When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his...
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1958
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines...
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1952
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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1951
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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1950
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Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show...
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1950
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Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, made her film debut in 1950's Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays...
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1950
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The Lawless was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant...
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1950
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Tough reporter Ed Adams (Alan Ladd) wants to get the full story behind the apparent suicide of a young woman. It seems that...
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1949
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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1949
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1949
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Though the Mark Twain original has been refashioned into a Bing Crosby vehicle, this 1949 musical adaptation of A Connecticut...
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1949
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1948
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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1948
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1948
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The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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1947
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1947
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In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots....
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1947
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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1947
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One of several low-budget mellers directed by scriptwriter Maxwell Shane, Fear in the Night was based on the short story...
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1947
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1946
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The Technicolor musical Masquerade in Mexico is Mitchell Leisen's remake of his own Midnight. Stranded in Mexico City without...
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1945
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1944
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When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes...
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1944
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1943
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1942
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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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1938
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In this taut WW I espionage thriller set in 1914, an English actor falls in love with a German actress. When the war erupts,...
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1936
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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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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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1931
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1930
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Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has...
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Marcia Towne
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1930
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Completed as a silent film, Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl was quickly converted into a part-talkie by the simple...
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1929
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1927
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Based on a real-life incident, Maurine Watkins' semi-satirical novel and play Chicago was first brought to the screen in...
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1927
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1927
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One of the most readily available features of the silent era, The Yankee Clipper is happily also one of the best. A pre-...
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1927
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Margie
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1927
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Josephine
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1927
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One feels that if Cecil B. DeMille had been assigned to direct the one-character play Krapp's Last Tape, he'd have added...
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Mariusha, A Gypsy
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1926
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Vera Reynolds is Corporal Kate in this WWI comedy-drama. Shipped off to the front to entertain the troops, Irish-Catholic...
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1926
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1925
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Cecil B. DeMille's century-hopping extravaganza The Road to Yesterday begins in the present (1925, that is). Wealthy...
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Dolly Foules
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1925
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Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald...
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Anne Broderick
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1925
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Leatrice Joy has a dual role, as Gwynne Evans, a restless young wife who longs to go on the stage, and as lookalike actress...
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Mitzi
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1924
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While this Cecil B. DeMille production has many of the elements common to his pictures -- lavish, expensive sets and...
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Bertha Lansell
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1924
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1924
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Jack Holt stands out in this adaptation of the William LeBaron stage hit. A pair of con artists have published a book under...
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1923
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No, this society drama is not related in any way, shape or form to the 1949 Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy comedy. It's one...
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1923
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Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45...
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Pharaoh's Wife
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1923
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Although director Cecil B. DeMille was known for his Biblical spectaculars and florid comedy-dramas about domestic relations,...
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Hallie Livingston
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1922
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1922
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Even with its share of sumptuous sets and domestic mixups, this comedy-drama was not typical for director Cecil B. DeMille....
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Elsie Prentiss
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1922
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1922
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Kathryn Haynes (Wanda Hawley) has been raised to look down on everyone whose ancestry doesn't go back to the American...
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1921
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Although this expensive drama was "suggested by" a short story, The Laurels and the Lady, by Leodard Merrick, one can't help...
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1921
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Author Elinor Glyn knew how to generate publicity, and she created quite a bit when Paramount decided to film this story. In...
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1921
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Mary (Agnes Ayres) works as a seamstress for the wealthy Mallory family to support herself and her worthless husband Steve...
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1921
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Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its...
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1921
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During the late teens and early '20s, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille reveled in much cinematic pomp and circumstance, mixing epic...
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1920
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1919
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1919
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Don't let that title fool you: Male and Female is really James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, as interpreted by...
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1919
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Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots began life as an Augustus Thomas play, originally written as a vehicle for Margaret Illington. The...
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1918
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The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille...
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1918
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The first of Cecil B. DeMille's series of sophisticated romantic comedy-dramas, Old Wives for New was adapted from a novel by...
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1918
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1918
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During World War I, every director made at least one film about the battles going on in Europe, even Cecil B. DeMille. These...
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1918
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With the exception of Joan the Woman, which contained a "contemporary" subplot, The Woman God Forgot was Cecil B. DeMille's...
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1917
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