Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Lillian Gish. Included are excerpts from:...
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1984
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A skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of...
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1974
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Tara Nicole (Holly Near) is an 18-year-old girl from a wealthy family. She rebels against her parents by taking up with a...
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Astrid
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1969
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An amoral American makes his way through genteel British society in this drama. Marco (Michael Thomas Parks) is a...
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Carol
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1966
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David O. Selznick had intended to film an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night as a vehicle for his wife...
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Nicole Diver
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1961
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Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by...
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Nurse Catherine Barkley
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1957
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Elizabeth Barrett
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1957
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This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit...
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Betsy Rath
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1956
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Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong...
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Han Suyin
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1955
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This distaff variation of the Goodbye Mr. Chips theme is based on a novel by Frances Gray Patton. While confined to a...
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Miss Dove
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1955
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Mary Forbes
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1954
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Indiscretion of an American Wife began its life as a romantic drama entitled Terminal Station, directed with extraordinary...
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Mary Forbes
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1953
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Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's...
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Gwendolyn Chelm
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1953
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Ruby Corey/Ruby Gentry
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1952
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Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat...
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Carrie Meeber
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1952
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The brooding British romantic drama Gone to Earth is better known by its American title The Wild Heart. Filmed in England and...
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Hazel Woodus
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1950
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MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by...
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Emma Bovary
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1949
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Set in the Cuba of 1933, We Were Strangers stars John Garfield as revolutionary-minded Tony Fenner. A member of an...
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China Valdes
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1949
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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While...
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Jennie Appleton
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1948
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Pearl Chavez
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1946
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The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle...
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Cluny Brown
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1946
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Ayn Rand wrote this adaptation of Chris Massie's book Pity Mr. Simplicity, about a soldier who falls in love with a former...
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Singleton/Victoria Remington
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1945
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Jane Hilton
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1944
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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Bernadette Soubirous
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1943
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