When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter...
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1924
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This colorful drama of the Bowery of the 1890s was directed by Herbert Brenon. Diamond Mike (Riley Hatch) runs a Bowery...
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Fancy Vanhern
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1925
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Breezy Raymond Griffith became a full-fledged screen star with this highly entertaining comedy. Alexis (Griffith), the prince...
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The Girl
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1925
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By using a borrowed medal, Russ Kane, a crook (Warner Baxter), is able to get a job as an air mail pilot. His plan is to...
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Minnie Wade
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1925
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This romance was based on the best-selling novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. While serving in the Great War, Owen Bradley...
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Alix Vervier
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1925
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Prince of Tempters was adapted from The Ex-Duke a story by prolific author E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story focuses on two...
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Mary
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1926
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Ronald Colman plays the title role in the first of several screen adaptations of Christopher Wren's tale of adventure in the...
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Isobel
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1926
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While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in...
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Mary Abbott
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1926
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Betty Bartlett-Cooper
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1926
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Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went...
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1926
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Effervescent comic actor Johnny Hines stars as Johnny Rooney, an East Side newspaper vendor who suddenly develops the...
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1926
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Paris at Midnight was freely adapted from Pere Goriot, a novel by Honore de Balzac. Lionel Barrymore stars as the "Robin Hood...
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Victorine Tallefer
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1926
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Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who had recently graduated from Paramount's talent school, has one of the leads in this comedy-drama,...
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1926
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Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a...
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Mary Gilfoil
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1927
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Prizefighter Danny Martin (Danny O'Shea) wants to marry pretty Charlotte Hamilton (Mary Brian), but her wealthy father John...
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Charlotte Hamilton
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1927
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Busy character actor Sam Hardy was afforded a rare starring role when he played the title character in High Hat. Despite his...
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Millie
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1927
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Steelworker Dundee Reilly (Richard Dix) comes to the defense of Mary Malone (Mary Brian), who is being annoyed by a brawny...
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Mary Malone
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1927
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Elizabeth
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1927
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This two-fisted Richard Dix vehicle casts the muscular star as virile caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts. It is...
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Alice Stoddard
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1927
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This rugged Richard Dix vehicle casts the star as rough-and-tumble sea captain Jim Bucklin. Landing at a Chinese port,...
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Sheila
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1927
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Fay
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1928
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Based on the comic strip by Carl Ed, Harold Teen stars future "Dagwood Bumstead" Arthur Lake in the title role. Upon arriving...
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Lillums Lovewell
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1928
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A popular comedy duo towards the end of the silent era, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatten once again join forces for this...
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Beagle's Daughter
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1928
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Joan Kendricks
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1928
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A criminal with a conscience will go to any lengths to give his daughter a better life in this silent drama. "Heliotrope...
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Alice Deane
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1928
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Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a...
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Marie Burke, The Cigarette Girl
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1928
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1928
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Produced in Hollywood by Herbert Wilcox, who had been unable to obtain sound equipment in London, this "haunted house"...
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Eunice
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1929
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In this melodrama set in the South, a plantation owner's son finishes his education in Philadelphia and returns to his...
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Lucy Jeffers
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1929
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Bearing no relation to the popular torch song of the same name, The Man I Love is a prizefight picture, courtesy of Paramount...
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Celia Fields
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1929
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In this moving drama, a young woman is forced to take care of her many brothers and sisters while their wealthy parents live...
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Judith Wheater
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1929
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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Molly Stark Wood
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1929
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In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly...
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Josie Lazarus
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1929
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Gwen Cavendish
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1930
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In this high-spirited satire of competitive sports, boxer Marco Perkins is creamed during a fight and decides to play polo...
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Cynthia Brown
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1930
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Amidst the furor of the Civil War a courageous Union captain, nursing a broken heart, volunteers for spy duty. Masquerading...
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Barbara Calhoun
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1930
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The popular silent-film screen team of Richard Arlen and Mary Brian was carried over into talkies with such films as Burning...
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Ruth Morgan
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1930
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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Ruth Hammond
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1930
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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Barbara Tanner
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1930
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This British remake of 1923's Captain Applejack follows the courageous exploits of a mild mannered citizen who fights back...
