Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally...
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1942
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The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War...
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1941
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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1940
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Nicolas Raptis
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1940
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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In this lively campus comedy, a stern rowing coach sets up a rigorous practice schedule for his team and insists they lead...
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Wilson, Sr.
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1936
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In this comedy a sneaky salesman tries to sell an inventor's newest product, a water-based fuel. Before the inventor can...
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Max Dourfuss
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1936
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Ross Alexander, whom Warner Bros. was obviously grooming for big-time stardom, is cast as Bill McAllister, the ne'er-do-well...
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Fred Schultz
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1936
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In this British gangster movie, a Chicago gang goes to cool their heels in London. There they try to overtake the town....
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Sherwood/Riley
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1936
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A remake of the French comedy Monsieur Sans-Gene, One Rainy Afternoon gets under way when film-actor Phillippe Martin...
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1936
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With little plot but incredible photography and choreography, Gold Diggers of 1935 was exactly what you would expect a...
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1935
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1935
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Oscar Schmidt
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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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1935
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1935
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Joe E. Brown's extensive circus and burlesque training serve him well in this familiar but likeable yarn. Brown and...
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Otto Schlemmer
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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Produced on a reasonably lavish scale by the usually parsimonious Mascot Pictures, Harmony Lane was the first of three filmed...
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Kleber
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1935
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Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits...
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Karl Krausemeyer
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1935
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Another of director William Wyler's "apprenticeship" films, Glamour is based on a story by Edna Ferber. The original story...
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Ibsen
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1934
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1934
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1934
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A pre-stardom Bette Davis struggles mightily as the "other woman" in this rather obvious divorce court drama from Warner...
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1934
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The Human Side was adapted by Frank Craven and Ernest Pascal from a play by Christine Ames. Long married and the parents of...
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Fritz Speigle
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1934
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Based on Lea David Freeman's play Ruby, Lazy River takes place somewhere in the Mississippi River Valley. Jean Parker plays...
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1934
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Dying New England millionaire Cabot Barr (George Arliss) doesn't trust any of his relatives as they flock to his bedside, and...
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1934
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Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS...
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Herman Cline
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1934
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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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1934
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A Very Honorable Guy is an interesting if not terribly funny change of pace for comedy star Joe E. Brown. This Damon Runyon...
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1934
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Gus Schneider
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1933
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An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the...
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Werner
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1933
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Heroine Mona (Sally Eilers) is "made" in more ways than one in this free-wheeling spoof of the press-agent business. A...
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1933
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Paul Lukas plays a nightclub headwaiter who rises to fame as a bridge expert. He marries hat check girl Loretta Young,...
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1933
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In this melodrama a father rejects his son after his wife dies in childbirth. As a result, the boy is sent to live with his...
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Pop
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1933
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Set during the Depression, this crime drama centers upon a basically honest girl who is forced into prostitution by...
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1933
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In this crime-comedy, an aspiring pulp writer elopes with a young woman and ends up in a boot-legger's lair. There he...
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1933
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In this haunting low-budgeter, Bela Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a shadowy character who exercises supernatural powers...
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Dr. Bruner
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1932
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Though only 19, Loretta Young was an established Hollywood star in 1932, appearing in six films in that year alone. In They...
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1932
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One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight...
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1932
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Joe Bruno
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1931
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Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Mary Brian, who refuses to play the...
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Lou
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1931
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Huber
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1931
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Alfred Rapp
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1931
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In this comedy, a plumbing magnate's son, who has started on the bottom rung of his father's business, is hired to fix the...
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1930
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Hoping to repeat the success of its 1929 musical spectacular Rio Rita, RKO Radio reteamed leading lady Bebe Daniels and the...
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Cornelius Van Horn
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1930
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The first official release from RKO Productions (previous films from this company had been produced by RKO antecedent FBO...
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1929
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Much of this drama is comprised of newsreel footage. It chronicles the exploits of a luckless college prize-fighter...
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1929
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Taxi dancing provides the framework for this romantic drama that chronicles the attempted love affair between a shipping...
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Bremmer
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1929
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Gremio
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1929
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In this drama, an impoverished songwriter from the South travels to Tin Pan Alley with his trusty piano. He stays at a...
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Herman Kemple
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1929
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Rod La Rocque stars in this silent farce about an Argentinean playboy, who in spite of being trailed by a bumbling detective...
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Professor
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1928
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1928
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Madge Bellamy stars as a humble sales clerk, forced by circumstance to pose as a famous female athlete. In this guise, she is...
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1927
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A stage play by Gladys Ungar was the source for Fox's Two Girls Wanted. In her first above-the-title starring role,...
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Philip Hancock
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1927
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The "silk legs" of the title belong to star Madge Bellamy, and a fine pair of extremities they are indeed. The story focuses...
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Ezra Fulton
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1927
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The "secret studio" is squirreled away somewhere in the artist's colony in Greenwich Village. It is kept a secret so that...
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1927
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