Henry Koster directed this cloying family musical based on the true life story of Soeur Sourire, a Belgian nun whose...
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1966
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This family comedy stars James Stewart as Dr. Robert Leaf, a college professor who dislikes science and tries to instill in...
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1965
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Rock Hudson narrates this documentary about the film career of Marilyn Monroe. The screen goddess is shown in the 1949 film...
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1963
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In this generation gap movie of the early 1960s, Sandra Dee is Mollie Michaelson, a teenage rebel enamored with long-haired...
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1963
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Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson adapted the novel by author Edward Streeter, whose work was also the basis of Father of the...
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1962
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The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the...
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1961
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This Biblical epic stars Elana Eden as Ruth, who serves in the temple where the High Priestess (Viveca Lindfors) leads the...
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1960
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The slow pacing of this fanciful tale about the life and one reputed love of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya makes for an...
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1959
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About the only perils that heroine Dana Wynter avoids in Fraulein are being tied to the buzzsaw and chased across the ice by...
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1958
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The Depression-New Deal subtext of the original 1936 My Man Godfrey was understandably dispensed with in this so-so 1957...
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1957
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Based on a novel by Howard Swiggert, The Power and the Prize sets up a premise that had far more relevance in 1956 than it...
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1956
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We don't see much of Omaha Beach in D-Day, the Sixth of June. Instead, the film concentrates on a romantic triangle involving...
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1956
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This distaff variation of the Goodbye Mr. Chips theme is based on a novel by Frances Gray Patton. While confined to a...
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1955
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A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played...
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1955
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1955
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1954
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Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in...
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1953
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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1952
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1952
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1952
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In this romance, an industrial designer is bitterly disappointed when he discovers that upon graduation his daughter decides...
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1951
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Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as...
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1951
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1951
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This whimsical fantasy about a local drunk's 6' 3 1/2" imaginary rabbit pal was a smash hit (and a Pulitzer Prize winner) on...
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1950
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Betty Grable's Wabash Avenue is an agreeable remake of Grable's 1943 hit Coney Island. The locale is changed from New York to...
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1950
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In this musical comedy with dramatic touches, Jack and Molly Moran (Dan Dailey and Betty Grable) are a show business couple...
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1950
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The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery...
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1949
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A Christmastime TV perennial, Come to the Stable is the gentle saga of two French nuns (Celeste Holm with accent,...
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1949
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A semi-fantasy with sociological overtones, The Luck of the Irish stars Tyrone Power as an American journalist named Stephen...
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1948
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An aspiring ballerina begins following a prima ballerina hoping that she will become her replacement. Unfortunately, another...
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1947
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When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds...
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1947
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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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1946
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Musical producer Joe Pasternak moved from Universal to MGM in the early 1940s, taking his pet director Henry Koster (the two...
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1944
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Universal and producer/director Henry Koster had plans to make Diana Barrymore, the daughter of John Barrymore, into another...
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1942
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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1941
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In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a...
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1940
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Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized...
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1939
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1939
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Just before setting up shop at Hollywood's Universal studios, German-born director Henry Koster helmed a lavish...
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1938
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This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She...
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1938
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in...
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1936
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1936
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1935
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1932
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The titular group is not a musical aggregation but a German acrobatic team. The lovely but unathletic Jenny Jugo is...
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1932
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1932
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1928
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