Not surprisingly, "A Christmas Story" originally aired on December 25, 1966. Wayne Newton returns to Bonanza in the role of...
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Thadeus Cade
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1966
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Although not as well known as Pillow Talk (1959), this romantic-comedy pairing of stars Rock Hudson and Doris Day earned an...
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J. Paxton Miller
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1961
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Mac
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1960
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Although a mood of melancholy or worse pervades this excellent western, it remains an honest and hard-hitting look at the...
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Travis Hight
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1959
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Tomahawk takes place during the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s. Van Heflin stars as famed frontier scout Jim Bridger, who...
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Sol Beckworth
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1951
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Sgt. Dominick
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1950
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Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco and the surrounding countryside. Richard Conte plays Nick Garcos, an American GI who...
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Slob
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1949
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Bozo
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1948
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In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo...
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Mike Kirby
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1948
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In this comedy, a puritanical math teacher at a midwestern university is forced by the dean's wife to go to New York to...
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Jerry Marlowe
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1946
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Steve
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1945
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Roundly blasted upon its release because of the extreme liberties it takes with the truth, Devotion is better as cinema than...
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Special Effects
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1945
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Jack Oakie and Peggy Ryan head the cast of the Universal "B plus" musical On Stage Everybody. As indicated by the title, this...
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Michael Sullivan
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1945
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In this musical, a youthful trombonist is thrilled when he is allowed to play with Benny Goodman's Orchestra. Afterward he...
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Popsy
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1944
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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Michael O'Rourke
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1944
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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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Pete Monahan
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1944
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On the eve of their 50th anniversary, a couple argue about whether or not to reveal a story from the husband's past that...
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Cigolini
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1944
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Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John...
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Dan Daley
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1943
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In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly...
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Skip Hutton
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1943
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This backstage musical offers a peek at vaudeville behind-the-scenes. The story centers on a recently divorced woman who...
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Larry Martin
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1943
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One of the shortest and sweetest of Betty Grable's Technicolor musicals, Song of the Islands casts the Leggy One as Eileen,...
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Rusty Smith
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1942
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When the US marines land in Iceland during WW2, camp lothario John Payne wastes no time scoping out the local female...
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Slip Riggs
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1942
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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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Boley Bolenciecwcz
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1941
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On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment...
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Chuck Hadley
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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Cake O'Hara
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1941
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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1940
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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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Willie
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1940
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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Harry Calhoun
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1940
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"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy...
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Joe Ballantine
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1940
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"This is the story of the period between two world wars--an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose...
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Benzino Napaloni
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1940
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Set in New York City's famed music hall and featuring an all-star cast, this musical chronicles the desperate search of two...
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Harry Miller
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1938
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Zany actress Annabel goes on a promotional tour in this lively comedy, the second in the Annabel series. During her tour,...
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Lanny Morgan
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1938
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Lucille Ball landed her first starring comedy role in the mile-a-minute farce The Affairs of Annabel. Lucy of course plays...
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Morgan
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1938
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Thanks for Everything is an unjustly forgotten lampoon of media promotional stunts. Jack Haley wins a contest sponsored by an...
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Bates
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1938
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Another of Paramount's efforts to transform Metropolitan Opera diva Gladys Swarthout into a popular movie star, Champagne...
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Happy Gallagher
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1937
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Super Sleuth stars Jack Oakie as an egotistical movie actor who specializes in detective roles. Despite the gentle...
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Willard "Bill" Martin
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1937
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This musical parody follows the exploits of American performers in Hungary. The story begins as a Yankee wrestling trainer...
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Ham Hamilton
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1937
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In this musical, a nightclub singer (Lily Pons) secretly aspires to sing at the Met. To help her, her agent (Jack Oakie)...
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Corby
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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Luke
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1937
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In this musical comedy a Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school from his late aunt. He breathes life...
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Jerry Craig
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1936
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This light-hearted musical romance follows the exploits of Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star who stows...
