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Binnie Bell
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1938
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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1938
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Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
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1937
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1937
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Mannequin stars Joan Crawford as Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements (though this being an MGM film, her slum dwellings...
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1937
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Kitty Kennedy
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1935
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In this drama, a department store clerk is falsely accused of stealing and attempted murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Preston Foster, Mischa Auer, and Evalyn Knapp star in this tale of political intrigue centering on the quest of a powerful...
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1933
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Also known as From Broadway to Cheyenne, this Rex Bell vehicle is an excellent amalgam of the western and gangster genres....
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1932
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Alias Mary Smith might have been completely forgotten were it not for the diligent efforts of "B"-picture aficionado John...
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1932
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The problem with the main characters in Midnight Morals is that they have more midnight than morals in their lives. Rookie...
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1932
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This thriller involves a shipboard murder, castaways on a desert island, another murder, a wild man, and the hapless hero...
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Daisy
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1932
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Based on a play by William DuBois, Pagan Lady top-bills Evelyn Brent as the title character, a "woman of the world" named Dut...
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1931
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Though silent star John Gilbert's talking pictures were habitual money-losers, the stubborn actor insisted that MGM honor his...
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1931
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The star of the 12-episode Mascot serial The Galloping Ghost can be only one man: legendary college football star (Red...
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1931
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Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle...
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1931
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Former silent star Vera Reynolds plays the title role in this low-budget thriller from Poverty Row studio Chesterfield. She...
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1931
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The peripatetic spouses referred to in the title are all travelling salesmen, scooting to and from their wives via train. In...
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1931
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1930
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The marriage between Jim and Esther Hamilton (Owen Moore and Dorothy Christy) spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases...
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1930
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Few movie "heroes" are as despicable as Roy (Charles Kaley), the leading character in the MGM musical Lord Byron of Broadway....
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Bessie
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1930
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Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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In this drama, with a story that closely parallels the 1927 feature The Jazz Singer, a Jewish son disregards his father's...
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Mrs. Ellis
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1929
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This comedy chronicles the rise of a country rube who becomes a baseball legend for the New York Yankees. Not only does he...
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Rosie La Clerq
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1929
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Two young people get married for all the wrong reasons in this romance. Both are wealthy and are trying to run away from...
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Viola
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1929
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Intended as a follow-up to the fabulously successful Broadway Melody, Chasing Rainbows reunites several of the leading...
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1929
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Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in...
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1929
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The protagonists of Thief in the Dark are the members of a travelling spiritualist troupe, criminals all. When one of their...
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1928
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The Actress is a silent-film adaptation of Arthur Wing Pinero's evergreen stage play Trelawny of the Wells. Norma Shearer...
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Avonia
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1928
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In her last silent film, Norma Shearer plays Dolly, aka Angel Face, a young woman engaged in blackmailing rich libertines....
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Gwen
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1928
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Fifteen-year-old Loretta Young is 45-year-old Lon Chaney's winsome leading lady in Laugh, Clown, Laugh. Based on the...
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1928
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George O'Brien stars as George, a footloose sailor who adheres to a philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em." While on leave in...
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1928
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German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a...
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Cecile
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1928
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Show Girl was based on a novel by J.P. McEvoy, which also inspired the long-running comic strip Dixie Dugan (Actress...
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1928
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1928
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Maizie
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1927
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John Gilbert was one of MGM's top stars when he appeared this melodrama. Playing against his usual matinee idol type, Gilbert...
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1927
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'That's either your wife or your sister-in-law!" declares Gwen Lee to Aileen Pringle in the middle of Adam and Evil. This...
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Gwen De Vere
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1927
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In the tradition of Colleen Moore's best films, Her Wild Oat is nowhere near as "naughty" as its title. Moore is cast as Mary...
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Daisy
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1927
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Also known as Women Love Diamonds, this MGM picture was to have been a Greta Garbo vehicle, but when Garbo went on strike for...
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1927
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1927
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One of the most accessible of the Colleen Moore silent vehicles, Orchids and Ermine also happens to be among Moore's best and...
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Ermintrude
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1927
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Upstage stars Norma Shearer as Dolly Haven, an aspiring actress. Applying for a secretarial post at a theatrical agency,...
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Dixie Mason
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1926
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This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela Rogers St. John. Maggie...
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1925
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Produced by Preferred Pictures on rental stages at FBO and on-location at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, The Plastic Age...
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1925
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Norma Shearer, who hadn't yet become the queen of the MGM lot (or won mogul Irving Thalberg as her husband), stars in this...
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Clara Bayne
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1925
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