Obviously filmed several years before its 1938 release, Meet the Mayor serves as a vehicle for popular Broadway comedian...
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George Diamond
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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1935
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In this romantic drama, a horsewoman is forced to work in a society dame's stable. There she meets and falls in love with a...
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1935
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Produced independently by Edward Small, this surprisingly realistic gangster yarn stars stalwart Richard Arlen as Mal...
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1935
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1935
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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1935
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Perhaps Mascot Pictures' The Marines are Coming would have been more credible had it been made 10 years earlier. Stars...
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1935
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Like the contemporaneous Columbia feature Party Wire, RKO Radio's Grand Old Girl paints a surprisingly bleak and cynical...
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1935
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Calm Yourself starts off as ace advertising man Pat (Robert Young) is fired from his job when he offends the highly...
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1935
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1934
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The basic difference between the Chesterfield and Invincible productions of the 1930s is that most of the Chesterfields were...
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Gordon Lewis
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1934
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Based on a story by Zona Gale, When Strangers Meet concentrates on a small, interrelated community separated down the middle...
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Capt. Manning
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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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1934
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The second of three Kay Francis films in which the star was cast as a dedicated lady physician, Doctor Monica was adapted...
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1934
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Ransome
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1934
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The Quitters was typical of the curiously uninviting titles frequently bestowed upon the Chesterfield-Invincible productions...
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1934
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Before its absorption into the newly-formed 20th Century-Fox corporation in 1935, feisty little Majestic Pictures turned out...
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1934
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1933
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J.E. Burton
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1933
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1933
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The most exciting thing about Reform Girl is its title. Released from prison, hard-boiled Lydia Johnson (Noel Francis)...
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Santor Putnam
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1933
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In this romantic drama, a woman inadvertently assists a con artist in his scheme to rob a store manager and ends up in...
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Tony
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays one of those selfless general practitioners that seem to exist exclusively in the movies in One Man's...
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1933
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Warren William plays a high-powered ambitious executive who unflinchingly steamrolled his way to the top without regard for...
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1933
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Before it became one of Hollywood's busiest B-picture mills, Monogram Pictures had a fondness for literary adaptations...
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Bledsoe
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1933
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In this melodrama with strong racist overtones, Clara Bow attempts to revive her failing career by playing a free-spirited...
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1932
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1932
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Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the...
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1932
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Based on a story by Ursula Parrott, this romantic drama from Columbia Pictures was one of Humphrey Bogart's first leading...
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1932
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1932
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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1932
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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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1932
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This drama is a compilation of stories occurring in the Empire State Building with the focus on topics such as bank...
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1932
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A remarkably ambitious endeavor from low-budget World Wide Studios, Those We Love was adapted by F. Hugh Herbert from a play...
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Blake
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1932
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The first of many official and unofficial screen versions of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game was put together by...
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1932
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Constance Bennett suffers nobly in this outdated but fairly engrossing melodrama in which a seemingly hardened debutante...
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1932
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No relation to the 1949 Bob Hope comedy of the same name, The Great Lover stars that master of sartorial splendor,...
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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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1931
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1931
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MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this...
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Elvira
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1931
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A man finds he's torn between two women -- which isn't a good state of affairs for a man who just got married -- in this...
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1931
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In this romantic comedy-drama, a wealthy San Francisco businessman becomes the guardian of a sexy young Polynesian woman. At...
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1931
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1931
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A sophisticated, expensively-dressed group of people gather in a spooky old mansion to watch the first performance of a...
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Montrose, Criminologist
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1931
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Hoping to benefit from the popularity of the 1927 silent version of P.C. Wren's Beau Geste, RKO Radio reunited the earlier...
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1931
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1931
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Most existing prints of the 1931 melodrama Drums of Jeopardy are in pretty bad shape, but it's worth enduring the tinny...
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1931
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It was once theorized by critic Andrew Sarris that this 1931 Greta Garbo vehicle was subtitled "Her Fall & Rise" rather than...
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1931
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Wallace Beery won an Academy Award for his tour de force performance as a washed-up boxer. The bibulous Beery travels from...
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1931
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In this classy crime drama, the well-spoken, leader of a sophisticated gang of gangsters use their high social status to...
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1930
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1930
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Ellen Neal (Constance Bennett) is a "nice" girl -- just turned 18 -- who's been picked up in a raid on a speakeasy where she...
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1930
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Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien (Madge Bellamy) can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she...
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1927
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Dr. McCoy
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1926
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Tom Buchanan
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1926
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Maria Maretti (Bebe Daniels) works as a manicurist at a posh hotel. She is in love with Tony Luca (Edmund Burns), and they...
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Jamee Morgan
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1925
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This light comedy is based on the stage play Dear Me written by Luther Reed and Hale Hamilton. Madge Kennedy returned from...
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Play Author
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1923
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This amusing Universal comedy starred Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely. Wannabe writer Johnny Rutledge (Hamilton) lives in the...
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1919
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Directed by the unjustly forgotten John H. Collins, Opportunity starred Collins' wife Viola Dana as Mary Willard, a physical...
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Anthony Fry
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1918
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