Narrated by Anjelica Huston, this cable-TV documentary offered an up-close and personal look at the life and career of...
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2002
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This film profiles Hollywood actress Joan Crawford. Film clips of her movies trace her long career that almost ended early,...
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2000
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1997
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Originally produced for PBS, the American Cinema series examines what is probably the leading American art form: film....
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1995
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In 1974, MGM Studios released its first compilation of musical highlights from 45 years of Hollywood extravaganzas. Entitled...
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1994
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This documentary, narrated by respected film critic Leonard Maltin, focuses on the year or so that The Three Stooges spent at...
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1990
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This documentary highlights the careers and lives of some of the most famous actresses of early cinema. Some of the ladies...
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1989
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This collection of bloopers and outtakes is largely from Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Included are such sights...
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1986
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Rather than a compilation of a series of hilarious bloopers, plus scenes of current stars never-before shown to the public,...
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1983
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This represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the...
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1976
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It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off...
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1974
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Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) believes she has discovered the missing link in this flat science fiction drama....
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Dr. Brockton
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1970
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In the two-hour pilot film for the subsequent TV "occult" anthology, series creator Rod Serling hosts three macabre short...
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Miss Menlo
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1969
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Joan Crawford makes her TV sitcom debut in this dancin'-and-singin' half hour extravaganze, which also features former Lucy...
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Herself
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1968
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One of the lower points of Joan Crawford's latter-day career curve (though nothing to compare with the later embarrassment of...
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Monica Rivers
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1967
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The Man from UNCLE comes to the big screen in this spy thriller comprised of episodes from the popular television series....
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1967
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Amy Nelson
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1965
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Lucy Harbin
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1964
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Fatal Confinement originated as an hour-long TV pilot film titled Royal Bay. Joan Crawford stars as a reclusive woman living...
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1964
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1964
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A "bad movie" with a fervent fan following, The Caretakers is set in a bleak mental institution. Joan Crawford plays the...
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Lucretia Terry
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1963
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As a child, "Baby Jane" Hudson was the toast of vaudeville. As an adult, however, Baby Jane was overshadowed by her more...
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Blanche Hudson
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1962
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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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Story of Esther Costello is the cinematic equivalent of eating a whole box of potato chips; you may hate yourself, but you'll...
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Margaret Landi
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1957
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Few actresses other than Joan Crawford could have successfully pulled off the melodramatic excesses of Autumn Leaves. Though...
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Millicent Wetherby
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1956
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This movie is ideal for those in the mood for something steamy, overwrought and wonderfully trashy. Billed as a mystery, it...
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Lynn Markham
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1955
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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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Eva Phillips
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1955
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One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and...
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Vienna
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1954
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Joan Crawford's first Technicolor feature has come to be known as a textbook example of "high camp." Crawford stars as...
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Jenny Stewart
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1953
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Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford plays master criminal Beth...
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Beth Austin
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1952
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Joan Crawford stars as wealthy San Francisco heiress Myra Hudson, a successful playwright who meets Lester Blaine...
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Myra Hudson
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1952
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Based on a play by Fay Kanin, this comedy drama follows a successful congresswoman's emotional journey back to her alma...
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Agatha Reed
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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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Ethel Whitehead
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1950
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Harriet Craig
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1950
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1949
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Lane Bellamy
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1949
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Daisy Kenyon stars Joan Crawford as the eponymous heroine, a Manhattan commercial artist. Daisy is torn between two men: a...
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Daisy Kenyon
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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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Louise Howell Graham
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1947
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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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Helen Wright
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1946
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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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Mildred Pierce
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1945
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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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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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Frances Myles
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1943
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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Margaret J. Drew
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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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Michele de la Becque
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1942
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Strange Skirts is the TV title of the 1941 MGM film When Ladies Meet. The film was a remake of a 1933 production of the same...
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Mary Howard
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1941
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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Anna Holm
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1941
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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Julie
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1940
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Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars...
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Susan Trexel
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1940
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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Crystal Allen
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1939
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Comedy, romance, and song hit the ice in this musical. Larry Hall (James Stewart) is a professional ice skater whose act with...
