Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in...
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1940
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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1940
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Margie is one of the fast and funniest of Universal's pocket musicals, though its two-director dichotomy hardly seems...
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1940
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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A barely disguised rip-off of 20th Century-Fox's all-female Tail Spin (39), Warner Bros.' Flight Angels is an inexpensive...
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1940
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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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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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It's "Never the Twain Shall Meet" time again in the MGM romantic melodrama Lady of the Tropics. The lady in question is...
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1939
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1938
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Hopalong Cassidy meets Belle Starr in this rather somber entry in the long-running Western series. Belle (Natalie Moorhead)...
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1938
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A troubled young girl vents her frustrations upon her poor butler in this sentimental drama. The teen is angry because her...
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1938
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In their third crime-solving adventure, smart-aleck newspaper woman Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) and slightly dense homicide...
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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1937
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Based on Clarence E. Mulford's Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed from 1932, Heart of the West addresses the issue of fences on the...
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1937
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1936
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In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when...
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Katherine Scorsby
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1935
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John Barrymore is the Long Lost Father in this lightweight seriocomedy. Barrymore is felicitously cast as Carl Bellairs, who...
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1934
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Before its absorption into the newly-formed 20th Century-Fox corporation in 1935, feisty little Majestic Pictures turned out...
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1934
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A love triangle amidst the world of musical entertainment provides the basis for this drama. The trouble begins when a...
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1934
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A much-married man of the world is found murdered in this typical low-budget whodunit and each and every one of his fifteen...
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Carol Manning
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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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1934
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Clare
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1933
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This long-forgotten Hollywood picture concerns a conniving family so disgusted by the patriarch's incessant pipe-smoking...
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1933
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Preston Foster, Mischa Auer, and Evalyn Knapp star in this tale of political intrigue centering on the quest of a powerful...
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Sylvia Gorman
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1933
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Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse...
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Diane
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Eagle Productions was another of those exotically named independent studios that came and went in the early 1930s. Eagle's...
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1933
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In this romance, an con-artist leaves an unsuccessful carnival gig to become a successful phony psychic. He is assisted by...
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1933
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Romance throws a spanner into the works of a con game in this light drama. Donald Free (William Powell) is a private...
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1933
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A whole slew of former silent-film favorites shows up in Mayfair's Secret Sinners. Dilettante songwriter Jack Mulhall falls...
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1933
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1932
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Glamorous Jean Harlow had her first big starring role in this standard story of an innocent small town young woman corrupted...
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1932
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Just before his demotion to the ranks of minor character actors, Monte Blue starred in an above-average series of programmers...
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Vera
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1932
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Such were the ways of Hollywood that the dignified H.B. Warner, who played Jesus in 1927's King of Kings, found himself in...
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1932
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As evidenced by its title, Chesterfield's The King Murder was partially inspired by the infamous Dot King extortion case of...
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1932
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Mechanic and aspiring pugilist Jack (William Collier, Jr.) trains to become a prizefighter after getting KO'd in a carnival...
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Violet Reed
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1932
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In this mystery a sensual starlet suddenly dies. Though she was popular with the public, behind the scenes she had many...
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1932
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Golddigging Verna Wilson (Natalie Morehead) files suit against married millionaire John Randolph (Montague Love) for breach...
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Verna Wilson
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1932
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Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious...
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1931
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Few actresses exuded as much raw sensuality as the pre-Production Code Barbara Stanwyck. In Illicit, Anne Vincent (Stanwyck)...
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Margie True
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1931
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Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is...
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1931
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Most of The Deceiver takes place in the Broadway theater where matinee idol Thorpe (Ian Keith) is starring in a production of...
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Mrs. Lawton
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1931
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A truly jaw-dropping experience, Makers of Men is an unabashed celebration of Conditional Love. Jack Holt plays Dudley, a...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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My Past is based on a novel called Ex-Mistress, a title that was rejected outright by the Hollywood censors. Even so, what...
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1931
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Silent screen serial star Charles Hutchison produced and directed this low-budget marital drama, which benefitted from one of...
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1931
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In this melodrama, a young secretary becomes the Kept Woman of her lascivious employer. When she encounters her high school...
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Flora
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1931
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In this melodrama, a magician finds himself accused of murdering his lover's father. He flees and the lover marries her...
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1931
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1931
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Connie
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1930
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Illicit office romances provide the basis of this melodrama. The story centers around an older man's secretary who drops her...
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1930
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1930
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In this suspenseful crime drama a woman is threatened by an angry husband and a man comes to her aid. Unfortunately, after...
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1930
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In this frothy musical, a lovely young woman is wooed by two men. One of them meets her father's approval so it is only...
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1930
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The second of comedian Benny Rubin's two starring features for Tiffany Studios, Hot Curves is a spoof of baseball manager...
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1930
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1930
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The plays of Zoe Akins were so stilted and mannered that one critic referred to watching them as "the curse of an Akins...
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1930
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Fanny Del Roy
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1930
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Poor but honest district attorney Fredric March, sick of the "one law for rich, one law for poor" imbalance, sentences...
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Eleanor
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1930
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A murder trial provides the setting of this drama that presents, via flashback, three very different versions and motives of...
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Frances Thornton
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1929
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A group of Londoners gather at the home of their host in order to solve the murders of two company officers. Once assembled...
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Lady Vi
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1929
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The Girl from Havana is a kaleidoscopic early-talkie brew of comedy, melodrama, romance, and high-steppin' musical numbers....
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Lona Martin
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1929
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