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1948
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John Ford had already directed one of the three previous film versions of Peter Kyne's novel under the title Marked Men...
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1948
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Under the aegis of veteran program-feature producer Bryan Foy, the fledgling Eagle-Lion company made great strides during its...
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1947
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In his final starring vehicle as a singing cowboy, Ken Curtis saves Doc Henderson's Medicine Show from being robbed by the...
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1947
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Janet Leigh made an impressive film-debut in MGM's The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Though the title suggests a lighthearted...
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1947
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1946
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In his penultimate musical Western for Columbia, Ken Curtis played Curt Norton, a returning G.I. planning to convert his...
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1946
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In this Western, Ken Curtis, Columbia Pictures' low-budget answer to Gene Autry, romanced one of the studio's most beautiful...
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1946
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Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at...
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The Chief/Radio director
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1945
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Ever so slightly, the quality of PRC Pictures' film output improved as the 1940s rolled on. In PRC's Dixie Jamboree,...
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Capt. Jackson
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1944
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John Cleveland Carter (Minor Watson) is the publisher of a once-great newspaper, who discovers too late that his editor,...
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Ulysses Bradford
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1943
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This second film version of the George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway hit Girl Crazy stars reigning MGM musical prince and...
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1943
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The title neatly gives away the ending in RKO Radio's Scattergood Survives a Murder. Guy Kibbee once again stars as...
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Scattergood Baines
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1942
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Another graduate of MGM's short-subject department, director David Miller proved he had what it took to helm a feature film...
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Pops Muller
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1942
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In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker. When she...
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1942
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14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular...
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Grandpop Rooney
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1942
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Cinderella Swings It was the last in a series of RKO programmers based on the popular radio series Scattergood Baines (its...
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Scattergood Baines
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1942
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This second entry in MGM's "Whistling" series is more elaborate than the first (Whistling in the Dark) and equally as funny....
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Judge George Lee
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1942
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Harry Bryant
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1942
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RKO Radio's film series based on the popular radio serial Scattergood Baines rolled into 1942 with Scattergood Rides High....
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Scattergood Baines
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1942
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A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding...
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1942
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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Bishop Maxwell
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1941
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1941
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings was the second in a series of B pictures based on the long-running radio series...
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Scattergood Baines
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1941
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Inspired by the long-running (1937-1949) radio series of the same name, Scattergood Baines came to the screen in 1941, with...
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Scattergood Baines
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1941
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Scattergood Meets Broadway was the third of RKO's film series based on the long-running radio favorite Scattergood Baines....
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Scattergood Baines
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1941
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Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is given the Hollywood treatment in this adaptation directed by...
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1940
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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Huguenine
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1940
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In this drama, a transient farm worker suffering from amnesia gets in trouble with the cops. One day he drifts into a town,...
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Harry Brent
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1940
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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1939
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A plucky orphan girl runs away from the orphanage. Her only possession is her beloved Bible in which she has complete faith...
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Luther Marvin
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1939
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In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still...
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Capt. Streeter
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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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Gov. Hubert Hopper
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1939
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Judge Black
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1939
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Frank Morgan stars as vaudevillian Henry Conroy, who puts show business behind him when he inherits a dilapidated Arizona...
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Judge Van Treece
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1939
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Dennis
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1938
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In director Reinh Schunzel's film Rich Man, Poor Girl, the upper crust collides with the more financially unfortunate members...
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1938
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Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is an outlaw with a heart...
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1938
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Nancy, a jilted bride-to-be, is played by Janet Gaynor in one of her last starring films. The three loves are novelist...
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Pa Briggs
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1938
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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Alfons
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1938
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George Ames
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1938
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In this detective story, a super sleuth is hired by an insurance company to find a stolen emerald belonging to a rich man's...
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Jim Hanvey
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1937
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In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk. The story centers...
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Asa Plunkett
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1937
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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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Dr. Barnard
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1937
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Even the mighty MGM had to keep the home fires burning with B pictures. The studio's Mama Steps Out is a harmless confection...
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Leonard Cuppy
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1937
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A veterinarian and his wife leave their small burg and move to the Big Apple after he inherits a million dollars. His social...
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Mr. Simms
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1937
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Guy Kibbee, moviedom's archetypal small-town bigshot, stars in RKO Radio's Don't Tell the Wife. On this occasion, Kibbee,...
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Malcolm Winthrop
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1937
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Doc Waddington
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1937
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The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial...
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Julius Trent
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1936
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Previously filmed as a vehicle for Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1922, Laura E. Richard's Captain January was warmed up as a...
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Captain January
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1936
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1936
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David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of...
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Mr. Hobbs
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1936
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Sinclair Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street came to the screen in 1936 from Warner Bros. under this rather more mundane title....
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Samuel Clark
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1936
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Loosely based on a story by frontier writer Bret Harte, this romantic western drama tells the story of an innocent, carefree...
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Washoe Smith
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1936
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Mr. Carver
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1936
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Joe E. Brown was an ideal choice for the character of Alexander Botts, the brash, arrogant "natural born salesman" created...
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Sam Johnson
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1936
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Consigned to the Warner Bros. "B" unit in the mid-1930s, director Robert Florey must have had a high old time trying to...
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Matt Upshore
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1935
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Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen....