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Whammo
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1936
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A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant...
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Bangs Carter
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal...
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Joe Cooney
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1936
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers (who never met a publicity gimmick they didn't like), this...
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Wahoo Jones
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1936
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Joe Cork
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1936
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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Spud
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1935
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The third screen version of Jack London's classic adventure story was also the first with sound, and it toyed with the...
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Shorty Hollihan
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1935
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Paramount Pictures' annual college musical of 1934 is a pip, as they used to say. Jack Oakie plays Finnegan, a conceited...
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Francis J. Finnegan
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1934
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Joe Graham (Spencer Tracy), a troubleshooter for the telephone company, suspects that his beloved Ethel (Constance Cummings)...
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Casey
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1934
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Nicky
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1934
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The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery...
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Jack Ellery
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1934
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Chick Parker
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1933
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There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays...
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Benny Day
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1933
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Mike Richards
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1933
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Directed by Wesley Ruggles, the musical sendup of College Humor centers around the blooming love between a college professor...
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Barney Shirrel
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1933
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The world of horse racing provides the backdrop for this episodic drama. Much of the story is set at the Luray Springs Hotel...
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Charlie Bayne
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1933
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A Navy boxer falls in love with a popular dance-hall girl in this romantic drama. The man really should be spending all his...
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Kelsey Jones
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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Mulligan
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1932
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Roly-poly comedian Jack Oakie in a serious role? Yes, that is exactly what you get with Uptown New York, an otherwise humdrum...
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Eddie Doyle
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1932
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George Lewis
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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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Duke Taylor
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1932
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Richard Arlen more or less revives his aviation-ace role from Wings in the Paramount programmer Sky Bride. Arlen plays Speed...
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Alec Dugan
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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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Migg Tweeny, American brush salesman
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1932
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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1932
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A goodly portion of this boxing drama was filmed on location at the real-life Madison Square Garden. Jack Oakie stars as...
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Eddie Burke
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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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Jennifer
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1931
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In this comedy, a bumbling rube from a small town manages to get involved in a gang war. The trouble really begins when one...
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Charlie "Cyclone" Case
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1931
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In this gridiron drama, a college football coach and ex-All American will stop at nothing to have a winning team. The trouble...
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Babe Barton
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1931
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1931
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A well-meaning but dimwitted electrical worker-turned-lyricist Frederick Martin Stevens (Jack Oakie) arrives in New York...
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Frederick Martin Stevens
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1931
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In this musical, based on a long-running Broadway hit from 1927, a sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's...
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Bilge
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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Guest Star
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1930
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Here we go again. Sailor "Searchlight" Hogan (Jack Oakie) has a yen for every pretty girl who crosses his path. Imagine his...
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Searchlight Doyle
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1930
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In this high-spirited satire of competitive sports, boxer Marco Perkins is creamed during a fight and decides to play polo...
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Marco Perkins
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1930
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Voltaire McGinnis
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1930
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Based on a short-lived stage comedy, The Sap from Syracuse stars Jack Oakie in the title role. A humble laborer on a luxury...
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Littleton Looney
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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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The first official release from RKO Productions (previous films from this company had been produced by RKO antecedent FBO...
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Joe Spring
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1929
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This tuneful tale revolves around a shy warehouse clerk who, at the encouragement of his girlfriend finally musters up his...
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Ben Barney
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1929
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The Reporter
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1929
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This comedy chronicles the rise of a country rube who becomes a baseball legend for the New York Yankees. Not only does he...
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Elmer Kane
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1929
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In this film, the irresponsible Stella Ames (Clara Bow) spends her college career attending parties rather than studying....
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1929
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Marty Martin
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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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1929
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In this college-campus musical, a Broadway star finds herself the proud owner of a North Carolina college. The star's boy...
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Tap-Tap Thompson
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1929
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Searchlight Doyle
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Michael Casey
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1928
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