This made-for-cable documentary traces the filming of the imperishable classic Gone with the Wind, from its inception to its...
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1989
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1961
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There's always something simmering beneath the quaint and placid surface of small-town New England lives -- and that includes...
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1961
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Based on the stageplay Pick-up Girl, this film adaptation by director Muriel Box retains enough of the verbose theatrical...
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Judge Bentley
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1960
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This episode boasts the presence of two "Lieutenant Columbos": Thomas Mitchell, who created the role of disheveled detective...
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1960
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1958
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In this drama, a law student discovers corruption in city hall while researching a class project involving mock grand-jury...
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Mayor Dick Williston
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1958
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Christmas is decommercialized by an elderly man who thinks he is Santa Claus. ~ Rovi...
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1957
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When media mogul Amos Kyne (Robert Warwick) dies, his business, which includes a major newspaper, a television station, and a...
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John Day Griffith
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1956
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1955
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1955
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The 20th Century-Fox Hour (later syndicated as The Hour of Stars) ran on CBS just shy of two years, from October 1955 through...
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Kris Kringle
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1955
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Rags Barnaby
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1954
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Produced for the "Climax" television program, this small screen adaptation of Mark Twain's classic tale stars Thomas...
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1954
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Before Indiana Jones there was Harry Steele (Charlton Heston), an idealistic archaeologist determined to return an ancient...
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Ed Morgan
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1954
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This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon...
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Jonas Henderson
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1952
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1952
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1952
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The classic Mark Twain time travel fantasy comes to vivid life on the small screen in this television production starring...
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1952
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Minister Sterling Hayden is able to tend to the needs of his flock, but can do nothing for his alcoholic wife. She kills...
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Gandy
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1951
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1950
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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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Red Stanley
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1949
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This modern-day "Faust" variation benefits from a superb cast. Thomas Mitchell plays Joseph Foster, an honest judge who wants...
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Joseph Foster
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1949
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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John Plato Beck
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1948
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Janet Leigh made an impressive film-debut in MGM's The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Though the title suggests a lighthearted...
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Gill MacBean
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1947
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In this war movie, set during WW II, a pilot must crash land in the Pacific after he is shot down. As he floats upon the...
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Capt. Thad Vail
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1947
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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Terence Aloysius O'Davern
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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Uncle Billy
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1946
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Lieutenant Stevenson
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1946
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In this prison drama, a stern hanging judge is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. There he imposes an almost inhumanly...
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Michael Howland
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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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Ike Howard
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1945
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A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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Mudgin
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1945
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No slouch himself at rearranging the facts to make a good story, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody would probably have...
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Ned Buntline
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1944
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The Sullivans attempts to find the positives in one of the most tragic chapters of World War II. Edward Ryan, John Campbell,...
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Mr. Sullivan
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1944
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When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes...
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Play Author
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1944
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Joseph Tumulty
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1944
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Mr. Sydney
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1944
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Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck....
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Dr. Willie Tullock
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1944
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Sgt. Kelly
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1943
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Perhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely...
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Pat Garrett
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1943
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1943
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In 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer and the United States Office of War Information collaborated on Bataan with the official goal...
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Cpl. Jake Feingold
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1943
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Father Antoine
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1942
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Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and...
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Tommy Blue
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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Monty
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1942
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One of the shortest and sweetest of Betty Grable's Technicolor musicals, Song of the Islands casts the Leggy One as Eileen,...
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Dennis O'Brien
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1942
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Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films,...
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Tiny
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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Out of the Fog is the film version of the Irwin Shaw play The Gentle People, refashioned to mollify the Hollywood censors by...
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Jonah Goodwin
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1941
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In this drama, a terminally ill college professor with only three months to live asks some younger colleagues what he should...
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Prof. Henry Todhunter
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1941
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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Peter Casey
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1940
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Gene Gibbons
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1940
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Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is given the Hollywood treatment in this adaptation directed by...
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Dr. Gibbs
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1940
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John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The...
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Aloysius Driscoll
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1940
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Johan David Wyss' novel Swiss Family Robinson had been in print for nearly fifty years before the first film version was made...
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William Robinson
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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Doc Boone
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1939
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A remake of a 1930 Universal film, Little Accident was the third starring vehicle for androgynous juvenile star Baby Sandy....
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Play Author
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1939
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Clopin
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1939
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Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes....
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Kid Dabb
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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Diz Moore
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1939
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In this comedy drama, a Yale tennis star endeavors to be a good sport at every turn. He finds a girl and together they...
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1938
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1938
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In this drama, a millionaire heir finds himself in trouble deep after during a night of drunkenness he pledges his fortune...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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One of the advantages of holding an MGM stock-company contract in the 1930s was the occasional opportunity to star in one of...
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Grady
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1937
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Framed in a flashback related by doctor Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is in essence the story of a struggle between...
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Dr. Kersaint
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1937
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Chester Morris plays a working stiff unable to provide for his family on his meager salary. He arranges a loan with the...
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Curtis
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1937
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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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Hank Miller
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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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1937
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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George Cooper
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1937
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After several light comedy roles, Rosalind Russell proved her salt as a dramatic film actress in this 1936 adaptation of...
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1936
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Crime reporter George Melville (Joel McCrea) arrogantly repeated accurate predictions about jewel robberies. He befriends...
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Phil Bane
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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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Jed Waterbury
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1936
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In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Play Author
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1930
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This comedy was based on the stage success by William Anthony McGuire and features several of the actors who appeared in it...
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1923
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