Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954-1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color, 90-minute specials,...
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1955
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Zachary Scott plays Max Thursday, an alcoholic ex-police detective working as a bouncer at a sleazy rooming house owned by...
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Smitty
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1950
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1948
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More a romantic melodrama than the uplifting propaganda piece the producers perhaps envisioned, In Our Time stars Ida Lupino...
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Mrs. Bromley
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1944
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Originally titled They Shall Have Faith, Forever Yours was designed as Monogram's "prestige" release for 1945. Musical...
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1944
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The second of Laurel & Hardy's two MGM starring films, Nothing But Trouble casts Stan and Ollie as, respectively, an...
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Mrs. Elvira Hawkley
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1944
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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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Mrs. Bennet
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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Valerie de Rossac
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1940
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In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio...
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Emily Potter
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1940
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This slick marital farce features Joel McCrea as T. H. Randall, a race horse owner whose devotion to his work causes a strain...
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Ethel Hillary
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1940
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1940
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In this domestic comedy, a husband and wife manage an apartment building owned by the husband's pal. Meanwhile they must...
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Sybil Fitch
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1939
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It may sound like a teenage-romance comedy, but Boy Trouble is actually a sentimental effort about middle-aged parents....
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Sybil Fitch
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1939
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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Countess DeLage
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1939
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In this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny...
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Mme. Geraldine Genet
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1939
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Mrs. Isabel Channing
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1938
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Veteran character actors Mary Boland and Ernest Truex are aces as the stars of Republic's Mama Runs Wild. "Mama" is...
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Alice Summers
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1938
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In this socially conscious drama a sextet of juvenile delinquents flee a crime screen in their seedy ghetto and wind up...
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Mrs. Berry
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1938
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In this screwball comedy, a fresh-out-of-college fellow heads for the gold fields of Alaska to find his fortune. He is gone...
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Mrs. Russell
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1937
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The disarmingly zany Marry the Girl was one of the better Hugh Herbert "B"-vehicles for Warner Bros. Much of the story takes...
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Ollie Radway
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1937
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An airy screwball comedy, Danger--Love at Work explores the lives of a wealthy but wacky family. Ann Sothern plays the...
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Alice Pemberton
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1937
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Tessie Weeks
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1936
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This crime drama is set in the fictional San Francisco eatery, Mary Grady's Chowder House which is presided over by the...
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Mary Grady
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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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Carola Gaye
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1936
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In this bedroom farce, a writer rails against marriage and touts the benefits of staying single. He then convinces his...
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Marcia Bigelow
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1936
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1935
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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1935
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Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright...
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Mrs. J.E. Smythe
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by...
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Effie Floud
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1935
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Cecil B. DeMille's least characteristic sound feature, Four Frightened People is a character study about a quartet of...
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Mrs. Mardick
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1934
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Radio tenor Lanny Ross made a game but unsuccessful bid for film stardom in Paramount's Melody in Spring. Though Ross, cast...
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Mary Blodgett
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1934
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The musical picture that ended Lou Brock's career as an RKO Radio producer, Down to Their Last Yacht is almost festive in its...
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Queen of Malakamokalu
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1934
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Mrs. Widden
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1934
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Flora Whinney
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1934
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Comfort Kirkland
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1934
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Richard Dix plays the title-role, of a dashing highwayman and bandit in 1870's Australia, in this strangely delightful mix of...
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Mrs. Clarkson
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1934
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Jessie Todd
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1933
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Three-Cornered Moon is regarded by many film buffs as the first of the genuine "screwball comedies." Claudette Colbert stars...
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Nellie Rimplegar
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1933
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Mrs. Hopkins
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1933
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In one of his first starring roles, George Raft plays Joe Anton, a tough but basically decent speakeasy owner who falls in...
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1932
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1932
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A multi-character drama set in a suburban neighborhood, The Night of June 13th takes place in four households. One of these...
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1932
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In this romance, an impoverished Viennese aristocrat becomes a gigolo. While on the job, he encounters a Yankee widow who is...
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Jennie Kent
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1932
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1932
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In this drama, a humble Irish lass from New York City's East Side, dreams of ascending the social ladder to escape her...
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Mrs. Otis Gary
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1931
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In this drawing room drama, an impetuous heiress goes on a cruise and ends up marrying a Latin gigolo on a whim. Her father...
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Mrs. Merritt
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1931
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Brian Lazar (Eugene O'Brien) is a struggling artist with looks as well as talent. It's the former that really attracts the...
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1919
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While Mary Boland is primarily known for portraying society matrons, occasionally she played against type to show the...
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1918
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In her third starring film, Mary Boland was cast as Mary Beresford, the wife of unambitious law clerk Al Beresford...
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1916
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Mary Boland, best known for her scatterbrained comedy roles in talkies, made her screen debut as romantic lead Alma Clayton...
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1915
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