Narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William...
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1995
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Jane Wyman guest stars as Elizabeth Quinn, the wealthy Bostonian mother of Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour). Summoned...
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1993
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The ninth and final season of Falcon Crest marks another hasty exit of a longtime series regular, as Maggie Channing (Susan...
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Angela Channing Stavros Agretti
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1989
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Picking up where Season Seven of Falcon Crest left off, Season Eight finds the scheming Melissa (Ana Alicia), former wife of...
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Angela Channing Stavros
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1988
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Falcon Crest enters its seventh season minus longtime series regular Robert Foxworth, whose character, Chase Gioberti, had...
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Angela Channing Stavros
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1987
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Often trailers and coming attractions are of as much or more interest to viewers than the actual movie. Included here are...
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1987
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Although the earthquake that ended Season Five of Falcon Crest resulted in only minimal damage (aside from a few quick exits...
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Angela Channing Stavros
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1986
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Season Five of Falcon Crest finds ruthless winery owner Angela Channing (Jane Wyman) once again under siege, this time from...
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Angela Channing
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1985
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Season Four of Falcon Crest is dominated by a storyline involving "The Cartel", a widespread criminal organization headed by...
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Angela Channing
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1984
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Season Two of Falcon Crest ended as Julia Cumson (Abby Dalton), the demented sister of ruthless Tuscany Valley winery owner...
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Angela Channing
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1983
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Much of the action in Season Two of Falcon Crest is precipitated by the murder of Carlo Agretti (Carlos Romero) the father of...
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Angela Channing
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1982
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Angela Channing (Jane Wyman), the formidable and much-feared owner of Napa Valley's Falcon Crest winery; and Angela's nephew...
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Angela Channing
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1981
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Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's filmmaking career. Included are scenes...
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1979
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This made-for-TV effort stars Lindsay Wagner as Meg Laurel, an orphan who graduates Harvard Medical School and returns to...
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1979
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Jane Wyman makes her TV-movie debut in The Failing of Raymond. She plays a middle-aged schoolteacher on the verge of...
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1971
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Frank Benson (Bob Hope) and his wife, Elaine (Jane Wyman), decide to end their marriage after 20 years. Their daughter, Nancy...
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Elaine Benson
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1969
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An Indiana family embarks on their dream vacation to France. The Willard family, led by Harry (Fred MacMurray) and Katie...
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Katie Willard
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1962
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Aunt Polly Harrington
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1960
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Director Henry Levin followed up this light romantic comedy with Where the Boys Are and started a beach trend going. This...
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Mary Dean
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1959
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The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy that centers on an...
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Ruth Wood
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1956
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One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated...
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Cary Scott
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1955
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An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the...
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Lucy Gallant
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1955
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1954
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This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the...
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Helen Phillips
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1954
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This tuneful remake of 1937's The Awful Truth centers on the rocky marriage of a philandering composer and the wife who has...
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Constance Stuart
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1953
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This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by...
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Selina DeJong
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1953
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Carolina Hill
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1952
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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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Betty Rogers
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1952
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Pretty stewardess Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) must choose between Three Guys Named Mike in this frothy MGM concoction. There's...
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Mary Lewis
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1951
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Louise Mason
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1951
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Starlift was Warner Bros' attempt to revive the "all-star patriotic musical" format which had worked so well during WW II....
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1951
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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Emmadel Jones
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1951
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Stage Fright toys with our notions of the dividing line between reality and artifice by being set in the London theatre...
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Eve Gill
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1950
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Laura Wingfield
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1950
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A Kiss in the Dark opens with a shot of Jane Wyman in a two-piece bathing suit. Alas, the dictates of cinematic construction...
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Polly Haines
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1949
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1949
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Though she may have won an Oscar in 1948, Jane Wyman still had a Warner Bros. contract to fulfill, even if it meant appearing...
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Jennifer Smith
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1949
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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Belinda McDonald
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1948
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Mary Peterman
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1947
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A mysterious crook by the name of "The Poet" is robbing Wells Fargo stages and creating havoc in the Old West. The sheriff is...
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1947
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In this comedy, an adaptation of the play The Animal Kingdom, a liberal, social reformist photographer falls in love with a...
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Fran Connors
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1946
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Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling is set in post-Civil War Florida. Claude Jarman Jr. plays Jody...
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Ma Baxter
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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Gracie Harris
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1946
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer...
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Helen St. James
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1945
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After several years' faithful service in supporting roles, Jack Carson was awarded his first Warner Bros. starring vehicle...
