Clowning Around was the blanket title for two separate British/Australian TV series, both aimed at a youthful audience. The...
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1992
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Fred Williamson directed and stars in this average action film as Col. Wright, who teams up with a paroled thief (Bo Svenson)...
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1991
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In this post-apocalpytic adventure story, narrated by Van Johnson, Teo (Fabrice Josso) lives underground in a cave with his...
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1990
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Jessica (Angela Lansbury) agrees to finish a book that was inaugurated by recently deceased Pulitzer-winning journalist...
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1990
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This convoluted sequel once again centers upon the courageous exploits of a secret, elite cadre of American jet fighters...
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John McCailland
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1990
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1988
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In Boston, Jessica agrees to serve as honorary chairperson at a charity tennis tournament where her former student Carol...
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1986
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Woody Allen blurs the the boundaries between the real and unreal in this unique comic fantasy. The scene is a small town in...
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Larry
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1985
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Angela Lansbury's former MGM colleagues Van Johnson and June Allyson are prominently featured in this episode. A...
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1984
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1984
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1984
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1982
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1982
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After Third World terrorists abduct the Commander-in-Chief, it's up to Secret Service head William Shatner to get him back in...
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Vice President Ethan Richards
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1980
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This half-baked but entertaining disaster film (not to be confused with America's The Concorde - Airport '79) deals with the...
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1979
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An upcoming Super Bowl provides the framework for this suspenseful thriller set in New Orleans. The trouble begins when a...
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1978
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In this romantic comedy, a news anchorwoman's prenuptial jitters increase dramatically when another man, a songwriter, falls...
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1978
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The locale of Anna Sewell's 1906 novel Black Beauty was changed from England to Maryland in this five-part TV miniseries....
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1978
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After a four-episode tryout as a component of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie anthology, Quincy, M.E. launched its regular...
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1977
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In the conclusion of Quincy, M.E.'s two-part Season Two opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Quincy...
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1977
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More ambitious and expensive than ABC's first "novel for television" miniseries QB VII, the eight-episode, 12-hour Rich Man,...
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1976
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Don Murray stars as slick network news producer William Martin in The Girl on the Late, Late Show. In addition to his...
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1974
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"Mom" is Connie Stevens, who stars in this made-for-TV comedy. Stevens plays a small-town waitress who is appointed the...
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1972
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In this detective drama, a mismatched pair of gumshoes get into hot water with the Syndicate. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1972
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1971
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In this thriller a police detective must find a renegade assassin who is not only wanted by the cops, he is also wanted by...
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1970
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San Francisco International is a multiplotted drama set at the titular air transport center. Several storylines intersect at...
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1970
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Italian director Tonino Valerii recreates a fistful of JFK conspiracy theories in Western settings with this bizarre look at...
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1969
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Based on actual World War II events, La Battaglia d'Inghilterra chronicles the success of a German intelligence group's...
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1969
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Boxer Lazaro Perez is suspended when he punches out an obstreperous reporter. Feeling partly responsible, Crime magazine...
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1969
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This story is taken from the real-life marriage of two people in the early 1960s. Helen North (Lucille Ball) is a widow with...
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Darrel Harrison
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1968
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1968
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An unhappy couple discover breaking up really is hard to do in this satiric comedy. Richard Harmon (Dick Van Dyke) and his...
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Al Yearling
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1967
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In this made-for-TV movie, a deadly bomb is concealed aboard a passenger jet in a devious plan to blackmail the airline...
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1966
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In this romantic comedy, Bill Austin (Van Johnson) is an unsuccessful writer who lives in a forlorn New York tenement while...
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Bill Austin
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1963
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A routine wartime tale of double-crossing spies and Nazi evils, The Enemy General is about the stereotypical, not exceedingly...
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Lemaire
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1960
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Beyond This Place is a tame murder mystery based on a novel by A. J. Cronin. Van Johnson is cast as an American citizen whose...
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Paul Mathry
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1959
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Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal...
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Maj. Baxter Grant
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1959
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Filmed on location in Holland, The Last Blitzkrieg stars Van Johnson in the atypical role of WW2 German officer Kroner. The...
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Sergeant Richardson/Kroner
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1958
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In one of her few English-speaking appearances, French leading lady Martine Carol plays Tracy, the daughter of a political...
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Carson
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1957
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Pied Piper/Truson
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1957
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Kelly is a big, lovable, immensely talented German Shepherd. "Me" is Len Carmody (Van Johnson), a third-rate vaudevillian....
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Len Carmody
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1957
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Anyone who thinks that tabloid journalism is an aberration of the 1980s should take a look at the 1956 release Slander. The...
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Scott Ethan Martin
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1956
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Two brothers face their personal demons in this crime melodrama. Donald Martin (Van Johnson) is an alcoholic criminal who has...
