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1986
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One of the few documentaries to shine a spotlight on directors in Hollywood, this informative film sketches out the 50-year...
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1986
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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1984
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The mystery stage play by Anthony Shaffer was adapted by the author into this stylish film from director...
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Director
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1972
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Having tackled every known film subject in his long career, from musicals to murder mysteries, Sidney Lumet tries his hand at...
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Director
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1970
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An offbeat 1970s black-comic Western with an all-star cast, this Joseph L. Mankiewicz film is set in 1883 in Arizona. Paris...
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Director, Producer
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1970
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Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) summons his three former mistresses to his deathbed for a final visit in this engaging crime comedy....
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1967
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Charles Dickens' classic tale A Christmas Carol is revisited yet again in this made-for-television holiday drama. Told with a...
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Director, Producer
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1964
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In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1963
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In this lush, lurid adaptation of the 1957 Tennessee Williams one-act, Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn play a...
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Director
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1959
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The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1958
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This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1955
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The Barefoot Contessa begins at the funeral of Ava Gardner, a former Spanish peasant, cabaret dancer and movie star, who at...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1954
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Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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Based on a true story, 5 Fingers stars James Mason as a man known to his superiors only as Cicero. Ostensibly the valet of...
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Director
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1952
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The title character (Paul Douglas) is a pro football player of the early 1940s at the end of his career. Douglas is offered a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1951
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People Will Talk was less a movie than a conduit for the genteel liberalism of screenwriter/director Joseph M. Mankiewicz....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1951
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Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around...
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Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1950
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A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1949
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House of Strangers is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's I'll Never Go Home Any More, each of which was...
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Director
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1949
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Screenwriter
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1948
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In this drama, set after the war, a WW II flying ace and hero comes to the aid of a hooker who is being harassed by a...
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Director
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1948
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Director
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1947
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Like its TV-sitcom counterpart of the 1960s, the original film version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was based on the novel by...
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Director
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1947
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Years before he became the leading star in horror movies, Vincent Price starred in this gothic thriller based on the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1946
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George Taylor (John Hodiak) is a war veteran suffering from amnesia with only two clues to his past: the bitter letter from...
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Director, Screenwriter
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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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Producer, Screenwriter
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1944
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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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Producer
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1942
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Written by real-life intelligence agent Ladislas Fodor, Cairo is both a spoof of espionage thrillers and a good-natured...
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Producer
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1942
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Producer
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1942
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An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college...
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Producer
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1941
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In this comedy drama, a medicine show con-man pretends to be a wealthy man to impress his long-lost daughter who is slated...
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Producer
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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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Producer
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1940
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We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife,...
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Producer
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1940
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Mickey Rooney may have been born to play Mark Twain's legendary hellraiser Huck Finn, but 1939's The Adventures of...
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Producer
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1939
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Producer
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1938
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Producer
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1938
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The second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the...
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Producer
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1938
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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Producer
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1938
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Producer
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1937
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Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
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Producer
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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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Producer
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1937
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Producer
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1936
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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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Producer
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1936
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Producer
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1936
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In this western, three desperadoes rob the New Jerusalem Bank and flee across the desert where they find a seemingly...
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Producer
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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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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1935
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Unable to secure Hollywood-studio backing for his Depression-era agrarian drama Our Daily Bread, director King Vidor financed...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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In this drama, a young surgeon and his driver must combat the racketeers who have taken over the hospital where he works. ~...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Screenwriter
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1933
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There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays...
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Screen Story
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1933
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An early comedy about the generation gap, this 1932 movie was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who went on to write and...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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Screen Story
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1932
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Richard Arlen more or less revives his aviation-ace role from Wings in the Paramount programmer Sky Bride. Arlen plays Speed...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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A well-meaning but dimwitted electrical worker-turned-lyricist Frederick Martin Stevens (Jack Oakie) arrives in New York...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Percy Crosby's popular newspaper comic strip Skippy comes to life in this 1931 film. Designed as a vehicle for Our Gang's...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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In this youthful comedy, a child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. The bright girl's parents take her and her...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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In this comedy, a bumbling rube from a small town manages to get involved in a gang war. The trouble really begins when one...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Sooky was the sequel to Paramount's smash-hit sentimental comedy Skippy; both films were based on characters created by comic...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Forbidden Adventure is the British title of the American film comedy Newly Rich. Edna May Oliver was borrowed from RKO by...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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In this high-spirited satire of competitive sports, boxer Marco Perkins is creamed during a fight and decides to play polo...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin (Evelyn Brent) hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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Intertitle Writer
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1929
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Although Broadway star Hal Skelly never quite made it in films, it wasn't for lack of trying. In Woman Trap, Skelly is cast...
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1929
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This comedy chronicles the rise of a country rube who becomes a baseball legend for the New York Yankees. Not only does he...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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