Footlight Varieties was the third and last of a series of RKO all-star musical revues. Unlike Variety Time (1948) and...
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1951
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In Ham Fisher's original Joe Palooka comic strip, Joe's pal Humphrey Pennyworth was a blimp of a man. In Joe Palooka Meets...
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Knobby
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1950
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This "Joe Palooka" entry concentrates on Joe's porcine pal Humphrey Pennyworth (played by Robert Coogan, the brother of...
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Knobby
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1950
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Monogram's low-budget, high-grossing "Joe Palooka" series carries on in this 66-minute entry. Joe Kirkwood plays Joe Palooka,...
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Knobby Walsh
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1949
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Make Mine Laughs was the second of three RKO Radio "pastiche" films, largely comprised of musical and comedy highlights from...
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1949
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Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch....
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Knobby Walsh
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1949
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Joe Palooka, Ham Fisher's famed comic-strip fighter, risks his life to clear the name of his manager in this series entry....
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1948
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Variety Time was the first of three "vaudeville-on-film" pastiches released by RKO Radio, each one comprised of highlights...
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1948
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For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal...
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Julius Caesar McBride
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1948
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It's a case of mistaken identity after the boss thinks that his meek employee is married to his pretty next-door neighbor. ~...
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1947
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1947
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In this first entry in the pugilistic comedy series based on Ham Fishers long-running comic strip, Joe Palooka is seen before...
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Knobby Walsh
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1946
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After a beauty parlor makeover, a housewife (Dorothy Granger), has a chance encounter with her husband's identical twin...
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Leon Errol,Richard
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1946
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Set upon the mighty Mississippi, this comedy chronicles the travails of a showboat captain trying to keep his operation...
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Matt Lindsey
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1946
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1946
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What a Blonde gets under way when wealthy lingerie manufacturer Fowler (Leon Errol) runs out of valuable gas-ration coupons....
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Fowler
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1945
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A loose remake of the 1935 Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy of the same name, Mama Loves Papa stars Elisabeth Risdon in the...
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Wilbur Todd
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1945
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One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief...
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Willie
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1945
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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At MGM, the studio's youth musicals were more rural than urban -- find a barn, get some friends together, and hey kids, let's...
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Malcolm Curtis
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1944
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In this musical comedy of mistaken identity, a group of young of budding theatrical performers endeavor to put on their own...
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Tuttle
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1944
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Higher and Higher was advertised by RKO Radio as "The Sinatra Show", and small wonder: In his first major film role, Frank...
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Cyrus Drake
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1944
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The fifth in the Invisible Man series stars Jon Hall as Robert Griffin, a convict who takes the invisibility serum and then...
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Herbert Higgens
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian father, wanting a better life for his son, fires the youth from their act. The deeply...
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Happy Dan Briggs
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1944
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In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the...
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1944
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In this musical drama, a Vermont farm lad goes to the Big Apple to become a member of the National Dairy Association. He...
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Big Mike O'Brien
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1943
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A group of opportunistic gold diggers con an aging millionaire playboy into investing in a night club in this musical...
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Cornelius
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1943
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RKO brought its "Mexican Spitfire" saga to a close with the eighth film in the series, Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event. Lupe...
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Uncle Matt Lindsay
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1943
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Robert Paige plays a struggling songwriter who poses as a millionaire cowboy. It's all part of a zany, wacky and nutty scheme...
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Hank
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1943
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The first "Mexican Spitfire" entry of 1942, Mexican Spitfire at Sea is set mainly on a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Combining...
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Uncle Matt Lindsay
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1942
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A college student's passion for swinging music leads him to found his own band. When he starts spending more time playing...
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Durham
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1942
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Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost looks more like a Columbia two-reel comedy than an RKO feature film. Star Lupe Velez, her...
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Lord Basil Epping
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1942
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1942
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In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and...
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MacDevin
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1941
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To those under the age of 60, it should be noted that the title of this lively Universal filler was inspired by a popular...
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Senor Alvarez
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1941
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In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in...
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1941
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The Rival
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1941
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Another cookie-cutter Universal minimusical, Moonlight in Hawaii gathered together the usual suspects-Johnny Downs, Leon...
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Spencer
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1941
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Even non-fans of RKO Radio's "Mexican Spitfire" series will garner a few healthy laughs from Mexican Spitfire's Baby. This...
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Lord Basil Epping
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1941
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In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled. First they fight over their...
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Daniel Boone
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1941
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Dumb but honest insurance agent Henry Twinkle (Lew Ayres) is in love with Mary Blake (Rita Johnson), the secretary of Henry's...
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1940
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In addition to his yearly manifest of six 2-reel comedies, Leon Errol always managed to squeeze a few feature-film...
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Henry Brewster
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1940
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The titular girl is Lupe Velez, a tempestuous cabaret entertainer. Donald Woods plays a staid American ad man who hires her...
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Uncle Matt
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1939
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Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early...
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Mudcat
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1939
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This collection of short films features the '30s comedian Leon Errol in A Panic in the Parlor, Crime Rave, and Man-I-Cured. ~...
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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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1939
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The excellent response to RKO Radio's The Girl from Mexico prompted the studio to fashion an entire series based on the...
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Lord Basil Epping
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1939
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1938
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Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys'...
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1937
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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Comic Leon Errol stars in these 3 comedy shorts entitled "Gem Jams," "Double Honeymoon" and "Ring Madness." ~ Rovi...
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1936
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Former child actor Johnny Downs acts his first adult lead in this nonsensical but charming little musical which benefits...
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Otto Wray
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1935
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This obscure Damon Runyon adaptation stars Jean Parker as Princess O'Hara, the spirited granddaughter of Central Park...
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Louie
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1935
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Glamorous American jewel-thief Sophie Lang (Gertrude Michael) not only regularly outwits Scotland Yard, but has great fun...
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Stubbs
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1934
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We're Not Dressing is a bouncy musical-comedy variation of J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton -- complete with a happier...
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1934
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Leon Errol is the star of this early three-strip Technicolor two-reeler from Warner Bros. The story is as wacky as any short...
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Walter Webb
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1934
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It's Grand Hotel on the high seas, with a remarkable cast -- particularly for the usually parsimonious Columbia Pictures. As...
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1934
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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In this youthful comedy, a child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. The bright girl's parents take her and her...
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Finley P. Haddock
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1931
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Samuel Goldwyn attempted to turn British operetta star Evelyn Laye into another Jeanette MacDonald with this cardboard...
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Otto
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1931
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In this musical comedy, Fred Von Wellingen (Ben Lyon), the scion of a wealthy German family, has fallen in love with Lia...
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Baron von Schwarzdorf
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1931
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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James Wilson
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1930
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol is certainly well cast in Lunatic at Large. Offering a ride to a millionaire, Sam Smith...
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Sam Smith
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1927
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After her impressive dramatic role in So Big, Colleen Moore returned to light comedies (mostly because her studio knew they...
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Duke of Checkergovinia
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1925
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After his impressive screen debut in Sally, stage comedian Leon Errol became a full-fledged film star with this picture, set...
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Trem Tidd
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1925
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The talented and beautiful Marion Davies is practically lost under the opulence of this expensive, overdone historical...
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1924
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