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Screenwriter
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1952
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Rogue's March was described by one observer as an eastern western. A mustachioed Peter Lawford stars as Capt. Dion Lenbridge...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1952
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1950
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Though one might have expected friction between MGM's resident "nice lady" Greer Garson and Warner Bros. notorious "bad boy"...
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Producer
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1949
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Producer
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1946
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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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Producer
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1944
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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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Associate Producer
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1943
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The once-notorious theatrical chestnut White Cargo was toned down for public consumption in this 1942 MGM-ized adaptation...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1942
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If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper...
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Associate Producer
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1942
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Short Story Author
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1940
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1939
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In this romantic musical, a Russian prince sees a lovely singer in a town cafe and falls head-over-heels. Realizing that he...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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Book Author, Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1937
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The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Critics in 1935 recognized immediately that Age of Indiscretion drew its inspiration from the well-publicized Gloria...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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In this bouncy musical, a sax-playing ex-convict joins a swing band and embarks upon a cross-country tour. He does really...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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While crossing the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner, a radio troupe (led by Jack Benny) becomes involved in a murder mystery...
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Short Story Author
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1934
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Edmund Gwenn makes his American film debut in this lighthearted adaptation of Frederick Jackson's stage play The Bishop...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1932
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Set in exotic Singapore, this crime drama centers on a nightclub singer whose life is torn asunder when she is implicated in...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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The Calcutta Sweepstakes is the unifying factor of The Devil's Lottery. Among the winners of the sweepstakes are Evelyn...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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San Francisco's Chinatown provides the setting of this dramatic romance set in 1911. At this time in China, a major uprising...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this melodrama, a woman is blamed for another's suicide and ends up deported to Germany. Just as WW I erupts she marries...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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A remake of West of Zanibar, this strange, gut-wrenching melodrama set in the African jungles, offers a disturbing portrait...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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It was once theorized by critic Andrew Sarris that this 1931 Greta Garbo vehicle was subtitled "Her Fall & Rise" rather than...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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This drama, set in Vienna during WW I, a soldier endures ostracism from his commanding officers after he travels over enemy...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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This French-style farce is set at a large party. There a young misogynist explains why he cannot trust women. A man...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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In this screwball comedy, Annabelle Leigh (Jeanette MacDonald) happily spends the $5,000 sent her each month by her husband,...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Viewers familiar with the exotic (if toned-down) 1942 MGM film version of Leon Gordon's lurid stage play White Cargo might be...
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Play Author
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1929
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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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1924
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