Adapted by Allen Boretz from Lucille S. Plumbs and Sara B. Smith's stage play Ever the Beginning, My Girl Tisa is set in New...
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1948
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Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone), the scion of an aristocratic rural English family, was traumatized from boyhood by a shooting...
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1944
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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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In this musical, a gang of college students decide to play a little trick by creating the perfect student. The fictional gal...
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Dean Wharton
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1943
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The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat...
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1943
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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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1943
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1943
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Written by Dudley Nichols and directed by French expatriate director Jean Renoir, This Land is Mine is one of those...
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1943
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Olivia De Havilland hadn't wanted to star in RKO's Government Girl, but was forced to do so by her home studio Warner Bros....
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1943
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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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 screen version of the James Thurber-Elliot Nugent Broadway play of the same name, Henry Fonda stars as bespectacled,...
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1942
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1942
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Professor Sterling
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1942
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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1942
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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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1942
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Possibly inspired by Universal's The Invisible Woman, Warner Bros.' The Body Disappears is an agreeably daffy comedy with...
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1941
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly...
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1939
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Though it takes a few liberties with the Arthur Conan Doyle original -- not the least of which is turning Sherlock Holmes...
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1939
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1939
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In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
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1939
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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1939
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In this patriotic British adventure, two courageous brothers try to keep war from erupting in Africa and stop a...
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1939
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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The Baroness, daughter of the Hungarian prime minister, is played by Annabella. The Butler, last of a long line of family...
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1938
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Secret agent Jeff Clavering (Alan Marshal) is in the employ of a group of businessmen dedicated to world peace. In order to...
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1938
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A young big game hunter is determined to bag the rare Malayan white tiger his late father wanted in this adventure. At first...
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1938
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1938
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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1937
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Sentenced to prison for a crime they did not commit, a desperate pair of young lovers attempts to capture the culprits...
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1937
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A remake of 1929's The Greene Murder Case, Paramount's Night of Mystery was the first "Philo Vance" thriller not to use the...
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1937
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London by Night was filmed entirely on the MGM back lot, which admittedly looked more like England than England. Adapted from...
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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Though its title and cast suggests a lighthearted romantic comedy, Trouble for Two is actually a fairly faithful adaptation...
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1936
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David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of...
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1936
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1936
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Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of...
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1936
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1936
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The Great Impersonation is based on the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage novel of the same name, previously filmed in 1921....
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1935
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Celebrated British musical comedy star Cicely Courtneige was given a chance at American movie stardom in Perfect Gentleman....
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1935
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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A diverse group of ship passengers end up marooned on an isolated South Pacific island. Unfortunately, the contents of the...
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1935
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1935
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David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer...
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1935
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1935
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This romantic comedy-drama is set -- typical for producer Samuel Goldwyn at the time -- among the upper class. Joel McCrea...
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of...
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1934
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George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish bankers. Despite the...
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1934
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MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery...
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1934
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Czech leading man Francis Lederer made his Hollywood film debut in the appropriately titled Man of Two Worlds. Based on the...
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1934
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British Agent starred the Hungarian/British actor Leslie Howard in the title role, was directed by full-fledged Hungarian...
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1934
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In this drama, an old woman gets disgusted by her relatives and runs away from home. She then begins working as a cook in...
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1934
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Loaned to MGM by her home studio of Warner Bros., Loretta Young suffers her way through the title role in Midnight Mary. A...
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1933
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Produced in Arizona by theater legend Oliver Morosco's wife Helen Mitchell, Her Secret told the sordid story of Waffles (Sari...
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Lathrop
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1933
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Edmund Gwenn makes his American film debut in this lighthearted adaptation of Frederick Jackson's stage play The Bishop...
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1933
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The life and times of one of France's most influential authors and philosophers receives the romantic treatment from director...
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1933
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Warner Oland returns as wily, philosophical oriental detective Charlie Chan in this expensive-looking series entry. This...
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1933
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An old man learns the sad truth of the old saw about being careful what you wish for in this horror outing that is based on...
