Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this...
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1970
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The Owl and the Pussycat began life as a two-character Broadway play by Bill Manhoff, about a stuffy author who entered into...
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1970
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Twenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her...
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1969
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Cary Grant made his last film appearance before retiring from the screen in this agreeable piece of fluff based on the 1943...
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1966
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Mervyn LeRoy, one of the best-known directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, wrapped up his career behind the camera with this...
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1966
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"You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games." Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of...
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1966
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Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy....
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1966
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The difficulties faced by drug addicts attempting to kick their habits provide the basis of this gritty, realistic drama that...
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1965
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George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge...
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1965
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1964
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In this different type of gangster farce with a few flaws here and there, Robert Preston is Steve Blair, a superlative con...
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1963
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This film version of the Broadway play of the same name was produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Bob (Barry Nelson) is a...
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1963
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A distinguished cast highlights this film adaptation of a stage drama by Peter Shaffer. Stanley Harrington (Jack Hawkins) is...
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1962
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1962
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Danny Kaye headlines this lively WW II-era comedy. He plays a foot soldier who with his fellow troop is preparing for D-day....
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1961
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This standard love story adapted by Leonard Spigelgass from his stage play was acclaimed when it was released for probing...
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1961
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A scenic, tobacco-road soap opera by director Delmar Daves, known more for his westerns, Parrish features Troy Donahue in the...
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1961
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Robert Preston plays the flip side of his eternally ebullient Professor Harold Hill in Dark at the Top of the Stairs....
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1960
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A screwball comedy that turns into political farce, this film was something of a throwback even in 1960. Real-life husband...
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1960
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A navy jet piloted by Captain Dale Heath (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and carrying an enlisted man (Troy Donahue) has already taken...
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1960
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Something of an urbanized, upscale version of Peyton Place, Vincent Sherman's
The Young Philadelphians is a glossy...
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1959
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The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and...
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1959
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1958
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Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, middle-class, Jewish girl from New York who wants nothing more than to...
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1958
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Andy Griffith makes a spectacular film debut in this searing drama as Lonesome Rhodes, a philosophical country-western singer...
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1957
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The Broadway musical Pajama Game was based on Seven and a Half Cents. a comic novel about labor relations written by...
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1957
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Tyrone Power stars in this tear-jerking biography of the beloved but short-lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin....
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1956
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This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This...
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1955
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Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the...
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1955
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One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and...
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1954
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Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a...
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1953
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In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley,...
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1953
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1953
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1952
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Hans Christian Andersen was Sam Goldwyn's final production for RKO Radio release, and also the producer's last Danny Kaye...
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1952
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Filled with the kind of Red Scare propaganda that must have delighted members of McCarthy's House Un-American Activities...
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1952
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One of the most notorious flops in the history of Columbia Pictures, Valentino is actually fairly entertaining -- but only...
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1951
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Upon beginning production on his Korean-war drama I Want You, producer Sam Goldwyn lamented "I've just brought those boys...
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1951
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1951
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In this old-fashioned screwball comedy, Christy Sloane (Eleanor Parker) is a secretary with a large legal firm who is sent to...
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1951
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The title character (Paul Douglas) is a pro football player of the early 1940s at the end of his career. Douglas is offered a...
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1951
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1950
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1950
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1949
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The Barkleys of Broadway became Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "reunion" picture purely by accident. Originally conceived as...
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1949
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1949
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1948
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1948
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Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the...
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1948
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Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine...
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1947
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Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes...
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1947
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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1946
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This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but...
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1946
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Too long by at least two reels, Holiday in Mexico is nevertheless one of the more enjoyable MGM Technicolor musicals of the...
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1946
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This tender but fluffy romantic comedy centers on the romantic travails of a beautiful European princesss who goes to New...
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1945
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1945
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This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come...
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1945
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If you've never seen a '40s singing, swimming musical this may be the one to catch. Featuring a mammoth cast, including such...
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1944
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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1943
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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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1943
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In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the...
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1943
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The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and...
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1942
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1942
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A fun though abortive bid to pair crime-solving duo Lew Ayres and Laraine Day for a series of thrillers, this murder mystery...
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1942
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The once-notorious theatrical chestnut White Cargo was toned down for public consumption in this 1942 MGM-ized adaptation...
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1942
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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1942
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No one will ever know what possessed MGM's reigning screen queen Norma Shearer to select the tired old stage farce Her...
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1942
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1941
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The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest...
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1941
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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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1941
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is...
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1941
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1941
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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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1941
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The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging...
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1940
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Like its predecessors, this third cinema version of Sidney Hoiward's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted...
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1940
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Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring, My Son My Son stars Brian Aherne as a self-made success determined to give his son...
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1940
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This British spy thriller concerns the theft of valuable aircraft secrets by enemy agents. Laurence Olivier plays a firebrand...
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1939
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Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from...
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1939
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Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of...
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1938
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1938
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Robert Donat stars as Dr. Andrew Manson in this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's best-selling novel. Manson devotes himself to...
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1938
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In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for...
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1938
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Set in England in the early 1900s, South Riding is a political and personal drama about a nearly bankrupt estate owner who...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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This film takes a look at British decorum and civilities when a highly conscientious army officer is accused of cheating at...
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1937
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Also known as La Grande Refrain, Symphonie D'Amour was filmed in 1936 but wasn't released in America until a decade later....
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1936
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Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and...
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1935
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In this Austrian romantic comedy, set in old Vienna, a young girl attempts to support herself and her elderly mother. She...
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1935
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Jacques Feyder's sole directorial contribution in 1934 (and his first film since 1931) was the superior Foreign Legion...
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1934
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1934
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1932
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The 1930 Hollywood feature Laughter, which starred Nancy Carroll and Fredric March, was also lensed in two foreign-language...
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1931
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1931
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In this musical, a singing Yankee stable boy works for a rich Irishman. When he meets his boss's granddaughter and they soon...
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1929
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Popular radio crooner Morton Downey (yes, the father of talk-show host Morton Downey Jr.) stars in this sentimental...
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1929
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The Nest was based on Les Noces d'Argent, a play by Paul Geraldy. Having sacrificed all for her children, staid Mrs. Hamilton...
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1927
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Lew Cody leads an excellent cast in this colorful romance. While visiting France, Prince Rudolph (Cody) falls in love with a...
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1922
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Lionel Barrymore stars in this melodrama, based on the play by Sir James L. Young. Jim Ralston (Barrymore) is a country bank...
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1921
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