African-American activist and actor Melvin Van Peebles directed this comedy-drama starring Godfrey Cambridge as Jeff Gerber,...
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1970
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George Roy Hill directed this original musical set the 1920s that mixes pop standards with new tunes written by Sammy Cahn...
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1967
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The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the...
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Mrs. Craig
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1966
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Having accidentally saved the life of Hekawi chief Wild Eagle (Frank De Kova), Captain Parmenter (Ken Berry) has earned the...
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1965
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Veteran boxing trainer Jimmy West (played by Robert Armstrong of King Kong fame) thinks he's finally found a "golden boy" in...
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1962
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Viewers know they're in a 1959 comedy film early in the proceedings of Ask Any Girl, when secretary Shirley MacLaine is...
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1959
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In this sensitive drama, a commercial artist is devastated by his tiny daughter's death and takes to drinking to numb the...
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1958
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Ride the High Iron originated as the 74-minute pilot episode of the proposed TV anthology Command Performance. When the...
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1956
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1956
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Though released by 20th Century-Fox, Mohawk was produced independently by Edward L. Alperson, who also doubled as the film's...
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1956
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In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when...
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1956
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In this upbeat drama, a reformed father returns to the Arkansas farm of his estranged family after having spent too many...
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1956
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I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the...
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1955
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Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on...
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1955
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With the exception of the vastly superior Caged, Columbia's Women's Prison was the quintessential "babes behind bars" drama...
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1955
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Ambitious but impecunious medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) marries the older and (in this film, at least) not...
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1955
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This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the...
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) follow up reports that a shabbily dressed eight-year-old boy and a six-year-old...
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1954
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Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to...
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1952
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Pat (Katharine Hepburn), a college phys-ed instructor, enters into professional competition as a golf and tennis player. Mike...
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1952
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Though completed in 1950, Love Is Better Than Ever was held back from release until 1952, due in great part to the "political...
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1952
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Not to be confused with a 1942 20th Century-Fox aviation actioner with the same title, Thunderbirds is a Republic Pictures...
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1952
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1952
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Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of...
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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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1952
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Two real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of...
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1951
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Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet...
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1951
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Re-edited from the serial King of the Rocket Men, this adventure is an account of a scientist who dons a jet-pack in order...
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1951
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Pretty stewardess Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) must choose between Three Guys Named Mike in this frothy MGM concoction. There's...
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1951
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Callaway Went Thataway is an amiable spoof of early television's "Hopalong Cassidy" craze. Fred MacMurray and...
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1951
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The film traces Naples-born Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Caruso...
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1951
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Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the...
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1951
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Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek...
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1951
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This formula Esther Williams musical casts the star as Midwestern carnival swimmer Christine Duncan, in love with bandleader...
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1950
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In their never-ending efforts to create a movie series to match the success of "The Thin Man," MGM came up with the...
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1950
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Hazel Logan
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1949
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Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely was in his final year of movie stardom when Gun Runner was released by Monogram. Wakely has more...
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Kate
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1949
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To stop a madman from blowing up New York City, a researcher dons a flying suit and prepares for battle in this serial, later...
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Glenda Thomas
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1949
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Daredevils in the Clouds was one of Republic's several attempts to transform former cowboy star Robert Livingston into a...
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1948
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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This peppy wartime musical stars Bing Crosby as radio crooner Johnny Cabot, the heartthrob of millions. To escape his...
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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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1944
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Though cheaply produced in the time-honored tradition of PRC Productions, The Lady from Chungking was nothing if not timely....
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Lavara
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1943
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The Flying Tigers were a group of American volunteer aviators, flying against the Japanese on behalf of General Claire...
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Verna Bales
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1942
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Sailors on Leave stars William Lundigan as sailor Chuck Stephens, who has borrowed so much money from his fellow gobs that...
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Gwen
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1941
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Musical comedy favorite Elsie Janis, who gained renown in WW1 as "The Sweetheart of the AEF", returned to the screen after a...
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Gail Halliday
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1940
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Jack Holt is so tight-jawed in Outlaws in the Orient that one wonders how his bridgework will hold up. Holt plays Chet Eaton,...
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Joan
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1937
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In this adventure set in Cairo, two foreign correspondents are assigned to investigate a ring of arms smugglers. One of them...
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Linda Lawrence
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1937
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The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press...
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Jo Allen
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1937
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In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so...
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1936
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Based on a novel by Meredith Nicholson, The House of 1000 Candles is one of the slickest films ever to emerge from the...
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Carol
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1936
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First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a...
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Constance
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1936
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After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of...
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Janet Henry
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1936
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In this western, a polo-playing free-loader convinces a farmer to take him in; the cad then proceeds to take advantage of...
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Betty Prentice
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1936
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The Silk Hat Kid is Lew Ayres, a babyfaced gangland "torpedo." Circumstances force the Kid to hole up in a slum settlement...
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Laura Grant
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1935
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Martha Allen
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1935
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With William Boyd in the cast, one would think that Flaming Gold was a "Hopalong Cassidy" western -- and one would be wrong....
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Claire Arnold
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1934
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In this comedy, a wealthy socialite pursues a carefree playboy who isn't at all interested in her. After all her regular...
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Pat Rockland
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1934
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In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
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Satin
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1934
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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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Jane Turner
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1934
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1934
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Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had...
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Mary Gimlet
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1933
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Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss...
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Mimi Montagne
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1933
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In this romantic drama, a woman inadvertently assists a con artist in his scheme to rob a store manager and ends up in...
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Sylvia Day
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1933
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1933
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We first lay eyes on Jimmy Cagney in Lady Killer while he's working as a movie theater usher. This job lasts just long enough...
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Myra Gale
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1933
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This story centers around a love triangle between two construction workers and a girl. The film climaxes with a fight on top...
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Mary
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1933
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In this crime drama, a reporter pursues the crime lord in charge of laundering the town's dirty money. The new police...
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Anne Woodman
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1932
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Ruth Robbins (Mae Clarke) is already a cynic about marriage, and well she should be -- at age 19, she's the...
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Ruth Robbins
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1932
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Glamorous Jean Harlow had her first big starring role in this standard story of an innocent small town young woman corrupted...
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Gladys Kane
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1932
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In this drama, a politician must deal with the aftermath of a young girl's damning accusation. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Hattie Pugmire
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1932
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Edna May Oliver makes the first of three appearances as Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by mystery...
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Gwen Parker
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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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Ruth Taylor
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1932
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Locomotive engineer Edmund Lowe falls head-over-heels in love with musical-comedy dancer Mae Clarke. When he finds out that...
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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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Mae Clarke had the best role of her career as the heroine of Waterloo Bridge, the first of three filmizations of...
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Myra
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1931
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In this crime drama, a moll tells her imprisoned gangster lover that she is leaving him for another whom she really loves....
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Marcia
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1931
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown...
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1931
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Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley's classic tale of tragedy and horror, Frankenstein made unknown...
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Elizabeth
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1931
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1931
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Maxine
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1930
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The Fall Guy isn't Lee Majors in this 1930 RKO Radio programmer but instead a hapless druggist played by Jack Mulhall. Upon...
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Bertha Quinlan
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1930
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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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Songwriter, Jackie Lee
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1929
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