Harry Belafonte rose to fame in the 1950s as a singer and actor, bringing the Caribbean sounds of calypso music to the charts...
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2012
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Film director George Cukor (1899-1983) gets the American Masters treatment in this documentary from the acclaimed PBS series....
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2000
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1999
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In the comic fable Gideon, the residents of the Lakeview Retirement Home are drifting through their final years with quiet...
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1999
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In this Thanksgiving episode, Roseanne is glad that she won't have to cook, but she's upset that Dan won't be there. Leon...
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1996
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1996
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1996
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A goofy slacker wreaks havoc after worming his way onto the jury of a high-profile court case in this broad comedy. The...
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Mrs. Collins
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1995
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1995
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Two aspiring young rockers in love with each other, try to make it into Colin Gramercy's upcoming show. Gramercy is not only...
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1995
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This psychological drama was based on the novel by Ella Leffland. After the death of her husband, Rose Munck (Diane Ladd),...
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1995
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This character drama, set in a local pub in rural New York State, focuses on the lives, thoughts, and emotions of a group of...
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Dolly
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1995
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1994
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In the tradition of Mel Brooks, this Italian comedy offers an episodic parody of classic thrillers and horror movies. Film...
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1994
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In this suspenseful mystery, two rival sisters vie for the love of a powerful businessman. One of them ends up murdered and...
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1993
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1993
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Paul Mazursky directed this comedy, which blends a broad satire of the film industry with a thoughtful tale of a middle-aged...
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Yetta
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1993
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On Christmas Eve, a snowstorm separates the Conner family at different places. Roseanne and Jackie are stranded at the Lunch...
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1992
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Stepping Out might be considered a textbook exercise in screenwriting cliche: take Mavis Turner (Liza Minnelli), a woman who...
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Mrs. Fraser
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1991
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1991
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An old woman finds the sudden intrusion of a wounded fugitive in her home a welcome relief from solitude in this off-beat...
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1991
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A baseball-capped Shelley Winters guest stars as Roseanne's grandmother, Nana Mary, for a Mother's Day barbecue. By the end...
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1991
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This video is a close-up of Marilyn Monroe as seen by some of those who knew her best. The award-winning program is filled...
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1990
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Fascinating documentary of artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol, combining rare footage with interviews with his friends and...
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1990
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Evelyn McEllany
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1989
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Linda Shayne wrote and directed this children's story based on the 1958 novelty song "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley....
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Rita
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1988
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Lydia
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1986
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Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon...
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1986
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Never released theatrically, this sex comedy is set in an apartment in Moscow with one bathroom, one kitchen and 31...
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Galina
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1985
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This made-for television version of the Lewis Carroll classic features an all-star cast. ~ Forest Ray, Rovi...
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1985
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This documentary of Marilyn Monroe takes a novel approach in not dwelling on her love affairs and concentrating on her film...
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1985
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In this goofy comedy, a widow marries a wealthy geezer to provide for her sons. Her husband is a cripple and so it is easy...
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Cora
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1984
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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1984
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Similar to the 1991 Dead Again starring Kenneth Branagh, this story of reincarnation and murder also features two couples who...
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Olga Nabokov
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1984
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Wanna see a movie in 3 minutes? Then Adventure 1: Trailers on Tape is right up your alley. Here is a collection of some of...
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1984
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A man is torn between true love and the lure of fine dining in this romantic comedy. Alby Sherman (Elliott Gould) was born...
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Becky Sherman
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1984
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Fanny Hill (Lisa Raines) is a buxom country maiden who arrives in the big city and quickly begins an affair with the scion of...
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Mrs. Cole
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1983
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Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July is an animated feature where Santa Claus must rescue Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and...
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1982
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Alice (Alice Werblowsky) grew up in Europe, her father is Italian, and she came to San Francisco to go to school in order to...
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Mother
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1981
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1981
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Looping is an obscure German melodrama bearing traces of the silent classic Variety. Shelley Winters and Hans-Christian Blech...
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Carmen
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1981
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1980
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The first volley in the never-ending "Presley movie" blitzkrieg, the made-for-TV Elvis: The Movie stars Kurt Russell as the...
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Gladys Presley
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1979
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This expensive production attempts to bring Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's subtle philosophical novel The...
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Elizabeta
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1979
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In this made-for-TV shocker, a young sorority pledge (Kay Lenz) gets even for being humiliated in a hazing prank. ~ Jason...
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1978
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Heartbreak Motel enjoyed a brief theatrical life on the drive-in circuit, then settled down into Late Late Show screenings....
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1978
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Shelley Winters) guest stars as Evelyn McNeil, widowed sister-in-law of Chief of Detectives Frank McNeil (Dan Frazer). An...
