At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his...
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Anne Wesson
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1938
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The trials faced by the US Army when it first attempted to trade horses for tanks provides the basis of this actioner. The...
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Julie Armstrong
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1938
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The 1937 Thirteenth Chair was the third film version of the 1919 stage melodrama by Bayard Veiller. Dame Mae Whitty dominates...
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Helen O'Neill
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1937
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The notorious Orient Express provides the setting for this romance involving two rival reporters in pursuit of a munitions...
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Patricia
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1937
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Moonlight Murder takes place virtually in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl. Despite dire warnings by a sinister mystic...
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1936
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In his only visit to Columbia Pictures, Paramount's resident crooner Bing Crosby stars in a sentimental musical drama. In...
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Susan
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1936
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Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district...
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Ann Devlin
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1936
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Ann Chester
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1936
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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Helen Sherwood
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1935
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Transatlantic Tunnel is the English-language version of the 1932 French-German speculative drama The Tunnel. Set sometime in...
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Ruth McAllan
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1935
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Critics in 1935 recognized immediately that Age of Indiscretion drew its inspiration from the well-publicized Gloria...
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Maxine Bennett
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1935
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David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer...
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Agnes
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1935
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Calm Yourself starts off as ace advertising man Pat (Robert Young) is fired from his job when he offends the highly...
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Rosalind
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1935
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In this drama, an impoverished dreamer saves a group of people during a terrible storm by leading them to shelter in a ghost...
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Glenda Wynant
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1935
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Betty
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1934
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This drama, an adaptation of a novel by A.J. Cronin, chronicles the exploits of an alcoholic doctor whose career is in...
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Mary Fielding
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1934
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In this comedy, based on a popular play by George Kelly, an office clerk masquerades as a railroad magnate to impress a young...
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Amy Fisher
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1934
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Legendary "improvisational" director Gregory La Cava elected to stick to the script for his film version of the James M....
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Sybil Tenterden
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1934
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Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a...
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Frances Clark
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1934
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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Mary Adams
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1934
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In director Edwin L. Marin's film Paris Interlude, a beautiful French woman named Julie Bell (Madge Evans) unexpectedly falls...
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Julie Bell
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1934
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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Letty
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1933
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In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company...
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Dorothy Day
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1933
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Broadway to Hollywood is a through-the-years saga about a show business family. Frank Morgan and Alice Brady play vaudeville...
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Anne Ainslee
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1933
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J. Phineas Stevens (Lee Tracy) is a personal injury lawyer whose practice has become a nightmare to any number of defendants,...
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Dorothy Mason
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1933
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Hell Below transcends its hackneyed World War I plot to emerge as a drama of rare originality and gutsiness. Walter Huston...
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Joan
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1933
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Gangster Cagney allows his powerful political connections to appoint him "deputy inspector" of a state reform school. There...
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Dorothy Griffith
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1933
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Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and...
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June Marcher
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1933
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Heroine Mona (Sally Eilers) is "made" in more ways than one in this free-wheeling spoof of the press-agent business. A...
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Claire Bidwell
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1933
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1933
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In this comedy-adventure, an enterprising young man devises a new kind of speedboat motor. The trouble begins when he tries...
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Shirley
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1932
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"Are you listening?" was the catchphrase of early-1930s radio personality Tony Wons. Though Wons does not appear in the 1932...
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Laura
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1932
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In this football drama, a tough steelworker's son wins a scholarship to Yale and attempts to use his talent on the football...
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Rosalie
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1932
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Lovers Courageous represents a rare direct-to-screen original by Frederick Lonsdale, the playwright responsible for such...
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Mary
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1932
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Zoë Akins' archetypal "gold-digger" stage comedy The Greeks Had a Word for It was transferred to the screen in 1933, with the...
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Polaire
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1932
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Though silent star John Gilbert's talking pictures were habitual money-losers, the stubborn actor insisted that MGM honor his...
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Anne
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1931
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This drama, set in Vienna during WW I, a soldier endures ostracism from his commanding officers after he travels over enemy...
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Countess Vima Walden
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1931
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An young boy is en route to Bombay with his wealthy father when they are ambushed by highwaymen and his father is mortally...
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Janice
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1931
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Ruby
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1931
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Barbara Grant
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1931
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Sylvia Randolph, Her Niece
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1924
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Film pioneer J. Stuart Blackton tempered his old-fashioned approach with some welcome slapstick moments in this melodrama,...
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1923
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In one of her best pre-adult roles, little Madge Evans was cast as nine-year-old troublemaker Clarissa Leigh. Our heroine...
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1918
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This picture has nothing to do with the 1933 Spencer Tracy film, or its 1961 remake. It's an adaptation of a novel by Grace...
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1918
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True Blue begins with the marriage of black-sheep British nobleman Gilbert Brockhurst (Charles Clary) to the daughter of a...
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1918
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This picture, made in the thick of America's involvement in World War I, is a combination of real life and fiction. Because...
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1918
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Having spent several years at World Films, the studio owned by her Broadway-producer father William A. Brady, Alice Brady...
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1918
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Child actress Madge Evans plays the title role in The Adventures of Carol. One of those sugary miss-fixit types, Carol...
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1917
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This film, based on the stage play of the same name by Adolph Philipps, gave comedian Lew Fields a role that had both humor...
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1917
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Fired up by the story of Joan of Arc, eight-year-old Mary ("Baby"Marie Osborne) decides to "do her bit" when America enters...
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1917
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Although Ellen Franklin (Alice Brady) consents to marry John Locke (David Powell), she's reluctant to have a family since,...
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1917
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Rejected by her parents, the wayward Juliette La Monde (Kitty Gordon) becomes a musical comedy actress and is courted by...
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1917
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1916
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1916
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Captain Harry Ford (Carlyle Blackwell) is tracking down moonshiners in the South when he runs afoul of nasty political...
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1916
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Lee Randall (Robert Warwick) is a man who leads a double life. By day he is a respectable person; by night he robs banks....
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1915
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1915
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1915
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