Up for re-election as mayor of Cabot Cove, Sam Booth (Richard Paul) figures that his staunch anti-development platform will...
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1989
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In an episode clearly inspired by Peyton Place, a former student of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) scandalizes the town...
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1989
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Sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) is understandably distressed when Audrey Martin (Antoinette Bower), the wife of Amos'...
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1987
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This represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the...
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1976
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The Rudolf Friml operetta The Vagabond King was first filmed in 1930, with Dennis King in the lead. On both sides of this...
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Catherine de Vaucelles
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1956
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Margot Birabeau
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1953
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This tuneful biography of operatic soprano Grace Moore begins as she prepares to perform on opening night. While awaiting...
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Grace Moore
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1953
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Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate is a musical within a musical -- altogether appropriate, since its source material, Shakespeare's...
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Lilli Vanessi
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1953
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The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the...
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Stephanie
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1952
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Magnolia Hawks
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1951
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Grounds for Marriage is another attractively packaged sausage from the MGM assembly line. Van Johnson is a doctor, while...
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Ina Massine
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1950
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Suzette Micheline
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1950
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That Midnight Kiss served to introduce the film-going public to MGM's newest singing sensation, Mario Lanza. Just as he did...
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Prudence Budell
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1949
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In this period musical, Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) is the son of a Mexican innkeeper who has come to California to take over a...
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Teresa
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1948
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It Happened in Brooklyn was released at a time when the mere mention of the eponymous New York borough elicited loud laughter...
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Anne Fielding
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1947
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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1946
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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1946
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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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Abigail Chandler
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1946
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This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised...
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Susan Abbott
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1945
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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Kathryn Jones
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1943
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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Billie Van Maaster
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1942
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MGM's Rio Rita is an in-name-only remake of the 1929 RKO Radio musical blockbuster, itself based on the long-running Ziegfeld...
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Rita Winslow
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1942
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Andy is ready to graduate from high school, and, trying to be a big man, he hires a pretty woman to be his social secretary....
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Kathryn Land
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1941
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The Vanishing Virginian was adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Rebecca Yancey Williams. Newcomer...
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Rebecca Yancey
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1941
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This sixth installment in MGM's "Andy Hardy" series is among the best, thanks in great part to the breezy direction of...
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1939
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