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1931
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Sue Vancey
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1931
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Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Mary Brian, who refuses to play the...
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Evelyn
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1931
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In this crime drama, dedicated to the police forces of America, a gangster searches for his estranged son, also a gangster....
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Millie
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1931
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Peggy Grant
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1931
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Blessed Event is one of several early-1930s films inspired by the meteoric rise to fame of gossip columnist Walter Winchell...
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Gladys
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1932
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Undoubtedly inspired by Charles Lindbergh's unprecedented sudden fame (but not the ensuing tragedy), Mary McCall's 1932 novel...
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Janet
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1932
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In this murder mystery, everyone around a murdered movie producer is a suspect, including his girl friend. Most of those...
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Ruth Evans
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1932
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This drama is a compilation of stories occurring in the Empire State Building with the focus on topics such as bank...
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1932
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This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much...
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Elsa Krenzmeyer
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1933
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In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides...
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Molly Collins
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1933
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Hard to Handle stars James Cagney as a fast-talking promoter who pounces upon every current fad and foible to make a quick...
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Ruth Waters
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1933
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Vaudeville performer George Dwight (Roger Pryor) finds himself stranded in the small town of Walkerville, and talks his way...
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Sally Upton
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1933
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The missing girl in this weak whodunit from Warner Bros. is redheaded Peggy Shannon, once seen as the successor of "It Girl"...
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June Dale
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1933
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1933
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Plodding through the dialogue-heavy script, this is still a timely movie topic. Dealing with white collar crime, this is the...
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Diane Cromwell
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1933
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This complicated murder mystery is set aboard a fog-bound ocean liner. Eccentric millionaire Alonzo Holt (Robert McQuarrie)...
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Mary Fulton
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1934
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In this crime drama, policemen pursue a convicted killer as he diligently searches for the real culprit. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1934
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Assistant DA Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot) is in love with sweet Muriel (Mary Brian). This in itself is not earth-shattering,...
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Muriel
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1934
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Paramount Pictures' annual college musical of 1934 is a pip, as they used to say. Jack Oakie plays Finnegan, a conceited...
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1934
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George O'Brien trades his cowboy garb for a dinner jacket in Fox's Ever Since Eve. Raised by a couple of misogynistic old...
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1934
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Usually consigned to the supporting cast, eccentric comic actress ZaSu Pitts was occasionally rewarded with a leading role....
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Fran Somers
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1934
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W.C. Fields plays Ambrose Wolfinger, the henpecked husband to end all henpecked husbands. A widower, Ambrose married a second...
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Hope Wolfinger
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1935
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The otherwise standard series entry Charlie Chan in Paris is distinguished by the presence of actor Keye Luke, making his...
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Yvette Lamartine
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1935
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Suzanne
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1936
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A small community is terrorized by an unknown serial killer, one "Mr. Zero," who has held the populace in thrall for several...
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Linda Allen
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1936
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Spendthrift gives the modern viewer a pretty good idea how Hollywood planned to "mold" the image of new star Henry Fonda. The...
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Sally Barnaby
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1936
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Two's Company was based on Sydney Horler's stage comedy Romeo and Julia. The film's storyline is developed in parallel...
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Julia Madison
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1936
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Amazing Quest was the original British release title of the 1937 comedy Romance and Riches (aka Riches and Romance). Making a...
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Frances Clayton
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1936
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1936
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Returning from a trip, wealthy seaman Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) is annoyed to find his home automated, his daughters'...
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Frankie Ricks
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1937
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In this Paris-set comedy, a clerk gets a chance of a lifetime when he is unable to deposit his firm's receipts before the...
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Suzanne
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1937
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A tough sailor bets his pals that he can win the love of a prissy librarian and so masquerades as a candidate for the Naval...
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Doris
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1937
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With a title like I Escaped from the Gestapo, it's a wonder that there's any suspense at all in this Monogram programmer....
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Helen
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1943
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A young woman and her two buddies team up to run her newly inherited trucking company. In this comedy, the trouble begins...
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1943
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Doris Lane
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1943
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1943
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In this suspenseful, convoluted low-budget mystery, a Scotland Yard inspector travels to the Big Apple to investigate the...
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1947
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