Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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Dorothy Moore
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1938
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In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone...
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Grace Bristow
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1938
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The marital strife of a newlywed couple is chronicled in this drama. The couple, and engineer and a former actress, have...
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Nora Clegg
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1935
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Having fallen from grace at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll retreated to Columbia Pictures, known in 1935 as...
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Helen
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1935
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In this tuneful crime drama, a falsely convicted man escapes from prison and hides out with a comely chorine. She discovers...
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Anne Taylor
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1935
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In this interesting drama, an opera singer, falsely convicted of murdering his wife's lover, must escape from Devil's...
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1934
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While crossing the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner, a radio troupe (led by Jack Benny) becomes involved in a murder mystery...
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Sally Marsh
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1934
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In this drama, a fighter's fiancee refuses to marry him until he can overcome his insane jealousy. He does and they marry....
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Jo Douglas
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1934
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In this romantic comedy, a rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him...
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Julia Jelliwell
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1934
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Horror film icon James Whale directed this well-detailed thriller about a man questioning his wife's honesty after a friend...
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Maria Held
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1933
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On the outs at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll was "punished" by being sent to Columbia for the lachrymose Child...
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Madeleine McGonegal
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1933
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Glenda O'Brien
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1933
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This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive...
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Grace Clark
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1933
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In his first starring role, George Raft plays Nick Darrow, a fence convinced by the police to go undercover after his father...
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Lora Madigan
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1932
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This comedy/drama (which is really more drama) tells the tale of Ruth Brock (Nancy Carroll), a young woman who is at odds...
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Ruth Brock
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1932
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In this drama, a rich man's wife finds herself victimized by her cruel mother-in-law who doesn't think the girl is good...
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Daisy Frost
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop of this costume epic that centers around a young nobleman who, with his maid,...
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Tanyusha
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1932
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Director Ernst Lubitsch gained international acclaim for his sophisticated romantic comedies, but he also had a talent for...
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Elsa
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1932
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Mary
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1931
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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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Nora Ryan
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1931
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In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's...
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Yula Martini
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1931
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This musical, based on a Broadway show, was filmed in two-color technicolor. Set upon a golf course, it chronicles the...
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Lora Moore
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1930
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Laughter is a sophisticated romantic comedy belying the "fact" that most early talkies were stiff and dull. Nancy Carroll...
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Peggy Gibson
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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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Olivia Dangerfield
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1930
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Nancy Carroll brings a touch of freshness to the well-worn plot convolutions of Devil's Holiday. Ms. Carroll plays a...
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Hallie Hobart
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1930
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Joseph Conrad's novel Victory inspired some of this South Sea drama. Alma (Nancy Carroll), a violinist hired to play at an...
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Alma
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1930
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Carlee Thorpe (Buddy Rogers) and Claire Jernigan (Nancy Carol) enjoy considerable success with their vaudeville magic act....
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Claire Jernigan
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1929
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The disastrous 1929 Stock Market crash was still several months in the future when Wolf of Wall Street made its screen debut....
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Gert the Maid
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1929
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The first of Nancy Carroll's talkie films for Paramount had already been released when Fox's silent Sin Sister was taken off...
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Pearl
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1929
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This tuneful tale revolves around a shy warehouse clerk who, at the encouragement of his girlfriend finally musters up his...
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Marjorie Merwin
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1929
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In this college-campus musical, a Broadway star finds herself the proud owner of a North Carolina college. The star's boy...
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Barbara Pell
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1929
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A vaudevillian working in a third-rate burlesque show suffers marital turmoil when success swells his head in this silent...
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Bonny Lee King/Bonny Kaye
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1929
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Anne Nichols' Broadway comedy Abie's Irish Rose was almost universally panned when it opened in 1923. But despite the moans...
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Rosemary Murphy
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1928
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Daisy Heath
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1928
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Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with...
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Babs Clark
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1928
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Based on Zane Grey's Collier's short story, this fine Paramount Western starred the underrated Nancy Carroll as an Eastern...
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Judith Endicott
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1928
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Chicken a la King was based on Mr. Romeo, a play by Harry Wagstaff Gribble. When his brother-in-law Oscar Barrows...
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Maisie Devoe
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1928
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Richard Dix's star power goes a long way towards assuring the success of Easy Come, Easy Go. Dix plays radio announcer Robert...
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Babs Quayle
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1928
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Victor Heerman wore two creative hats during the filming of Ladies Must Dress; not only did he direct the picture, but he...
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Mazie
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1927
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