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George Henderson
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1935
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In this drama, a hard working printer gets wanderlust, leaves his wife and family, and hits the road. Ten years pass. His...
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Sam Preston
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1935
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Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt, While the Patient Slept stars Aline MacMahon as Eberhardt's middle-aged amateur...
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Lance O'Leary
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1935
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High-rolling gambler "Odds" Owen (Warren William) establishes an American insurance agency created along the lines of Lloyd's...
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Colonel Jefferson Davis Youngblood
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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In this family drama, a happy marriage is threatened by suspicion and jealousy, and illicit affairs. The trouble begins when...
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Justice of the Peace
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1934
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First adapted for the screen in 1928, Carl Ed's popular comic strip Harold Teen was cinematized a second time in 1934. This...
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Pa Lovewell
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1934
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As the title song says, you go to those shows to see those beautiful dames--and there's dames aplenty in this 1934...
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Horace P. Hemingway
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1934
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Guy Kibbee trots out his small-town blowhard routine in the title role of Big Hearted Herbert. He plays a former plumber who...
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Big Hearted Herbert Kainess
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1934
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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1934
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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Uncle Newt
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1934
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Warner Bros. grabbed up the rights to Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel of middle America, soon after publication in...
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George F. Babbitt
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1934
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Tom
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1934
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Jimmy Dolan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is a light heavyweight champion, with the world at his feet. Then he gets into a fight...
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Phlaxer
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1933
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The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was...
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1933
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This well-wrought drama chronicles the rise and fall of a midwestern family dynasty from the mid 1800s through the Great...
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1933
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The missing girl in this weak whodunit from Warner Bros. is redheaded Peggy Shannon, once seen as the successor of "It Girl"...
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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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Doc McGill
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1933
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The wonderful Warner Bros. stock company goes through its customarily breezy paces in Havana Widows. Joan Blondell and...
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Deacon Jones
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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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George Ellerbe
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1933
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This drama is set aboard a cross-country train bound for New York. Aboard this train is a silk manufacturer from Seattle who...
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McDuff
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1933
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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Abner Dillon
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1933
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There's nothing wrong with Hold Your Man that a little editing wouldn't cure. Clark Gable plays a raffish young petty crook...
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1933
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May Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle...
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Judge Blake
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1933
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The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight...
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Silas Gould
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1933
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This Depression-era morale-booster looks at the ups and downs of a banking family from the 1870s to the 1930s (and borrows...
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Dr. Daniel Blake
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop of this costume epic that centers around a young nobleman who, with his maid,...
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1932
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Sudden success can be a double-edged sword as this drama aptly proves. An aspiring musician finds success when his manager...
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1932
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Joe E. Brown plays a small town fireman who is also the town's star ballplayer--and an itinerant inventor on the side. Brown...
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Pop
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1932
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Alfred E. Green directs the political satire The Dark Horse, starring Bette Davis early in her career. The progressive party...
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Zachary Hicks
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1932
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In this crime drama, an assistant DA must scramble to save the life of an innocent man he mistakenly sent to the chair....
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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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Hummel
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1932
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1932
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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Pop
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1932
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James Cagney stars as a popular prizefighter who loses his winnings through too much partying and too many women. Cagney's...
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Pop Slavin
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1932
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A huge box office success and a key film in James Cagney's rise to stardom, this drama stars Cagney as Matt Nolan, a gritty...
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Pop Reilly
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1932
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Howard Hawks directed this fast-paced auto racing drama. Joe Greer (James Cagney) is a top-ranked race car driver; his...
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Dad Greer
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1932
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Similar in theme to Ambrose Bierce's classic story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," this odd melodrama chronicles the...
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Bookie
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1932
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The pleasures of the flesh confront the discipline of the Lord's teachings in this screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's...
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Joe Horn
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1932
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A Grand Hotel derivation set in a major metropolitan train terminal, Union Depot features most of the reliable Warner Bros....
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Scrap Iron
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1932
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In her first film under contract to Warner Bros., Kay Francis plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband Fred (Kenneth...
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1932
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Based on Abel Kandel's 1931 play Hot Money, this delightfully daffy comedy from Warner Bros. is a typical example of that...
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Clifford Gray
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1932
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A very young Loretta Young stars in this domestic drama in which a naïve department store clerk falls for an inveterate...
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Finkelwald
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1932
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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1932
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Cass Wheeler
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1931
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Officially released as The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, this William Haines vehicle was snappily adapted by...
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McGonigal
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1931
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Never one to hide his talent under a bushel basket, director Rouben Mamoulien proudly proclaimed that, while there were ten...
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Pop Cooley
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1931
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Still in his "sophisticated cad" period, William Powell essays the title role in Man of the World. Powell plays a smooth...
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Harold Taylor
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1931
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Blonde Crazy is the kind of amoral fun that disappeared from Hollywood after 1933, once the Production Code forced morality...
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A. Rupert Johnson, Jr.
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1931
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The delightful Winnie Lightner was afforded her own movie vehicle in Side Show. Lightner stars as Pat, one of several members...
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Col. "Pop" Gowdy
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1931
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1931
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Flying High was a nonsensical Broadway musical hit of 1930 starring Bert Lahr. The film version, made one year later by MGM,...
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1931
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