Originally telecast November 26, 1966, Fame is the Name of the Game was the first official entry in NBC-TV "Project 120"...
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1966
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Travelling under the name "Stu Manning", Kimble (David Janssen) takes a job at a Wyoming mountain lodge which is subsequently...
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1964
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Youngblood Hawke (James Franciscus) is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to make it as a writer. He meets...
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1964
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Ellery Queen
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1952
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Ellery Queen
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1951
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Fritz Lang was the guiding hand of this laudable Republic Studios melodrama. Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy wastrel who...
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John Byrne
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1950
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Whenever Monogram wanted to get prestige bookings, the studio released its product through its "class" subsidiary Allied...
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Terrence Dowd
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1949
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Gary Mitchell
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1949
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A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The...
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Songwriter, Ken Conway
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1947
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The Columbia mystery melodrama The Walls Came Tumbling Down is regarded in many circles as star Lee Bowman's finest...
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Gilbert Archer
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1946
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Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees...
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1945
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Based on a play by Leslie Storm, Tonight and Every Night is a musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is...
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Paul Lundy
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1945
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In this domestic comedy, a housewife nervously awaits the return of her husband from military service. They married after a...
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Andy Anderson
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1944
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Up in Mabel's Room was one of a mid-1940s series of profitable film revivals of venerable theatrical comedies, all produced...
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1944
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Noel Wheaton
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1944
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In 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer and the United States Office of War Information collaborated on Bataan with the official goal...
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Capt. Henry Lassiter
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1943
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Hoping to achieve a brilliant career as a violinist, Julia Seabrook (Ann Sothern) divorces her husband Jeff (Melvyn Douglas),...
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David Torrance
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1943
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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Lt. Bill Gordon
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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Hubert Tyler
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1942
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In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker. When she...
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Charlie Sands
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1942
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Kid Glove Killer is an expanded remake of They're Always Caught (1938), a 2-reel entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series....
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Gerald I. Ladimer
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1942
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Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills....
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Eric Santley
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1941
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Filmed on a B-picture budget, Buck Privates was Universal's biggest box-office hit of 1941, firmly securing the movie...
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Randolph Parker III
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1941
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The real-life marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was already on the rocks when they costarred in Model Wife. The...
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Ralph Benson
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1941
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Walter Caldwell
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1941
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With a little extra effort, Washington Melodrama might have passed muster as an A picture. Frank Morgan stars as millionaire...
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Ronnie Colton
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1941
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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Oliver
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1940
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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Philip Booth
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1940
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This third installment in MGM's "Maisie" series finds eternally stranded showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) stuck in a...
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Bill Anders
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1940
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In addition to being a fine Western in its own right, this film served to introduce perhaps Hollywood's oddest romantic...
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Sgt. Connelly
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1940
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This remake of Penthouse (33) stars Walter Pidgeon as a smooth attorney with a few embarrassing friends. One of these is a...
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Phil Siddall
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1939
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Stronger Than Desire is a streamlined remake of 1934's Evelyn Prentice. Instead of the earlier film's William Powell and...
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1939
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Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared...
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La Claire
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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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Freddie Tobin
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1939
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How could anyone dislike a film with the title Lady and the Mob? Sweet Fay Bainter stars as eccentric dowager Hattie Leonard,...
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Fred Leonard
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1939
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In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert....
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Dr. Richard Moore
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1939
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Ken Bradley
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1939
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Harry Kurnitz' fictional book-dealer/detectives Joel and Garda Sloane appeared in three MGM "B"s of the late 1930s, each with...
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Mike Stevens
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1939
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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Buzzy Armbuster
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1938
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This RKO Radio "expose" film is loosely based on the career of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who'd previously gotten the...
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Paul Montgomery
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1938
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The Next Time I Marry stars actress Lucille Ball as an heiress who can only receive her 20 million dollar inheritance by...
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Count Georgi
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1938
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Fifteen thousand dollars may have been a fortune back in 1938, but to high-powered literary agent Lynn Conway...
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1938
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A remake of 1933's One Man's Journey, A Man to Remember was the auspicious film directorial debut of Garson Kanin. Told in...
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Dick Abbott
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1938
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This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The fact that Grable plays the new...
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1937
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1937
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Pulp fiction writer Max Brand's 1936 creation Dr. Kildare made his screen debut in the amiable person of Joel McCrea in this...
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1937
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In this, the final episode in the "Sophie Lang" trio of crime comedies, the incorrigible female crook is again a fugitive...
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Eddie Rollyn
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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1937
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1937
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