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Screenwriter
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1961
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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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Book Author
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1955
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During the early days of East Indian independence in 1947, a native rebellion threatens a hotel full of Britishers, Europeans...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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Screenwriter
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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Short Story Author
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1943
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Tyrone Power made his last screen appearance before a three-year stretch in the Marines in this World War II drama. Lt. Ward...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Fred MacMurray is a breezy New York street photographer; Mary Martin is a small town girl hoping to make her fortune in the...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Screenwriter
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1941
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The town of Vinegaroon, TX, is the home to Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), who calls himself "The Only Law West of the...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Set during the turn-of-the-century Moro uprising in the Philippines, The Real Glory stars Gary Cooper as an American Marine...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Screenwriter
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1939
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Bing Crosby plays the melodic medico of the title. To help cover for his ailing policeman pal (Andy Devine), Crosby takes the...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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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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Screenwriter
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1937
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Harry Richman was a major stage and radio star of the 1930s, but his overbearing personality never clicked in films. After...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1936
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In his only visit to Columbia Pictures, Paramount's resident crooner Bing Crosby stars in a sentimental musical drama. In...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Columbia's Once to Every Woman was the first of A. J. Cronin's medical novels to be adapted for the screen. The drama of the...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Screenwriter
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1934
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A tough youth gang leader learns the true meaning of courage in this moving and thoughtful drama. He is the leader of a...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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The Sisters Under the Skin in this Columbia "continental" romantic seriocomedy are middle-aged Elinor Yates (Doris Lloyd) and...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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A sleazy lawyer is the focus of this courtroom drama. His favorite technique is to teach his female clients how to use their...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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This drama, set within a boarding house, centers around a pregnant show girl abandoned by her boyfriend, a married man who...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Ralph Bellamy is incongruously cast as a he-man deep sea diver in the Columbia meller Below the Sea. The plot is set in...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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This Depression-era romantic drama, which offers a surprisingly potent and unsentimental view of the economic hardships of...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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A vicious spiral of revenge in a traveling circus is the basis for this fast-paced thriller. The circus has stopped to...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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In this adventure, a brave hero races across Middle-Eastern desert dunes to win the love his best friend's wife, the manager...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Screenwriter
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1933
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The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this drama, an ambitious lawyer doesn't think twice about convicting an innocent man on circumstantial evidence to...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this detective drama, a gumshoe falls in love with a torch singer who is unfortunately, involved with a crook. The two...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Based on a story by Ursula Parrott, this romantic drama from Columbia Pictures was one of Humphrey Bogart's first leading...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this political melodrama, an idealistic freshman congressman swears to do his best to get relief for his impoverished...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. While there, he falls for...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Behind the Mask is a typically virile Jack Holt vehicle, with the hero at one point shooting himself in the arm to establish...
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Screenwriter, Short Story Author
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1932
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Barbara Stanwyck overcomes a veritable ocean of clichés and manages to make her "shopworn" heroine come to life in this...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this romance a school marm takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to a crippled...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Ten cents a dance, that's what they pay her -- "her" being downtrodden taxi dancer Barbara (Barbara Stanwyck). The only thing...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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A minister's daughter finds fame as an evangelist but struggles with her own lack of faith in Frank Capra's impassioned...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Most of The Deceiver takes place in the Broadway theater where matinee idol Thorpe (Ian Keith) is starring in a production of...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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In this crime drama, a moll tells her imprisoned gangster lover that she is leaving him for another whom she really loves....
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Screenwriter
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1931
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A rather bleak comedy-drama from Frank Capra, Platinum Blonde basically starts where Capra's later and much more buoyant It...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Columbia spent the 1920s and 1930s dusting off its reliable "two guys/one girl" military plotline and dressing it up in a...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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In this romantic melodrama, a sophisticated New York model finds herself falling for a hick. The handsome farm boy is...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Screenwriter
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1930
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W.B. Maxwell's novel served as a film vehicle for Alla Nazimova in 1924; in 1930 it made an even better (although...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Legendary Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who was capable of reducing audiences to paroxysms of helpless laughter by telling them...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Reformed gold-digger Barbara Stanwyck falls in love with a womanizing and wealthy aspiring artist and tries to convince him...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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In this crime melodrama, a bootlegger orders the death of his rival. Meanwhile the bootlegger's wife dallies with his best...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her...
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Editor, Screenwriter
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1930
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In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly...
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Play Author
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1929
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In this drama, a married team of vaudeville dancers break up when the wife gets a real acting job. Time passes and the duo...
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Play Author
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1929
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