This concert and interview documentary features the racy wit of Canada and the U.S.'s most popular female comedians,...
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1991
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The Movies March On was Number 12, volume 9 of Louis de Rochemont's March of Time series. Narrated by the stentorian...
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1939
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Carlotta Vance
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1933
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Marie Dressler plays the title character, tugboat captain Annie Brennan, in this 1933 Hollywood box office hit. Her husband...
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Annie Brennan
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1933
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Abby
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1933
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Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) is the matriarch of a banking family who has run the Warren Bank for years, until she turns it...
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Maggie Warren
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1932
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Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper...
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Emma Thatcher
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1932
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In this slapstick comedy set in a posh beauty salon, the owner asks her matronly sister, a postman's wife, to come and...
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Marie Truffle
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1931
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In this comedy, a female mayoral candidate promises to rid the town of gangsters. She joined the race in the first place...
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Hattie
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1931
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1930
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The life of merchant seamen is realistically portrayed in this adventure.
The story centers around two sailors who find...
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1930
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This early talkie melodrama features a waterfront hotel-owner (Marie Dressler) and her relationship with an area fisherman...
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Min Divot
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1930
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Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at...
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Marie Jones
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1930
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The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great...
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Princess Beatrice
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1930
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Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo made her "talking picture"...
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Marthy Owen
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1930
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In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where...
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Mrs. Boucicault
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1930
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Hetty Brown
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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Intended as a follow-up to the fabulously successful Broadway Melody, Chasing Rainbows reunites several of the leading...
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1929
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In his movie debut, Rudy Valley portrays the crooning saxophone player who falls in love with a beautiful young woman....
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Mrs. Whitehall
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1929
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Frank Lloyd both produced and directed The Divine Lady, a Hollywood slant on the 19th century romance of Lord Horatio Nelson...
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Mrs. Hart
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1929
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Ma Harrington
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1928
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Annie Moore
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1928
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This playful Allan Dwan effort stars Olive Borden as impulsive flapper Jewel Courage, who dumps the man she loves, a humble...
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Mrs. Heath
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1927
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Breakfast at Sunrise was the penultimate movie vehicle for Constance Talmadge, who retired when talkies came in two years...
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Queen
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1927
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Based on a novel by Kathleen Morris, The Callahans and the Murphys was the first of several MGM films costarring veteran...
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Mrs. Callahan
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1927
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If the name "Tillie" appears in the title and the film is made in the latter half of the 1910s, it's a sure bet that...
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1917
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1915
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This Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin's 33rd, is the first feature-length comedy ever made and contributed to making Chaplin...
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Tillie Banks, Country Girl
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1914
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