This documentary, produced for PBS's American Masters series, is based on A. Scott Berg's well-received biography of Samuel...
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2001
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This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for...
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1996
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Todd Graff wrote the screenplay for this eccentric romantic comedy in the spirit of Moonstruck that exchanges pasta for matzo...
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1992
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After her son dies of AIDS, a woman must come to terms with his abbreviated life. Sada Thompson stars as the mother in this...
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1990
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Thanks to the carelessness of a cute little dog, newlyweds Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are killed in a freak auto accident....
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1988
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The "pals" of the title, played by Don Ameche and George C. Scott, are Army chums living a sedentary retirement. Occasionally...
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Fern Stobbs
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1987
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Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred...
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1985
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Originally telecast November 11, 1985, An Early Frost was the first TV movie to deal with the subject of AIDS. Aidan Quinn...
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Beatrice McKenna
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1985
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Written by Walter Lockwood and directed by Joan Micklin Silver, Finnegan Begin Again is a whimsical comedy drama about a...
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Margaret Finnegan
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1984
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1984
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The Brass Ring is one of the first American films produced expressly for cable TV. Dina Merrill heads the cast, as an...
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1983
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Sylvia Sidney guest stars as Elizabeth Barrett, the literary mentor of Magnum's boss Robin Masters. Elizabeth arrives in...
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1983
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Having It All is a tailored-for-television attempt at "screwball" comedy from the director of About Last Night... and Glory....
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1982
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Director Wim Wenders made his American film bow with the ultra-stylish Hammett. Based on the speculative novel by Joe Gores,...
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1982
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A policeman masquerades as a homeless alcoholic and teams up with a bag lady, who is really a college professor, to bring a...
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1981
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The Gossip Columnist is a rare one-part offering from Operation Prime Time, the TV-syndication service responsible for such...
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1980
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Jason Robards stars as the ailing, 62-year-old President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in F.D.R.: The Last Year. Though visibly...
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1980
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Advertised as "Paul Newman's First Film for Television," Shadow Box was more specifically the first TV movie to be directed...
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1980
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Satan's son comes of age in this horror sequel. Shortly after the events of The Omen, a pair of anthropologists uncovers an...
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1978
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The first episode of the first season of WKRP in Cincinnati finds troubleshooter Andy Travis (Gary Sandy) blowing in from...
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1978
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Siege is set in a big-city housing development. Retiree Martin Balsam, along with the rest of the building's residents, live...
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1978
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Raid on Entebbe constitutes one of two all-star made-for-TV reenactments of the Entebbe rescue of July 4, 1976. On June 27,...
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1977
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In this made-for-television chiller, an enormous and angry Bigfoot launches a campaign of death and destruction against the...
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1977
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Without ever revealing the diagnosis, this film chronicles the inner life and outer circumstances of Deborah Blake...
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1977
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A New York policeman (Harvey Keitel) imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer (John Lydon), but finds the tables turned...
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Margaret Smith
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1977
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Released theatrically as God Told Me To, this inventive film from "B"-movie auteur Larry Cohen was later re-named Demon after...
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Elizabeth Mullin
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1976
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In this drama, a gambling-addicted housewife resorts to stealing from the family savings account to feed her obsession....
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1975
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In this made-for-TV film, a screenwriter (Robert Wagner) begins writing the biography of the dead movie queen who had a brief...
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1975
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Most TV movies about obscene phone callers concentrate on the reactions of the victims--and the subsequent dangers they're...
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1975
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American GI Harry Walden (Martin Balsam) emerged from a harrowing experience in WWII to find himself living an...
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Mrs. Pritchett
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1973
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Elizabeth Gibson
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1971
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1961
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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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Hilda Carmichael
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1956
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1955
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Not up to the classic 1935 presentation, this is still an excellent adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel. The familiar...
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Fantine
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1952
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Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and play by Frank Vosper, Love From a Stranger isn't quite as good as the 1937 version...
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1947
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The troublesome years "between the wars" provide the backdrop for the romantic drama The Searching Wind. Adapted by Lillian...
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Cassie Bowman
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1946
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His movie career on a roll since the surprise success of 1946's Johnny Angel, George Raft was starred in the Benedict Bogeaus...
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Margaret Wyndham Chase
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1946
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In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two...
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Iris Hilliard
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1945
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In the 1930s and 1940s, Warner Bros. developed a positive genius for remaking earlier films in new, disguised fashion,...
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Flo Lorraine
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1941
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Adapted from a play which was originally produced by the Federal Theatre Project (part of the WPA), this is a film from the...
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Mary Rogers
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1939
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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Helen Dennis
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1938
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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Drina
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1937
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Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once....
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Joan "Jo" Graham
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1937
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Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife...
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Sylvia Verloc
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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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June Tolliver
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1936
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Katherine Grant
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1936
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A wealthy young heir rebels when his snooty parents refuse to allow him to marry a lovely young secretary. Deciding to teach...
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Tonita Stormcloud
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1935
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1935
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An innocent but admittedly none-too-bright victim of circumstance, Mary Burns (played by perennial movie victim...
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Mary Burns
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1935
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Linda Brown
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1935
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In this drama, two carneys, a card-sharp, and a peep-show performer, find themselves booted out of the show and decide to...
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Lillie Taylor
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1934
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A European princess heads for New York in order to see if the U. S. will back her country's bond issue. Unfortunately, she...
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Nancy Lane/Princess Catterina Theodora Margerita Zizz
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1934
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In this romantic drama, an ex-con conceals her criminal past and starts a new life with a kindly cab driver. Together, the...
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Mary Richards
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1933
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This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses. ~...
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Jennie Gerhardt
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1933
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This adaptation of the Puccini opera jettisons all the music and retains only David Belasco's timeworn libretto. American...
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Cho-Cho San
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1932
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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1932
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A San Francisco gangster hot foots it out of town to cool down after his crime boss is suddenly killed. He ends up in a...
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Helen Smith
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1932
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Sylvia Sidney is again in her "victim" mode in Paramount's Ladies of the Big House. Shortly after their wedding, young...
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Kathleen Storm
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1932
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If only Merrily We Go To Hell was as interesting as its title! To escape an arranged marriage, heiress Joan Prentice...
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Joan Prentice
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1932
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Patricia
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1931
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Never one to hide his talent under a bushel basket, director Rouben Mamoulien proudly proclaimed that, while there were ten...
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Nan Cooley
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1931
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Rose Maurrant
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1931
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Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions....
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Roberta Alden
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1931
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A murder trial provides the setting of this drama that presents, via flashback, three very different versions and motives of...
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1929
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Amateur thespians Fannie (Lois Wilson) and Johnny (Sam Hardy) team up to form a vaudeville act. Along the way, they decide to...
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1927
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