One screen legend tips his hat to another as James Cagney portrays horror film icon Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces....
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Gert, a movie extra
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1957
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Anyone who thinks that tabloid journalism is an aberration of the 1980s should take a look at the 1956 release Slander. The...
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Mrs. Rambeau
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1956
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Miscegenation, that old reliable bugaboo of many a Southern-based novel, is at the center of Hamilton Basso's The View from...
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Lucy Wales
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1955
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A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played...
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Mrs. Fowler
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1955
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1954
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Joan Crawford's first Technicolor feature has come to be known as a textbook example of "high camp." Crawford stars as...
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Mrs. Stewart
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1953
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Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a...
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1953
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Belated honeymooners Polly (Jean Peters) and Ray Cutler (Casey Adams) arrive at their Niagara Falls cottage only to find that...
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1952
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At the last possible moment, convicted murderess Anne Marie St. Claire (Dorothy Lamour) is saved from execution. However, the...
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Hattie Hatfield
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1949
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In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King...
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1949
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1949
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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1948
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This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and...
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1945
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Edmund Lowe was old enough to know better when he starred in the anachronistic Monogram crime comedy Oh, What a Night! Lowe...
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Lil Vanderhoven
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1944
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Few B-picture factories ground out topical wartime dramas with as much regularity as Monogram. In Army Wives, Elyse Knox...
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Mrs. Shannahan
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1944
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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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Bessie Baxter
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1943
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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Lil
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1942
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Sister Bessie
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1941
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This Buck Privates knockoff concerns the misadventures of the three Patterson brothers: Charley (Wayne Morris), Eddie (Tom...
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Aunt Lottie
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1941
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The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War...
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1941
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In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen...
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Mamie Adams
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1940
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Ma Burton
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1940
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In this drama, set in New York City, two brothers fight it out over a girl. The boys were raised by their Italian mother....
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Teresa Lorenzo
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1940
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As indicated by the title, 20 Mule Team is all about pioneering borax miners in territorial Arizona. Wallace Beery goes...
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Josie Johnson
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1940
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again stars Marjorie Rambeau as the rambunctious female skipper created by Norman Reilly Raine. In this...
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Tugboat Annie
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1940
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Paramount's Sudden Money has all the earmarks of a Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland vehicle, except that this time Ruggles is...
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Elsie Patterson
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1939
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In his feature film debut, Glenn Ford plays a department-store clerk who saves up enough money to buy a small patch of land...
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Mamie
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1939
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1939
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Sylvia Swan
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1939
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1938
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Mrs. Kingsley
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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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Belle Hardwick
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1937
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In this musical comedy, a woman runs a boardinghouse for washed up thespians. She puts them on their best behavior when her...
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Lillian Bennett
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1936
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, Under Pressure tells of the competition between the crews employed to excavate a complex network of...
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Amy
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1935
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Produced by Warner Bros. in 1934, A Modern Hero was the only American talkie directed by the great German filmmaker...
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Mme. Azais
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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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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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In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when...
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Goldie Tate
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1934
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Annie Gibson
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1933
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This Depression-era romantic drama, which offers a surprisingly potent and unsentimental view of the economic hardships of...
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Flossie
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1933
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In this racy (for 1933) satire set in 800 BC, an overbearing band of Amazon women rule their men with an iron fist. They live...
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Hippolyta
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1933
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Clark Gable was officially elevated to stardom with this airborne MGM action-adventure, but good old Wallace Beery (whom...
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Mame Kelsey
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1932
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The Duchess
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1931
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Murder, blackmail and honor are the principal plot motivations of Silence. Clive Brook stars as Jim Warren, a gentleman thief...
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Mollie Burke
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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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Mrs. Darsay
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1931
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Geneva
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1931
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Bootleggers Louis Scorpio (Wallace Beery) and Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy), with the advice of their alcoholic lawyer...
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Peaches
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1931
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In this melodrama that was considered utterly scandalous in its day, an impoverished, beautiful young ghetto girl quickly...
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Elfie St. Clair
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1931
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With a blonde wigged Joan Crawford offering one of her more high-handed performances, and veteran silent star Pauline...
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1931
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Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle...
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Lulu
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1931
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Kitty DuPuy
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1931
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Ruby
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1931
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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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Bella Pringle
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1930
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Helen Twelvetrees became a major star in this laundered version of the "naughty" Broadway play Frankie and Johnny. A singer...
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Annie
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1930
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Corinne Griffith is Syncopating Sue in this jazz-age romp. Hoping to become a famous musical comedy star, Sue Adams takes a...
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1926
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Since this picture was set for release just scant weeks after the Armistice, Vitagraph decided to promote it as an "after the...
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1918
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1917
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1917
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