This documentary is named for a play written by Maxwell Anderson, one of the giants of 20th century American theater. The...
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1992
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1992
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Miss Jane Marple
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1985
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Having gone to his Heavenly reward in 1948, lawyer Arthur Morton is "reborn" in 1987 as Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon), a...
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1984
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Originally broadcast as a two-hour TV movie, this opening episode of Highway to Heaven has since been divided into two...
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1984
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1984
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Miss Marple
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1983
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Lavinia Fullerton
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1981
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Director Brian O'Doherty zooms in on Edward Hopper's paintings and the locations that inspired them, in this light-hearted...
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1981
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A Family Upside Down stars Fred Astaire and Helen Hayes as a retired married couple. Always proud of his independence and...
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1978
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Though she owns a large estate and is herself a noblewoman, Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) is anything but rich. Indeed, if...
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Lady St. Edmund
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1977
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Within months after the spectacular July 4, 1976 rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe airport, there were two competing...
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Mrs. Wise
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1976
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This biographical documentary portrays the life and career of Alice Awten, a photographer known for the thousands of...
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1975
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In this comical Disney espionage adventure, a herd of nannies team up with Scotland Yard and set off to find important...
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Hettie
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1975
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A Black Day for Bluebeard is a typically lighthearted murder yarn from the Snoop Sisters TV series. Vincent Price guests as a...
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1974
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Herbie Rides Again is the first sequel to Disney's fabulously successful The Love Bug. The emphasis here is on Mrs. Steinmetz...
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Mrs. Steinmetz
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1974
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The Devil Made Me Do It is an episode of the weekly, 90-minute TV sleuth series The Snoop Sisters. Helen Hayes and...
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1974
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An antacid pill, provided by Gwen Snoop, causes a basketball star to become ill prior to appearing on a television talk...
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1973
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1973
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Corpse and Robbers was the first episode of the 90-minute TV detective series The Snoop Sisters. Helen Hayes and...
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1973
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Ernesta Snoop
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1972
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Sophie Curtis
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1971
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Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the...
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1970
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Filmed on location in Switzerland, Walt Disney's Third Man on the Mountain was based on Banner in the Sky, a book by James...
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1959
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One of several filmed presentations seen on the otherwise "live" TV anthology Playhouse 90, "Four Women in Black" is a...
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Sister Theresa
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1957
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Anastasia is adapted from the popular stage play by Marcelle Maurette. The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. Ingrid Bergman...
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Empress Dowager Marie Fedorovna
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1956
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Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute...
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1955
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1953
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Included are two Christmas specials from 1953: Christmas with Liberace and Playhouse Past Memories. ~ John Bush, Rovi...
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1953
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A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953...
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1953
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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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Lucille Jefferson
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1952
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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Vanessa
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1935
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Crime Without Passion is an odd, almost existential murder yarn. Famed attorney Claude Rains, incensed that his mistress...
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1934
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Legendary "improvisational" director Gregory La Cava elected to stick to the script for his film version of the James M....
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Maggie Wylie
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1934
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Given the usual pedestal upon which mothers were placed by MGM head Louis Mayer, it's all the more amazing that Mayer gave...
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Stella Hallam
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1933
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Angela Chiaromonte
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1933
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Mme. Fabian
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1933
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San Francisco's Chinatown provides the setting of this dramatic romance set in 1911. At this time in China, a major uprising...
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Lien Wha
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1932
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Catherine Barkley
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1932
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One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
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Leora Arrowsmith
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1931
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In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is...
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Madelon Claudet
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1931
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