Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of...
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Judge Bullfinch
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1949
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An older soldier enters West Point but remains haunted by nagging guilt. It all began in Tunisia during a tremendous battle....
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1948
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The Accused is a mystery melodrama with a predictable plot involving blackmail, attempted rape and murder. Loretta Young...
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1948
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Carlotta Duval (Vera Ralston) is willing to help her boyfriend George McAllister (John Carroll) get his hands on his ailing...
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Dr. Mitchell
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1947
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Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling is set in post-Civil War Florida. Claude Jarman Jr. plays Jody...
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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Clarence
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1946
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Producer/director William A. Wellman also co-scripted this biopic devoted to John J. Montgomery (Glenn Ford), the unsung...
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1946
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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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Hobart Glenn
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1945
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Mr. Bogardus
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1945
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Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place...
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Capt. Sam Jackson
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1945
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Though filmed while WW2 was still very much in progress, The Very Thought of You has the lighthearted ambience of a postwar...
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1944
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In this drama, a crippled German veteran of WW I attempts to reconcile his recent experiences with his former ideologies in...
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Father Warecki
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1944
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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1944
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In this downbeat drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck (which was also adapted for the stage), German troops invade Norway...
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Mayor Orden
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1943
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Eugene Curie
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1943
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Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also...
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Joseph Newton
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1943
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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Dr. Sims
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1942
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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First filmed in 1914, Edgar Selwyn's venerable North Country yarn Pierre of the Plains was thawed out once more in 1942....
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1942
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The title I'll Wait for You effectively gives away the ending of this MGM second feature. Robert Sterling plays a gangster on...
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1941
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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Abel Martin
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1941
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Prof. Jerome
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1941
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1941
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Mr. Hardy
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1941
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In addition to being a fine Western in its own right, this film served to introduce perhaps Hollywood's oddest romantic...
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1940
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Matey
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1940
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1940
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In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen...
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Gramp
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1940
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1939
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A young punk hooks up with a mobster and helps him rob a gas station in this crime drama. From there the crimes become more...
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Pop
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1939
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In this off-beat love story, wealthy socialite Linda Bronson (Greer Garson) is about to marry Sky Ames (Lou Ayres) but then...
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1939
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1939
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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1939
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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1939
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1938
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In this drama, a group of young cadets in a military academy struggle to overcome their personal problems and make it through...
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1936
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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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1935
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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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1935
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1935
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Reynolds
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1935
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1935
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Set in the Washington of World War I, Escapade stars William Powell as a newspaper editor eager to sign up for an overseas...
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1935
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Loretta Young, who became known almost exclusively for playing sweet, wholesome roles, is kind of a shocker in this romantic...
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Fuzzy
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1934
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In this adaptation of Alberto Casella's stage play, Death assumes human form in order to discover why men fear him. Posing as...
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1934
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The party's barely begun for mild-mannered CPA Bruce (Stuart Erwin); browbeaten by his lazy family and his domineering boss,...
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1934
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In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when...
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1934
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Father Krug
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1933
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The charming and effervescent continental film star Lillian Harvey made her Hollywood debut in My Weakness. Borrowing a page...
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1933
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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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Pop Hallam
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1933
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A mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark spectacles, has taken a room at a cozy inn...
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Dr. Cranley
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1933
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