This made-for-cable documentary traces the filming of the imperishable classic Gone with the Wind, from its inception to its...
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1989
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Monica Dickens' novel One Pair of Feet was the source of the sociological drama The Lamp Still Burns. Like the original...
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Producer
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1943
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Whenever one sees a title like The Gentle Sex, one braces oneself for an ironic switcharound. The supposedly gentle girls of...
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Director, Producer
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1943
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The First of the Few is a dramatization of the life of R.J. Mitchell, the aeronautical engineer who designed the Spitfire...
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Director, Producer, R.J. Mitchell
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1942
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49th Parallel is a British wartime entreaty for Empire solidarity, concentrating on rousing the patriotic fervor of the...
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Philip Armstrong Scott
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1941
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The "Scarlet Pimpernel" legend is updated to WW2 in the breathless actioner Pimpernel Smith. Leslie Howard (who also...
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Director, Producer, Prof. Horatio Smith
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1941
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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Ashley Wilkes
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1939
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Holger Brandt
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1939
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Director, Prof. Henry Higgins
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1938
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Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in...
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Atterbury Dodd
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1937
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Basil Underwood
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1937
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Romeo
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1936
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Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason...
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Alan Squier
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1936
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Philip Carey
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1934
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Scarlet Pimpernel/Sir Percy Blakeney
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1934
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British Agent starred the Hungarian/British actor Leslie Howard in the title role, was directed by full-fledged Hungarian...
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Stephen Locke
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1934
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In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The...
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Albert Latour
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1934
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Adapted from John Balderston's successful stage fantasy (itself based on a story by Henry James), Berkeley Square is the...
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Peter Standish
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1933
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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John Carlton
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1933
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Adapted from a "drawn from life" novel by Sir Phillip Gibbs, Captured is the story of the men in a German POW camp during...
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Allison
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1933
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John Carteret
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1932
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Tom Collier
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1932
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Adapted from the Ernest Vajda novel The Head Waiter, Service for Ladies stars Leslie Howard as Max Tracey, premiere waiter of...
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Max Tracey
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1932
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Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets....
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Trent
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1931
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In this romantic comedy-drama, a wealthy San Francisco businessman becomes the guardian of a sexy young Polynesian woman. At...
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Dan Pritchard
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1931
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In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family,...
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Dwight Winthrop
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1931
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Bertram "Berry" Rhodes
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1931
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This unusual supernatural drama, based on a 1924 Broadway stage hit, concerns a disparate group of people who find themselves...
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Tom Prior
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1930
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Warner Brothers was one of the big studios of the 30s and had many talented performers under contract. See some of their...
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