Unlike the typical Bob Hope and Lucille Ball vehicles, The Facts of Life is essentially a domestic drama with comic...
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1960
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In the third episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion...
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1960
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In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the guerilla forces under the leadership of...
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1960
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Robert Wagner plays Chad Bixby, a role reportedly inspired by the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in this romantic drama...
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1960
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One of producer Walt Disney's more blatant efforts to duplicate the success of his early TV miniseries Davy Crockett, the...
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1959
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In the second episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the Redcoats have retaliated against the raids of...
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1959
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Screenplay writer Paddy Chayefsky, and indeed everyone involved with the film, insisted that The Goddess wasn't really all...
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1958
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This live Playhouse 90 episode dramatizes the life of celebrated Washington party-giver Perle Mesta, who had earlier served...
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1957
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Debbie Reynolds stars as Tammy in this romantic comedy of a country girl living in the South who cares for pilot Peter Brent...
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1957
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Teenage Rebel was the misleadingly lurid title bestowed upon this film version of Edith R. Sommer's Broadway play A Roomful...
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1956
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The focus of this heartfelt family film is Skeeter (Brandon de Wilde), a 14-year-old orphan who lives with his aged Uncle...
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1956
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1956
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1952
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1952
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Rather than the usual cattlemen vs. sheep men conflict, this above-average Rex Allen western contrasts ranchers of all kinds...
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1952
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The life of Stephen Foster, one of America's greatest and best-loved songwriters of the 19th century, sets the stage for this...
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1952
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Peggy Donovan (Joyce Reynolds) inherits a tidy sum of ill-gotten gains from her gambler father. Fearing that her late...
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1950
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In this musical comedy with dramatic touches, Jack and Molly Moran (Dan Dailey and Betty Grable) are a show business couple...
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1950
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Despite its lack of production values and box-office "names," The Jackie Robinson Story is one of the best and most...
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Jackie's Mother
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1950
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1949
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Small-town department store manager Sam Clayton (Gary Cooper) is a born "Good Samaritan", which in his case translates as...
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1948
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Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house...
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Gussie
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1948
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Deanna Durbin's career was clearly on the downswing when she starred in For the Love of Mary. Durbin plays a switchboard...
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1948
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In this sentimental children's yarn, a little girl is orphaned when her father, a Georgia plantation owner, is trampled by a...
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1947
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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1946
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With The Outlaw still being withheld from general release, Young Widow represented the first time that most filmgoers ever...
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1946
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In her second starring film, teenaged singing sensation Jane Powell plays Cheryl Williams, a 15-year-old music student who is...
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1945
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A con artist heads for the gold fields of Nevada during the 1880s after he is tossed off of San Francisco's Barbary Coast....
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1944
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Ever so slightly, the quality of PRC Pictures' film output improved as the 1940s rolled on. In PRC's Dixie Jamboree,...
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1944
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Universal's yearly quota of cheap, 60-minute musicals occasionally yielded such likeable diversions as South of Dixie. David...
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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1943
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This 67-minute farce stars Dennis O'Keefe as a music publisher sued for plagiarism by a pair of scraggly songwriters....
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Cleo
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1943
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This flag-waving Columbia programmer concentrates on five young Officer's Candidate School applicants. Each of the...
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1943
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All By Myself is another of Universal Pictures' "instant" musicals of the 1940s, built tenuously around the popular title...
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1943
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In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help...
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1943
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This ambitious filmed biography of writer-adventurer Jack London is somewhat compromised by its too-tight budget....
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1943
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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1942
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Young America is not so much a Jane Withers vehicle as a 73-minute advertisement for the 4-H clubs of America. Cast against...
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1942
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Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his...
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1942
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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1942
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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1941
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If Selznick could make a Gone With the Wind, reasoned Paramount Pictures in 1941, anyone can. Paramount's own spin on Scarlet...
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1941
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In this drama, a young woman shows two dogs at the championship competition at Madison Square Garden and when the two dogs...
