In this crime drama, a fading movie star plays a similar character in her farewell film, a B crime-drama about a...
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Co-producer
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1946
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Marital entanglements provide the basis for this drama. The trouble begins as a woman prepares to marry her fifth husband,...
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Co-producer, Diane Carter
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1945
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Four Jills in a Jeep is the (mostly) true story of a four-girl USO team, entertaining American troops overseas. Kay Francis,...
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Herself
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1944
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1943
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In her final film appearance, Kay Francis plays Sheila, the slinky, seductive mastermind of a marriage racket preying on...
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Co-producer, Sheila Seymour
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1943
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A real four-hanky picture, Always in My Heart was loosely adapted from the stage play by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White....
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Marjorie Scott
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1942
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Universal and producer/director Henry Koster had plans to make Diana Barrymore, the daughter of John Barrymore, into another...
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Christine Bishop
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1942
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An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college...
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Nellie Woods
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1941
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Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt....
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Donna Lucia
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1941
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In this humorous adventure, a Puerto Rican explorer shares a drink with his oddball millionaire double. For a lark, they...
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Adrienne Scott
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1941
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Little Men, Louisa May Alcott's followup to her successful novel Little Women, has never truly adapted well to the screen,...
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Jo March
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1940
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When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford,...
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Julie King
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1940
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In It's a Date, the teenage diva Deanna Durbin is cast as Pamela Drake, the daughter of celebrated stage actress Georgia...
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Georgia Drake
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1940
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A gold-digger facing middle-age decides to pass her special talents on to a younger woman. Her young student learns quickly...
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Grace Herbert
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1940
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Based on Memory of Love, a novel by Bessie Breuer, In Name Only is soap opera par excellence, blessed with a peerless cast....
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Maida Walker
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1939
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Kay Francis was anxious to complete her Warner Bros. contract when she agreed to appear in this lower-berth drama. Francis...
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Janet Steele
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1939
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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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1939
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Despite the presence of Busby Berkeley in the director's chair, Comet Over Broadway contains nary a single musical number....
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Eve Appleton
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1938
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Though Kay Francis' Warner Bros. vehicle had slipped from "A" attractions to B-plus programmers by 1938, she was still worth...
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Claire Landin
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1938
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The ever-suffering Kay Francis once again makes an assault on the audience's tear ducts in My Bill. Francis is cast as Mary...
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Mary Colbrook
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1938
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Kay Francis fights off tears, deprivations and a mediocre script in Warner Bros.' Secrets of an Actress. La Francis plays Fay...
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Fay Carter
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1938
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Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story...
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Lady Chase-Wayne
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1937
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German director Joe May brought a decidedly Teutonic ambience to his American film Confession--no surprise, since the film...
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Vera
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1937
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The "Stavisky Affair," a high-level swindling scandal which all but destroyed the French government in the early 1930s, was...
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Nicole Picot
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1937
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The title of this Errol Flynn vehicle sprang from an "inside" joke at Warner Bros. Whenever the studio depicted a marquee or...
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Julia Ashton
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1937
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Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent...
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Florence Nightingale
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1936
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Kay Francis, Warner Bros.' resident "wronged woman," was the star of Give Me Your Heart. Francis plays a socialite whose...
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Belinda Warren
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1936
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Kay Francis stars as Stella Parish, a London stage favorite who suddenly disappears without a trace. British news...
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Stella Parish
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1935
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In this bedroom farce, an ex-wife overhears her former hubby's new wife and her lover planning a tryst for the weekend while...
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Georgiana
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1935
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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Amy Prentiss
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1935
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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Lynn Palmer
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1935
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The second of three Kay Francis films in which the star was cast as a dedicated lady physician, Doctor Monica was adapted...
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Dr. Monica Braden
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1934
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The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film,...
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Tanya Borisoff/Spot White
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1934
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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Liane Renaud
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1934
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British Agent starred the Hungarian/British actor Leslie Howard in the title role, was directed by full-fledged Hungarian...
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Elena
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1934
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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Anne Valee Brooks
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1933
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In this drama, the owner of a Chicago meat-packing company falls in love with a beautiful opera singer. Unfortunately, his...
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Laura McDonald
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1933
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A conflict between the Serbs and the Hungarians provides the framework of this drama that centers on a love triangle between...
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Irina Dushan
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1933
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This melodrama chronicles three decades in the life of the New York located title house beginning at the turn of the century...
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Peggy Van Tyle
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1933
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In this melodrama, a female physician encounters professional and personal turmoil when she finds herself having an affair...
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
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1933
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This imitation-Lubitsch romantic comedy stars William Powell as an elegant jewel thief plying his trade in Vienna. Powell's...
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels
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1932
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In this complicated drama, a husband begins an affair. His new mistress has a handsome brother who ends up falling for the...
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Natalie Upton
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1932
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A pair of grifters, one of whom is impersonating a doctor, assist a sick woman while riding a train. After the woman dies,...
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Tina
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1932
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In her first film under contract to Warner Bros., Kay Francis plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband Fred (Kenneth...
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Lois Ames
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1932
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Mariette Colet
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1932
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William Powell plays a condemned murderer who is being transported from Hong Kong to San Quentin by way of a luxury liner....
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Joan Ames
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1932
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Clemency Warlock
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1932
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Disparate twin brothers, a phony will, and a beautiful woman provide the main ingredients for this romantic comedy. The...
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Diana Merrow
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1932
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Marjorie West
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1931
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Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls". They work the convention...
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Wanda Howard
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1931
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Norma Page
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1931
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In this crime drama, an ambassador must become a police snitch for a corrupt vice squad and it nearly destroys his career....
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1931
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Mark Flint (George Bancroft) is the editor of the titular scandal sheet, possessing all of the gall and none of the ethics of...
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Edith Flint
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1931
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In this drama, a bored wife amuses herself with a lover from Spain. Later she writes a letter to her spouse explaining her...
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Elsie Maury
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1931
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24 Hours is all it takes for tippling married man Jim Towner (Clive Brook) to go from social respectability to convict...
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Fanny Towner
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1931
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William Powell stars in this drama as William Foster, a gifted defense attorney with a gift for making cases go his way....
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Irene Manners
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1930
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1930
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In this drama, a two wealthy cousins find themselves involved in an unfortunate love triangle. The trouble begins when the...
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Dulce Morado
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1930
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This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young...
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Alma Marsden
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1930
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The third in a succession of film adaptations of author E.W. Hornung's novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, this version was...
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Lady Gwen Manders
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1930
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In this convoluted drama, the jolly painted face of a circus clown is but a mask for an avaricious, ruthlessly ambitious,...
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Kitty Parker
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1930
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The sacrifice of a socialite is chronicled in this romantic drama. To be with her beloved musician, the wealthy woman gives...
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Countess Balakireff
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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The Virtuous Sin was adapted from The General, a novel by Lajos Zilahy. Kay Francis plays Marya, the wife of overly sensitive...
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Maria Ivanova
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1930
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Circus life provides the framework of this drama that chronicles the love, life, and aspiration of a young circus waif. The...
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Zara Flynn
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1929
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In this moving drama, a young woman is forced to take care of her many brothers and sisters while their wealthy parents live...
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Lady Wrench
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1929
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In this dark drama, based on a play by Ward Morehouse, the life of a tough newspaperman is chronicled. The man is a...
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1929
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1929
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Carlee Thorpe (Buddy Rogers) and Claire Jernigan (Nancy Carol) enjoy considerable success with their vaudeville magic act....
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Zelda Paxton
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1929
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