That Kind of Woman stars Sophia Loren as an Italian girl, Kay, who enjoys a brief wartime romance with American paratrooper...
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Sound/Sound Designer
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1959
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Having gained a measure of TV fame by 1958, the nightclub comedy duo of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin decided to give movies a...
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1958
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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Harry Keller, the man who directed the extra scenes in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, receives solo directorial credit in The...
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1958
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In this curious blend of Western and detective melodrama, Jock Mahoney plays a frontier gumshoe named Hogan. When an old...
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1958
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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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Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously...
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1958
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Produced at Republic Studios during that western-film factory's twilight years, Man or Gun stars MacDonald Carey as a drifter...
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1958
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1957
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Wally (Tony Dow) and his friends build a clubhouse and then (naturally) form a club, with one-dollar dues for their fellow...
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Pete
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1957
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After her first two husbands die under mysterious circumstances, Mrs. Marguerite Gillespie (Gladys Cooper) prepares to marry...
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1957
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1957
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Loving You was the most autobiographical of all Elvis Presley's movies, and, not coincidentally, features the most...
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Carl Meade
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1957
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After several years' absence from the screen, the vivacious Betty Hutton made a somewhat tepid comeback in Spring Reunion....
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1957
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Siblings Fritzhugh and Katherine Oldham (Hume Cronyn, Carmen Mathews) decide to set fire to his house in order to defraud the...
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1956
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In this western, a lawman tries to mediate between irate farmers and angry ranchers who are trying to decide the fate of a...
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1956
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In this comedy sequel to Wonderful Town (a popular Broadway musical), Kim, a museum worker from Providence, Rhode Island,...
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1955
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Suddenly is the name of the small town invaded by professional assassin Frank Sinatra and his henchmen. Taking a local family...
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Pop Benson
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1954
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Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a...
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Eddie Woods
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1953
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Risky Russell
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1953
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Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's...
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Bert Lynn
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1952
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James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after...
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1952
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Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star...
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1952
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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross, like its predecessors, was based on Ham Fisher's comic strip Joe Palooka. This time around,...
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Knobby Walsh
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1951
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James Cagney plays a once great newspaper reporter ruined by liquor. Thanks to the help of reformed alcoholic James Gleason,...
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Charley Dolan
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1951
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The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from...
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Fred Thompson
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1951
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Two Gals and a Guy was a low-budget attempt to cash in on the "guests" of the Indians. These three bitter enemies must join...
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Bill Howard
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1951
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The Jackpot is a generally pleasing satire of quiz programs. James Stewart stars as Bill Lawrence, an average Joe who picks...
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Harry Summers
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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1950
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Mickey Corkins
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1950
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This comedy is based on the enduring radio series and chronicles the attempts of an airplane riveter to find a better...
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Gillis
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1949
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William Powell stars in Take One False Step as a happily married college professor who foolishly agrees to a reunion supper...
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Gledhill
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1949
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In 1947, Variety Clubs International, a showbiz charitable organization, was responsible for the frothy musical Variety Girl....
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The Chief
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1949
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J. Hobart Gleason
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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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In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that...
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1948
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1948
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In this whimsical fantasy, a young girl suddenly discovers that her horse is really a reincarnation of her beloved uncle who...
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1948
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This John Wayne adventure is set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful US...
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Pop Mathews
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1947
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Max Corkle
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1947
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In this drama, a Bostonian socialite marries the owner of a racehorse and begins a life of globe-trotting from international...
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Doc Ellborne
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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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Sylvester
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1947
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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Sharp
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1946
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There's only one magnum of French champagne left in all of San Francisco, and both Navy lieutenant Briggs (Ray Milland) and...
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Capt. Hornby
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1946
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Based on a novel by Craig Rice, Home Sweet Homicide is a delightful blend of domestic comedy and murder mystery. Peggy Ann...
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Sgt. O'Hare
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1946
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Barbara Hale landed her first A-picture starring role in the engaging romantic comedy Lady Luck. Hale is cast as Mary Audrey,...
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Sacramento Sam
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1946
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Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air...
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1945
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Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his...
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Jimmy Shannon
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1945
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1945
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The Clock was designed by MGM as a "small" picture--though characteristically, it was a bigger production than most "A"...
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Al Henry
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1945
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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Col. "Nails" Kilpatrick
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1944
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Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown...
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1944
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Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck....
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1944
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"The Moke"
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1944
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1944
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Tyrone Power made his last screen appearance before a three-year stretch in the Marines in this World War II drama. Lt. Ward...