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Beulah
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1941
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This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races"....
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1941
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Kisses for Breakfast is a dumbed-down remake of the 1930 marital comedy The Matrimonial Bed, itself based on a British stage...
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1941
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The Vanishing Virginian was adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Rebecca Yancey Williams. Newcomer...
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1941
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Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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1940
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Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in...
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1940
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S.N. Behrman's hit Broadway show about a guy who writes hit Broadway shows comes to the screen in this comedy. Gaylord...
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1940
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Parole Fixer is another entry in Paramount's unofficial "J. Edgar Hoover" series, purportedly based on an actual case in the...
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1940
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In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that her husband invite a...
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1939
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1939
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Like many all-black films of the 1930s, Reform School is shabbily produced and unevenly acted, but still a rewarding...
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Mother Barton
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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Aunt Tina
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1939
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Starring in what the trade-papers would term her "first all-Negro picture," the always delightful Louise Beavers played the...
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1938
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In this lively comedy, three young hell-raisers enroll in the Virginia Military Institute and have a hard time staying out...
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1938
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Peck's Bad Boy and his gang of mischievous misfits (including Spanky McFarland) make all kinds of trouble around the circus....
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1938
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In this often funny crime melodrama, a librarian moves to a small town and finds herself the butt of local gossip. While the...
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1938
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This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian...
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1938
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1937
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In this wartime drama, a young woman nearly comes unhinged when her husband, a Navy pilot, is transferred to Pearl Harbor on...
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1937
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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In this bedroom farce, a writer rails against marriage and touts the benefits of staying single. He then convinces his...
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1936
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Having successful moved his top comedians Laurel & Hardy from short subjects to features, producer Hal Roach endeavored to do...
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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Two-fisted New York police detective Edward G. Robinson is so volatile that he manages to get himself thrown off the force in...
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1936
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Mauree
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1935
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1935
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Delilah Johnson
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1934
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Another of director William Wyler's "apprenticeship" films, Glamour is based on a story by Edna Ferber. The original story...
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1934
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John Barrymore wisely turned down this contrived courtroom melodrama that instead trapped poor Ricardo Cortez. He plays...
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1934
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Based on the popular comic strip by Ham Fisher, this fast-paced and funny boxing outing follows the exploits of a boxing...
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1934
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Completed just before the Production Code went into effect, I've Got Your Number is delightfully racy, risque entertainment....
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1934
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1934
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Having previously played dishonest politicians, lawyers, and businessmen, Warren William is cast as a fraudulent doctor in...
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1934
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A lover selflessly dumps her boy friend so that he will obey the wishes of his wealthy benefactor and marry someone more...
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1934
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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1934
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In this melodrama, a woman must spend a decade in prison after murdering her spouse. Upon entering jail, she had to give up...
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1934
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The second of three Kay Francis films in which the star was cast as a dedicated lady physician, Doctor Monica was adapted...
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1934
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Formerly known as Allied Pictures, M. J. Hoffman's Liberty Pictures turned out quite a few potentially interesting...
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1934
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The second of two low-budget murder melodramas starring Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot, A Shriek in the Night is not quite as...
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1933
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Slow moving, overly complicated, and badly acted in key roles, this low-budget melodrama from Poverty Row company Progressive...
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1933
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Her Splendid Folly is an old-fashioned comedy/drama from the misleadingly named firm of Progressive Pictures. Lillian Bond...
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1933
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The missing girl in this weak whodunit from Warner Bros. is redheaded Peggy Shannon, once seen as the successor of "It Girl"...
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1933
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When the actress girlfriend of a rich man is pursued by a producer, the rich man hires bodyguard Lowe to protect her, but...
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1933
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"I'm the finest woman who walked the streets," declares bejeweled, hip-swishing Lady Lou (Mae West) at the beginning of She...
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1933
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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1933
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In this romantic drama, an ex-con conceals her criminal past and starts a new life with a kindly cab driver. Together, the...
