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Effie
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1975
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Two years after the success of The Interns (1962) came this follow-up tale of medical interns during their first year working...
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1964
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In this romantic comedy, Bill Austin (Van Johnson) is an unsuccessful writer who lives in a forlorn New York tenement while...
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1963
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Tony Randall has the showcase of a lifetime in the marvelous George Pal production The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. We first see...
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1963
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Certain film historians are perpetually amazed that the doggedly unappetizing Laurence Harvey became a major film star. In...
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1962
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Steven Hill guest stars in this episode as flamboyant mobster Jack "Legs" Diamond. The Mob doesn't like the publicity stirred...
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1961
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1961
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1961
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When a space alien's fascination with Earthlings gets the better of him, he breaks one of his planet's laws and speeds off to...
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1960
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1959
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Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to...
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1958
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1958
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Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its...
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1954
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Based on the novel by Thorne Smith-and partly on the book's spinoff feature films-The Adventures of Topper stars Leo G....
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1953
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An outdoor adventure musical comedy, Take Me to Town features Ann Sheridan as Vermilion O'Toole, a barroom singer with a...
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Rose
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1953
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When Margaret Mitchell originally submitted her manuscript for Gone with the Wind, its title was Tomorrow Is Another Day. The...
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1951
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The Lawless was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant...
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Jan Dawson
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1950
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Caged, considered the best woman's prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and...
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1950
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1950
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Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the...
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1949
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"A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution." That's the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit...
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1948
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Based on the radio show of the same title, a young woman meets a gypsy who reads her fortune and predicts a terrible fate...
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1948
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1948
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A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley...
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1947
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In this adventure, a young woman travels across Europe in search of her brother who was listed as missing in action during WW...
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1946
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In this low-budget adventure, a gangster and his spouse are stranded on a lonely tropical island. They soon discover that a...
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1946
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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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1946
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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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1945
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Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M....
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1945
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Bearing little relation to the hit Broadway play on which it was based, See My Lawyer was the last and least of Olsen and...
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1945
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Based on a play by Ruth Gordon, Over 21 represents the felicitous teaming of two middle-aged but attractive film favorites....
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1945
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In this musical romance, a young couple is still in love, but find themselves facing insurmountable turmoil in their...
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1944
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In this melodrama, two young lovers secretly elope after the woman is involved in a hit-and-run accident. The young groom...
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Cora Elliott
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1944
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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1944
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit continued its unbroken string of box-office successes with Gambler's Choice....
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Fay Lawrence
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1944
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In this musical, the vocalist and her chamber music quintet lose their job when a conniving manager of a rival orchestra...
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1943
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If Jitterbugs is, as has often been claimed, the best of Laurel & Hardy's 20th Century-Fox films (an otherwise...
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1943
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In this musical, the teenage daughter of a popular movie star tires of being ignored by her separated parents and decides to...
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1943
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In This Our Life is not a "for the ages" classic of the Golden Age of Cinema, but as a highly effective and entertaining...
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1942
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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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1942
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1942
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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1942
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In this wartime drama, a doctor discovers that one of his patients isn't as crazy as he thought, with dangerous consequences...
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Nurse Johnson
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1942
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Brian Aherne stars as a successful murder-mystery novelist; his wife, Loretta Young, wishes Aherne would switch to writing...
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1942
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Kisses for Breakfast is a dumbed-down remake of the 1930 marital comedy The Matrimonial Bed, itself based on a British stage...
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Betty Trent
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1941
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After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it...
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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Josie LaRue
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1941
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Ann Sheridan and her then-husband George Brent did their expected box-office duty in the Warner Bros. comedy Honeymoon for...
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1941
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Like MGM's Whistling in the Dark, Warner Bros.' The Smiling Ghost was inspired by the success of Paramount's comedy-mystery...
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Rose Fairchild
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1941
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The Nurse's Secret is a low-budget remake of Miss Pinkerton (1932), which in turn was based on a play by Mary Roberts...
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Ruth Adams
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1941
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Footsteps in the Dark is a comedy/mystery, starring Errol Flynn as a wealthy investment counselor who secretly doubles as a...
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Blondie White
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1941
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Mary Larrabee
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1940
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This third film version of Maxwell Anderson's play Saturday's Children stars Claude Rains as the impecunious but proud father...
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Florrie Halevy Sands
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1940
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Martha Church
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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Father is a Prince is a scaled-down remake of the 1934 comedy-drama Big Hearted Herbert, itself based on a play by Sophie...
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1940
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There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the...
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1940
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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Delia Snedeker
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1940
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In this musical drama, a child is abandoned upon the San Francisco docks. He is found and raised by a fisherman. His life is...
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Stella
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1939
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Joan Fontaine was still two years away from full stardom when she appeared in the B-plus comedy Maid's Night Out. Future...
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1938
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In this drama, a falsely convicted woman falls in love with the prison psychologist who tries to liberate her. She ended up...
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Big Annie
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1938
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1938
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Better known today as the father of actors Bob Einstein and Albert Brooks, comedian Harry Einstein achieved radio fame in the...
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Flo
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1938
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When two lovers are framed for a jewelry store robbery in which the clerk was killed, the only person capable of saving them...
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1938
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This back-stage crime comedy, a remake of Lights Out (1923), takes a healthy satirical stab at the powerful studio system of...
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Barbara Lang
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1937
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The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters headed by none other than...
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1937
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Set amidst the tense and suspenseful world of men who transport large amounts of nitroglycerin, used to put out fires in oil...
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1937
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In this crime comedy, a lazy feller and his family take-up residence in an abandoned house. The squatters have no idea that...
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1937
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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1937
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1929
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