This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela Rogers St. John. Maggie...
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1925
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The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version...
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1925
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The Maid
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1926
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1926
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Back in the 1920's, "caveman" was a slang term for a man who treated women rough and made 'em love it. We have other names...
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The Maid
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1926
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"Love of money is the root of all evil." That's the message conveyed to the audience with the subtlety of a sledgehammer in...
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Inez Quartz
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1926
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This melodrama, which involves the Philippine revolt during the final years of the 1800s, was based on a popular play from...
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1926
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Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused...
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1926
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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1926
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Hardly an important film, Finger Prints pleased the crowd with its heady combination of slapstick comedy and old-dark-house...
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1927
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The David Belasco play had been filmed twice previously, in 1915 and in 1921, before Warner Bros. made this version with the...
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1927
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The Climbers is the third film version of the same-named play by Clyde Fitch. Whereas the original play took place in...
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Countess Veya
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1927
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The plot to this underworld drama, based on a story by Arthur Somers Roche, sounds more like something from the 1930s than...
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Mary Carlton
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1927
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One of seven Monte Blue vehicles filmed by Warner Bros. in 1927, Bitter Apples casts the reliable Blue as wealthy John...
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Belinda White
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1927
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In later years, Myrna Loy would dismiss her participation in Ham and Eggs at the Front as "shameful." Filmed in a far less...
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Fifi
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1927
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Though he's perfectly happy with his wife May (May McAvoy), Ted Howard (Conrad Nagel) isn't above a little flirtation with...
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Joan Whitley
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1927
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The title refers to ugly-duckling heroine Louise Fazenda, who sweats and strains at a hand laundry. One fine day, shy...
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Edith Van
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1927
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It would seem that Warner Bros. was trying to develop hoydenish Louise Fazenda and diminutive Clyde Cook into a screen team,...
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Claudette Ralston
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1927
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On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound...
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1927
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Directed by a young Michael Curtiz, this Warner Bros. epic had aspirations of becoming another Intolerance (1916). In the...
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1928
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In this broad comedy, Clyde Jones (Clyde Cook) and "Terrible Bill" McGovern (William Demarest) are a pair of streetcar...
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Yvonne De Russo
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1928
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Warner Bros. contractees Myrna Loy and Walter Pidgeon were "borrowed" by low-budget Lumas pictures for the 1928 military...
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Tiza Torreon
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1928
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Juanita Sheldon
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1928
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Onoto (Myrna Loy) is slated to be sold to a wealthy Mandarin, but is rescued from the auction block by white fugitive from...
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Onoto
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1928
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When unassuming clerk Tom Blake (Conrad Nagel) is framed with the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank...
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Isobel/Sadie
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1928
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The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary audiences to stomach, but fans of director...
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1928
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Gertie Fairfax
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1928
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In this crime melodrama, Iverson (George Fawcett) is a stockbroker who has been sent to prison for illegally manipulating the...
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Myrna
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1929
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Still in the Hollywood phase of his career, director Alexander Korda made his talking-picture bow with Warner Bros.' The...
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Nubi
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1929
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In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned...
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Yasmini
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1929
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In this essentially silent drama, a cultured Southern belle must work in a gambling house after her deeply indebted father...
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1929
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After literally inventing the movie musical with The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. purchased the motion picture rights to the...
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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A woman finds herself a victim of love in this drama. Her trouble begins when her husband falsely accuses her of having an...
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1929
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The Truth About Youth is the third film version of Henry V. Esmond's play, When We Were Twenty-One. Richard Dane (David...
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1930
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Ronald Colman plays the "black sheep" of a wealthy British family, sent to South Africa so that he'll be as far away from...
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1930
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In this early musical western, Stephen Ghent (Ian Keith) is a businessman who, after the death of his partner, has been...
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Manuella
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1930
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This somewhat obscure early musical western produced by George W. Weeks for poverty row's Sono Art-World Wide has gone down...