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1933
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1933
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There's nothing wrong with Hold Your Man that a little editing wouldn't cure. Clark Gable plays a raffish young petty crook...
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1933
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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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1932
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1932
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An elderly gentleman finds himself in a difficult situation when he finds himself faced with becoming a burden on his...
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1932
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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1932
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Bret Harte's story Salomy Jane's Kiss provided the basis for a play (by Paul Armstrong and a number of films, including...
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1932
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The second film version of Ben Ames Williams' magazine serial Jubilo, and the second to star Will Rogers, Too Busy to Work...
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1932
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Undoubtedly inspired by Charles Lindbergh's unprecedented sudden fame (but not the ensuing tragedy), Mary McCall's 1932 novel...
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1932
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In this complicated drama, a husband begins an affair. His new mistress has a handsome brother who ends up falling for the...
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1932
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Often referred to as an imitation of Warner's legendary prison drama I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), RKO's stirring...
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1932
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What Price Hollywood is often referred to as the "first" version of the oft-filmed A Star is Born. While there are strong...
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1932
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Sylvia Sidney is again in her "victim" mode in Paramount's Ladies of the Big House. Shortly after their wedding, young...
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1932
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Directed by Harry Beaumont, the courtroom drama Unashamed stars Robert Young as Dick Ogden, who will do anything to protect...
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1932
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A young boy from a broken home must choose between his real dad and his step-father in this drama. His real dad is...
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1932
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In his third feature-film appearance, Spencer Tracy plays a small-town hotshot named William Donroy, who talks a young...
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1931
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In this western, a cowboy and an eastern city-slicker find they are co-inheritors of a ranch. The genteel woman loathes the...
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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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1931
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Based on a novel by Geoffrey Barnes, Party Husband is a weak-tea drawing room comedy utterly dependant upon the charms of its...
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1931
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In this drama, a married couple who own a speakeasy aspire to go legitimate and open a gas station; unfortunately, they are...
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1931
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In this melodrama, a cub reporter falls for the society editor who is already the mistress of the publisher. The two men...
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1931
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Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls". They work the convention...
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1931
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High-class call girls provide the focus of this intelligent romantic comedy that takes a rather scathing look at the...
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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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1931
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Poor but honest district attorney Fredric March, sick of the "one law for rich, one law for poor" imbalance, sentences...
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1930
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In this sweet comedy, a meek and clumsy employee of a large firm is filled with useful ideas, but is too shy to present...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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In this heart-tugging musical, a Southern boy loses his parents during the Civil War and is forcibly wrenched away from his...
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Toinette
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1930
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In this melodramatic early sound-film an innocent country gal tires of her dull pastoral life and equally boring beau so she...
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1930
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In this lightweight musical comedy, an aspiring songwriter tries to make it big on Broadway. Later his uncle decides to show...
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1930
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Clara Bow's flat Brooklynese voice seems perfectly suited for the rowdy goings-on in True to the Navy. The "It" girl plays...
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1930
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Del Lord, director of many a Three Stooges farce in the 1930s and 1940s, told the actors when to move and when not to move in...
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1929
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This drama opens with a most disturbing scene as a jilted lover places a gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Fortunately,...
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1929
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1929
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A very topical early talkie from low-budget companyColumbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer...
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1929
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Coquette is Mary Pickford's first talkie, based on the play by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers. The story was already...
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1929
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The Our Gang kids hold an election, with Joe Cobb running against Jay R. Smith, and vice versa (the boys' campaign slogans...
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1929
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In her first important screen role, Mae Clarke is cast as Jackie Lee, a saucy vaudeville dancer. Jackie comes between...
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1929
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D. W. Griffith had originally been announced as the director of the Universal "super-production" version of Uncle Tom's...
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1928
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This clever comedy-drama was based on the famed stage play by Avery Hopwood. All the actors gave enjoyable performances, even...
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1923
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