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1978
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Not surprisingly, this fascinating dissection of Gypsy life in America was vilified by several ethnic special-interest...
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Queen Rachel
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1978
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City on Fire, a disaster thriller filmed in Canada with dialogue in both French and English, tells the story of an...
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Nurse Andrea Harper
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1978
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Tillie Turner
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1977
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Lena Gogan
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1977
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1977
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Giovanni Vivaldi (Alberto Sordi) doesn't have many ambitions in life. As far as he is concerned, things are pretty good just...
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Amalia Vivaldi
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1977
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The sequel to the original animated Frosty the Snowman, Frosty's Winter Wonderland originally appeared on television in...
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Mrs. Frosty
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1976
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An aspiring actor leaves his home in Brooklyn for adulthood in Manhattan in Paul Mazursky's loosely autobiographical...
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Mrs. Lapinsky
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1976
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Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an...
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Concierge
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1976
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In this violent low-budget outing, an African-American singer is kidnapped and forced to endure all sorts of torments and...
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1975
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Lee J. Cobb's last film is in this light romantic comedy starring Roger Moore as Michael Scott, an arms dealer who comes...
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Diane Steedman
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1975
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This remake of the Orson Welles film stars Sam Waterston as a researcher who finds himself entangled in intrigue and danger...
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1974
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Shelley Winters is appropriately cast as Big Rose, a rough 'n' tough private detective. Nobody messes with Big Rose, least of...
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Rose Winters
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1974
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Agatha Murphy
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1974
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Menahem Golan directed this low wattage heist movie enlivened by Robert Shaw in a dual role as twin brothers. Shaw plays a...
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Zelda Shapiro
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1974
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In the Los Angeles of yoga, therapy, and well-off liberals, a divorcé decides that his ex-wife is the love of his life in...
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Mrs. Cramer
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1973
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1973
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Created for the "dime novels" in 1886, scientific detective Nick Carter has been transferred to film and radio several times...
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Bess Tucker
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1972
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The Poseidon, an ocean liner larger than the Queens Elizabeth and Mary combined, is charting its course on New Year's Eve....
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1972
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1972
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Lilith Malone
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1972
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Also released under the title Something to Hide, this film follows the slow disintegration of a man's (Peter Finch) life due...
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1972
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Helen
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1971
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1971
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In this English film, a group of orphans visiting the home of a wealthy, retired singer (Shelley Winters) discover that the...
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Rosie Forrest
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1971
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1970
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Shelley Winters, who once played the spoofish "Ma Parker" on Batman, brings the same larger-than-life approach to her...
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Kate (Ma) Barker
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1970
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In this syrupy comedy, a father attempts to reconnect with his troubled, estranged son, a philosophy professor. The chance...
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Lena Mervin
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1970
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Flap is marginally significant as the only Western ever directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed. Anthony Quinn is top-billed as...
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Dorothy Bluebell
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1970
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Mrs. Gladys Armstrong
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1969
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For his third feature outing, director Sydney Pollack helmed this comedic western starring (Burt Lancaster) as fur trapper...
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Kate
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1968
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Shirley Newman
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1968
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A rock star decides he'd rather rule the free world than just sell records in this ambitious fusion of political satire and...
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Mrs. Flatow
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1968
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Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical novel Enter Laughing makes a largely successful transition to the screen. Reni Santoni...
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Mrs. Kolowitz
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1967
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Screenwriter William Goldman has claimed that Paul Newman agreed to do Harper, the film that established the grateful...
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1966
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Ruby
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1966
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Natalya
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1965
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Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20...
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1965
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Shelley Winters won an Academy Award for her searing performance as Rose-Ann d'Arcy in A Patch of Blue. The star, however, is...
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Rose-Ann D'Arcy
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1965
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Leo (Rod Steiger) is an aristocrat whose family fortunes have plummeted in this downbeat melodrama. He seeks to reverse his...
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Lisa
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1964
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This drama tells the true story of one of Broadway's most successful madams in the 1920s. It is loosely based on the...
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Polly Adler
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1964
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In this romantic comedy, Bill Austin (Van Johnson) is an unsuccessful writer who lives in a forlorn New York tenement while...
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Fran Cabrell
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1963
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The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet...
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Madam Irma
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1963
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Sarah Garnell
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1962
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"How did they make a movie out of Lolita?" teased the print ads of this Stanley Kubrick production. The answer: by adding...
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Charlotte Haze
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1962
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The Young Savages is what used to be called a "thinking man's picture" about a potentially lurid subject: urban juvenile...
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Mary Di Pace
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1961
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Good actors help raise the level of this downbeat drama of drugs and survival by Philip Leacock. The story is set in...
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Nellie Romano
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1960
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Harry Belafonte was both producer and star of this hard-edged film noir crime drama. Dave Burke (Ed Begley, Sr.) is an ex-cop...
