An outwardly upstanding and inwardly corrupt politician provides the focus for this thriller. While campaigning the man...
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1992
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Aging and infirm negotiator Admiral Mark Jameson (Clayton Rohner) is transported by the Enterprise to the planet Mordan IV to...
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1988
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The brother of a slain werewolf newscaster joins the battle against a lycanthropic femme fatale in this sequel to 1981's...
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Mariana
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1985
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When Cabot Cove resident Beverly Garrett is electrocuted in her own bathtub in a locked bathroom, Sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom...
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1985
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This dark comedy charts the chaos that results when the panicked staff of a major English hospital attempts to prepare for a...
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1982
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A suicidal patient is placed in a mental hospital for observation. A psychiatrist realizes that the fellow contains...
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1982
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Two women find their friendship tested when one rises from obscurity to success in this glossy remake of Old Acquaintance....
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1981
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Hammer Studios attempted to inject new blood into their Dracula series by setting their next installment in ultra-mod '70s...
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1972
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The author of the famous late 1930's antiwar book Johnny Got His Gun wrote and directed this film adaptation. It concerns a...
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1971
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The case against a big-time racketeer may be dismissed because of a hung jury. Ironside (Raymond Burr) suspects that one of...
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1971
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When a wealthy friend of the San Francisco police commissioner reports that his dog is missing, a disgruntled Ironside...
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1970
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1969
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In Volume 18 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, an entomologist hires a...
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1964
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A typical "wrinkle in time" drama from the pen of Richard Matheson, this episode opens as young heiress Anne Henderson...
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Mrs. Henderson
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1964
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Director
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1960
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The Plunderers is a fairly slow-paced, uneven western about a group of young toughs who run amok until they are brought up...
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Kate Miller
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1960
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A surprisingly serious and well-acted major studio variation on the "teens in trouble" films that AIP and Allied Artists...
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Jessie Bartley
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1959
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1958
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Edith Brennan
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1957
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In this routine possession potboiler, Peggie Castle plays a suburban housewife being slowly driven mad by the intrusive,...
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Katy
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1957
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Filmed in the Philippines, No Place to Hide effectively juxtaposes the innocence of children with the horror of a potential...
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Anne Dobson
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1956
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Hollywood actress Marsha Hunt, blacklisted during the "Red Scare" of the early 1950s, was able to find occasional work in...
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1954
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1952
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The Happy Time was adapted from the long-running Broadway play by Samuel Taylor, which in turn was based on the novel by...
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Susan Bonnard
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1952
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At least half of the two-part Actors and Sin is well worth having. Part One, "Actor's Blood", is based on a Ben Hecht tale of...
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Marcia Tilayou
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1952
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Marsha Hunt seems far too mature and intelligent for the pulpish goings-on in Mary Ryan, Detective. Still, Hunt was a pro...
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Mary Ryan
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1949
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William Powell stars in Take One False Step as a happily married college professor who foolishly agrees to a reunion supper...
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Martha Wier
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1949
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Made on a miniscule budget primarily financed by its star Franchot Tone, Jigsaw is a strange little crime film. Howard Malloy...
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1949
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Violent and viscerally sexual, Anthony Mann's muscular low-budget noir tells the tale of a framed gangster's quest for...
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Ann Martin
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1948
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Few major directors made "small" films with such frequency and expertise than the ubiquitous Allan Dwan. Set in 1933, Dwan's...
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1948
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Auteur theorists who've charted the career of "cult" director Edgar G. Ulmer have seldom mentioned Carnegie Hall, simply...
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Nora Ryan
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1947
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A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The...
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Martha Gray
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1947
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Evie O'Connor
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1945
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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1945
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Musical producer Joe Pasternak moved from Universal to MGM in the early 1940s, taking his pet director Henry Koster (the two...
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Rosalind
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1944
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Sylvia
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1944
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In this drama, a crippled German veteran of WW I attempts to reconcile his recent experiences with his former ideologies in...
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Marja Pacierkowski
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1944
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Margaret O'Brien, MGM's newest child sensation, was given her first starring vehicle with Lost Angel. O'Brien plays Alpha,...
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Katie Mallory
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1944
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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Diana Steed
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1943
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Allen R. Kerward's flagwaving stage play Proof thro' the Night was vastly improved in its screen adaptation, which was...
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Flo Norris
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1943
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Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in...
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Freddie
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1943
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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1943
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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Regina
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1942
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Leila Tree
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1942
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This upbeat war-time tale chronicles the ordeal of ardently American munitions plant worker Joe Smith (Robert Young), whose...
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Mary Smith
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1942
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Once Upon a Thursday was the original released title of The Affairs of Martha, a 1942 Marsha Hunt vehicle from the MGM...
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Martha Lindstrom
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1942
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Kid Glove Killer is an expanded remake of They're Always Caught (1938), a 2-reel entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series....
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Jane Mitchell
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1942
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The title I'll Wait for You effectively gives away the ending of this MGM second feature. Robert Sterling plays a gangster on...
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Pauline Miller
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1941
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If Edward G. Robinson thought he'd get away from tough-guy roles by moving from Warners to MGM, he was sorely mistaken....
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Gail Fenton
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1941
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In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI...
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Katherine Logan
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1941
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MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer...
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1941
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Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences...
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Charlotte
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1941
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Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years...
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1941
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Ralph Bellamy made the first of four appearances as fictional sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's...
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1940
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MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without...
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1940
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In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene...
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1940
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Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining...
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1940
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1940
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Martha Sharon
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1939
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In this newspaper drama, a young man's father, a prominent newspaper publisher is violently murdered by famous gangsters....
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Barbara
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1939
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Kitty Crusper
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1939
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The fifth of MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, The Hardys Ride High finds the Hardy family outside their usual small-town environs....
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1939
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This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from...
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1939
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In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty...
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1939
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In this drama, a young man must choose between a military career or a career in professional football. The story opens as...
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Valerie
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1938
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Paramount borrowed John Wayne from Republic Pictures for the studio's second screen version of Zane Grey's Born to the West,...
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Judith Worstall
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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1937
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While heading West in a wagon train, two brothers lose track of each other when their family is attacked and killed. Years...
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1937
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A sort of follow-up to the studio's earlier College Scandal, Paramount's Murder Goes to College once again combines homicide...
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Nora Barry
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1937
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Thunder Trail is a thoughtful, intelligent adaptation of the Zane Grey yarn. Arizona Ames. The storyline is a Grey favorite,...
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Amy Morgan
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1937
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Annapolis Salute is the 1937 remake of RKO's 1933 film Midshipman Jack. Lensed on location at the Annapolis Naval Academy,...
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Julia Clemens
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1937
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In this comedy, Uncle Rodney, the host of a kiddie show, finds himself assuming guardianship of a bratty lad at the behest...
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Donna Westlake
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1936
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1936
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Harriet Lindsay
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1936
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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer...
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1936
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Dynamic district attorney Douglas Goodwin (Paul Kelly) has no patience with murderers: his philosophy is "burn them all," and...
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Claire Patterson
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1936
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After several appearances as a "good girl," little Jane Withers returns to her patented screen brattiness in Gentle Julia....
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Julia Atwater
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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Patricia Blakeford
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1936
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Generous stock footage from Paramount's silent Zane Grey series enhances the production values of the entertaining "pocket"...
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Jane Belding
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1936
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Vaudeville humorist Walter C. Kelley, who toured for years as "The Virginia Judge," repeated the characterization in this...
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Mary Lee Calvert
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1935
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