Filmed in Germany by American director John Huston, Freud is a sincerely felt but overly simplistic biopic of the pioneering...
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Dr. Joseph Breuer
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1962
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Making a rare TV appearance after falling victim to the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist, Larry Parks guest stars as minor hoodlum...
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1961
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In this espionage film, an American journalist goes to London. There he becomes friends with a young woman who is really a...
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John Desmond
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1958
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1955
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Though completed in 1950, Love Is Better Than Ever was held back from release until 1952, due in great part to the "political...
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Jud Parker
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1952
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Peter Kirk
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1950
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Al Jolson
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1949
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Columbia kept insisting upon placing its hottest new star Larry Parks in swashbucklers, and though Parks wasn't really suited...
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Lt. David Picard
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1948
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Danny Miller
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1947
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Alexander MacArden
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1947
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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1947
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Though legendary entertainer Al Jolson was a highly visible presence on the U.S.O. circuit during World War II, he was...
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Al Jolson
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1946
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Whenever budget-conscious Columbia laid out good money for Technicolor in the 1940s, it was usually for a musical or an "A"...
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Ben "Taylor" Dembrow
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1946
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In this patriotic war drama, a soldier becomes quite upset when he is transferred from the highly coveted machine-gun unit...
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Allen
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1945
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This drama is based on a Broadway play, One Against Seven, which in turn is based on the Russian play Pobyeda. Set during WW...
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Kirichenko
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1945
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In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room,...
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Rocky Hill
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1944
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Musical star Ann Miller plays a Broadway leading lady coaxed into reteaming with Larry Parks, her former producer. Parks is...
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Jim Lighter
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1944
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Michael Lindley
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1944
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An ex-racketeer becomes an undercover for the military in this drama. He keeps his work so secret that his friends become...
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1944
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In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs...
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Danny Davis
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1944
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With Dorothy Arzner in the director's chair, it's no wonder that First Comes Courage has a more feminist slant than most WWII...
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1943
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In this musical, a San Francisco musician encounters the son of an pal. The young man has a real dilemma and asks the advice...
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Jerry
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1943
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After gathering dust for nearly a year, the independently produced The Deerslayer attained a national release through...
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Jingo-Good
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1943
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John Cleveland Carter (Minor Watson) is the publisher of a once-great newspaper, who discovers too late that his editor,...
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1943
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Edward G. Robinson portrays a hard-driving, hard-nosed perfectionist who causes dissension aboard the WWII destroyer he...
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1943
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Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the...
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1943
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Substantially, Lupe Velez' Columbia vehicle Redhead from Manhattan was the same as her previous RKO starrers-boisterous,...
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1943
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Columbia Pictures evidently felt that ex-boxer "Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom was the funniest man on earth, despite the fact that...
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1942
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There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any...
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1942
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Another timely entry from the Columbia assembly line, Canal Zone stars Chester Morris as flight instructor "Hardtack"...
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1942
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The second and last of the Fred Astaire-Rita Hayworth vehicles, You Were Never Lovelier takes place in Argentina (courtesy of...
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Tony
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1942
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1942
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Nurse Chapman begins to fall in love with a gangster and ends up entertaining miners until she manages to pull herself out of...
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1942
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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1942
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One of the most fondly remembered of the "Blondie" series entries, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that...
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1942
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Bill Leyden
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1942
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Gregory
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1942
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The first of Columbia's "B" wartime melodramas for their Summer 1942 schedule was the largely speculative Submarine Raider....
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1942
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Ex-thief Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) brings a variety show up to his old prison alma mater for Christmas Eve. In...
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1942
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Mystery Ship was one of the last of Columbia's pre-Pearl Harbor "preparedness" melodramas. Paul Kelly and Larry Parks are...
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Tommy Baker
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1941
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A daffy romantic comedy released in Great Britain under the title Good Morning Doctor, this film reunites the two stars of...
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1941
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Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg...
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1941
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Faith, Hope and Charity motivate the wacky storyline of Columbia's Three Girls About Town--or to be more exact, gorgeous...
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1941
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Harmon of Michigan was the first in a trio of Columbia sports films, each starring a real-life athlete. In this case, the...
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1941
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