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McDonnell
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1943
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Campy Kids From Boot Camp was cobbled together from a brace of "streamliners" (second features running between 43 and 50...
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1942
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Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar...
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Bruce McCay
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1942
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Columbia's belated effort to cash in on the popularity of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates was the raucous and generally...
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1942
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The plot of the RKO Radio programmer The Falcon Takes Over will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen the 1944...
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Inspector Mike O'hara
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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Instant recall allows a man to become a very valuable Good Samaritan in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Those obviously hastily assembled to cash in on current headlines, Manila Calling shows no signs of this haste in its...
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Tom O'Rourke
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1942
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A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the...
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Pat Hawley
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1942
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Advertised as a sort of sequel to MGM's Babes in Arms (1939), Babes on Broadway reunites the two stars of the earlier film:...
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a...
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Barkley
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1941
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Robert Montgomery plays saxophone-playing boxer Joe Pendleton, who insists upon piloting his own plane, much to the...
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1941
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This second entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series begins with Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), aka the Falcon, promising to give...
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O'Hara
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1941
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Affectionately Yours offers the spectacle of glamorous Merle Oberon and gorgeous Rita Hayworth jockeying for the best camera...
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1941
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Perhaps nine lives weren't enough, but 63 minutes was plenty of time to relate the plot of this Ronald Reagan vehicle. Reagan...
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Sgt. Daniels
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1941
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Earl of Puddlestone was released minus a director credit out of respect for megger Gus Meins, who committed suicide shortly...
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Joe Higgins
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1940
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In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a...
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1940
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Venerable character actor Harry Davenport (best remembered as Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind) takes center stage in the...
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Joe Higgins
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1940
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In this entry in the comedy series the "Higgins Family," the group must cancel a cruise to South America after the check...
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Joe Higgins
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1939
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My Wife's Relatives is an easy-to-take entry in Republic's "Higgins Family" series. It all begins when Joe Higgins (James...
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1939
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In this musical, a composer abandons vaudeville in favor of the legitimate stage. He soon finds himself entangle with a...
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Phil Dolan, Sr.
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1939
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This comedy chronicles the further exploits of the hilarious "Higgins Family." In this entry, the father eagerly awaits a...
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Joe Higgins
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1939
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The trials faced by the US Army when it first attempted to trade horses for tanks provides the basis of this actioner. The...
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Hennessy
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1938
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Goddbye Broadway is wrapped up by two stage & screen veterans, Alice Brady and Charles Winninger. The stars play...
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Play Author
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1938
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With The Higgins Family, Republic Pictures launched its own economical variation on MGM's popular "Andy Hardy" series. The...
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Joe Higgins
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1938
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RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, based on the mystery stories by Stuart Palmer, ground to a half with 40 Naughty...
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Inspector Oscar Piper
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1937
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In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble...
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Danny The Duck
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1937
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In this crime drama a high-school principal's principles are put to the test when he, also a member of a parole board, is...
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Daniels
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1936
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In this action film, a rebellious cop doesn't hesitate to bend the rules when it comes to roughing up prisoners and bringing...
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Danny Walsh
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1936
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Future best-selling novelist Irwin Shaw made his screenwriting bow with the modest RKO Radio sports drama The Big Game. The...
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George
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1936
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When Edna May Oliver decided to leave RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, the studio came up with an unorthodox...
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Inspector Oscar Piper
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1936
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In this crime comedy, a street-savvy gangster involves himself with a Miami socialite. Together, they conspire to turn her...
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Saratoga
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1936
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Inspector Corrigan
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1936
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Big Mike (Wallace Beery) is a tough Army flyer who longs to see his son Little Mike (Robert Young) take to the air like...
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Joe Bags
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1935
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Though it wasn't RKO Radio's final "Hildegarde Withers" mystery, Murder on a Honeymoon represented the final appearance of...
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Inspector Oscar Piper
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1935
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Two Fisted is based on the James Gleason-Richard Taber stage play Is Zat So?, previously filmed under its original title in...
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Play Author
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1935
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Dithery ZaSu Pitts is miscast as novelist Stuart Palmer's crime-solving schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers in The Plot Thickens....
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Inspector Oscar Piper
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1935
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The multitalented James Gleason was both star and co-director of the RKO Radio programmer Hot Tip. Gleason is cast as...
