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1966
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After a dangerous tiger turns on its trainer and escapes from the circus, a small town in Texas finds itself in an uproar...
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1964
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A young widow from Boston travels with her three children to Maine to enjoy their summer vacation. Margaret Carey...
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1963
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The first half of this 1961 Walt Disney Presents episode shows the work that went behind the delightful animated opening...
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1961
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Mrs. Winemiller
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1961
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We get a double dose of Hayley Mills in this Disney vehicle: she plays 13-year-old identical twins Susan and Sharon, who meet...
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Verbena
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1961
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Ma Larkin
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1959
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Bertha
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1957
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The Girl Most Likely owns the distinction of being the last RKO Radio picture ever produced at the studio's Hollywood...
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1957
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1956
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The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left...
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Miss Bedelia Baines
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1956
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Produced and directed by star Burt Lancaster, The Kentuckian is a leisurely western occasionally punctuated by spurts of...
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Sophie
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1955
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Mom Schneider
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1953
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Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, this remake of the 1934 original finds a wealthy widow (Lana Turner) returning to her...
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Kitty Riley
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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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1952
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Rich, Young and Pretty succinctly describes Jane Powell, the heroine of this frothy MGM musical. Vacationing in Paris with...
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1951
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Golden Girl is the life story (sort of) of legendary 19th-century American entertainer Lotta Crabtree. The daughter of a...
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Mrs. Crabtree
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1951
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In this old-fashioned screwball comedy, Christy Sloane (Eleanor Parker) is a secretary with a large legal firm who is sent to...
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Patsy
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1951
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In this musical comedy with dramatic touches, Jack and Molly Moran (Dan Dailey and Betty Grable) are a show business couple...
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1950
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Emma
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1950
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William Bendix is perfectly cast as a diehard baseball fan who hates umpires with every fibre of his being. Bendix' devotion...
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Betty Johnson
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1950
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Eagle-Lion studios inaugurated its new "big budget" western policy with 1948's The Man From Texas. James Craig stars as the...
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Widow Weeks
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1948
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In this funny tale of deception and romantic fireworks, a rather prissy New England school marm finally gets a chance to...
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Miss Doberly
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1948
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Radio actor Kenny Delmar created the character of bombastic Southern Senator Claghorn for a 1945 installment of...
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Magnolia Claghorn
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1947
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Perennial second lead Una Merkel and radio dialect comedian Parkyakarkus team up in the Monogram musical fantasy Sweethearts...
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Patsy
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1944
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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1943
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Considering the fact that it was the only Universal horror film directed by cult favorite Joseph H. Lewis, it's a shame that...
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Aunt Margaret
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1942
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This third film version of the hectic Margaret Mayo-Salisbury Field stage farce Twin Beds officially stars George Brent and...
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Lydia
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1942
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No relation to the Cracked Nuts he directed in 1931, this hokey sci-fi-comedy from director Edward F. Cline stars Stuart...
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1941
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Julia Quimby
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1941
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In this drama two children return from their separate boarding schools to a nasty surprise. The father of one is...
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Elsie
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1941
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Belina Walters
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1940
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W.C. Fields plays Egbert Souse, a bibulous denizen of Lompoc who supports his family by winning radio contests. When a...
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Myrtle Sousé
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1940
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The brief but lively film career of infant star Baby Sandy came to an end with Sandy Gets Her Man. In this one, Sandy is the...
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Nan
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1940
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Marcia Giles
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1939
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Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object...
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1939
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This hospital drama chronicles the exploits of four nursing students enrolled in a three-year training course. One of them...
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Gertie Robbins
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1939
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Rhythm Romance is the television title for the 1939 Bob Hope comedy Some Like It Hot (the change was made to avoid confusion...
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Flo Saunders
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1939
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Guy Kibbee, moviedom's archetypal small-town bigshot, stars in RKO Radio's Don't Tell the Wife. On this occasion, Kibbee,...
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Nancy Dorset
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
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Daisy McClure
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1937
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The owner of a racehorse, the owner's lovely niece and a jockey must deal with a number of travails before the big race in...
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Mamie Appleby
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1937
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Good Old Soak was based on a story by Don Marquis, creator of the immortal "Archy and Mehitabel." Wallace Beery is well-cast...
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Nellie
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1937
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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Jenny Saks
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1936
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The fast-paced world of Indy car racing provides the backdrop for this drama. The story centers on a test driver who works...
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Josephine Sanderson
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1936
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We Went to College is a perceptive spoof of alumni "homecoming" reunions. Hugh Herbert plays a daffy economics professor, who...
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Susan
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1936
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In this romantic drama a woman with a scandalous past tells all in an autobiography. It seems the woman, an artist, received...
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Slade
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1935
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The Broadway Melody of 1936 was designed as the first of many annual follow-ups to "MGM"'s early-talkie triumph...
