Although this story of the making of a gangland hoodlum reflects only some of the real history of the Detroit Purple Gang in...
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1960
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The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of...
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1954
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Walking My Baby Back Home is a bubbly musical of no significance whatsoever, but this doesn't diminish its enjoyability...
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1953
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Plymouth Adventure earned a footnote in film history as the last directorial effort by the prolific Clarence Brown....
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1952
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A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley...
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1947
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Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, this film stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil...
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1947
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Robert Montgomery is the director and star of the film noir mystery Lady in the Lake, adapted for the screen by source...
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1946
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Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century....
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1946
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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Mrs. Randall
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1945
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Radio legend and 3-D pioneer Arch Oboler brings his story, Alter Ego, to the screen in a low-budget yarn that benefits from a...
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Mrs. Ellis
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1945
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Margaret O'Brien, MGM's newest child sensation, was given her first starring vehicle with Lost Angel. O'Brien plays Alpha,...
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1944
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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For reasons unknown, Paramount Pictures decided to dust off the 1926 George S. Kaufman-Herman Mankiewicz stage comedy The...
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1943
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In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?"...
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1942
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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In this comedy drama, young high school student Henry Aldrich tries to tone down his natural mischievousness and shuck the...
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1939
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Man of Conquest was the first "super production" from Republic Pictures, a studio not known for its lavish budgets. This...
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1939
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A big city lawyer returns to his tiny home town to enter the firm of his late father. His father's partner is happy to have...
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1939
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In this drama, a the journalist and editor of a prison newspaper is good enough, that he even contributes to outside...
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1939
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The romantic hills and valleys of an advertising agency secretary provide the basis of this comedy drama. Unlike her...
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1938
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1938
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When Columbia Pictures secured the movie rights to Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie, the studio executives probably...
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1938
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Mrs. Cratchit
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s:...
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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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Mrs. Ella Robinson
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1936
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Hotel barber Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley), who's obsessed with newspaper stories about high-society celebrities, is dragooned...
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1936
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Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its comparative realism....
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1936
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Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a...
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1936
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In this comedy, based on a George M. Cohan play, a hick comes to the city to attend his old buddy's wedding. The rube is such...
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Lottie Bancroft
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1936
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