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Mary McKay
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1939
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Olivia Riley
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1938
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Fay Cheyney
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1937
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Anni
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1937
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Mannequin stars Joan Crawford as Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements (though this being an MGM film, her slum dwellings...
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Jessie Cassidy
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1937
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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Peggy O'Neal Eaton
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1936
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Sally Parker
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1936
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For 20 years, Jeff Williams (Clark Gable) has been in love with his childhood playmate Mary Clay (Joan Crawford). Alas, Jeff...
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Mary Clay
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1935
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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Kay
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1935
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MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good...
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Marcia Townsend
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1935
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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Sadie McKee
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1934
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Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained....
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Diane Lovering
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1934
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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Janie Barlow
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1933
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A love triangle forms the basis of this drama set during WWI. The screenplay was written by the story's original author...
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Diana Boyce-Smith
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1933
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Based on a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, this drama chronicles the tangled web woven by a poisonous New York socialite who...
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Letty Lynton
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1932
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The pleasures of the flesh confront the discipline of the Lord's teachings in this screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's...
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Sadie Thompson
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1932
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Flaemmchen
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1932
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Bonnie Jordan
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1931
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1931
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Joan Crawford is her usual upwardly mobile self in this melodrama co-starring Clark Gable. She plays Marian Martin, a cynical...
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Marian Martin
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1931
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With a blonde wigged Joan Crawford offering one of her more high-handed performances, and veteran silent star Pauline...
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Valentine Winters
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1931
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Ivy Stevens
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1931
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Mary Turner
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1930
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Jerry Marsh
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1930
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Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown star in this high budget horse opera from M-G-M. She is Joan Prescott, a spoiled...
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Joan Prescott
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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Directed by James Cruze, this silent drama stars William Haines as Duke, a wealthy young heir who takes up prizefighting in...
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Susie
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1929
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Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in...
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Bingo
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1929
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Billie Brown
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1929
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Rose-Marie
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1928
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
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1928
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The ancient tale of brothers, separated at birth, who grow up on opposite sides of the law, is given yet another working-over...
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Betty Dallas
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1928
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Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can...
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Diana Medford
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1928
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Betty Channing
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1928
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Priscilla Crowninshield
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1928
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Starring Joan Crawford and John Gilbert, this suspenseful, silent crime-drama follows the exploits of a gangster who does his...
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Frieda
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1928
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Impoverished Southern belle Joslyn Poe (Joan Crawford) heads to New York, hoping to become a professional dancer. Unable to...
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Joslyn Poe
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1927
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The Tim McCoy western Winners of the Wilderness was shot simultaneously with McCoy's War Paint, using the same locations for...
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Rene Contrecoeur
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1927
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Monica Dale
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1927
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As a group, the silent-movie collaborations between director Tod Browning and star Lon Chaney hardly represent the best work...
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Estrellita
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1927
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Another of William Haines' sports-oriented vehicles, Spring Fever casts the star as lowly shipping clerk Jack Kelly. Falling...
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1927
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John Gilbert was one of MGM's top stars when he appeared this melodrama. Playing against his usual matinee idol type, Gilbert...
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Jane
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1927
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When baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon left Mack Sennett Studios to make features for First National, he wisely brought along...
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Betty Burton
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1926
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Jane
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1926
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Ruined financially by a series of misguided business ventures, popular leading man Charles Ray was forced to relinquish his...
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The Girl
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1926
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Based on a musical comedy by Edward Dowling, this picture was Joan Crawford's breakthrough film. Her Charleston in this and...
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Irene
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1925
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This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela Rogers St. John. Maggie...
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1925
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This is yet another costume drama written and supervised by the eccentric Elinor Glyn, who was a Hollywood tastemaker during...
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1925
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The Rag Man proved to be a popular release, so Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer quickly put together this sequel. The studio's brand new...
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Mary Riley
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1925
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King Vidor does a nice job of making an insignificant novel by Lawrence Rising into a pleasant light comedy. Fernanda...
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1925
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