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1997
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1967
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One subject that has always been popular in the movies -- and is likely to stay that way for a long time to come -- is...
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1965
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This compilation film is one of the few Robert Youngson productions to incorporate sound as well as silent excerpts. All the...
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1964
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The first of documentary producer Robert Youngson's feature-length silent comedy compilations, The Golden Age of Comedy began...
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1958
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A golddigger finds that romance doesn't always equal finance in this comedy. Crystal Wetherby (Jean Harlow) is an American...
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Crystal Wetherby
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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Carol Clayton
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1937
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Gladys Benton
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1936
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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Helen "Whitey" Wilson
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1936
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Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This...
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Suzy Trent
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1936
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Riff-Raff begins riff-raffing when boastful fisherman Dutch (Spencer Tracy) marries down-to-earth cannery worker Hattie...
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Hattie
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1935
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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China Doll (Dolly Portland)
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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Mona Leslie
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1935
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1932 through 1934 saw the production of "Hollywood on Parade" shorts by Paramount Studios, featuring nearly every big star...
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1934
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Eadie Chapman
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1934
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There's nothing wrong with Hold Your Man that a little editing wouldn't cure. Clark Gable plays a raffish young petty crook...
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Ruby Adams
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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Lola Burns
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1933
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Kitty Packard
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1933
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Jack Conway complained about being assigned to direct this comedy, claiming that a woman like the title character had almost...
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Lil Andrews
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1932
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Red Dust was lensed almost entirely on MGM's back lot; even so, we are utterly convinced that the film takes place in...
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Vantine
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1932
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Glamorous Jean Harlow had her first big starring role in this standard story of an innocent small town young woman corrupted...
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Cassie Barnes
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1932
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A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of...
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Daisy Stevens
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1932
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Charles Chaplin was deep into production of his silent City Lights when Hollywood was overwhelmed by the talkie revolution....
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1931
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown...
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Gwen Allen
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1931
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A rather bleak comedy-drama from Frank Capra, Platinum Blonde basically starts where Capra's later and much more buoyant It...
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Anne Schuyler
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1931
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Bootleggers Louis Scorpio (Wallace Beery) and Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy), with the advice of their alcoholic lawyer...
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Anne Courtland
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1931
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter is left by his money-grubbing showgirl wife who aspires to be a movie star. The...
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Rose Mason
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1931
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Goldie
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1931
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No one was surprised in 1929 that aviation mogul Howard R. Hughes would produce a paean to World War I flying aces like...
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Helen
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1930
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Accused of murdering her employer, nightclub vocalist Alice Carroll (Madge Bellamy) is vigorously prosecuted in court by...
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1929
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Terrified at the prospect of making her talking-picture debut, silent-screen queen Norma Talmadge spent several months taking...
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1929
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Director Ernst Lubitsch's first talking picture, The Love Parade was a witty souffle about a royal "marriage of state."...
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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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1929
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In this comedy, a lonesome fellow returns from Peru with a fortune and begins looking for a wife. While still single, he has...
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1929
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Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible...
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1929
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This Laurel and Hardy short film has a thin plot but plenty of laughs. The two have escaped from prison, but the guards are...
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1929
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This Laurel and Hardy two-reel silent involves the boys' attempts to repossess a radio from Collis P. Kennedy (Edgar Kennedy...
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1929
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A hotel is gearing up to welcome its prestigious new guest, a European Prince (Captain John Peters). But before he appears,...
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1929
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1929
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1929
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1928
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