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1984
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This routine tale of an aspiring actress on the verge of a sharp decline is directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and features...
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Producer
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1963
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The "official" title of this film is Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man; its screenplay is adapted from...
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Producer
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1962
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Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson adapted the novel by author Edward Streeter, whose work was also the basis of Father of the...
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Executive Producer
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1962
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If anything, this star-studded sequel is even sillier than the original, adding to its problems by completely recasting all...
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Producer
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1961
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Rock 'n roll king Elvis Presley stars as Glenn Talbot, a country boy with a problem temper and a yen for literary greatness...
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Producer
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1961
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The Motion Picture Production Code was still in effect (albeit weakly) when Sons and Lovers was filmed in 1960, so don't...
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Producer
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1960
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Let's Make Love is a breezy comedy about an off Broadway musical production. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is the richest...
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Producer
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1960
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A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney (Dennis Holmes)...
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1959
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Producer
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1959
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A star-studded cast enlivens this glossy '50s soap opera, based on a novel by Rona Jaffe. The action unfolds at the...
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1959
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Producer
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1959
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A suspenseful courtroom drama, The Story on Page One was the second and last film directed by the distinguished American...
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Producer
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1959
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While often regarded as one of America's greatest novelists, William Faulkner produced work that did not always translate...
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Producer
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1958
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The only reason for the existence of the colorful musical 3DMardi Gras3D is the star power of Pat Boone. The plot is set in...
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Producer
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1958
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Based on the Anton Myrer novel The Big War, In Love and War is an entertaining showcase for several of 20th Century-Fox's...
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Producer
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1958
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A handful of suburban couples discover that emotional turmoil lurks behind the placid exterior of the planned community of...
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Producer
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1957
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Producer
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1957
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An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an...
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Producer
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1957
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Grace Metalious' once-notorious bestseller Peyton Place is given a lavish -- and necessarily toned-down -- film treatment in...
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Producer
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1957
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Tyrone Power stars in this tear-jerking biography of the beloved but short-lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin....
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Producer
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1956
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Queen Bee offers a stinging portrait of a mad, manipulative woman and chronicles her downfall and that of those around her in...
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Producer
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1955
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Set in New Caledonia (though filmed in Hawaii), Miss Sadie Thompson is a heavily laundered adaptation of Somerset Maugham's...
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Producer
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1953
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Pride of St. Louis is the story of one of baseball's most colorful characters, Jerome Herman "Dizzy" Dean. While playing...
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1952
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The titular Lusty Men are rodeo riders in this modern-day western, assembled with a touch of the offbeat by director...
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1952
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Producer
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1951
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1951
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1951
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A woman's desire to rise above her drab lower middle-class life take her down the road to destruction in this gripping crime...
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Producer
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1950
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This second screen version of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is closer in spirit to the original than the first...
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Producer
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1950
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Caged, considered the best woman's prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and...
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1950
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Producer
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1950
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Producer
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1950
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The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk...
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Producer
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1950
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Producer
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1950
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In pageant-like fashion, Warner Bros.' Task Force traces the history of the American aircraft carrier, as experienced by a...
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Producer
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1949
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The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery...
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Producer
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1949
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Milton Berle was enjoying the first flush of his television success when his musical-comedy movie vehicle Always Leave Them...
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Producer
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1949
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Screen Story
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1949
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Producer
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1949
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Robert Rockwell, Republic Pictures' resident all-purpose hero, stars in Alias the Champ. This time, Rockwell plays Lt. Ron...
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1949
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Though Errol Flynn was well past his prime (and obviously well lubricated in certain scenes), he rises to the occasion of The...
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Producer
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1949
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Producer
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1949
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This third film version of James Hagan's stage play One Sunday Afternoon was directed by Raoul Walsh, who helmed the second...
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Producer
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1948
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Opening with a brief look at Republic Pictures' back lot in Studio City, CA, this average Roy Rogers songfest settles down to...