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Carmita
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1930
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Comedian Frank Fay and director Michael Curtiz reportedly despised one another at sight, and their mutual animosity tends to...
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Lita Romero
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1930
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In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi...
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Eleanore
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1930
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Nancy Welford, a minor musical-comedy lead of the early 1930s, plays the title role in this Chesterfield Studios quickie....
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Mildred Vane
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1930
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In this western based on a novel by Zane Grey, Buck Duane (George O'Brien) is a cowboy who is forced to kill a man in an act...
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Lola
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1930
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In this melodramatic blend of romance and adventure set in the South Seas, Stella Blackney (Betty Compson) is married to Tom...
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Moira
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1930
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For reasons unknown, Cock O' the Walk seldom shows up in the "official" resumes of director James Cruze's career. In his...
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Narita
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1930
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A newlywed countess is asked to make a tremendous sacrifice for her husband and herself in this musical comedy-drama. Count...
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Sophie
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1930
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This early talkie is the third version of the popular Booth Tarkington play. It is set in the mid 19th-century and centers...
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1930
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Though he'd intended to retire when talkies came in, silent-screen matinee idol Thomas Meighan kept returning to the screen...
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Paula Lambert
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1931
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This melodrama tells the tale of young American pilots who felt strongly about WWI before the US intervened. These men...
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Alice Lester
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1931
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Adhering to a formula that would later be popularized further in Grand Hotel, Transatlantic is one of the best of the...
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1931
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One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
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1931
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The fact that The Naughty Flirt was advertised as having a 78-minute running time but was released at 57 minutes is...
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Linda Gregory
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1931
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1931
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This Mark Twain adaptation affords a rare opportunity to enjoy a "collaboration" between two of America's greatest humorists....
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Morgan Le Fay
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1931
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A woman trying to live down her past finds it coming back to haunt her in this drama. Steve Pelton (Owen Moore) is the leader...
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Flo Curtis
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1931
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A man finds he's torn between two women -- which isn't a good state of affairs for a man who just got married -- in this...
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Evie Lawrence
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1931
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First filmed in 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair has undergone several cinemadaptations, most...
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Becky Sharp
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1932
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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1932
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New Morals for Old was the teasing title for a somewhat sedate film about the ongoing rejection of middle-class values by the...
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Myra
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1932
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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Fah Lo See
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1932
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In this suspenseful drama, an embittered woman exacts revenge upon the 12 women who wronged her in college. The trouble...
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Ursula Georgi
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1932
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Cecilia Henry
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1932
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One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight...
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Countess Valentine
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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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Isabelle
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1932
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Beautiful composer Laura Ramsey (Elissa Landi) is the principal suspect when her lover, philandering singer Victor Legrand...
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Sari Loder
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1932
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Coco
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1933
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Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss...
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Gertie Waxted
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1933
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1933
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One woman helps make an unknown boxer a star, but could a handful lead him back to obscurity again? Steve Morgan (Max Baer)...
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Belle Morgan
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1933
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Mary Howard
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1933
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In Scarlet River, Tom Keene plays "himself," a cowboy movie star, on location in the Wide Open Spaces for his latest epic....
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1933
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In this drama, Diana (Myrna Loy) is a beautiful tourist from the United States who is visiting Cairo, accompanied by her...
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Diana
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1933
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Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered...
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Eleanor
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1934
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In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the...
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Laura
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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Alice Higgins
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1934
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The real-life career of the notorious female spy known as "Fraulein Doktor" inspired several films of the 1930s. Stamboul...
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Annemarie
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1934
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Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been...
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Nora Charles
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1934
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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Evelyn Prentice
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1934
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MGM loaned Myrna Loy to Paramount to co-star with Cary Grant in the roller coaster-paced romantic drama Wings in the Dark....
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Sheila Mason
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1935
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Myrna Loy plays the glamorous member of a trio of jewel thieves. G-Man Spencer Tracy goes undercover to join the gang when it...
