Despite the fact that most of the westerns made at this time (early '70s) were "deconstructionist" westerns, which either...
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1972
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In her final acting appearance, Susan Hayward is ironically cast as a research doctor who can no longer face up to the notion...
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1972
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Heat of Anger is about a sharp female lawyer who defends a businessman charged with the murder of a blue-collar construction...
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1971
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A cinematic take on a 1960s best-seller, Valley of the Dolls traces the ups and downs of three young women as fame, booze,...
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1967
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Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) summons his three former mistresses to his deathbed for a final visit in this engaging crime comedy....
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Mrs. Lone-Star Crockett Sheridan
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1967
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Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, comes this family drama from director Edward Dmytryk. Adapted for the the screen by...
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Valerie Hayden Miller
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1964
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Stolen Hours is the overlong, overglamorized 1963 remake of the 1939 Bette Davis vehicle Dark Victory. Susan Hayward plays a...
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Laura Pember
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1963
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Dr. Susan Hayward makes a tragic mistake when she leaves her Canadian practice to follow her ailing, married lover to...
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Christine Allison
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1962
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Dean Martin plays an easygoing Southern politician, long on charm but short on brains. Susan Hayward, a poor girl with rich...
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Ada Gillis
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1961
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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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Rae Smith
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1961
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Content Delville
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1960
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The hardships faced by a widow and her eight-year-old son on a rugged Canadian ranch provide the basis of this gripping...
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Mary Sharron
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1959
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A somewhat wooden rendition of an improbable western, this tale of Basques crossing the U.S. in 1847 with a load of...
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Gabrielle Dauphin
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1959
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Barbara Graham
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1958
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When an Army general is appointed to the sensitive diplomatic post that the powerful publisher of a prominent news magazine...
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Dorothy "Dottie" Peale
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1957
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Bortai
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1956
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Katie O'Neill
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1955
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The first of two Clark Gable films produced by 20th Century-Fox, Soldier of Fortune casts Gable as an American mercenary,...
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Jane Hoyt
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1955
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Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry...
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Lillian Roth
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1955
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Leah Fuller
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1954
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Demetrius and the Gladiators was the sequel to The Robe, and though they were released several months apart, the films were...
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Messalina
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1954
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Filmed on location, White Witch Doctor is set in the Belgian Congo, circa 1907. Professional hunter Lonni Douglas...
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Ellen Burton
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1953
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Rachel Donelson Robards
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1953
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for...
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Helen
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1952
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The titular Lusty Men are rodeo riders in this modern-day western, assembled with a touch of the offbeat by director...
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Louise Merritt
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1952
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With a Song in My Heart is the story of popular 1930s songstress Jane Froman, here portrayed by Susan Hayward. We first see...
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Jane Froman
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1952
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Money, romance, betrayal, double-dealing -- who knew making dresses could be so interesting? Harriet Boyd (Susan Hayward) is...
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Harriet Boyd
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1951
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Vinnie Holt
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1951
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In this inspiring drama, William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary...
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Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
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1951
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David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David...
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Bathsheba
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1951
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Tulsa was, in 1949, the most elaborate production released to date by the Eagle-Lion corporation-though all evidence,...
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Cherokee Lansing
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1949
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House of Strangers is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's I'll Never Go Home Any More, each of which was...
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Irene Bennett
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1949
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Eloise Winters
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1949
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Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state...
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Morna Dabney
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1948
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In this drama, an egomaniacal producer freely treads upon those around him without regard to the harm he does. The devoted...
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Janet Busch
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1948
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It is said that Henry James' The Aspern Papers were inspired by the romance between Lord Byron and his mistress Claire...
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Tina Bordereau
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1947
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A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The...
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Songwriter, Angie Evans
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1947
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Irving Pichel's They Won't Believe Me is the flashback unfolding of Larry Ballentine's (Robert Young) witness-stand testimony...
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Verna Carlson
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1947
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Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and...
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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June Goth
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1946
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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Janice Blair
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1944
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Despite a few Hollywood compromises, The Hairy Ape remains one of the more artistically successful filmizations of Eugene...
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Mildred Douglas
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1944
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The Fighting Seabees is Republic Pictures' rip-roaring tribute to the US Navy's Construction Batallions (C.B.), without whom...
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Constance Chesley
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1944
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This ambitious filmed biography of writer-adventurer Jack London is somewhat compromised by its too-tight budget....
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Charmain Kittredge
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1943
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1943
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1943
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Change of Heart is the reissue title of the Republic musical Hit Parade of 1943. The studio had been turning out these annual...
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Jill Wright
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1943
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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Tana Mason
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1942
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1942
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Estelle Masterson
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1942
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1942
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Out of the Frying Pan, Francis Swann's perennial community-theatre favorite, came to the screen under the title...
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Kate Benson
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Previously filmed with Mabel Normand in 1920, the old Rose Melville stage property Sis Hopkins was trotted out in 1941 for...
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Carol Hopkins
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1941
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One of the eerier chillers of its period -- and one of the best ever to come out of Paramount -- Stuart Heisler's Among the...
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Millie Pickens
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1941
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Ingrid Bergman stars in Adam Had Four Sons, her second American film appearance. Based on a novel by Charles Bonner, the...
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Hester
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1941
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A big city lawyer returns to his tiny home town to enter the firm of his late father. His father's partner is happy to have...
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Judith Schoefield
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1939
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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Betty McGlen
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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Isobel Rivers
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1939
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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1938
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Despite the presence of Busby Berkeley in the director's chair, Comet Over Broadway contains nary a single musical number....
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1938
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1938
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Warner Bros.' Girls on Probation was, and is, a potboiler, redeemed slightly by its cast. The fascinating, underused...
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1938
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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