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Director, Jimmy McGill
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1935
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In this drama, an impoverished dreamer saves a group of people during a terrible storm by leading them to shelter in a ghost...
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Sam Barnes
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1935
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Inspector Piper
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1934
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Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for...
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Dan Healey
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1934
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Hollywood movie-making is satirized in this comedy. The trouble begins when an American filmmaker decides to us a British...
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Screenwriter, Ed Waggermeyer
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1934
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Dry-goods store owner Tillie Prescott (ZaSu Pitts) has promised to marry meek barber Chris Peterson (El Brendel), but he...
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Duke Slater
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1934
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Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas,...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Clara Bow, the saucy "It" girl of the silent screen, made her film farewell in the ragged musical drama Hoopla. Based on the...
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Jerry
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1933
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A splashy journalist finds herself embroiled in international intrigue when she hooks up with a sneaky Russian correspondent...
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Lefty
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1933
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To look at his later dramatic work, one would never guess that award-winning director George Stevens got his start working on...
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1933
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Gabby Denton (Edmund Lowe) is a slightly down-on-his-luck bettor with a taste for alcohol and the ladies. To tide himself...
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Beef Evans
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1932
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In this comedy, a shady jockey, Marty Black, teams up with Silk Henley to con the punters at little racetracks. Marty goes...
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Silk Henley
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1932
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A star football player in college, Garry King (Richard Arlen) finds post-college life very different; he betrays the trust of...
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Chick Knipe
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1932
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Edna May Oliver makes the first of three appearances as Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by mystery...
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Inspector Oscar Piper
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1932
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Pop McClune
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1932
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One of four films directed by Stephen Roberts in 1932, just four years before the filmmaker passed away prematurely, Lady and...
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1932
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The "Crooked Circle" gang consists of a dozen or so hooded villains, all of whom have sworn revenge on the Sphinx Club, a...
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Crimmer
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1932
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In this comedy, a convict uses his skills as a masseur and a fight manager to get out of prison and become the private gym...
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Ratsy
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1932
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In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. They frantically...
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Cool Kelly
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1931
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A troubled production that suffered from both severe cuts and retakes under a different director (Edward H. Griffith), this...
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Screenwriter, Jim
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1931
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Coney island vendors Baltimore Clark (Bill Boyd), Dutch Herman (Robert Armstrong) and Skeets O'Reilly (James Gleason) spend...
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Skeets O'Riley
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1931
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In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family,...
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Eddie
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1931
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Squint Dugan
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1931
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The exciting world of horse-racing provides the setting for this lively comedy that centers on luckless Bud Doyle, a jockey...
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Sleepy Jones
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1931
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Legendary Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who was capable of reducing audiences to paroxysms of helpless laughter by telling them...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1930
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Helen Twelvetrees became a major star in this laundered version of the "naughty" Broadway play Frankie and Johnny. A singer...
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Steve
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1930
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The Fall Guy isn't Lee Majors in this 1930 RKO Radio programmer but instead a hapless druggist played by Jack Mulhall. Upon...
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Play Author
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1930
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Whatever rapport comedian Frank Fay enjoyed with Broadway audiences invariably evaporated when he appeared on film. In The...
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Gustave Corton
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1930
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The rise and fall of a popular entertainer provides the basis of this musical drama. Harry Raymond (played by nightclub...
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Screenwriter, James Tierney
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1930
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In this romantic comedy, a fighter goes to a southern town to train for the championship. He soon falls in love. The girl...
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Screenwriter, Mike
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1930
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1930
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The widow in question is wealthy Tamarind Brooks (Gloria Swanson), who flits from one man to another with the rapidity of a...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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In this romance, Mamie, a humble factory worker, falls in love with a cocky, young boxer, Bill "Cyclone" Hickey. To help his...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love...
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Play Author
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1930
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In one of her first talking pictures, Carole Lombard played a girl crook falling in love with a handsome lineman (William...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1929
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Two vagabonds find romance in this love story. It all begins when they get jobs as railroad brakemen by proving to the...
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Screenwriter, Dusty
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1929
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Although The Shannons of Broadway was not James Gleason's first film appearance as advertised, it might as well as been:...
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Play Author, Screenwriter, Mickey Shannon
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1929
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This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Veteran stage actor/playwright James Gleason made his film debut in the Universal comedy The Count of Ten. In fact, Gleason...
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The manager
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1928
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There seems to be some debate over exactly who directed this amusing Constance Talmadge picture. Since John Emerson directed...
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1922
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