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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1956
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Even at age 38, Loretta Young could successfully pull off her ingenue duties in the innocuous comedy Half Angel. Young plays...
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Screenwriter
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1951
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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Screenwriter
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1951
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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Screenwriter
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1950
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Based on a true story, Mister 880 is the whimsical tale of an elderly gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who dabbles in counterfeiting....
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Screenwriter
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1950
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1947
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In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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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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Screenwriter
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1944
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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Producer
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1939
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Set during the turn-of-the-century Moro uprising in the Philippines, The Real Glory stars Gary Cooper as an American Marine...
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Producer
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1939
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1937
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this melodramatic comedy a carnival puppeteer must cope with the death of his wife who expired while birthing his...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1934
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In this romantic sex-comedy from director Robert Florey, Bette Davis stars as Helen Bauer, a free-spirited, self-sufficient...
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Screen Story
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1933
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May Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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In this melodrama a superb female lawyer finds that her success has emasculated her husband, a rather average architect, who...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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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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Screenwriter
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1932
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Ben Lyon plays an aspiring boxer in this pre-code drama. Cookie Bradford (Lyon) toils at a diner and works out at the gym...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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A night club owner under heavy police protection is murdered anyway, and a clever police commissioner figures out that it...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Barbara Stanwyck overcomes a veritable ocean of clichés and manages to make her "shopworn" heroine come to life in this...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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The title Virtue should be a good tip-off that the central character is a step below virtuous. Carole Lombard, still not...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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A minister's daughter finds fame as an evangelist but struggles with her own lack of faith in Frank Capra's impassioned...
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Play Author
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1931
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In this drama, a woman with dubious past finds herself blackmailed when she makes plans to marry a senator's son. She finds...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Young Joan Bennett and Lew Ayres make an attractive couple in the Universal programmer Many a Slip. Because of her imperious...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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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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Play Author
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1931
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When Lt. Bob Denton (John Wayne) tells his girlfriend Evelyn (Laura La Plante) that he has no intention of marrying her, she...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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A rather bleak comedy-drama from Frank Capra, Platinum Blonde basically starts where Capra's later and much more buoyant It...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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