This installment of the series American Traditions explores the Antebellum South. Actress Loretta Young leads the tour of...
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1994
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The sole reason for watching the made-for-TV Lady in a Corner is star Loretta Young, looking as youthful and stunning as ever...
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Grace Guthrie
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1989
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Christmas Eve was actually first telecast on December 22, 1986, but nobody cared about the "error" then, so why should we?...
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Amanda Kingsley
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1986
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Christine Massey
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1962
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The eighth and final season of the popular dramatic anthology The Loretta Young Show opens with "The Long Night," an...
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1960
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"The Road," in which Loretta Young plays an unhappy woman whose life is forever changed by an enigmatic hitchhiker, served to...
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1959
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Season six of The Loretta Young Show opens with the titular star essaying a dual role in the episode "he Near Unknown."...
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1958
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By the time The Loretta Show swung into its fifth season, the popular anthology was running like a well-oiled machine,...
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1957
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Having been absent for nearly half of her own anthology series' third season, Loretta Young had made practically a full...
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1956
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1954
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1954
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Oscar-winning actress Loretta Young had been a movie star for nearly 25 years when, at age 41 (but looking at least ten years...
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1953
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When movie favorite Loretta Young launched her long-running anthology series in the fall of 1953, it was under the title...
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1953
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Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of...
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Jane MacAvoy
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1953
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Loretta Young plays a guilt-ridden hit-and-run driver in Paula. After leaving the scene of an accident, Paula (Young)...
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Paula Rogers
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1952
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Fans of Loretta Young were rather taken aback by the early scenes of Because of You, wherein Young is seen as brash,...
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Christine Carroll
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1952
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Even at age 38, Loretta Young could successfully pull off her ingenue duties in the innocuous comedy Half Angel. Young plays...
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Nora
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1951
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While a man recuperates from a heart-attack, he obsesses with the thought that his wife and his doctor are having an affair,...
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Ellen Jones
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1951
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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Clarissa Standish
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1950
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A Christmastime TV perennial, Come to the Stable is the gentle saga of two French nuns (Celeste Holm with accent,...
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Sister Margaret
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1949
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Abigail "Abby" Fortitude Abbott
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1949
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This late-40s western features Robert Mitchum as an Indian scout who happens upon an unlikely family cabined up in the Great...
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Rachel Harvey
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1948
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The Accused is a mystery melodrama with a predictable plot involving blackmail, attempted rape and murder. Loretta Young...
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Wilma Tuttle
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1948
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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Katrin Holstrom
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1947
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When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds...
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Julia Brougham
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1947
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If the Perfect Marriage in this romantic comedy were truly perfect, there wouldn't be any story, would there? Outwardly an...
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Maggie Williams
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1946
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The Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college...
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Mary Longstreet
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1946
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Gary Cooper added "producer" alongside "star" on his resume with this light-hearted Western about a mild-mannered cowboy...
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Cherry de Longpre
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1945
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All but forgotten today, Ladies Courageous was one of the more successful wartime morale-boosters. Loretta Young heads the...
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Roberta Harper
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1944
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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Emily Blair
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1944
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Set in Japanese-occupied China shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this action/drama stars Alan Ladd as Mr. Jones, a...
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Carolyn Grant
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1943
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1943
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Brian Aherne stars as a successful murder-mystery novelist; his wife, Loretta Young, wishes Aherne would switch to writing...
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Nancy Troy
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1942
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Despite its alluring title, Bedtime Story is an innocent little domestic comedy about a bickering married couple....
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Jane Drake
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1941
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Loretta Young is (mis)cast as a prima ballerina, who reaches the top of her profession and marries her demanding instructor...
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Lina Varsavina
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Annie
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1941
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In this drama, set in Paris, a devout communist is slowly seduced into becoming a capitalist by a persuasively pretty young...
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Marianne Duval
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1940
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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June Cameron
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1940
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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Doris Blair Borland
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1939
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Anita Halstead
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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Mabel Hubbard Bell
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1939
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Whenever things got slow at 20th Century-Fox, the studio revved up its old reliable "three girls looking for millionaires"...
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Pamela Charters
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1938
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This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century...
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Empress Eugenie
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1938
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The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally...
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Sally Goodwin
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1938
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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Lynn Cherrington
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1938
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In this detective adventure, a young woman is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from her boss and takes off for Spain...
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Myra Cooper
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1937
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This cinematic meringue stars Loretta Young as a young woman whose second husband (Lyle Talbot) is a hard working but dull...
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Vicky Benton
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1937
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Ina Lewis
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1937
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Tony Gateson
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1937
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Cafe Metropole stars Tyrone Power as an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe...
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Laura Ridgeway
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1937
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First filmed in 1910, the venerable Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona was remade in 1936 in full Technicolor (20th...
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Ramona
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1936
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Ladies in Love transplants 20th Century-Fox's favorite film plot--three girls on the prowl for rich husbands--into the...
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Susie Schmidt
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1936
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Private Number is the old saw about the wealthy young man who marries his family's serving girl. This time Richard Winfield...
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Ellen Neal
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1936
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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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Lady Helen Deardon
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1936
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In this drama, a vicious valet plans to kill another servant after he learns that she has secretly married his boss's son. ~...
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1936
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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Berengaria
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1935
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The third screen version of Jack London's classic adventure story was also the first with sound, and it toyed with the...
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Claire Blake
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1935
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The stigma of miscegenation (horrors!) is at the base of this very dated romantic melodrama. Charles Boyer stars as Dmitri...
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Barbara Howard
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1935
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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's...
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Margaret Maskelyne Clive
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1935
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Loretta Young, who became known almost exclusively for playing sweet, wholesome roles, is kind of a shocker in this romantic...
