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Philip de Courville
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1938
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Dick Shale
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1937
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Having successful moved his top comedians Laurel & Hardy from short subjects to features, producer Hal Roach endeavored to do...
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Marshall Valiant
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1936
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Stagestruck Vermont girl Jenny Yates (Anne Shirley) manages to land a job with a ragtag stock company. This she does over the...
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Philip Greene, Jr.
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1936
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Based on a novel by Meredith Nicholson, The House of 1000 Candles is one of the slickest films ever to emerge from the...
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Tony
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1936
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In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild...
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Tom Wilson
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1935
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This ingenious crime drama demonstrates how to commit the perfect murder. The trouble begins when a playboy convinces a...
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Colin Derwent
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1935
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Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here...
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Vincenzo Bellini
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1935
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Twelve years before David Lean's definitive filmization of Dickens' Great Expectations, Hollywood had a go at the novel, with...
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Pip
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1934
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Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance...
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Lt. Von Tokay
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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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Cliff Barry
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1934
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In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
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Lt. George Muffat
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1934
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In this romance, a bootlegger finds himself unemployed when he is finally released from prison and discovers that...
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Stanton Casserly
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1934
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A conflict between the Serbs and the Hungarians provides the framework of this drama that centers on a love triangle between...
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Csaholyi
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1933
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Perennial sidekick George E. Stone is given the leading role in The Big Brain. Stone plays a small-town barber, short of...
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Terry Van Sloan
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1933
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After the death of her circus-aerialist husband, Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) dedicates herself to transforming her daughter...
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Lord Aylesworth
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1933
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Secret of Madame Blanche is one of those "confessional" film dramas which movie fans of the early 1930s ate up like bonbons....
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Leonard St. John
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1933
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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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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Tom Siddall
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1933
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A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had...
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Michael Service
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1933
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1933
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A remarried war widow's attempts to raise her son to be a pacifist are thwarted when a second world war (this film was made...
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Bob Seward
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1933
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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1932
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This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star...
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Buck Buchanan
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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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Paul
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1932
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Night Court is one of those pictures that "hooks" the viewer with one audacious plot twist after another. Walter Huston is...
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Play Author, Mike Thomas
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1932
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Joseph Greshan, Jr.
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1932
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Dan
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1931
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Michael Bolton
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1931
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Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions....
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Clyde Griffiths
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1931
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Joe
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1931
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Robert Graham
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1931
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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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David Stone
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1930
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William Powell was still in his tux-and-top-hat period when he starred in Pointed Heels. The scene is Broadway, where...
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Donald Ogden
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1930
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Helen Twelvetrees became a major star in this laundered version of the "naughty" Broadway play Frankie and Johnny. A singer...
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Dan
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1930
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George Cukor received his first film directorial credit for Grumpy, though he was contractually bound to share billing with...
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Ernest Heron
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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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Capt. Robert Darrington
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1930
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Tony
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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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Ace detective Sherlock Holmes speaks for the first time in a film and utters his trademark line "Elementary, dear Watson,...
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1929
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The gruff but lovable Wallace Beery starred in this Zane Grey adaptation from Paramount. He plays the prototype outlaw with a...
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1929
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In this film, the irresponsible Stella Ames (Clara Bow) spends her college career attending parties rather than studying....
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1929
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Middlebrook
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1928
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