First came 20th Century-Fox's Mother Was a Freshman; then, a few months later, the same studio's Father Was a Fullback....
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1949
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Another of 20th Century-Fox's Technicolor musical biopics, Oh You Beautiful Doll is allegedly the life story of popular...
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1949
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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1948
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Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the...
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1947
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1946
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Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck....
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1944
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1944
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1943
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A man trying to leave his fame behind discovers the perils of choosing to be the wrong unknown person in this farcical...
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1943
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Dumped by wife Ellen Drew, musician Melvyn Douglas goes into a creative slump. His gloom is lifted when he falls in love with...
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1941
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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1938
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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1937
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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1934
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Based on a best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst, Back Street concerns an ill-starred couple, Rae (Irene Dunne) and Walter...
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1932
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1931
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In this three-hanky melodrama, an aspiring writer abandons his wife and five children to work more closely with a beautiful...
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1931
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In this melodrama, a husband gets on with his life after his wife goes to Europe to get a divorce. Thinking the deed done,...
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1930
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Marriage by Contract was produced and directed by John M. Stahl for his own Tiffany-Stahl Studio. Although only a...
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1928
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Legendary (and, to some, infamous) African-American comedian Stepin Fetchit made his first screen appearance in...
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1927
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The venerable stage drama The World and His Wife formed the basis for the MGM production Lovers?. Ramon Novarro and...
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1927
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1926
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MGM's The Gay Deceiver was based on Toto, a stage play by Maurice Hennequin and Felix DuQuesnal. Lew Cody stars as Toto, a...
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1926
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Fashions for Men was a satirical play by Franz Molnar. In the hands of film company First National, it became a sincere,...
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1925
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1924
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This comedy-drama was based on the successful play by Avery Hopwood, who was known for his tales of domestic turmoil. It...
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1924
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A young and still inexperienced Norma Shearer was originally cast in the lead role of Myra Hastings in this society drama --...
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1923
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Veteran silent star Henry Walthall shines in this drama, based on the novel by Frances Nimmo Greene. In spite of the...
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1922
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This mediocre drama laid on the pathos in an attempt to draw in the sentimental audiences of the early '20s. Amos Tilden...
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1922
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Future Judge Hardy Lewis Stone plays a restless middle-aged man in this drama. After 20 years of marriage, Mary Emerson (Cleo...
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1922
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Rosamond Athelstane (Anita Stewart) has been raised in a convent, ignorant of the fact that the woman who claims to be her...
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1921
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This awkwardly titled drama makes for an interesting look into the morals of the first part of the 20th century. On her...
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1921
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Eleven men and one woman are on the jury when Jim O'Neil (Gareth Hughes) is being tried for murder. O'Neil was found holding...
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1919
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Helen (Florence Reed) is an American art student studying in Paris. She rejects fellow student Tom Davis (Alec Francis) in...
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1919
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Suspicion was an old-fashioned melodrama given a new coat of paint by virtue of its WWI setting. When Dr. Allen Forrest...
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1918
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