College mineralologist Bob (Richard Dix) decides to put his education to good use by prospecting for gold out West. Teaming...
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Nellie
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1936
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As a father prepares to remarry, his son's bitterness increases. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Robert Pryor can't spend $720,000 in twelve...
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Dorothy
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1935
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In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild...
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Barbara Winfield
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by...
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Nell Kenner
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1935
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Peggy Trask
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1935
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The mysterious death of a notoriously candid author provides the basis of this mystery. Investigators do not believe the...
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Gladys Durland
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1934
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In this comedy, two impoverished cousins inherit a British mansion and decide that one of them should marry a wealthy...
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1934
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In this comedy, two rubes from Montana find a fortune after they discover radium on their ranch. The nouveau riche ranchers...
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Angelica Wayne
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1933
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Sing, Sinner, Sing is one of several 1930s films based on the notorious, well-publicized romance between nightclub singer...
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Lela Larson
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1933
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Young football hero Jim Fowler (Robert Young) isn't in it for the love of the game. The hardworking young man is simply using...
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Joan Chandler
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1933
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1933
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This early musical is a bit slim on story but features a number of vintage performances by a stellar cast, including some of...
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Anita Rogers
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1932
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Ruth Thomas
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1932
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The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted...
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Venus
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1932
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Jack Conway complained about being assigned to direct this comedy, claiming that a woman like the title character had almost...
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Irene Legendre
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1932
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Officially released as The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, this William Haines vehicle was snappily adapted by...
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Dorothy Layton
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1931
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Surrender is yet another triangular romance set against the backdrop of WWI. French POW Dumaine (Warner Baxter) is...
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Axelle
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1931
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Silent screen star John Gilbert had a tough time adapting to the talkies--not due to his voice, as is commonly believed, but...
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Marjorie
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1931
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In this melodrama, a magician finds himself accused of murdering his lover's father. He flees and the lover marries her...
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Cecile
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1931
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Connie
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1931
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Two wives catch their husbands with other women and decide to take a vacation of their own in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1931
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This touching drama follows the exploits of a big-hearted businessman. The financier is just about to close a major deal...
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Alma
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1930
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Mary Howe
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1930
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Other Men's Wives, a play by Walter Hackett, was the source for this early-talkie comedy-melodrama. The scene is a sinister...
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Angela Worthington
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1930
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Evelyn
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1930
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This early Leo McCarey effort was tradeshown as Shepper-Newfounder, but wiser heads prevailed and the film was ultimately...
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Betty Murdock
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1930
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Molly Rankin
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1930
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In his second talkie, former silent screen lover John Gilbert plays Jack, a sailor in the merchant marine who takes time out...
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Joan Jones
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1930
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Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery),...
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Anne Marlowe
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1930
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Nine years before stepping into the role of Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone essayed the character of S.S. Van Dyne's...
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Belle Dillard
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1930
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Ethyle Norcrosse
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1929
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In this romance, a greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the...
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1929
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In this comedy, a middle-class stenographer marries her wealthy boss. Her family is intimidated by his status and when the...
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Joan Thayer
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1929
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That marvelous old barnstormer Hobart Bosworth stars in this early Columbia talkie as a rough-and-tumble sea captain named...
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1929
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Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) directed this second film version of the Bayard Veiller play, which was his first...
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Helen O'Neill
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1929
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Stage favorite Peggy Wood (later the star of the popular TV series Mama) made her screen debut in the MGM part-talkie Wonder...
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Karen
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1929
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The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl, this early talkie featured stage actor Alan...
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Sylvia Graeme
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1929
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Land of the Silver Fox was one of the last silent starring vehicles for celebrated canine star Rin Tin Tin. In this one,...
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Marie du Fronque
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1928
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George O'Brien, Fox Studios' general-purpose leading man, heads the cast of Honor Bound. The story opens in the bedroom of...
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Selma Ritchie
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1928
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After holding out for several months, MGM decided to take the talking-picture plunge with Alias Jimmy Valentine. Actually,...
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Rose
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1928
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In one of his final Westerns for the Fox company, Buck Jones promises his dying foster-father, "Honest" John Maggert...
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1928
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Onoto (Myrna Loy) is slated to be sold to a wealthy Mandarin, but is rescued from the auction block by white fugitive from...
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Nadine Howells
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1928
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The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary audiences to stomach, but fans of director...
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1928
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One of Hollywood's true professionals, Irving Cummings showed little of his later directorial sophistication in this terrible...
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Jennifer Duan
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1927
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The popularity of MGM's Slide, Kelly, Slide led to a brief cycle of baseball pictures in 1927. Warner Bros.' contribution was...
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1927
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Monte Blue, one of Warner Bros.' most dependable silent film stars, plays the title role in One-Round Hogan. The son of a...
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1927
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Anne Webster
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1927
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The irrepressible Johnny Hines stars as "White Pants" Willie Bascom, an enterprising garage mechanic and erstwhile inventor....
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Helen Charters
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1927
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Summer Bachelors is predicated on a hot-weather ritual which was later satirized to the hilt in George Axelrod's...
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Willowdean French
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1926
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1926
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Believe it or not, Betty Bronson, who starred in the title role of Peter Pan, was the first choice to play jazz baby Kittens...
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1926
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Barbara La Marr plays the title role, a woman with a dual nature. On one hand, Sandra is a home-loving wife, on the other,...
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Mate Stanley
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1924
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