Sheila (Jeannie Berlin) is not one of life's golden people: she's not especially good-looking, charming, charismatic, or...
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1975
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"You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston),...
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Songwriter
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1974
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John Milius's first directorial effort in its own small way set the stage in the 1970s for a subgenre of action films that...
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Songwriter
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1973
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A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a...
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Songwriter
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1966
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Suspense builds around the investigation of a plane crash that caused 53 deaths in this dramatic adaption of Ernest K. Gann's...
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1964
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A man falls for an exotic "bad girl," unaware he's already met the nice girl lurking beneath the surface, in this romantic...
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1963
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In this collection of clips from The Judy Garland Show, which ran for 26 episodes on CBS television in 1963 and 1964, the...
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1963
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1957
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Hit the Deck is the second film version of the same-named 1927 hit Broadway musical. Though updated for the 1950s, the basic...
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1955
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Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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Casbah is a musical remake of the 1938 film Algiers, which was itself a remake of the French film Pepe Le Moko. Tony Martin...
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Songwriter
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1948
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Deanna Durbin stars in the musical shaggy dog story Something in the Wind. When the wealthy uncle of the Read family dies, he...
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Songwriter
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1947
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Otto Preminger directed this romantic musical (something of a change of pace for the rather serious-minded director) set in...
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Songwriter
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1946
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Statehood for Wyoming became the weighty focal point in this very low-budget music Western from poverty row company PRC,...
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Songwriter
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1945
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Those willing to accept Carmen Miranda as a "typical" 1920s type will be able to swallow the rest of the lavish but rather...
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Songwriter
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1944
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Sgt. Andy Mason Jr. (James Ellison) is on the eve of shipping out from New York with his unit -- he's the son of Andrew Mason...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1943
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In later years, director Vincente Minnelli would dismiss I Dood It as his worst picture, though a more deserving candidate...
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Songwriter
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1943
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In this musical comedy set during WW II, a circus aerialist desires to be closer to her lover, a soldier. When she finds...
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1942
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1941
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Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough prohibition-era gangster who in reality wouldn't hurt a fly. He maintains his "killer"...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1941
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America had not officially gone to war in November of 1941, but try telling that to the producers of the "preparedness" drama...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1941
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Fred MacMurray is a breezy New York street photographer; Mary Martin is a small town girl hoping to make her fortune in the...
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Songwriter
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1941
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Jack Oakie is near the top of his form as Boley Bolenciecwcz, the best college football player to come down the pike in a...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1941
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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Songwriter
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1939
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In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Herman Bahr's German play The Yellow Nightingale from 1907 became Paramount's 1938 entry in the then-popular operetta cycle....
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1938
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter
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1937
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This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple...
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Songwriter
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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Songwriter
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1937
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A female con artist becomes involved in the abduction of a miner. The target of the con is a wealthy Easterner. The con...
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Songwriter
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1937
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1937
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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1937
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Songwriter
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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Songwriter
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1937
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Hills of Old Wyoming was the 10th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" series, and at 79 minutes one of the longest of the batch...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1937
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Songwriter
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1937
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In this musical, a young lady is sent to an East coast finishing school. She doesn't realize that it is a bogus school run by...
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Songwriter
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1936
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The third film of Paramount's "Big Broadcast" series follows the pattern of the first two titles: negligible plot with plenty...
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1936
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Songwriter
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1936
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In her much vaunted screen debut, Metropolitan Opera star Gladys Swarthout takes on David Belasco's 30-year-old operetta...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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1936
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1936
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1936
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Just before his brief turn as a "singing cowboy," radio crooner Smith Ballew starred in Paramount's Palm Springs. Filmed on...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1936
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In this frothy romantic adventure, Marlene Dietrich plays Madeleine de Beaupre, a devious jewel thief. After sneaking a...
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Songwriter
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1936
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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Songwriter
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1936
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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Songwriter
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1935
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Radio baritone Joe Morrison was being groomed for stardom by Paramount when he was top-billed in One Hour Late. Morrison is...
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Songwriter
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1935
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The classic comedians Burns and Allen are featured in this fast-paced farce that includes an assortment of corny vaudeville...
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Songwriter
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1935
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Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the last time on this...
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Songwriter
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1935
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One of the least known of Cary Grant's starring vehicles, Kiss and Make Up was based on a European play by Stephen Bekeffi....
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Songwriter
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1934
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Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for...
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Songwriter
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1934
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In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking...
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Songwriter
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1934
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Hollywood responded to the exigencies of the Depression with such glorious nonsense as International House. The plot is...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1933
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The world of horse racing provides the backdrop for this episodic drama. Much of the story is set at the Luray Springs Hotel...
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Songwriter
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1933
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This musical comedy stars Maurice Chevalier as (what else?) a Parisian playboy with a song and a kiss for every beautiful...
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Songwriter
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1933
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Three-Cornered Moon is regarded by many film buffs as the first of the genuine "screwball comedies." Claudette Colbert stars...
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Songwriter
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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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1932
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1932
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In this children's comedy, a young woman is left in charge of two little hellions when her sister dies. She finally finds...
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Songwriter
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1932
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Joseph Conrad's novel Victory inspired some of this South Sea drama. Alma (Nancy Carroll), a violinist hired to play at an...
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Songwriter
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1930
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In this convoluted drama, the jolly painted face of a circus clown is but a mask for an avaricious, ruthlessly ambitious,...
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Songwriter
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1930
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William Powell was still in his tux-and-top-hat period when he starred in Pointed Heels. The scene is Broadway, where...
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Songwriter
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1930
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In this 1929 comedy, two white minstrel comedians, Moran and Mack, in black-face, re-create their most beloved routines in...
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Songwriter
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1929
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In this film, the irresponsible Stella Ames (Clara Bow) spends her college career attending parties rather than studying....
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Songwriter
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1929
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In this murder mystery, set in a carnival, a performer loses her boyfriend, a trapeze artist, when his partner "accidently"...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1929
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