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Kitty Corbett
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1935
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Riff-Raff begins riff-raffing when boastful fisherman Dutch (Spencer Tracy) marries down-to-earth cannery worker Hattie...
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Lil
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1935
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, Baby Face Harrington features actor Charles Butterworth as Willie, a meek clerk who unintentionally...
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Millicent
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1935
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Having gained considerable audience attention for his appearance in the 1935 "Crime Does Not Pay" 2-reeler Buried Loot, new...
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Toots Simmons
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1935
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Fanni
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1935
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In this western, a cowpoke from Wyoming rides into the big city to look for a wife. Instead he finds himself investigating...
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Phoebe
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1935
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Jack Benny is cast against type as a small-time con man in this lightweight MGM programmer. Whenever he manages to outsmart...
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Alice Churchill
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1935
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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Petunia Pratt
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1934
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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Amy Drexel
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1934
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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Gwen
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1934
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The career of dance instructor Sally (Jean Parker) comes to an abrupt end when she is crippled in an accident on the eve of...
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Joan
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1934
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In director Edwin L. Marin's film Paris Interlude, a beautiful French woman named Julie Bell (Madge Evans) unexpectedly falls...
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Cassie
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1934
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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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Birdie
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1934
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Queen Dolorex
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1934
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Harry Beaumont, a director-composer most closely associated with MGM's musical product, does a nice job handling the...
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Georgia
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1934
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In this crime drama, a famous criminal attorney is abandoned by his wife who has tired of his neglect and heavy drinking....
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Miss Simmons
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1934
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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Carol
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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1933
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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Lorraine Fleming
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1933
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Loaned to MGM by her home studio of Warner Bros., Loretta Young suffers her way through the title role in Midnight Mary. A...
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Bunny
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1933
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One wonders if William Wyler ever gave Her First Mate a second thought when he was busy directing such subsequent films as...
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Hattie
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1933
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Broadway to Hollywood is a through-the-years saga about a show business family. Frank Morgan and Alice Brady play vaudeville...
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1933
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In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company...
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Mamie
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1933
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1933
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In this crime-comedy, an aspiring pulp writer elopes with a young woman and ends up in a boot-legger's lair. There he...
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Toby Van Buren
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1933
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Secret of Madame Blanche is one of those "confessional" film dramas which movie fans of the early 1930s ate up like bonbons....
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Ella
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1933
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A splashy journalist finds herself embroiled in international intrigue when she hooks up with a sneaky Russian correspondent...
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Dolly Winslow
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1933
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An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the...
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Molly
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1933
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In this mystery, an aspiring mystery writer breaks into a home and finds it inhabited by dangerous gangsters. ~ Sandra...
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1933
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The moral of this drama could very well be for people to exercise caution with what they wish for as they just might get it....
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Mary Taylor
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1932
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Though only 19, Loretta Young was an established Hollywood star in 1932, appearing in six films in that year alone. In They...
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Dixie
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1932
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In this football drama, a tough steelworker's son wins a scholarship to Yale and attempts to use his talent on the football...
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Thelma
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1932
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Ruth Robbins (Mae Clarke) is already a cynic about marriage, and well she should be -- at age 19, she's the...
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Betty Merrick
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1932
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In her first film under contract to Warner Bros., Kay Francis plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband Fred (Kenneth...
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Ruth Holman
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1932
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Jack Conway complained about being assigned to direct this comedy, claiming that a woman like the title character had almost...
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Sally
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1932
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Janet Gaynor plays a teenaged orphanage waif who protects the younger children from the harshness of the supervisors. One of...
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Sally McBride
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1931
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Rita La Roy has good reasons to hate her philandering husband, Hooper Atchley, in this low-budget but sumptuous-looking art...
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Lois Martin
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1931
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1931
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This French-style farce is set at a large party. There a young misogynist explains why he cannot trust women. A man...
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Tallulah Hope
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1931
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In his third feature-film appearance, Spencer Tracy plays a small-town hotshot named William Donroy, who talks a young...
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Margaret Rogers
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1931
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Effie Perine
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1931
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Princess Katerina
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1931
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Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband...
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June
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1931
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Sibyl Chase
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1931
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Magnificently restored by UCLA to its original "Grandeur" wide-screen format The Bat Whispers may not be a cinematic...
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Dale Van Gorder
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1930
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Still in the "Lillian Gish" phase of her career, Una Merkel plays the put-upon heroine in The Eyes of the World. The story...
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1930
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To date, this D.W. Griffith epic is the only talking-picture effort to encapsulate the entire life of Abraham Lincoln, from...
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Ann Rutledge
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1930
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Too long by at least 3 reels, D. W. Griffith's The White Rose is nonetheless one of the best and most accomplished of the...
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1923
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