A man makes the highly unexpected discovery that he has two wives in this romantic comedy. Widower Nick Arden (James Garner)...
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1963
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1962
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Director Leo McCarey was clearly past his prime when he made this screen version of Max Shulman's comic novel Rally 'Round...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1958
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An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1957
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Filled with the kind of Red Scare propaganda that must have delighted members of McCarthy's House Un-American Activities...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1952
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Small-town department store manager Sam Clayton (Gary Cooper) is a born "Good Samaritan", which in his case translates as...
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Director, Producer
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1948
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Director, Producer
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1945
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It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1944
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The surrealistic opening sequence, featuring a WW2 calendar as written "by A. Hitler", should be indication enough that Once...
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Director, Producer
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1942
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Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and direct My Favorite Wife, but an illness forced him to relinquish the director's...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1940
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1939
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Director, Producer
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1937
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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1936
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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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1935
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1934
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1934
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In this 1933 Marx Brothers film, the mythical country of Freedonia is broke and on the verge of revolution. Mrs. Teasdale...
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1933
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In director Leo McCarey's film The Kid From Spain, actor Eddie Cantor plays mischievious college boy Eddie Williams, who,...
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1932
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Divesting herself of her own production company, silent-screen queen Gloria Swanson entered into a two-picture deal with...
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1931
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play both the fathers and their unruly children in this two-reel comedy. The really funny thing...
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1930
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In this especially amusing Laurel and Hardy short, the boys are planning a night on the town. Standing in their way is Mrs....
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1930
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1930
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This drama is set during Prohibition and follows the exploits of a spoiled brat with overly permissive parents. He soaks them...
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1930
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Anita Garvin, the willowy brunette comedienne who graced many a Laurel & Hardy comedy, once remarked with a mixture of pride...
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1930
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Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) are selling Christmas trees door-to-door. Stan unintentionally insults their...
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1929
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Laurel and Hardy's second two-reel talkie is made up of a few very simple scenes -- Oliver Hardy goes to meet his partner...
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1929
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In this comedy, a college sophomore gets into deep trouble when he gambles away his tuition money on the first day of...
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1929
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In this early Laurel and Hardy sound short, Stan and Ollie are a pair of sailors on leave. They meet two girls at a park...
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1929
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This Laurel and Hardy two-reel silent involves the boys' attempts to repossess a radio from Collis P. Kennedy (Edgar Kennedy...
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1929
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This Laurel and Hardy short film has a thin plot but plenty of laughs. The two have escaped from prison, but the guards are...
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1929
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1929
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1929
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This entertaining film is one of Laurel and Hardy's most bizarre. Stan and Ollie work as stable-hands for a racehorse named...
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1929
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Laurel and Hardy want to slip out of the house and play poker. Their wives want them to stay home, so they make up a story...
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1928
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Up until this two-reeler, Laurel and Hardy's films for Hal Roach were released under the "All-Star Comedy" label; Should...
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1928
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This two-reel Laurel and Hardy silent is especially rich in slapstick. The comic duo have been promised five hundred dollars...
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1928
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are perhaps unique amongst comedians of the 1920s and 1930s, and their silent and sound films...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1928
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Mr. and Mrs. Culpepper (Tiny Sanford and Anita Garvin, respectively) are a nouveau-riche couple who are throwing a fancy...
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1928
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1928
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This is an especially amusing Max Davidson two-reeler. He plays Ethan Wattles, who is courting a chubby widow...
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1927
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Ethnic humor was common and generally accepted in the 1910s and 1920s, and Max Davidson was one of the better known Jewish...
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1927
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Although Oliver Hardy doesn't appear in this comedy, which features his future partner Stan Laurel, his name does -- there is...
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1927
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Max Davidson stars in this Hal Roach comedy as Papa Whissleberg, who is determined that his pretty daughter (Marjorie Daw)...
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1927
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This entertaining Charley Chase comedy features an old star (pretty Gladys Hulette, whose career was on its downslide) and an...
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1926
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1926
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Stuart Holmes spent much of the 1920s playing villains. He even played them in comedy two-reelers for Hal Roach. Here, he...
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1926
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This Hal Roach two-reeler is not one of Charley Chase's best efforts. It's notable only because it's one of the approximately...
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1926
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In one of his best silent films, Charley Chase plays homely Mr. Moose, whose buck teeth make him a laughingstock. But Mrs....
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1926
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1926
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Charley Chase will do just about anything to marry his sweetheart Madge (Corliss Palmer) in this amusing two-reeler. So she...
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1926
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In this silent two-reel comedy, Charley Chase is getting ready to wed the lovely Katherine Grant. But when his jealous rival...
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1925
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This Charley Chase short has more gags than plot. His wife, Sappie (Katherine Grant), comes from a snobbish family -- her...
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1925
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Charley Chase stars in this amusing Hal Roach-produced short. Although she has no reason to doubt Charley, his wife...
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1925
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Charley Chase plays a young married man with a suspicious wife (Katherine Grant) in this Hal Roach silent. The couple's car...
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1925
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This Hal Roach spoof of The Unholy Three starred Charley Chase. Chase, Katherine Grant, and Bull Montana all aspire to be...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1924
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