Despite MGM's insistence that star Gene Kelly, just returning from military service in 1947, appear exclusively in big-budget...
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1947
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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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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1940
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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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1939
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1937
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1936
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The first major film about psychiatry, Private Worlds stars Claudette Colbert as a psychiatrist with more than a few problems...
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1935
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1935
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Legendary "improvisational" director Gregory La Cava elected to stick to the script for his film version of the James M....
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1934
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1934
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The Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer's popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life...
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1934
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In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece --...
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1933
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In this sassy dramatic comedy, two reform-school girls finally graduate and as soon as they get out decide to board a New...
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1933
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In this misleadingly-titled 1932 medical (not musical) drama, the resolve of a young surgeon is severely tested. Dr. Felix...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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In this comedy drama, a young wife returns from a vacation abroad and learns that her sleazy husband is playing around with...
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1931
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This Depression-era comedy takes place in the boarding house run by the indomitable Sarah Austin (Edna May Oliver). Sarah's...
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1931
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1929
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1929
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Playwright Maxwell Anderson's domestic comedy drama Saturday's Children was adapted for the screen three times between 1929...
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1929
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1928
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1928
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It's a shame that so many of the silent directorial efforts of the innovational Gregory La Cava no longer exist. LaCava's...
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1927
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1927
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Played by William H. Tooker, railroad superintendent Old Man Sweeney is but a peripheral character in this film, despite its...
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1927
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The freewheeling direction of Gregory LaCava helps to enliven the otherwise standard actioner The Gay Defender. Decked out...
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1927
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This characteristically free-wheeling Greg LaCava production was based on The Man From Mexico, a play by Harry A. Douchet....
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1926
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Injured in a small European kingdom during a revolution, American soldier-of-fortune Bob Howard (Richard Dix) lies in a...
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1926
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Based on Mr. Bisbee's Princess, a story by Julian Street, So's Your Old Man was the first of two felicitous collaborations...
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1926
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Richard Dix and Esther Ralston starred together in several films during the latter half of the 1920s. This Western-comedy was...
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1925
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1924
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New teacher Sale has his hands full with a classroom of misfits until he proves himself when the schoolhouse catches on...
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1923
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1919
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