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Letty Strong
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1934
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Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance...
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Countess Wilma
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1934
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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Lola Field
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1934
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George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish bankers. Despite the...
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Julie Rothschild
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1934
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Dedicated to "the memory of Florence Nightingale," White Parade might have been better dedicated to the cliche experts at Fox...
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June Arden
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1934
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Warren William plays a high-powered ambitious executive who unflinchingly steamrolled his way to the top without regard for...
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Madeline West
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1933
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This Depression-era romantic drama, which offers a surprisingly potent and unsentimental view of the economic hardships of...
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Trina
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1933
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Jimmy Dolan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is a light heavyweight champion, with the world at his feet. Then he gets into a fight...
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Peggy
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1933
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Loaned to MGM by her home studio of Warner Bros., Loretta Young suffers her way through the title role in Midnight Mary. A...
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Mary Martin
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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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Ruth Loring
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1933
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Paul Lukas plays a nightclub headwaiter who rises to fame as a bridge expert. He marries hat check girl Loretta Young,...
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Marcia Stanislavsky
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1933
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused...
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Margot Lesesne
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1933
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Sol Glass (Ferdinand Gottschalk) is a man with a problem -- in the depths of the Great Depression, his garment business can't...
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Florence Denny
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1933
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A beautiful orphan girl, faced with the prospect of being forced to work as an indentured servant (more like a slave) until...
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Eve
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1933
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Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the...
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Grace Sutton
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1932
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Virtually none of the male characters in The Thrill of Youth could pass muster as a role model. As an old man preaches...
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1932
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A very young Loretta Young stars in this domestic drama in which a naïve department store clerk falls for an inveterate...
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Buster
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1932
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Though only 19, Loretta Young was an established Hollywood star in 1932, appearing in six films in that year alone. In They...
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Marion Cullen
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1932
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In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner. The husband feels demeaned by...
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Lola Davis
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1932
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A huge box office success and a key film in James Cagney's rise to stardom, this drama stars Cagney as Matt Nolan, a gritty...
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Sue Reilly
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1932
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Hatchet Man is a dated but fascinating film set amidst the "tong wars" in San Francisco's Chinatown. Tong hatchet man Wong...
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Toya San
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1932
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In this romantic comedy, a milquetoast bookworm finds his life transformed when he takes the advice of a fortune teller and...
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Larry O'Brien
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1931
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Gloria Bannister
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1931
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Hoping to benefit from the popularity of the 1927 silent version of P.C. Wren's Beau Geste, RKO Radio reunited the earlier...
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1931
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Rosalie Eventural
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1931
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Even before the Fox Studios merged with 20th Century Productions in 1935, the company was dedicated to the proposition that...
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Noreen McMann
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1931
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A rather bleak comedy-drama from Frank Capra, Platinum Blonde basically starts where Capra's later and much more buoyant It...
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Gallagher
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1931
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1931
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Loretta Young briefly contemplates using her sexual allure to get ahead in business in this sometimes frank but ultimately...
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Claire McIntyre
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1931
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In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of...
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Elaine Bumpstead
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1931
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A young woman stands to inherit a million bucks in this comedy. The deal is thus: her aunts will give her a cool million if...
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Ann Harper Berry
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1930
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1930
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In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and...
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Marian Ferguson
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1930
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The Truth About Youth is the third film version of Henry V. Esmond's play, When We Were Twenty-One. Richard Dane (David...
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Phyllis Ericson
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1930
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Margaret Waring
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1930
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Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role...
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Marsinah
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1930
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The difference between social classes provides the basis for this comedy. The trouble begins when a drunken sot wanders into...
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Margery Seaton
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1930
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Ronald Colman plays the "black sheep" of a wealthy British family, sent to South Africa so that he'll be as far away from...
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Dorothy Hope
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1930
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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In this courtroom drama, a man is sentenced to death for jealously murdering the man who flirted with his wife....
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Patricia Mason
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1929
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This college musical chronicles the travails of a college football star who wants to quit playing. To stop him, the...
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Patricia Carlyle
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1929
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In this actioner, a sea captain saves a Shanghai whore who is being tossed out of town. He puts her on board and heads out...
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Margaret Barbour
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1929
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In her second talking picture, Loretta Young stars as Gladys Cosgrove, the ticket-taker at a small-town movie house. Although...
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Gladys Cosgrove
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1929
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The Careless Age was based on Diversion, a play by John Van Druten. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays Wyn, a headstrong young...
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Muriel
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1929
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Still in the Hollywood phase of his career, director Alexander Korda made his talking-picture bow with Warner Bros.' The...
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Irma
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1929
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Veteran comedian Charlie Murray plays a serious role in 1928's Head Man. Murray is cast as a senator named Watts, whose...
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Carol Watts
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1928
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In his later interviews, director Allan Dwan seldom had anything to say about his 1928 opus Whip Woman -- and who could blame...
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1928
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Denise Laverne, the Daughter
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1928
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Fifteen-year-old Loretta Young is 45-year-old Lon Chaney's winsome leading lady in Laugh, Clown, Laugh. Based on the...
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Simonette
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1928
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In the tradition of Colleen Moore's best films, Her Wild Oat is nowhere near as "naughty" as its title. Moore is cast as Mary...
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1927
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1927
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This romantic costumed adventure is the film that cemented Rudolph Valentino's reputation as a legendary screen lover. Sheik...
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1921
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1919
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A baby is washed up on shore, and a wealthy couple, the Stanhopes (Sydney Deany and Helen Wright) take her in and raise her....
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1917
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This installment of the series American Traditions takes a look at steamboats. See the last steamboats that travel overnight...
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