In many ways, the history of the cautionary fable Strange Holiday is more fascinating than the film itself. Written and...
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1945
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Marital entanglements provide the basis for this drama. The trouble begins as a woman prepares to marry her fifth husband,...
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Martha Phillips
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1945
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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1944
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Power Dive was the first release from Pine-Thomas Productions, marking the beginning of a long and fruitful association...
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Mrs. Coles
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1941
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Mollie Malloy
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1940
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The lives of female hoboes in the Great Depression are chronicled in this interesting drama. In order to fully understand...
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Mickey
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1940
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Universal's old Show Boat sets are brought out of mothballs for the energetic "B" entry Gambling Ship. When honest gambler...
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Mollie Riley
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1939
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The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by...
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1939
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In this patriotic spy adventure, a young gangster joins an enemy espionage agency and agrees to enlist in the Marine Corps...
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Judy
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1939
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A typical, fast-paced Grade-B murder mystery, Mystery of the White Room was based on the then revolutionary medical...
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Carole Dale, Nurse
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1939
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In this drama, a young man aspires to a life of wealth and power in the newspaper business. Unfortunately, it takes time and...
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Mary Ellen Stephens
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1938
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This drama chronicles the different paths taken by former partners in law. One of them, an avaricious attorney who will stop...
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Alison
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1938
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The slick Universal programmer Secrets of a Nurse was based on a Collier's Magazine story by distinguished journalist Quentin...
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Katherine MacDonald
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1938
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In this romantic comedy, a rookie reporter works for his uncle's newspaper and gets assigned to write a story about an...
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Jane Hamilton
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1937
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In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and...
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Ruth Holden
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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Chester Morris plays a working stiff unable to provide for his family on his meager salary. He arranges a loan with the...
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Mary Lang
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1937
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In this crime drama, a highly superstitious racehorse owner spends his time off the track helping the less fortunate in any...
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Betty
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1937
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Famed Swedish director Victor Sjostrom was coaxed out of retirement to direct his final film, Under the Red Robe, a...
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1936
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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Mae Sullivan
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1936
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Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be...
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Helen
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1935
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Randolph Scott, whom Cooper borrowed from Paramount, plays Leo Vincey, an explorer searching for the "flame of life," a...
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Tanya Dugmore
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1921 and 1926, this venerable 1911 David Belasco stage play provides a good, if slightly risible,...
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Catherine
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1935
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James Barton plays a salty old sea captain on the verge of retirement, forced to return to the sea when his funds run out....
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Matie
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1935
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Paramount Pictures' annual college musical of 1934 is a pip, as they used to say. Jack Oakie plays Finnegan, a conceited...
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June Cort
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1934
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In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking...
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Eve Haron
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1934
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One of the least known of Cary Grant's starring vehicles, Kiss and Make Up was based on a European play by Stephen Bekeffi....
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Anne
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1934
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Marshall Neilan, a great silent film director on the verge of obscurity, had one last big-studio stand with The Lemon Drop...
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Alice Deering
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1934
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Florette Faxon
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1934
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Hoping to immediately cash in on its blockbuster hit King Kong (1933). RKO Radio commissioned producers Willis O'Brien and...
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Hilda Peterson
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1933
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Rose Thorne
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1933
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A professional gambler masquerading as a businessman boards a train and sets off across the country. During the journey he...
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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1933
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Susan
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1933
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Yankee Buck Jones turns into a south-of-the-border Robin Hood in this fine, if flawed, Western from Columbia Pictures....
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Dolores
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1933
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This film version of the Jack DeLeon-Jack Celestin play Silent Witness stars Lionel Atwill in his original stage role of Sir...
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Sylvia Pierce
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1932
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Ken Maynard searches for a wayward youngster in this average Western from his days with low-budget KBS Productions. A rancher...
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Helen Clark
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1932
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While Paris Sleeps is a grim expose of the European white slave trade. To save his daughter Manon (Helen Mack) from falling...
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Manon Costaud
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1932
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Melody Cruise, director Mark Sandrich's first feature film, is an unofficial extension of Sandrich's Oscar-winning RKO short...
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Laurie Marlowe
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1932
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The directorial career of D.W. Griffith, "the father of the American cinema," ended on a discordant note with The Struggle,...
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1931
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1924
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was commissioned to write the story to this low budget crime drama for actor Glenn Hughes. In spite of...
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1924
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As a play, Zaza had been around for some 30 years and had already been filmed once before when Allan Dwan updated it and made...
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1923
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This old-fashioned meller was based on a creaky stage play by Hal Reid, who specialized in "ten-twent-thirt" fare. A band of...
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1923
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