
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1935
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Jack Benny is cast against type as a small-time con man in this lightweight MGM programmer. Whenever he manages to outsmart...
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1935
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Binnie Barnes stars as Rina Sorel, a glamorous kleptomaniac who steals for the thrill of it. Specializing in uncut diamonds,...
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Fussli
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1935
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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1935
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In this comedy, a toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business,...
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Rufus K. Twitchell
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1935
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One More Spring is a laundered version of Robert Nathan's whimsical Depression-era novel. Left destitute by the Wall Street...
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1935
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Egeus
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1935
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A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. One day he...
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1935
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Willie Martin
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1935
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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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Judge Parks
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1935
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A midwestern girl heads for Hollywood in hopes of becoming a star. She is accompanied by two good buddies and this comedy...
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1934
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In this comedy, two impoverished cousins inherit a British mansion and decide that one of them should marry a wealthy...
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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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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Chester A. Sharpe
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1934
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In this comedy, based on a popular play by George Kelly, an office clerk masquerades as a railroad magnate to impress a young...
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Pa Fisher
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1934
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Trying a bit too hard to qualify as a "screwball" comedy, RKO Radio's We're Rich Again is based on Alden Nash's stage play...
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1934
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Two wealthy neighbors, who make no secret of despising one another, both claim that they're married to Bessie Foley...
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Claude Drumm
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1934
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Assistant DA Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot) is in love with sweet Muriel (Mary Brian). This in itself is not earth-shattering,...
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Joe Martel
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1934
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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1933
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This weepie, adapted from a play by Philip Dunning and George Abbott, is a vehicle for Ruth Chatterton as the titular Lilly....
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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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1933
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Young football hero Jim Fowler (Robert Young) isn't in it for the love of the game. The hardworking young man is simply using...
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Ezra "Scoot" Fowler
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1933
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Our Betters is adapted from Somerset Maugham's play about the shallowness and hypocrisy of the idle rich. American heiress...
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Thornton Clay
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1933
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Tomorrow at Seven is one of those "you will die at the appointed hour" murder mysteries which flooded the market in the early...
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1933
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This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive...
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1933
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Based on a novel by Phil (State Fair) Stong, The Stranger's Return is one of the most accomplished projects of director...
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1933
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Sent to Sing Sing prison, influential crook Tom Connors (Spencer Tracy) is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules....
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1933
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Aerial footage distinguishes this romantic-triangle melodrama set among pilots in a flying circus. Jill (Sally Eilers) loves...
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Mr. Blaine
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1933
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In this boxing drama/murder mystery, an aspiring small-town prizefighter ignores the objections of his pacifistic father, a...
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Rev. John Williams
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1933
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This earnest, socially-conscious road drama centers on two California teenagers who find their comfortable lives thrown into...
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1933
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Practically every member of the Warner Bros. stock company except Glenda Farrell shows up in the rowdy, raunchy pre-Code...
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1933
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In this comedy, a childlike playboy inherits the family fortune and gets himself a worldly butler who teaches him how to...
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1933
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1933
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Veteran stage and screen star George Arliss forsakes his biographical roles for domestic comedy in A Successful Calamity....
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Connors
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1932
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1932
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In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner. The husband feels demeaned by...
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1932
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1932
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Charlie Vane
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1932
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Based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse, Mervyn LeRoy directs the black-and-white 1932 comedy drama Big City Blues....
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1932
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1932
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Star Witness starts out as a homey family comedy and develops into a rather gutsy thriller. Chic Sale plays a cantankerous...
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Pa Leeds
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1931
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John Martin Bolton, the Barber
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1931
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This curious picture is a cross between fantasy and science fiction (at least, the 1920s' version of science fiction) and...
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1923
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