Spring Byington guest-stars as the formidable and much-feared Mother General. The plot complications begin when Sr. Bertrille...
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1968
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Spring Byington guest stars as the mother of astronaut Tony Nelson (Larry Hagman). Dropping into her son's house on what is...
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1967
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While Alice Wagner (Spring Byington) is leaving a movie late one night, her purse is stolen by an unseen assailant. Heading...
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1960
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In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four...
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Suzie Robinson
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1960
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The strangest aspect of the low-budget fantasy effort The Rocket Man is the fact that one of its screenwriters was...
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Justice Ameilia Brown
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1954
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Golden-throated Mario Lanza stars in Because You're Mine. Lanza plays opera singer Renaldo Rossano, who is drafted into the...
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1952
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Pity poor ex-GI Alvah Morrell (Tony Curtis). While on his honeymoon with perky Lee Kingshead (Piper Laurie), he comes down...
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Mama Kingshead
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1952
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Byington, a retired teacher, sells her apartment complex to ex-gangsters who begin kicking out the tenants. Byington tries to...
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Mrs. Hoyle
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1951
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Bannerline was Don Weis' first solo directorial credit for MGM. Keefe Brasselle stars as cub reporter Mike Perrivale, who...
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1951
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Though not the most profitable baseball comedy ever made, Angels in the Outfield is one of the most likeable and enduring....
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1951
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Devil's Doorway was the first of many top-rank westerns directed by Anthony Mann. RobertTaylor is cast against type as a...
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1950
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Louisa Norton
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1950
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Agnes Thorndyke
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1950
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Joseph Cotten stars in Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale, a fugitive criminal who decides to hide out in a small Midwestern...
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Mrs. Brentman
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1950
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MGM's The Reformer and the Redhead was the first directorial collaboration of longtime screenwriting partners Norman Panama...
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1950
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Producer Val Lewton abandoned the "psychological horror" efforts of his RKO days when he moved to MGM in 1950. Lewton's...
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1950
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Nellie Burke
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1949
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In The Big Wheel, Mickey Rooney plays Billy Coy, a garage mechanic who matriculates into a champion race-car driver. On the...
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Mrs. Mary Coy
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1949
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1948
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MGM's newest child star Jackie "Butch" Jenkins--lisp and all--is the title character in this overlong family drama. The...
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Mrs. Starwell
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1947
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Returning to Singapore after a five-year absence, WWII veteran Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) mournfully recalls his romance...
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Mrs. Bellows
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1947
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Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in the innocuous MGM confection Cynthia. Taylor plays the...
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Carrie Jannings
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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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Mrs. Morgan
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1947
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Mrs. Stafford
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1947
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In later years, director Fred Zinneman seldom referred to My Brother Talks to Horses as one of his career highpoints. Even...
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1946
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Meet Me on Broadway is a pocket Columbia musical about aspiring performers and a shoestring production (though the dialogue...
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Sylvia Storm
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1946
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Years before he became the leading star in horror movies, Vincent Price starred in this gothic thriller based on the...
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Magda
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1946
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In this romantic comedy, a soldier is granted a two-week furlough and returns home to discover that his girlfriend is...
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Miss Swanson
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1946
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The tumultuous world of horse-racing provides the backdrop of this drama. Directed by Raoul Walsh, Salty O'Rourke features...
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Mrs. Brooks
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1945
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Violet Price
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1945
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Mrs. McPherson
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1945
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Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air...
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1945
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This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come...
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Nona Glenn
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1945
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Ginger Rogers gives a dramatic performance in this moving romantic drama in which a woman named Mary Marshall, who was...
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Mrs. Marshall
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1944
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Mrs. Mars
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1943
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In this light romantic comedy, William B. Whitley (William Powell) is an astronomer who is very excited about his latest...
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1943
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On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many...
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1943
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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1942
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Director Rouben Mamoulian completed a three-picture 20th Century Fox deal with this airy comic romance that attempted to ape...
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Mrs. Maybelle Worthington
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1942
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In this WW II propaganda piece a wealthy American society matron refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war...
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1942
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Once Upon a Thursday was the original released title of The Affairs of Martha, a 1942 Marsha Hunt vehicle from the MGM...
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Mrs. Sophie Sommerfield
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1942
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The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest...
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Elizabeth Ellis
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1941
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Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the...
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Carlotta Emerson
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1941
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Strange Skirts is the TV title of the 1941 MGM film When Ladies Meet. The film was a remake of a 1933 production of the same...
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Bridget Drake
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1941
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The down-home Weaver family stars in this countrified drama set in Peaceful Valley where if things went any slower they'd be...
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Mary Shoemaker
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1941
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The Vanishing Virginian was adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Rebecca Yancey Williams. Newcomer...
