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Filbert Fillmore
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1951
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1949
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A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director...
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Prof. Twingle
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1948
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The Girl From Manhattan is a minor but watchable variation on the old "mortgage-on-the-farm" plot device. The girl of the...
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Aaron Goss
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1948
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Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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Eli Hobbs
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1948
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Radio humorist Henry Morgan made his film debut in So This is New York. Based on The Big Town, a collection of stories by...
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1948
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Blondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy...
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1947
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In this comedy, a Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and...
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Eustace P. Trumble
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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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The exciting world of the cosmetic industry provides the basis of this lively low-budget musical comedy that centers on the...
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P.G. Grimble
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1944
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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Feisal
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1944
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When the profits of their various film series began slumping in the mid-1940s, Columbia Pictures tried to broaden the appeal...
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Timothy Brewster
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1943
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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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A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding...
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1942
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In this comedy, a slightly addled young advertising executive works for his father's radio-advertising agency. His first job...
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1942
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1942
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So far as W.C. Fields fans are concerned, Ann Hegan Rice's sentimental 1901 novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was...
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Marcus Throckmorton
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1942
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Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas...
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1941
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1941's The Black Cat is neither a remake of the 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear the slightest...
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Mr. Penny
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1941
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Meet the Chump is an hour's worth of nonsense ideally suited to the talents of Hugh "Woo Woo" Herbert. The star plays Hugh...
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Hugh Mansfield
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1941
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Three different Universal pictures made between 1922 and 1941 bore the catchall title Don't Get Personal. The 1941 film stars...
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Elmer Whippet
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1941
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Hellzapoppin' is the film version of the "anything goes" Broadway hit starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. The original...
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Detective Quimby
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1941
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The comic effusions of Hugh "woo woo" Herbert helps to keep this otherwise forgettable farce afloat. It all begins when Bob...
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Hubert
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1941
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Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using...
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1940
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In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio...
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Ferdinand Farraday
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1940
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Woo-woo Hugh Herbert is the star of Universal's Slightly Tempted. Herbert plays a kleptomaniac who promises to go straight...
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Prof. Ross
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1940
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Angus McPherson
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1940
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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Pop
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1940
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In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a...
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Charity,Faith,Hope,Mrs. Henry I. Dibble,Prudence
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1940
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Benton
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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Mousey Johnson
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1939
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Hugh Herbert is the head of The Family Next Door; he's a plumber of modest means and questionable skills. The rest of...
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1939
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A remake of a 1930 Universal film, Little Accident was the third starring vehicle for androgynous juvenile star Baby Sandy....
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Herbert Pearson
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1939
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A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars:...
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1938
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The romantic hills and valleys of an advertising agency secretary provide the basis of this comedy drama. Unlike her...
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Harvey Bates
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1938
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The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann...
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Hofbauer
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1938
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If not for the lachrymose presence of Our Gang member Robert Blake (still in his whiny, squeaky-voiced stage), the one-reel...
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1938
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The last and least of Warner Bros.' Gold Diggers musicals, Gold Diggers in Paris at least has the novelty of a Gallic...
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Maurice Giraud
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1938
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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Aeneas Phinney/Mrs. Fowler
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1937
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Based on a popular novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, this screwball comedy stars Errol Flynn in the title-role, the heir to an...
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Killigrew Shaw
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1937
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In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story...
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Hubert
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1937
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"That Man" is Hugh (woo-woo) Herbert, here cast as lovable eccentric Thomas J. Jesse. Befriending apartment-house elevator...
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Thomas J. Jesse
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1937
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Kelly
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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Chester Marshall
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1937
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The disarmingly zany Marry the Girl was one of the better Hugh Herbert "B"-vehicles for Warner Bros. Much of the story takes...
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John B. Radway
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1937
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In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just...
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1937
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A remake of the French comedy Monsieur Sans-Gene, One Rainy Afternoon gets under way when film-actor Phillippe Martin...
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Toto
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1936
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Cedric Ames
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1936
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We Went to College is a perceptive spoof of alumni "homecoming" reunions. Hugh Herbert plays a daffy economics professor, who...
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Professor
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1936
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For a change of pace, Warner Bros. contract tenor James Melton sings no opera in Sing Me A Love Song -- nor does he sing...
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Siegfried Hammersblag
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1936
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In 1929, Bette Davis made her Broadway debut in the now-forgotten stage play Broken Dishes. But Davis did not appear in the...
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Horatio Gillingwater
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1936
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1935
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In this comedy, a toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business,...
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Elmer Niles
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1935
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Hugh Herbert plays a middle-aged bumbler who is about to inherit a multimillion dollar estate. But there's a catch: Herbert...
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Hugo Twist
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1935
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Homer Bronson
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1935
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Rupert Rockingham
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1935
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With little plot but incredible photography and choreography, Gold Diggers of 1935 was exactly what you would expect a...
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1935
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Based on Frederick Hazlett Brennan's play Battleship Gertie, Miss Pacific Fleet is short and snappy "gobs and gals" affair....
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1935
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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Joe
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1934
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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Izzy Wright
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1934
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Col. Fitch
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1934
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First adapted for the screen in 1928, Carl Ed's popular comic strip Harold Teen was cinematized a second time in 1934. This...
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Rathburn
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1934
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Kansas City Princess came at the tail end of the "gold-digger" movie cycle. The inevitable Joan Blondell plays Rosie, a...
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Junior Ashcraft
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1934
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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1934
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In this family drama, a happy marriage is threatened by suspicion and jealousy, and illicit affairs. The trouble begins when...
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1934
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Now known simply as Fashions, the lavish Warner Bros. musical Fashions of 1934 stars the unlikely but copacetic team of...
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Joe Ward
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1934
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As the title song says, you go to those shows to see those beautiful dames--and there's dames aplenty in this 1934...
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1934
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Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's...
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1933
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1933
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The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight...
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1933
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Sol Glass (Ferdinand Gottschalk) is a man with a problem -- in the depths of the Great Depression, his garment business can't...
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1933
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In the tradition of Bureau of Missing Persons, Warner Bros's From Headquarters offers a methodical, semi-documentary look at...
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Manny
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1933
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Goldie dreams of being a movie star. One day she decides to leave her New Jersey home and her boy friend to head for...
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1933
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Practically every member of the Warner Bros. stock company except Glenda Farrell shows up in the rowdy, raunchy pre-Code...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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Those who only know Pat O'Brien from his later, slightly more avuncular roles may be surprised to see him pumping out almost...
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1933
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1932
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Mr. Blainey
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1932
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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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1932
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Talking pictures made a star out of veteran movie villain Louis Wolheim, perhaps because his voice revealed a heart and soul...
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Charlie
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1931
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1931
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This Depression-era comedy takes place in the boarding house run by the indomitable Sarah Austin (Edna May Oliver). Sarah's...
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Joe Austin
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1931
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The peripatetic spouses referred to in the title are all travelling salesmen, scooting to and from their wives via train. In...
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Hymie
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1931
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The old bromide about joining the Foreign Legion to "forget," so often parodied by such comedians as Laurel and Hardy, was...
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McNellis
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1931
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1930
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The first of two film versions of Fulton Oursler's domestic-conflict yarn, Second Wife stars Lila Lee as the bride of...
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1930
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In this drama, an older railroad supervisor is engaged to a lovely young woman. Unfortunately, she falls in love with the...
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1930
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1928
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Personable Owen Moore starred in this romantic comedy from Warner Bros. featuring Dolores Costello. About to marry his...
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1927
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