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Donald Martin
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1956
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The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy that centers on an...
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Pvt. Arthur Hugenon
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1956
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Van Johnson portrays a blind American writer living in London. Blessed with an acute hearing sense, Johnson overhears a...
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Phillip Hannon
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1956
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Lucy's friend Caroline Appleby (Doris Singleton) arrives in Hollywood, demanding to meet some of the celebrities with whom...
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Himself
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1955
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Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was...
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Maurice Bendrix
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1955
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Reportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's...
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Jeff Douglas
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1954
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Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly-minted ensign assigned to the destroyer/minesweeper...
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Lt. Steve Maryk
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1954
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Leave it to MGM to turn the Korean War into a splashy, big-budget, all-star extravaganza. Men of the Fighting Lady is set on...
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Lt. Howard Thayer
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1954
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Charles Wills
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1954
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Jim Farraday
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1954
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June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a...
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Waldo Williams
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1953
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Ray Lloyd
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1953
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Joe Bedloe
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1953
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During the Vatican Holy Year of 1950, confidence trickster Joe Brewster (Paul Douglas) disguises himself as a priest and...
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Father John
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1952
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Dan Pierce
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1952
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Washington Story stars Van Johnson as mildly liberal congressman Joseph T. Gresham. For reasons that he can't fathom, Gresham...
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Joseph T. Gresham
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1952
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Plymouth Adventure earned a footnote in film history as the last directorial effort by the prolific Clarence Brown....
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John Alden
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1952
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Pretty stewardess Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) must choose between Three Guys Named Mike in this frothy MGM concoction. There's...
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Michael Lawrence
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1951
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Robert Pirosh wrote and directed this little-known World War II drama from MGM that commemorates the 442nd Regimental Combat...
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Lt. Michael Grayson
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1951
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Can it be that June Allyson is Too Young to Kiss in this bit of MGM fluff? Well, not really. Pianist Cynthia Potter (Allyson)...
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Eric Wainwright
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1951
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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Adam Burch
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1950
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This formula Esther Williams musical casts the star as Midwestern carnival swimmer Christine Duncan, in love with bandleader...
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Dick Layn
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1950
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Grounds for Marriage is another attractively packaged sausage from the MGM assembly line. Van Johnson is a doctor, while...
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Dr. Lincoln I. Barlett
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1950
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Nobody sits on the fence so far as The Big Hangover is concerned. Leonard Maltin considers it "predictable, as well as silly...
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David Maldon
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1950
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Andrew Larkin
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1949
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The Dore Schary regime at MGM brought a much-needed dose of stark realism to the venerable studio. Van Johnson sheds his...
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Mike Conovan
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1949
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Prof. Richard Michaels
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1949
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Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM...
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Holley
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1949
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Tech. Sgt. Immanuel T. Evans
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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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Greg Rawlings
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1948
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Spike McManus
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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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Henry Carson
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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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Alec Brooke
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1947
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This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but...
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Bill Stevens Chandler
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1946
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In this WWII musical, a young hero and his buddy decide to celebrate his receiving the Medal of Honor by partying. He is...
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Sgt. Michael Hanlon
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1946
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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1946
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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1946
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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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Maj. Thomas Milvaine
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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Capt. James Hollis
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1945
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The oft-used movie title Between Two Women was resurrected once more for this entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series. Though...
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Dr. Red Adams
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1944
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MGM's popular Dr. Kildare series spanned 1938-47. Lew Ayres played the title character, but parted in 1942. Though crusty and...
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Dr. Randall Adams
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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Sam Bennett
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1944
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Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...
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Capt. Ted W. Lawson
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1944
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Two Girls and a Sailor is another of those all-star, no-plot wartime musicals turned out by the bushel basket in the 1940s....
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John Dyckman Brown III
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1944
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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Ted Randall
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1944
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Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in...
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Everett Arnold
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1943
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The third of MGM's Dr. Kildare series to dispense with the services of Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres), Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case...
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Dr. Randall Adams
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1943
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Reporter
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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Marcus Macauley
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1943
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Murder in the Big House was a remake of the 1936 Warner Bros. programmer Jailbreak. In his first starring role, Van Johnson...
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Bert Bell
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1942
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Unable to convince their isolationist New York editor (Charles Dingle) that America must be alerted to the threat of...
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1942
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On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) realizes that it's time to appoint a new...
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Dr. Randall Adams
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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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Now immortalized as the film on which Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met, Too Many Girls is a faithful adaptation of the...
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1940
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Produced by Victor Adamson (aka Denver Dixon), directed by Alan James (aka Alvin J. Neitz), and written by Van Johnson (no,...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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A Lenten period television variety special. ~ Rovi...
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