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Mr. White
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1933
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This drama is set aboard a cross-country train bound for New York. Aboard this train is a silk manufacturer from Seattle who...
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1933
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1933
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A former opera star loses her voice, her career evaporates, and she takes to drinking heavily and blaming her son for her...
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Jacob Riggs
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1933
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In this melodrama, a woman is blamed for another's suicide and ends up deported to Germany. Just as WW I erupts she marries...
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1932
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George Arliss is a world-renowned pianist, engaged to a young woman (Bette Davis) much younger than himself. An explosion...
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Battle
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1932
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In this drama, set in 1929 when the stock market crashed, a selfish, money-grubbing wife ruins her husband, an accountant...
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1932
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This version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed tale is set in contemporary London and follows Holmes and Watson as they seek...
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1932
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Gary Curtis, aka Farnsbarns (Richardo Cortez), is really a former hoodlum hired to retrieve some compromising letters from...
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1932
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In this romantic comedy, a milquetoast bookworm finds his life transformed when he takes the advice of a fortune teller and...
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1931
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In this drama, a hard-working New York model abandons her family values for the love of a suave, handsome man who offers her...
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1931
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George Arliss is the millionaire of the title, a retired auto tycoon who's been ordered by his doctor to rest and avoid...
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1931
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Conway Tearle stars as Jack Norton, a diamond smuggler operating in South America who is strong-armed into participating in a...
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1931
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A young Barbara Stanwyck was considered for the starring role as the exiled call-girl in this extremely frank pre...
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1931
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British actor George Arliss spent the bulk of his movie career in adaptations of his stage successes. Based on a play by...
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Joe Phillin
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1930
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In this British adventure, a plane crash results in the capture of the survivors by a despotic Rajah who hates the British....
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1930
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In this melodramatic blend of romance and adventure set in the South Seas, Stella Blackney (Betty Compson) is married to Tom...
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Judge
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1930
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The search for sunken treasure provides the basis for this adventure that begins when a treasure hunter's dive is sabotaged....
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Pearly Nick
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1930
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Poor but honest district attorney Fredric March, sick of the "one law for rich, one law for poor" imbalance, sentences...
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1930
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Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, was responsible for the international-espionage yarn Inside the Lines. The...
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Capper
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1930
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In this corny disaster drama, patrons of an underground speakeasy in New Orleans attend a victory party and end up terrified...
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1930
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A woman finds herself a victim of love in this drama. Her trouble begins when her husband falsely accuses her of having an...
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1929
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In the early days of sound film, one of Warner Bros.' big box-office draws was the aging stage actor George Arliss and, in...
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1929
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1928
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As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was not immediately appreciated...
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1926
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Bebe Daniels stars in this action-packed comedy -- one of Edward Sutherland's first directoral efforts. Susan Van Dusen...
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1925
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Richard Dix and Esther Ralston starred together in several films during the latter half of the 1920s. This Western-comedy was...
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1925
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After a few films that did not showcase her talent well, Bebe Daniels was able to redeem herself in this comedy based on the...
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1925
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Bebe Daniels is Colette Girard, a French actress who is traveling to London to visit her friend Gloria (Diana Kane). On the...
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1925
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The role of American millionaire turned office clerk was quite a turnaround from playing an Indian rajah in...
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1924
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Although Richard Barthelmess was one of the bigger stars of the silent era, not all his films were worthy of his talents....
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1923
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Engine trouble forces an airplane to land with a trio of passengers in the mythical kingdom of Rukh. Major Crespin (Harry T....
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1923
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Esteemed stage actor George Arliss became the screen's unlikeliest star at the ripe age of 53 in 1921. But the odd-looking,...
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Battle
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1922
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1918
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This Marguerite Clark vehicle was set in London and Switzerland, courtesy of the Famous Players back lot and the snowy peaks...
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1916
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The Dictator, based on the novel and play by colorful journalist Richard Harding Davis, was brought to the screen in 1915...
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1915
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