Story of Esther Costello is the cinematic equivalent of eating a whole box of potato chips; you may hate yourself, but you'll...
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1957
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David Niven returns to his native England to star in the frothy comedy The Love Lottery. Niven plays a Hollywood movie star...
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1954
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After the Ball is a well-mounted (if turgidly paced) filmed biography of legendary British music hall entertainer Vesta...
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1953
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1953
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This comedy is set in an Irish mansion and centers on its enigmatic owner. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1952
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1951
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Crooked newspaper columnist Jeff Mann (James Cardwell), who apparently was blackmailing half the criminal gangs in the city,...
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1946
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Hollywood and Vine is set in a drugstore located at the intersection of the title. James Ellison plays a successful...
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Gloria
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1945
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Affable comic actor Chick Chandler hadn't had a film starring role in years when Seven Doors to Death was produced in 1944,...
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Mary Rawling
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1944
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The Ritz Bros' third low-budget musical for Universal was the pointlessly titled Hi'ya, Chum! In this 61-minute timekiller,...
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1943
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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Republic Pictures obviously hoped to build vaudevillian Eddie Foy Jr. into a major screen comedian, as witness such efforts...
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Pepper Wilson
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1941
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There's something very odd about Romano (John Litel), a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing,...
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Lois Grant
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1941
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1939
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In this farce, a loosely moraled chorine gets involved with a married man and the fiancé of the man's daughter. The real...
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1938
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Marie
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1937
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In this drama, a doctor disguises himself as a circus clown and starts a new life. When a wealthy young woman is knocked out...
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Joy
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1937
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School for Husbands was adapted for the screen from a stage play by Frederick Jackson. Some of the more censorable aspect of...
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Diana Cheswick
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1937
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Peggy Boydell
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1937
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In this comedy, an actor bets a publisher that he can completely disappear for an entire week. While on vacation at a...
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1937
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The enigmatic Charles Frank, who wrote and directed several fascinating British productions before seemingly falling off the...
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1937
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1936
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Dorothy Drew
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1936
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Imagine a whole country where music is outlawed! Director Walter Forde and writer Marian Dix dreamed up such a horrendous...
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1936
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Sadie Whistler
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1936
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Movie star-turned-bandleader Buddy Rogers heads the cast of the British tunefest Dance Band. The star is appropriately cast...
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Pat Shelley
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1935
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Charing Cross Road is a London thoroughfare where several theatrical boarding houses have set up shop. Each one of these...
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Pam
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1935
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A remake of a German film, No Monkey Business certainly lives down to its title. Goonish comedian Richard Hearne dominates...
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Clare Barrington
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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1934
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1934
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Action expert "Breezy" Eason called the shots on this quickie comedy-melodrama. Frank Albertson stars as the publicity man...
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1934
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Fed up with her doctor husband's ceaseless charity work, Mary Harris (June Clyde) leaves her Midwest "tank town" in favor of...
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Mary Harris
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1933
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In this family drama, a married couple work in a department store. He is a shipping clerk; she works in the dress...
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Dottie
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1933
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson solve a puzzling case in which a bloody foreign word is found beside a murder victim. The plot...
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Eileen Forrester
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1933
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This long-forgotten Hollywood picture concerns a conniving family so disgusted by the patriarch's incessant pipe-smoking...
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Lena Strauss
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1933
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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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The concept of radio patrol cars was still brand-spanking new when this fast-moving programmer came off the Universal...
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Vern
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1932
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A varied group of more or less greedy relatives is once again gathered at the reading of a will in this atmospheric thriller...
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Toodles, Reporter
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1932
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Amelia Cruikshank (June Clyde) doesn't know what real trouble is until she inherits her dad's auto-manufacturing business....
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Amelia Cruikshank
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1932
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This was the next-to-last entry of the Cohens and Kellys series, which were becoming increasingly more tiresome with each...
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Kitty Kelly
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1932
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On something of a "literary binge" in the early 1930s, low-budget Monogram Pictures acquired the screen rights for the...
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1932
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In this romantic boxing drama, an up-and-comer gets creamed in a fight and decides it is time to take a promoter's advice...
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1932
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A star football player in college, Garry King (Richard Arlen) finds post-college life very different; he betrays the trust of...
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1932
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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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Freda Schmidt
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1932
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Virtually none of the male characters in The Thrill of Youth could pass muster as a role model. As an old man preaches...
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1932
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In this drama, an old sea captain and his feisty daughter are squatting upon the land of another. The trouble begins when...
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Teola Garfield
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1932
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Rita La Roy has good reasons to hate her philandering husband, Hooper Atchley, in this low-budget but sumptuous-looking art...
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1931
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Ken Maynard's Branded Men wasn't up to the standards of his previous Range Law, but it was still better than the usual...
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Dale Winters
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1931
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In this melodrama, a young secretary becomes the Kept Woman of her lascivious employer. When she encounters her high school...
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1931
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When Lt. Bob Denton (John Wayne) tells his girlfriend Evelyn (Laura La Plante) that he has no intention of marrying her, she...
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1931
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This offbeat WWI drama concentrates not on Men in War (there are in fact no men in the picture!), but on their women. The...
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1931
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1930
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In this musical, based on a long-running Broadway hit from 1927, a sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's...
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1930
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The Cuckoos began life as The Ramblers, a Broadway musical vehicle for the comedy team of Clark and McCullough. By the time...
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Ruth
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1930
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The aforementioned appendages appear aplenty in this musical comedy that centers on a husband and wife seeking to recapture...
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Peggy Reynolds
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1929
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