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1951
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In this crime drama, a convict is freed after he agrees to join the military during WW II. After he is discharged he gets a...
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June Sanders
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1948
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Speed to Spare is an efficient entry from the Pine-Thomas Productions assembly line. Ricard Arlen, who'd been a "regular"...
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Mary
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1948
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This minor 20th Century-Fox B picture received a great deal of TV play in the late 1950s. In a series of flashbacks, the...
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Catherine Morland
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1947
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In this drama two wandering WW II vets visit the family of a former buddy who had been killed in action. Finding the family...
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Jerry Walters
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1946
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In this comedy, a Hollywood talent scout talks a moody hockey player into becoming an actor. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1946
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The biggest surprise in Republic's Gay Blades is that the studio's resident skating star Vera Hruba Ralston doesn't appear....
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Nancy Davis
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1946
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Jo Matheson
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1945
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With Universal nearly out of the "B"-grade horror film business by 1945, it was up to Monogram to take up the slack with...
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Ellen Randall
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1945
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The last of three films starring Red Skelton as ace radio detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, Whistling in Brooklyn opens with...
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Jean Pringle
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1943
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In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the...
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Iris Reid
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1943
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Lucy Gilbert
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1943
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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Elaine Carter
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1942
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Another graduate of MGM's short-subject department, director David Miller proved he had what it took to helm a feature film...
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Judy Galestrum
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1942
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In this WW II propaganda piece a wealthy American society matron refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war...
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Patricia Hadley
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1942
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In this episode of the popular medical series, Kildare finds himself involved in a dispute between to competing hospitals....
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Annabelle Kirke
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1941
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Three different Universal pictures made between 1922 and 1941 bore the catchall title Don't Get Personal. The 1941 film stars...
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1941
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Dotty
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1941
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While paging through a scrapbook, Dr. Wyman (Robert Sterling) recalls his college days. Though preferring to stick to his...
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Lee
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1940
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Though he lacked the casual charisma of his brother Bing, bandleader Bob Crosby starred in a series of reasonably successful...
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Abby Adams
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1940
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Charlie Chan in Panama was the first entry in the "Chan" series to capitalize on WW2. Sidney Toler stars as the wily oriental...
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Kathi Lenesch
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1940
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This crime drama tells the tale of a man who declines to defend himself against murder charges. ~ Rovi...
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1940
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While Cesar Romero could usually be relied upon to ladle out the charm in his film roles, Romero's handful of appearances as...
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Joan Allen
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1940
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Alice Stetson
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1940
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Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
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1940
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In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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Nancy Prescott
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1939
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In this heartwarming drama, a good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an...
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June White
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1939
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In this domestic comedy, a young woman's mother keeps frightening her beaus right out the door with her incessant critical...
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Louise Haller
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1939
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In his feature film debut, Glenn Ford plays a department-store clerk who saves up enough money to buy a small patch of land...
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Anita
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1939
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While New York Sleeps is when fast-talking reporter Barney Callahan (Michael Whalen) prowls the night beat for a great...
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Judy King
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1938
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Universal Pictures' second Flash Gordon serial was even more opulent than its first, offering better special effects, more...
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Dale Arden
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1938
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Virginia Darlington
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1938
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This science fiction film features the revenge of Ming who vowed to destroy the Earth. ~ Rovi...
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Dale Arden
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1938
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In this witty comedy mystery, a dim-bulbed news photographer and an equally dull-witted reporter try their hand at sleuthing...
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1938
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You wouldn't know it from the title, but Deadly Ray From Mars is a feature-length abridgement of the 15-episode serial Flash...
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1938
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Supporting actor Scott Kolk was elevated to playing the title role in this Graustarkian spy thriller, serialized in 12...
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Shara Graustark
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1937
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In this thriller, an ex-pilot develops a useful new navigating device and decides to test it out. Unfortunately the test-run...
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Jean Clayton
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1937
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In this crime thriller, an old, ailing scientist has been robbed of the burglar alarm he invented by his partner, who owns a...
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Joan Mallory
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1937
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Another entry from John Wayne's non-western series at Universal, Conflict casts Wayne as Pat, a bare-knuckle boxer in...
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Maude
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1937
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Scott Colton, a good-looking young fellow whom Universal was grooming for stardom (unsuccessfully as it turned out) heads the...
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Helen Conlon
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1937
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In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no...
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1937
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James Dunn is once more cast as a reporter, this one named Murphy. On the outs with practically every newsroom in America,...
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Yvonne Fontaine
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1937
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In 1936, Universal Pictures created a sensation with Flash Gordon, a 13-part adventure serial based on the popular comic...
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Dale Arden
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1936
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, two college boys get expelled because they could not pay tuition. They decide to scare up some cash...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Based on the turn-of-the-century dimestore novels of Bert L. Standish (real name: William Patton Gilbert), this slow-moving...
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1936
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On New Year's Eve, aspiring actress Julia Wayne (Joan Bennett) and chronic gambler Larry Stevens (Joel McCrea), both flat...
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1936
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In 1936, Flash Gordon was among the most popular comic strip characters in America when Universal Pictures first brought his...
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1936
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In this sci-fi film, Flash Gordon and friends take on Mongo's sea monster, deadly ray guns, and robots to keep the evil...
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1936
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Ostensibly based on the life of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, whose smiling visage opened each of the 13...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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In this adventure serial, Tailspin Tommy discovers that a gang of profiteers are out to steal an island's oil reserves. The...
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1935
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In this drama, a young boy earns the trust of an especially skittish colt and they form a special bond. Trouble ensues when...
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Kerry Dorn
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1935
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Manhattan Moon is predicated on the notion that French songstress Yvonne (Dorothy Page) is so busy with her career that she...
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1935
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Paramount's Eight Girls in a Boat was a remake of the 1932 German film of the same name. Impregnated by medical student David...
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1934
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