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1948
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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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Producer
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1948
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To the Victor is one of the first Hollywood films to touch upon the subject of war guilt. There are no high-ranking Nazis or...
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Producer
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1948
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Producer
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1948
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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Producer
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1947
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Band singer Freddie Stewart stars in the pure-'40s frivolity Vacation Days. It's a high-school musical romance, with some of...
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1947
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We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning...
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Producer
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1947
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1947
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Nightmare Alley is the sordid tale of a conniving young man who, in the words of one of the film's supporting characters,...
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1947
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The second Hollywood-filmed effort from the British-based Eagle Lion company, Lost Honeymoon is a decided improvement on the...
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1947
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Producer
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1947
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Most of this Republic B-plus mystery yarn is set in a penthouse, next door to a music hall where a strange song-and-dance...
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1946
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Fannie Hurst's novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish-American violinist who forgets all about his friends...
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Producer
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1946
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Teenaged Junior (Scotty Beckett) gets into trouble when he tries to bring a gun to school. To explain why he's packing a rod,...
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1946
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A few corny moments aside, Objective Burma must rate as one of the best combat films of WW2. Errol Flynn stars as Captain...
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Producer
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1945
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John Garfield stars as Al Schmid, a true-life marine who served in World War II. Schmid becomes a hero at Guadalcanal,...
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Producer
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1945
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Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M....
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Producer
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1945
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More a romantic melodrama than the uplifting propaganda piece the producers perhaps envisioned, In Our Time stars Ida Lupino...
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Producer
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1944
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Though filmed while WW2 was still very much in progress, The Very Thought of You has the lighthearted ambience of a postwar...
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1944
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1944
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Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation...
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1943
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Action in the North Atlantic is solid wartime propaganda with a rather endearing inner lining of left-wing politics, courtesy...
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Producer
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1943
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Clare Booth Luce's once-timely stage comedy Margin for Error was indifferently transferred to the screen in 1943....
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1943
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Producer
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1943
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Though its purely propagandastic aspects are never far from surface, Destination Tokyo must rank as one of the most...
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Producer
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1943
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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Producer
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1942
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Producer
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1942
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In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway...
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Producer
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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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Producer
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1942
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A lively espionage drama that reunited the stars and director of the previous year's The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific...
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Producer
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1942
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Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving...
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Producer
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Producer
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1941
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Out of the Fog is the film version of the Irwin Shaw play The Gentle People, refashioned to mollify the Hollywood censors by...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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Associate Producer, Screenwriter
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1941
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Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in...
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1941
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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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Screen Story
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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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Screenwriter
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1940
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Screenwriter
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1940
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It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1939
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Louis Armstrong steals the show as the groom to Jeepers Creepers, a skittish racehorse that can only settle down and run when...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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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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Screenwriter
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1938
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The last and least of Warner Bros.' Gold Diggers musicals, Gold Diggers in Paris at least has the novelty of a Gallic...
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Screen Story
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1938
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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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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1937
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If you're wondering which Warners musical featured the songs "Old King Cole" and "Have You Got Any Castles?," we refer you to...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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For a change of pace, Warner Bros. contract tenor James Melton sings no opera in Sing Me A Love Song -- nor does he sing...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a pacifistic song-and-dance man is compelled to don a military uniform for one of his acts. Before...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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This musical chronicles the rise to stardom of a humble bellhop after he is discovered by a talent agent. Though he becomes a...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Rudy Vallee made his third feature-film starring appearance in the breezy Warner Bros. musical Sweet Music. Vallee is...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Per its title, this merry Warner Bros. musical was filmed on location in the resort community of Agua Caliente. Pat O'Brien...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen....
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Screenwriter
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1935
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In the wake of Shirley Temple, every Hollywood studio scrambled to find a child star who might possibility match Temple's...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Screenwriter
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1935
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A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. One day he...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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A satire on radio crooners, Twenty Million Sweethearts stars Dick Powell as a singing waiter--fake handlebar mustache and...
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Screen Story
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1934
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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