Edie Sedgwick,1960s heroine of decadence, is exploited from beyond the grave in this clumsily pieced together film taken...
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1972
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The Arousers was also shipped out as Sweet Kill and A Kiss From Eddie. Former teen heartthrob Tab Hunter stars as a...
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Mrs. Cole
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1970
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Though the producers of The Untouchables had promised that their fourth season would have less violence and more humanity...
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1962
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Ultra-pasteurized pop singer Pat Boone makes his feature film debut in this comical and tuneful look at adolescent life in...
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1957
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Though heavily advertised as Delmar Daves' Drum Beat, this film owed its existence to producer-star Alan Ladd. The star is...
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1954
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1953
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In this three-hanky movie, an orphaned newsboy decides to care for a crippled young girl after her alcoholic mother is...
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1949
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1949
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"A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution." That's the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit...
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1948
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Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours is a typically witty and wild screwball comedy starring Rex Harrison as a symphony...
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1948
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Somehow the titles of the films of hardcase actor Lawrence Tierney seemed to be extensions of the man's personality, as...
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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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A young woman rides out for vengeance against the marshall who killed her notorious outlaw mother in this western sequel to...
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1947
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In this is '40s western a U.S. marshal chases a band of big-name bandits into no-man's territory (land outside of U.S....
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1946
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In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a...
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1945
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In this crime drama, a naive, honest young woman falls for a louse who takes her to illicit gambling houses. When one of...
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Mae
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1945
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The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly...
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1944
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Frances Fallon
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1943
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When an instructor dies mysteriously at an exclusive girl's school, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), a devil-may-care sleuth known...
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Mary
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1943
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A young woman and her two buddies team up to run her newly inherited trucking company. In this comedy, the trouble begins...
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1943
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Maria
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1943
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1941
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A Clarence Buddington Kelland story was the source for the mildly farcical For Beauty's Sake. If he wants to inherit a...
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1941
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Little Men, Louisa May Alcott's followup to her successful novel Little Women, has never truly adapted well to the screen,...
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1940
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PRC's Marked Men gets under way when hero Bill Carver (Warren Hull) is thrown into jail for a crime he didn't commit....
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Linda Harkness
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1940
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Telecast dozens of times on cable television back in the 1980s, Columbia's Babies for Sale was another stepping-stone on...
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1940
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In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene...
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1940
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads...
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1940
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into...
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Molly Herkimer
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1939
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The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers...
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Peggy
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1939
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Not a remake of the 1932 James Cagney vehicle of the same name, The Crowd Roars is set in the sweat-stained world of...
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1938
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In this lively comedy, three young hell-raisers enroll in the Virginia Military Institute and have a hard time staying out...
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1938
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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1937
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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Emmy Lou Egan
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1937
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Men may come and men may go, but silly service comedies like Swing It Sailor go on forever. James Dunn and Ray Mayer star as...
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Myrtle Montrose
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1937
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Love on Toast was one of several mid-1930s Hollywood films helmed by E. A. DuPont, a once-celebrated German filmmaker then on...
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1937
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The Leathernecks Have Landed is an adventure yarn revolving around three boisterous marines. Lew Ayres is the headstrong one,...
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Brooklyn
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1936
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Dancing Feet stars Joan Marsh as Judy, a society deb who lands a job as a dime-a-dance girl to spite her wealthy grandfather...
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Mabel
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1936
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Gladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word...
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1936
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Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its comparative realism....
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1936
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Joan Bennett is a manicurist who becomes a newspaper reporter. She joins forces with jaunty detective Cary Grant to get the...
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Bessie Blair
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1936
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1936
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1936
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A winning sweepstakes ticket is the catalyst in 36 Hours to Kill. The lucky recipient is gangster Duke Benson...
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Jeanie Benson
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1936
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In this interesting drama, a disfigured fugitive killer gets a second chance at life when he hides out in a hospital and...
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Peggy Russell
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1936
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In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would...
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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In this drama, a prominent Broadway producer's daughter inherits a fortune when her father dies. Included in the estate is a...
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Babe Sweeney
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1935
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I've Been Around hinges on an unlikely case of mistaken identity. Society girl Drue Waring (Rochelle Hudson) mistakes...
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Sally Van Loan
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1935
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S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case....
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1935
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1935
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Inez
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1935
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Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered...
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1934
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In this crime drama, a famous criminal attorney is abandoned by his wife who has tired of his neglect and heavy drinking....
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Catherine Watson
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1934
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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1934
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Betty
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1934
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Sally Bates ($Isabel Jewell) is a young Texas woman trying to make it to Hollywood on too little money and driving a car...
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Sally
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1934
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Angy
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1934
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Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen....
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1933
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In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company...
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1933
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Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon...
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Bessie Green
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1933
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In this drama a store clerk gets involved with a radio singer and ends up in a home for unwed mothers. The home is run by a...
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1933
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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1933
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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1933
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Blessed Event is one of several early-1930s films inspired by the meteoric rise to fame of gossip columnist Walter Winchell...
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1932
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