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Rosa Yancey
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1941
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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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Mrs. Mitchell
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1941
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Frank Morgan and Billie Burke, who'd previously costarred in MGM's Wizard of Oz, head the cast of the minor but entertaining...
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1940
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When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily...
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Mummy Tyl
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1940
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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Mrs. West
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1940
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This domestic comedy is the final episode of the 17-film "Jones Family" series. The story begins as restless Father decides...
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Mrs. Jones
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1940
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Olivia DeHavilland stars as a music student whose education is secretly subsidized by the aging owner of a phonograph factory...
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1940
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Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald...
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Aunt Lucy
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1940
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This "Jones Family" entry does without the services of Pa Jones, inasmuch as actor Jed Prouty was having contract problems...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1940
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1940's Laddie was the third cinemadaptation of the heartwarming story by Gene Stratton-Porter (the second version, filmed in...
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Mrs. Stanton
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1940
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Too Busy to Work is not a remake of the 1932 Will Rogers film of the same name-but it is a partial remake of Rogers' 1935...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1939
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The Jones family goes to Tinseltown in this entry in the series. They go so Father can attend an American Legion meeting....
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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1939
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1939
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In this entry in the "Jones Family" comedy series, the Jones have just arrived from a Hollywood vacation when they receive a...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1939
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Based on a novel by Barry Benefield, Chicken Wagon Family affords nearly equal screen time to child star Jane Withers and...
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Josephine
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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20th Century-Fox's first "Jones Family" series entry for 1938 was the six-reel Love on a Budget. Back in their usual screen...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1938
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1938
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Down on the Farm was yet another entry in the seemingly endless saga of the Jones Family. The plot is set in motion when the...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1938
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The Jones Family is at it again in Everybody's Baby, their first 1939 release (previewed in 1938). This time, the Joneses'...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1938
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Penny Sycamore
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1938
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1938
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Mrs. Schofield
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1938
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The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa (Jed Prouty) and Ma (Spring...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1938
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In this entry in the Jones Family series of domestic comedies, the trouble begins when con artists attempt to convince Mayor...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1938
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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1938
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Mrs. John Jones
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1937
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1937
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Mrs. Schofield
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1937
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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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The saga of the Jones Family continues in 1937's Borrowing Trouble. When Pa Jones's drugstore is robbed, the evidence points...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1937
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Mrs. Parkhouse
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1937
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Not a remake of the classic Laurel and Hardy 2-reel silent of the same name, Big Business was an early entry in 20th...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1937
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When Errol Flynn insisted that Warner Bros. cook up a non-swashbuckler for his next vehicle, the result was Green Light....
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1937
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In this entry in the Jones family series, the father decides to run for mayor. Unfortunately, his own son gets his campaign...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1937
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1936
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After six years' worth of tragic and noble roles, Irene Dunne began a new phase in her career as a top comedienne in Theodora...
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Rebecca Perry
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1936
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Gloria Stuart's trouble only begins when she inherits a newspaper in this routine, but at times, quite hilarious comedy from...
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1936
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Based on the novel by MacKinlay Kantor, this 1936 drama from director Richard Thorpe stars Lionel Barrymore as Springfield...
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Ma Davis
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1936
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This second entry in the "Jones Family" series finds Pa Jones (Jed Prouty) once again at loggerheads with his oldest son Jack...
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Mrs. John Jones
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1936
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In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged...
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1936
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1936
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Just before his brief turn as a "singing cowboy," radio crooner Smith Ballew starred in Paramount's Palm Springs. Filmed on...
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Aunt Letty
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1936
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The cinematic saga of The Jones Family began modestly in 1936 with Every Saturday Night. Jed Prouty and Spring Byington star...
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Mrs. Evers
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1936
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The rollicking Jones family buys a trailer and heads for Yosemite in this comedy. Along the way, the older children find...
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Mrs. Jones
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1935
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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The Great Impersonation is based on the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage novel of the same name, previously filmed in 1921....
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Duchess Caroline
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1935
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This tragic melodrama is a remake of Griffith's 1920 film, Way Down East. The story centers upon a starving, impoverished...
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1935
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Originally intended as a vehicle for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, this Universal production predated The Wolf Man by six...
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Miss Ettie Coombes
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1935
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad...
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1935
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The title may be Orchids to You, but the plot is motivated by a camellia -- to be exact, Camelia Rand (Jean Muir). About to...
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1935
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Fields
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1935
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An aspiring singer learns the bitter price of stardom in this musical drama. She starts out a small-town girl and soon...
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1935
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George Cukor directed this classic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental novel with a shimmering lavishness that is a...
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1933
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