The Clock was designed by MGM as a "small" picture--though characteristically, it was a bigger production than most "A"...
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1945
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Having previously introduced Cole Porter's hit song "Don't Fence Me In" in Hollywood Canteen, Roy Rogers performs the song...
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1945
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Amidst its usual yearly quota of adventure films, Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit turned out a handful of comedies and...
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1944
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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She's in the Army is a fascinating vehicle for character actress Lucille Gleason (aka Mrs. James Gleason), heretofore usually...
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Sgt. Hannah
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1942
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When the film rights to its "Saint" series proved too expensive to renew, RKO Radio came up with a lookalike property in the...
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1941
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Venerable character actor Harry Davenport (best remembered as Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind) takes center stage in the...
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Lil Higgins
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1940
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Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald...
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1940
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Earl of Puddlestone was released minus a director credit out of respect for megger Gus Meins, who committed suicide shortly...
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Lil Higgins
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1940
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In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a...
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1940
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This comedy chronicles the further exploits of the hilarious "Higgins Family." In this entry, the father eagerly awaits a...
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Lil Higgins
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1939
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My Wife's Relatives is an easy-to-take entry in Republic's "Higgins Family" series. It all begins when Joe Higgins (James...
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1939
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In this entry in the comedy series the "Higgins Family," the group must cancel a cruise to South America after the check...
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Lil Higgins
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1939
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In this crime drama, a woman is told that a cop killed her brother in cold-blood during a shoot-out. The woman believes the...
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1938
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A troubled young girl vents her frustrations upon her poor butler in this sentimental drama. The teen is angry because her...
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1938
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With The Higgins Family, Republic Pictures launched its own economical variation on MGM's popular "Andy Hardy" series. The...
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Lillian Higgins
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1938
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Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story...
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1937
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A tough sailor bets his pals that he can win the love of a prissy librarian and so masquerades as a candidate for the Naval...
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1937
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Big Tess
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1936
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1936
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1936
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A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield....
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1935
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In this comedy, an experienced newspaperman caves in to the constant badgering of his thoughtless family and ends up losing...
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1934
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1934
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In this musical, an insurance agent falls in love with a pretty girl. When the self-righteous agent discovers that she is a...
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Mrs. Anderson
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1934
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Woman Unafraid stars venerable character actress Lucille Gleason as Officer Winthrop, a no-nonsense but golden-hearted...
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Officer Winthrop
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1934
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Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts star as Mark and Connie, a pair deceptively innocent-looking con artists. Connie has made a...
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Flo Bowen
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1933
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A man's addiction to betting on the horses severely disrupts his love life in this comedy. He, a plumber, and his fiancee, a...
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1933
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1933
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Dolores Del Rio plays Dolores in Girl of the Rio -- which, one supposes, makes perfect sense. The heroine is a cabaret dancer...
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Matron
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1932
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A 1930 stage play by William A. Grew was the source for the 1932 Universal film Nice Women. Sidney Fox stars as Bess Girard,...
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Mrs. Girard
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1932
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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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Based on a play by William DuBois, Pagan Lady top-bills Evelyn Brent as the title character, a "woman of the world" named Dut...
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1931
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Although The Shannons of Broadway was not James Gleason's first film appearance as advertised, it might as well as been:...
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Emma Shannon
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1929
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