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1964
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1964
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While on a drinking binge, Dianne Castillejo (Lois Nettleton) accidentally caused the drowning death of her adopted son, but...
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1963
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This frantic comedy finds Raymond (Jerry Lewis) working in a department store. Mr. Tuttle (John McGiver) is the watchful...
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1963
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Carol Lynley stars as Sister Pamela, a young novitiate who is robbed of a priceless statue of St. Francis entrusted to her...
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1962
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The second of Jerry Lewis' directorial endeavors, The Errand Boy, like its predecessor The Bellboy, is essentially a series...
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1961
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Though the title suggests that this film is a musical romance built around the song hit of the same name, Second Time Around...
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1961
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Jerry Lewis now claims that his film directorial debut came about when his home studio, Paramount, needed a summer-release...
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1960
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This fact-based episode is set in 1912, just before Grace Farley (Barbara Lord) is to embark on her honeymoon with new...
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1959
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Whatever the "miracle" is in this story, set back in the 19th century, it tends to be buried underneath the multiple romances...
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1959
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Something of an urbanized, upscale version of Peyton Place, Vincent Sherman's
The Young Philadelphians is a glossy...
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1959
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1959
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In this comedy, an awkward TV repairman finds himself falling for an actress who doesn't even know he exists and instead...
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1958
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In this western, a cavalryman disobeys his officer's command to massacre Indians at Sand Creek, goes AWOL and heads for his...
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1957
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This episode is, amazingly enough, based on a story by A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh. Henpecked husband Ernest...
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1957
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This filmed stage play of Charlotte Bronte's novel features an orphaned governess who begins to love her married employer in...
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1957
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Van Johnson portrays a blind American writer living in London. Blessed with an acute hearing sense, Johnson overhears a...
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1956
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This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was...
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1956
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Domineering Hermione Carpenter (Isobel Elsom) wants to take a trip to America and then return home to home to England for...
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1956
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This forgettable piece of 1950s sleaze stars Cleo Moore as a voluptuous blonde who becomes a successful commercial...
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Mrs. Payton Grange
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1956
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Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong...
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Adeline Palmer-Jones
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1955
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Director Robert Z. Leonard brought his 31-year association with MGM to a rousing close with The King's Thief. Set in England...
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1955
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1954
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1954
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The oft-filmed Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden was given the usual plush MGM treatment in 1949. Tempestuous...
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1949
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and play by Frank Vosper, Love From a Stranger isn't quite as good as the 1937 version...
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Auntie Loo-Loo
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1947
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Based on a play and novel by Margaret Kennedy, Escape Me Never is a remake of the same-named 1935 British film. Largely set...
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Mrs. MacLean
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1947
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The Italian-American Her Wonderful Lie is based on the novel Latin Quarter by Murger. This literary work is better known as...
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1947
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In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a...
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Miss Chattle
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1947
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Humphrey Bogart plays a psychotic killer who disposes of his wives through slow ingestion of poison in The Two Mrs. Carrolls,...
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Mrs. Latham
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1947
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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Marie Grosnay
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1947
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Like its TV-sitcom counterpart of the 1960s, the original film version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was based on the novel by...
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Angelica
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1947
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Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her...
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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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1946
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Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at...
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1945
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This follow-up to the classic Hollywood ghost story The Uninvited doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor. Joel McCrea...
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Marian Tygarth
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1945
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes...
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1944
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In this remake of Outward Bound, which updated the story to include topical refences to the war still raging in Europe, Henry...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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With Dorothy Arzner in the director's chair, it's no wonder that First Comes Courage has a more feminist slant than most WWII...
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1943
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Mrs. Westerly
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1943
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Lucille Scott
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1943
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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1942
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With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who...
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1942
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In this WW II propaganda piece a wealthy American society matron refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war...
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1942
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The second and last of the Fred Astaire-Rita Hayworth vehicles, You Were Never Lovelier takes place in Argentina (courtesy of...
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1942
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In this taut, creepy melodrama, a housemaid works as the companion of an aging, retired British actress. One day the maid...
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1941
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1935
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In this romance, a doctor and his wife encounter rough seas when they embark upon a cruise. The trouble begins when the good...
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1934
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In this mystery a village squire holds a dinner party and during the festivities ends up dead. His wife is the prime...
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1933
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The perfect crime is presented in this British crime drama. The crime is perpetrated by an unemployed ex-cop who swipes a...
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1932
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In this British drama, a woman squanders her husband's fortune and then boots him out. With no savings, she and a friend...
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Evelyn Dean
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1932
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In this drama, a physician falls in love with a woman who unfortunately ends up marrying another man. The doctor is enraged...
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1931
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1931
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1927
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1925
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1925
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This seaside melodrama was filmed in England, with star Tom Moore the only American in the cast. Although the scenery was...
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Dora Nelson
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1923
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1923
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Playwright/producer G. B. Samuelson assumed the directorial responsibilities of the British Game of Life. Set during the...
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1922
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1922
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British actress Isobel Elsom, whose screen career spanned five decades, plays the young heroine in Aunt Rachel. She is not...
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1920
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Edge O'Beyond is a godforsaken speck somewhere in Colonial Africa. Heroine Dinah Webberley (Ruby Miller) is driven to near...
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1919
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1919
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1916
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