The Monkees head to England when Davy inherits the lavish estate of Sir Malcolm Kibbee. Upon arrival, the boys discover that...
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1968
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Reginald Gardiner guest stars as Lord Montdrake, an aging warlock living a lonely existence in his gloomy English castle....
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1967
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Having recently come off another Filmways-produced sitcom titled The Pruitts of Southhampton, Reginald Gardiner guests in...
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1967
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As a member in good standing of Hooterville's Every-Other-Wednesday-Afternoon Discussion Club, Lisa (Eva Gabor) insists that...
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1966
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In this comedy, a hapless Army sergeant's plans to marry are temporarily delayed after he accidentally ends up launched into...
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1965
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Doris Day and Rod Taylor star in this romantic comedy as Janet and Mike Harper, a married couple who relocate to England when...
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Simmons
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1965
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A toy manufacturer bequeaths his company, and his fortune, to his unattractive daughter Alice (Anne Whitfield)--on condition...
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1964
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Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) hopes to con world-famous sportsman Lord Faversham (Reginald Gardiner) into staying at the...
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1964
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This lavishly produced, big-budget comedy (it cost $20 million in 1964 dollars) stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow who...
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1964
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Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson adapted the novel by author Edward Streeter, whose work was also the basis of Father of the...
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Reggie McHugh
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1962
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This third film version of the lachrymose Fannie Hurst novel Back Street stars Susan Hayward as Rae Smith the role previously...
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1961
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One of the true classics of suspense fiction, Rupert Croft-Cooke's short story Banquo's Chair had been adapted for radio and...
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1959
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In this comedy, an awkward TV repairman finds himself falling for an actress who doesn't even know he exists and instead...
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Harold Hermann
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1958
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Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously...
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1958
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Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of...
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1957
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This comedy is a remake of 1941's The Lady Eve, and tells the story of the vegetarian son of a prominent meat packer who is...
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Gerald
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1956
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In this lively musical a chorine hooks a successful businessman and becomes the snob she thinks he expects her to be. This...
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Piermont Rogers
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1955
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1954
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1952
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In this romance, an industrial designer is bitterly disappointed when he discovers that upon graduation his daughter decides...
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Roger Evans
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1951
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Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of...
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1951
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In Halls of Montezuma, Richard Widmark stars as Lt. Carl Anderson, a former schoolteacher who serves as a no-nonsense Marine...
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Sgt. Johnson
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1950
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Betty Grable's Wabash Avenue is an agreeable remake of Grable's 1943 hit Coney Island. The locale is changed from New York to...
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English Eddie
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1950
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1950
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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1948
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That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the...
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Count Andre de Guyon
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1948
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That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, but one set...
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Alberto
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1948
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by...
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1947
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That new-fangled swing music is the focus of this musical comedy. The trouble begins when a music school dean boards a train...
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Herbert Benham
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1946
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The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle...
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Hilary Ames
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1946
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In this comedy, an adaptation of the play The Animal Kingdom, a liberal, social reformist photographer falls in love with a...
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1946
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John Sloan
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1945
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The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took...
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Duke of Breck
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1945
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Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at...
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Archie Dexter/Composer
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1945
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A servant with no experience ends up teaching the master of the house a thing or two in this comedy. Molly Barry...
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Peabody
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1945
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Duke of Trippingham
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1943
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Jerry Seymour
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1943
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Benedict
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1943
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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1942
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Roger Pillby
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1941
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1941
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My Life with Caroline is a dizzy boy-chases-girl affair with a twist: the girl being chased is the boy's own wife. Wealthy...
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Paul Martindale
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1941
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1941
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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John Pierce
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1940
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The 1922 George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Dulcy was based on a delightful character created by columnist Franklin P....
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Schuyler Van Dyke
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1940
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"This is the story of the period between two world wars--an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose...
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Schultz
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1940
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In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers...
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Francois
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1939
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Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front,...
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J. Neville Prime
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1939
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"Discovered" for American films by Cecil B. DeMille, popular Hungarian actress Franceska Gaal made the last of her three...
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Willie
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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Everybody Sing is an uncertain blend of screwball comedy and standard MGM musical. Reginald Owen plays Hillary Bellaire,...
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1938
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Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though...
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Keggs, Butler
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1937
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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1936
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In this comedy, a young man becomes an amateur detective when his fiancee's father, a stuffy old admiral (who naturally...
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1935
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His Hollywood career a thing of the past, director Herbert Brenon returned to his native England in 1934, where he continued...
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1935
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In this 1934 drama, a rabid feminist utterly despises all men. She changes her tune when her financial benefactor, her aunt,...
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1934
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This musical centers around a Rurutanian ballerina, wanting to inspire jealousy in her friends, fakes an engagement to a...
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1934
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Often consigned to comic relief roles in Hollywood, Reginald Gardiner is awarded top billing in the British Borrow a Million....
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1934
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Tom Walls, one of the most famous of the Aldwych Theater farceurs, was both star and director of Leave It to Smith. Based on...
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1933
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1932
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In this comedy, a jilted fiance takes a job as the maid of the woman that seduced her lover away from her in hopes that she...
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1931
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