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Susan Courtney
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1944
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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Vivian Marsden
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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In this mystery, a detective and his secretary go on vacation and end up solving a murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Robbie Vance
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1944
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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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Jean
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1943
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Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who...
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Connie
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1942
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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Denny Costello
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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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Flo LaVerne
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1942
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Rather than play famous outlaw Cole Younger in this film, Warner Bros. contract star Humphrey Bogart chose suspension....
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Mary Hathaway
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1941
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Ann Sheridan and her then-husband George Brent did their expected box-office duty in the Warner Bros. comedy Honeymoon for...
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Elizabeth Clochessy
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1941
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In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner...
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Bliss Dobson
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1941
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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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Lynn Shotesbury
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1941
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An Angel from Texas was the fourth of five film versions of the venerable George S. Kaufman stage farce The Butter and Egg...
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Marge Allen
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1940
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A barely disguised rip-off of 20th Century-Fox's all-female Tail Spin (39), Warner Bros.' Flight Angels is an inexpensive...
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Nan Hudson
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1940
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Olivia DeHavilland stars as a music student whose education is secretly subsidized by the aging owner of a phonograph factory...
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Joy O'Keefe
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1940
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This comedy is the sequel of Brother Rat. The film begins with the three original protagonists after their graduation from...
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Claire Adams Ramm
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1940
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This 55-minute remake of the 75-minute Warner Bros. crime drama Special Agent retains a surprising amount of the original's...
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Laurie Ogden
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1940
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again stars Marjorie Rambeau as the rambunctious female skipper created by Norman Reilly Raine. In this...
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Peggy Armstrong
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1940
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A singing waiter with a wonderful operatic voice finds himself in the squared circle facing heavyweight boxers after he gets...
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Judy Craig
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1939
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Myrna Winslow
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1939
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The exploits of female pilots are followed in this high-flying drama. These women are extremely competitive and will stop at...
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Alabama
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1939
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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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Marian Bronson
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1939
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Torchy Plays with Dynamite was the final entry in Warner Bros.' "Torchy Blane" series, based on characters created by...
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Torchy Blane
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1939
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In this comedy, a milquetoast office clerk is forcibly betrothed to a woman by her overbearing mother. The trouble begins...
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Violet Coney
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1938
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Spy Ring (aka International Spy) was designed as a trial balloon for new Universal contractee William Hall. He is cast as...
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Elaine Burdette
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1938
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In this lively comedy, three young hell-raisers enroll in the Virginia Military Institute and have a hard time staying out...
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1938
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Not a remake of the 1932 James Cagney vehicle of the same name, The Crowd Roars is set in the sweat-stained world of...
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1938
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In her only Warner Bros. starring film, Carole Lombard plays a Hollywood movie actress who makes the park-bench acquaintance...
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1938
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In this crime comedy, a fortune is stolen and every gangster in town is looking for it. They all end up staying at a young...
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Betty Martin
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1938
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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1937
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The Warner Bros. musicals began running out of gas in the late 1930s, yielding such lukewarm efforts as Ready, Willing and...
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1937
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Making his debut with Warner Brothers, Henry Fonda plays an apprentice high-voltage lineman working with the no-nonsense, but...
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1937
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Coincidentally, Warner Bros. contractee Jane Wyman made her starring debut in the same year as her husband-to-be...
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Flip Lane
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1937
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Groucho Marx received co-writer credit (along with his old friend Norman Krasna) for King and the Chorus Girl, though very...
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Babette
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1937
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In this satire, an electrician from a tiny town impresses a New York radio sponsor with his booming baritone singing voice....
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Marjorie Day
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1937
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Those beautiful Busby Berkeley babes are back at work, seeking financial backing for a Broadway show. Salvation comes from a...
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1936
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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1936
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At the time of its release, Polo Joe was critically lambasted as the worst Joe E. Brown starrer to date. Compared to his...
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1936
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As originally conceived by detective novelist Frederick Nebel, hotshot girl reporter Torchy Blaine was a male news-hound...
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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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1936
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Paramount Pictures decided in 1935 to create a new romantic team, thus cast singing stars Carl Brisson and Mary Ellis in the...
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1935
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In this bouncy musical, a sax-playing ex-convict joins a swing band and embarks upon a cross-country tour. He does really...
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1935
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A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American...
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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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1934
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Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because...
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1933
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In director Leo McCarey's film The Kid From Spain, actor Eddie Cantor plays mischievious college boy Eddie Williams, who,...
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Goldwyn Girl
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1932
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