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Lorry
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1959
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This is the autobiographical drama of a young Dutch Jewish girl hiding from the invading Nazis during World War II. Anne and...
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Mrs. Van Dean
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1959
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This presentation of The DuPont Show of the Month represented the first time that a novel by A.J. Cronin had been adapted for...
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Louisa Burt
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1957
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Time is of the essence in this comedy when an American cabaret singer learns that she is in line for a large inheritance....
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Myrtle La Mar
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1956
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Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954-1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color, 90-minute specials,...
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Crystal Allen
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1955
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I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the...
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Marie Gibson
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1955
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Julie Harris repeats her stage portrayal of the irrepressible Sally Bowles in John Van Druten's I Am a Camera. Set in...
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Natalie Landauer
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1955
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Robert Aldrich's screen adaptation of Clifford Odets' stage play reflects the quandary of the writer's later career; the...
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Dixie Evans
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1955
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Willa Harper
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1955
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Filmed on location, Treasure of Pancho Villa stars Rory Calhoun as a mercenary at large during Mexico's civil war. Though...
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Ruth Harris
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1955
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Unable to find work in Hollywood due to the Blacklist, director Robert Rossen filmed his 1954 production Mambo in Italy....
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Toni Salerno
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1954
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Shelley Winters was still in the sex-symbol phase of her career when she headed the cast of Universal's Playgirl....
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Songwriter, Fran Davis
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1954
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Saskatchewan is a "northern" starring Alan Ladd as tight-lipped Canadian Mountie Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke. He rescues Grace...
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Grace Markey
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1954
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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1954
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Rescuing Daniel Norton (Dewey Martin) from a watery grave, two-bit fight promoter Willy Wurble (Keenan Wynn) senses potential...
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Sarah Wurble
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1954
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Reportedly, there was no love lost between the three stars of Untamed Frontier, and perhaps it was this tension that added so...
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Jane Stevens
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1952
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David Trask (Gary Merrill), the sole survivor of an airplane crash, takes it upon himself to contact the families of the...
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Binky Gay
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1952
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Nancy
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1952
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was...
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Alice Tripp
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1951
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Kate Denny
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1951
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Nick Robey (John Garfield) is a down-on-his-luck two-bit hood, fast on his feet but a little slow on the uptake. His running...
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Peg Dobbs
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1951
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The Raging Tide stars Richard Conte as San Francisco crime boss Bruno Felkin. After killing off a rival, Felkin tries to...
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Connie Thatcher
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1951
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Coral
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1950
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Frenchie Fontaine
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1950
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Lola Manners
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1950
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In Johnny Stool Pigeon, the title character's name is really Johnny Evans (Dan Duryea). Evans is an imprisoned crook whose...
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Terry
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1949
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William Powell stars in Take One False Step as a happily married college professor who foolishly agrees to a reunion supper...
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Catherine Sykes
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1949
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1949
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Brenda Martingale
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1948
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John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a...
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1948
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John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow...
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Tory
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1948
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Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of an off-the-beam actor in A Double Life. A beloved stage star, Anthony...
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Pat Kroll
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1947
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New Orleans is Republic Pictures' spin on such "musical origin" films as Birth of the Blues and Dixie. Covering nearly four...
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1947
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Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster....
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1947
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Despite MGM's insistence that star Gene Kelly, just returning from military service in 1947, appear exclusively in big-budget...
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1947
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One of two con-artists ends up arrested and given five days of freedom before he must go to jail. This comedy chronicles...
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1946
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The Beautiful Cheat was one of the last B pictures produced by Universal studios before its merger with International...
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1946
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In this thriller, a nurse begins having strange premonitions about an impending murder. So strong is her intuition that she...
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1945
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1945
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Based on a play by Leslie Storm, Tonight and Every Night is a musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is...
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1945
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1944
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The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this...
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Ulda Tienhoven
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1944
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Nine Girls stars several of Columbia's loveliest contract actresses as sorority sisters at an exclusive California college....
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1944
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An ex-racketeer becomes an undercover for the military in this drama. He keeps his work so secret that his friends become...
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1944
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In this drama, a female taxi driver takes pity on a soldier who has come to search for his estranged son and decides to help...
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1944
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Arthur Lake takes a break from his Dagwood Bumstead duties in the "Blondie" series to star as furloughed sailor Marble Head...
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1944
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Gloria Flynn
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1944
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The title Together Again referred to the fact that frequent costarsIrene Dunne and Charles Boyer were once more united on...
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1944
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In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen...
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1943
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Some observers have suggested that Meet Danny Wilson could just as well have been titled Meet Frank Sinatra. A star vehicle...
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Joy Carroll
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