This adventure melodrama concerns Vic Brennan (Stephen Boyd), who persuades his family to put up money for him to leave...
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Kaltenberg
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1961
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Yul Brynner and Kay Kendall star as Victor and Dolly Fabian in this successful cinematic version of the stage comedy by...
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Maxwell Archer
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1960
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Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The...
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1960
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Robert Morley is ideally cast as the legendary playwright, poet, and wit Oscar Wilde in this biographical look at the...
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Director
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1960
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For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main...
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1957
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A beautiful English model encounters the romantic advances of an Egyptian ruler. She's more interested in a soldier she's...
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Director, Producer, Abdulla
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1956
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This is the story of a chaste young TV-commercial actress (Maggie McNamara) who is romanced by a playboy architect...
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1953
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Director
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1953
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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1952
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Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around...
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1950
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Denied steady work in the U.S. because of his alleged left-wing political beliefs, Edward G. Robinson was obliged to seek out...
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Director, Producer
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1950
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Director, Producer
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1949
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The British That Dangerous Age is based on Autumn, a play by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surgutchoff. Myrna Loy heads the cast...
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Director, Producer
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1949
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A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in...
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Director
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1947
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This musical romance is set in the beautiful South American country and chronicles the love affair between a betrothed...
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Director
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1947
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That new-fangled swing music is the focus of this musical comedy. The trouble begins when a music school dean boards a train...
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Director
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1946
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In this engagingly silly musical fantasy from the waning days of WW2, Fred MacMurray stars as Bill, who wants to serve his...
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Director
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1945
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Director
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1945
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This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Climbing to fame...
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Director
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1944
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One can only imagine the reaction of arch-conservative MGM head Louis B. Mayer when Song of Russia first tumbled over the...
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Director
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1943
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This backstage musical offers a peek at vaudeville behind-the-scenes. The story centers on a recently divorced woman who...
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Director, Producer
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1943
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After an absence of three years, Mae West returned to the screen in the musical comedy The Heat's On. La West is cast as Fay...
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Director, Producer
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1943
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Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar...
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Director
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1942
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The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a...
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Director
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1942
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Loretta Young is (mis)cast as a prima ballerina, who reaches the top of her profession and marries her demanding instructor...
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Director, Producer
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1941
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Ingrid Bergman stars in Adam Had Four Sons, her second American film appearance. Based on a novel by Charles Bonner, the...
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Director
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1941
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Director
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1941
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John Barrymore provides an embarrassing spectacle in the semi-autobiographical role of a ham actor. Constantly in debt and...
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Boris Mefoofsky
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1940
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Communism-the American variety-is given a hilarious going-over in 20th Century-Fox's Public Deb No. 1. Spoiled society girl...
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Director
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1940
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Actress/ballerina Vera Zorina stars as a phony countess, working in cahoots with two international con artists...
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Director
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1940
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The extramarital shenanigans of a young married couple provide the basis of this surprisingly racy (for 1939 Hollywood)...
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Director
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1939
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In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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Director
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1939
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The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of...
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Director
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1939
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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Director
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1939
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This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of...
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Director
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1939
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Director
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1939
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Prince Michael
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1938
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Three manicurists hope to become entertainers through the auspices of their wisecracking agent (Fred Allen). Sally...
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Baron Zorka
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1938
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Alice Faye stars as aspiring playwright Judith Poe Wells. She falls in love with producer George Macrae (Don Ameche), which...
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Screen Story
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1937
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Cafe Metropole stars Tyrone Power as an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe...
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Screen Story, Paul
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1937
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This romantic tearjerker was the second film based on the popular 1922 stage play. James Stewart stars as Chico, a lowly...
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Boul
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1937
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Set during World War I, Lancer Spy stars a young George Sanders as Michael Bruce, an officer in the British Navy who bears an...
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Director
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1937
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In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story...
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J.J. Stone
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1937
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In this crime comedy, an ocean liner engineer messes up and ends up relegated to shoveling coal. Later he accepts a lovely...
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Ivan Petroff
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal...
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1936
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Bouffiou
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1936
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Nicky
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1936
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Otto Preminger was able to make his directorial debut on Under Your Spell solely because Darryl Zanuck couldn't care less...
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Petroff
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1936
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A bell ringer's wife dies while giving birth to his second son who turns out to be deaf. His oldest son moves to America...
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Director
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1936
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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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Ivan
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1936
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In the wake of The Thin Man, every studio in Hollywood scrambled to churn out sophisticated mystery-comedies wherein murders...
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1935
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Ratoff is a lion tamer who hears that a rival of his has died by a lioness. Ratoff adopts the daughter of the deceased man,...
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Producer, Nikita
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1935
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In this comedy, a sleazy group of gringo grifters try to con a naive farmer into investing his inheritance in their movie....
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1935
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Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and...
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Pest Salesman
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1934
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In this melodrama, set backstage at the theater, a fading, but still egotistical Hungarian star and his actress wife who has...
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Screen Story
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1934
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A British aristocrat and his son travel to Russia to embark upon a thrilling search for the father's other son, who was...
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Alexei Leshki
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1934
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Oscar Marks
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1934
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A genial lampoon of the Greta Garbo craze, Let's Fall in Love stars Ann Sothern as Jean, a Brooklyn-born aspiring actress. It...
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Max
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1934
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No relation to the identically-titled Clifton Webb film of 1948, Harry Joe Brown's Sitting Pretty is a breezy comedy about...
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Tannenbaum
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1933
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Headline Shooter is a brisk comedy/melodrama about a newsreel photographer (William Gargan). He prefers to risk his neck to...
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Gottlieb
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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1933
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An earthy, fun-loving radio pitchwoman finds it difficult to live up to her squeaky-clean public persona as the "Purity Girl...
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1933
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This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a...
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Max Mefooski
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1933
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Mae West's second starring vehicle, I'm No Angel casts the divine Miss West as the star performer in a seedy circus. Though...
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1933
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In this comedy, a Tennessee lad, enrolled in art school wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he...
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General
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1933
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In his first starring role, George Raft plays Nick Darrow, a fence convinced by the police to go undercover after his father...
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Martoff
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1932
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What Price Hollywood is often referred to as the "first" version of the oft-filmed A Star is Born. While there are strong...
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Julius Saxe
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1932
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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Vinmont
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1932
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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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Meyer Klauber
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1932
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A Parisian flower girl is trotted out as the missing Grand Duchess Anastasia in this fast-moving thriller based on a popular...
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Gen. Moloff
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1932
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