Pride of St. Louis is the story of one of baseball's most colorful characters, Jerome Herman "Dizzy" Dean. While playing...
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1952
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1949
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Screenwriter
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1945
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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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1945
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Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story...
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1944
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For reasons unknown, Paramount Pictures decided to dust off the 1926 George S. Kaufman-Herman Mankiewicz stage comedy The...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1943
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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In addition to his supporting-player duties at MGM, Frank Morgan could always be counted upon to star in the studio's...
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Screen Story
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1941
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Jack Oakie is near the top of his form as Boley Bolenciecwcz, the best college football player to come down the pike in a...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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In this comedy drama, a medicine show con-man pretends to be a wealthy man to impress his long-lost daughter who is slated...
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Play Author
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1941
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In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still...
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Screen Story
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1939
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Edward Arnold once again plays a self-made businessman who inadvertently engineers his own downfall in John Meade's Woman....
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1937
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1937
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1936
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When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In...
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1936
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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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Screenwriter
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1935
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In this comedy, based on a popular play by George Kelly, an office clerk masquerades as a railroad magnate to impress a young...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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The real-life career of the notorious female spy known as "Fraulein Doktor" inspired several films of the 1930s. Stamboul...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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In this comedy, a man masquerading as the notorious Baron Munchausen and his partner arrive from the African jungles and...
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1933
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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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1933
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In this 1933 Marx Brothers film, the mythical country of Freedonia is broke and on the verge of revolution. Mrs. Teasdale...
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Producer
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1933
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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Producer
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1932
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If ever there was an archetypal Marx Brothers comedy, it was the team's 1932 offering Horse Feathers. Groucho Marx is cast as...
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Producer
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1932
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1932
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In this drama, a bandleader thinks that his young friend will be corrupted by his budding relationship with a taxi dancer....
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1932
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1932
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Two of Paramount's best contract comedians made a rare joint appearance in Dude Ranch. Jack Oakie heads the cast as Jennifer...
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1931
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Producer
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1931
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1931
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Still in his "sophisticated cad" period, William Powell essays the title role in Man of the World. Powell plays a smooth...
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1931
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Intertitle Writer, Screenwriter
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1930
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Though he plays an Italian-American character in Ladies Love Brutes, George Bancroft refreshingly avoids the ethnic...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the silent screen, goes through the motions of the Cinderella yarn Love Among the Millionaires. A...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Clara Bow's flat Brooklynese voice seems perfectly suited for the rowdy goings-on in True to the Navy. The "It" girl plays...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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The legend of renegade French poet Francois Villon was dramatized in the 1901 Justin McCarthy play If I Were King. This...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Bearing no relation to the popular torch song of the same name, The Man I Love is a prizefight picture, courtesy of Paramount...
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1929
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This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it...
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1929
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1929
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In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Adolphe Menjou's final silent film was the imitation-Lubitsch Marquis Preferred. Characteristically dressed up like a million...
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Intertitle Writer
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1929
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The early Paramount talkie The Dummy represented a collaboration of sorts between screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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The old Winchell Smith-Victor Mapes stage comedy The Boomerang was the source for the Richard Dix vehicle The Love Doctor....
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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Anne Nichols' Broadway comedy Abie's Irish Rose was almost universally panned when it opened in 1923. But despite the moans...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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A popular comedy duo towards the end of the silent era, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatten once again join forces for this...
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Josef vonSternberg's The Last Command was inspired by the true story of General Lodijenski, a Russian aristocrat who arrived...
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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Based on the oft-filmed play by Kenyon Nicholson, The Barker represented the talking-picture debut of silent-screen favorite...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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Bebe Daniels once again plays an intrepid -- and somewhat foolhardy -- girl reporter in Paramount's What a Night!. A spoiled...
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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The present unavailability of 1928's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is especially frustrating for those who'd like to compare this...
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining...
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1928
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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The Paramount backstage drama Spotlight was based on Footlights, a novel by Rita Weiman. Hoping to become a star, Lizzie...
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Intertitle Writer
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1927
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Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a...
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Intertitle Writer
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1927
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Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the...
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Intertitle Writer
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1927
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Screenwriter
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1927
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Made during Hollywood's first "gangster cycle," The City Gone Wild stars Thomas Meighan as an honest prosecuting attorney....
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Intertitle Writer
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1927
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The freewheeling direction of Gregory LaCava helps to enliven the otherwise standard actioner The Gay Defender. Decked out...
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Intertitle Writer
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1927
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Snobbish socialite Gail Grant (Florence Vidor) is accustomed to getting everything she wants. Thus, when she storms into a...
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Intertitle Writer
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1927
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Screenwriter
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1926
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