This made-for-cable documentary traces the filming of the imperishable classic Gone with the Wind, from its inception to its...
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1989
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Much of the action in Season Two of Falcon Crest is precipitated by the murder of Carlo Agretti (Carlos Romero) the father of...
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Jacqueline Perrault
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1982
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Originally filmed in 1978 but shelved for several years, this story of a good housewife-witch (ala Samantha from the U.S....
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Vivian Cross
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1979
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Michael and Patricia meet in an unusual way – while he is on a date and is trying to retrieve his date's car keys from a...
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Claire
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1976
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Originally titled Persecution, the British Terror of Sheba represents Lana Turner's entree into the "fading stars in horror...
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Carrie Masters
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1974
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"The Big Cube" of the title is slang for a sugar cube dipped in LSD, which is omnipresent throughout the movie. Adriana Roman...
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Adriana Roman
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1969
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Lana Turner takes the lead in the seventh film version of Alexandre Bisson's glossy soap opera. Holly Parker (Turner) is...
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Holly Parker
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1966
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Repeated infidelities and an unexplained death set the stage for this glossy soap opera. Kit Jordan (Lana Turner) is a...
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Kit Jordan
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1965
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Lawyer Dean Martin's gambling habit is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Lana Turner. To keep the money in the...
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Melanie Flood
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1963
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Bob Hope was in the first stages of his cinematic decline when he starred in Bachelor in Paradise. Hope plays a "romance...
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Rosemary Howard
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1961
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There's always something simmering beneath the quaint and placid surface of small-town New England lives -- and that includes...
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Marjorie Penrose
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1961
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Wanting to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fortune, a glamorous wife talks her lover, who is also her...
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Sheila Cabot
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1960
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This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling...
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Lora Meredith
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1959
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According to Universal-International publicity, The Lady Takes a Flyer is partially based on fact. The "lady" is Maggie Colby...
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Maggie Colby
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1958
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Lana Turner stars as Sara Scott, an American war correspondent whose whirlwind romance with a young British journalist...
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Sara Scott
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1958
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Grace Metalious' once-notorious bestseller Peyton Place is given a lavish -- and necessarily toned-down -- film treatment in...
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Constance MacKenzie
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1957
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Lana Turner stars as Diane in this opulent costume drama. Set in 16th century France, the film finds the gorgeous Diane de...
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Diane de Poitiers
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1955
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Edwina Esketh
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1955
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John Wayne plays anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain Karl Erlich in Sea Chase, one of the many film commentaries released post...
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Elsa Keller
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1955
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One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the...
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Samarra
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1955
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Filmed on location in Europe, Flame and the Flesh is nothing more nor less than a vehicle for the glamorous Lana Turner. The...
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Madeline
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1954
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Clark Gable's final effort for his longtime home studio MGM, Betrayed is an exciting espionage thriller set during World War...
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Carla Van Oven
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1954
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Nora Taylor
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1953
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Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, this remake of the 1934 original finds a wealthy widow (Lana Turner) returning to her...
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Crystal Radek
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1952
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Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the...
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Georgia Lorrison
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1952
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Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet...
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Fredda Barlo
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1951
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Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl...
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Lily Branner James
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1950
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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Lt. Jane "Snapshot" McCall
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1948
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The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
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Milady Countess DeWinter
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1948
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The 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least,...
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Marianne Patourel
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1947
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Virginia Marshland
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1947
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James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers...
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Cora Smith
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1946
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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Bunny Smith
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1945
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A disparate group of women join the Women's Army Corps to fight WW II in this upbeat war-time drama. One of the women is a...
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Valerie Parks
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1945
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Robert Z. Leonard, who must have taken room and board at MGM, was the directorial hand behind this slight domestic drama....
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Theo Scofield West
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1944
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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Peggy Evans
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1943
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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1943
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In this charming episodic comedy, a giddy group of adolescent girls form a movie-star fan club. Their favorite pastime is...
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1943
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1943
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Unable to convince their isolationist New York editor (Charles Dingle) that America must be alerted to the threat of...
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Paula Lane
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1942
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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Elizabeth Cotton
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1941
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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Beatrix Emery
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1941
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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Sheila Regan
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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Lisbeth Bard
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1941
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Two Girls on Broadway is an updated reworking of MGM's Oscar-winning 1929 musical Broadway Melody. Joan Blondell and...
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Pat Mahoney
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1940
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This upbeat domestic drama chronicles the struggles of a newlywed couple as they try to keep their marital status secret from...
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Margy Brooks
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1940
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The second of MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, Calling Dr. Kildare finds the title character (Lew Ayres) transferred to Blair...
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Rosalie
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1939
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In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty...
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Jane Thomas
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1939
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Lana Turner (a mere 19 years old at the time) stars in this lighthearted musical comedy as Patty Marlow, a dancer fighting...
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Patty Marlow
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1939
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Viennese-born Luise Rainer plays a young Parisian girl who attends an exclusive drama school, working nights at a factory to...
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Mado
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1938
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Cynthia Potter
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1938
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A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss is determined to stop him so he hires a pretty...
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1938
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A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars:...
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1938
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In director Reinh Schunzel's film Rich Man, Poor Girl, the upper crust collides with the more financially unfortunate members...
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Helen Thayer
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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Director James Whale, well known for his witty horror films, tackled comedy head-on in this period piece, set in the 18th...
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Auber
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1937
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1937
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This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is...
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Mary Clay
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1937
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