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1936
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Nora Charles
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1936
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Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy star as a husband and wife who've been married ten years...but they might not make it to eleven....
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Mary Wallace
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1936
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A romantic triangle heats up the Alaskan tundra in this romantic comedy. Bascom Dinsmore (Robert Montgomery) is a radio...
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Irene Campton
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1936
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Connie Allenbury
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1936
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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Linda Stanhope
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1936
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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Billie Burke
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1936
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Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
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Margit Agnew
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1937
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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Katie O'Shea
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1937
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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Mimi Swift
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1938
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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Ann Barton
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1938
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Alma Harding
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1938
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An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Calvin Jordan (Henry...
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Cora Jordan
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1939
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Lady Edwina Esketh
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1939
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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Nora Charles
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1939
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Kay Wilson
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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Margot Sherwood Merrick
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1940
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This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races"....
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Nora Charles
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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Susan Ireland
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1941
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1943
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This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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Nora Charles
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1944
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Don Ameche stars in this semi-screwball comedy as a handsome, eccentric 19th century inventor. Myrna Loy is his golddigging...
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Jane
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1946
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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Millie Stephenson
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1946
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Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do...
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Judge Margaret Turner
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1947
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Acclaimed playwright George S. Kaufman made his directorial debut with this broad political satire. Senator Melvin G. Ashton...
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1947
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1947
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Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house...
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Muriel Blandings
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1948
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The British That Dangerous Age is based on Autumn, a play by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surgutchoff. Myrna Loy heads the cast...
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Lady Cathy Brooke
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1949
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Alice Tiflin
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1949
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Even allowing for the fact that it owed its existence to the popularity of Life with Father (1947), Cheaper by the Dozen is...
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Lillian Gilbreth
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1950
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Myrna Loy returns as Mrs. Gilbreth -- efficiency expert, industrial engineer, and mother of twelve -- in this sequel to...
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Mrs. Gilbreth
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1952
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The offspring of the American ambassador to France (the star was then living in Paris with her journalist husband),...
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Mrs. Cartwright
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1956
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For his film directorial debut, producer Dore Schary selected a longtime pet property: Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West's...
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Florence Shrike
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1958
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This adaptation of John O'Hara's From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton, an unhappily married financial adviser,...
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Martha Eaton
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1960
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Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim...
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Aunt Bea
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1960
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Hollywood icon Myrna Loy guest stars as Adele, a once wealthy matron forced by circumstance to work as a maid. Out of the...
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1967
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Virtually the first third of The April Fools takes place at a trendy party held by sharkish executive Ted Gunther...
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Grace Greenlaw
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1969
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Evelyn Tryon
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1971
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This 1971 TV movie remake of the 1934 film of the same name (see the above synopsis) adds little to the original story about...
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1971
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Contrary to popular belief, "B" pictures didn't die in the 1970s; they just changed their classification to "ABC Movies of...
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1972
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Myrna Loy guest stars as Andrea Wollcott, a pioneering feminist author. Over the years, Andrea has made many enemies--one of...
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1973
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In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of...
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1974
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District Attorney Sam Belden (William Shatner) is accused of murdering his wife and lover. Belden claims it was impossible,...
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1974
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An all-star "disaster" flick set in an elevator: is there no limit? This made-for-TVer top-bills James Farentino as a bank...
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1974
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Killer ants ruin the summer holidays of vacationers visiting a posh summer resort in this horror movie. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1977
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Just prior to her Three's Company superstardom, Suzanne Somers played the lead in the made-for-TV meller It Happened at...
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1977
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At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same...
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1978
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In this Sidney Lumet romantic comedy, Max Herschel (Alan King) is a powerful businessman who keeps a bevy of beauties for...
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Stella Liberti
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1980
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Hollywood veterans Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy co-starred for the first and only time in the 60-minute TV drama Summer...
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Margaret Turner
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1981
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