James Stewart's last Hollywood film before entering military service, Come Live with Me teams Stewart with the hauntingly...
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Diana Kendrick
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1941
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One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
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Laura Bannister
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1940
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Barbara Allen
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1940
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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Madame Marcesca
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1940
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A wealthy older man and a poor young woman each get a chance to see how the other half lives in this comedy. Alfred Borden...
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Mrs. Martha Borden
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1939
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Except for a few clips from 1937's Topper, Cary Grant is absent from the proceedings of the 1939 sequel Topper Takes a Trip,...
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Nancy Parkhurst
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1938
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Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story...
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Irene Hibbard
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1937
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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Ann Westley
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1936
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1935
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This drama examines the rivalry between a mother and the daughter she is too vain to acknowledge. The mother is a famous...
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Helen Walbridge
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1934
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The second of three Kay Francis films in which the star was cast as a dedicated lady physician, Doctor Monica was adapted...
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Anna Littlefield
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1934
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Now known simply as Fashions, the lavish Warner Bros. musical Fashions of 1934 stars the unlikely but copacetic team of...
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Grand Duchess Alix/Mabel McGuire
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1934
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Produced by Warner Bros. in 1934, A Modern Hero was the only American talkie directed by the great German filmmaker...
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Lady Claire Benson
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1934
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All but forgotten today, Warner Bros.' The Firebird was based on a once-popular stage mystery by Lajos Zilhany. Prohibited...
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Carola Pointer
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1934
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Goodbye Love is a lampoon of what was once designated the "alimony racket." Refusing to meet his wife's exorbitant alimony...
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1934
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No boring historical pageant this, Warner Bros.' Madame DuBarry is a fast-paced, often hilarious romantic romp. Her Mexican...
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Duchess De Granmont
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1934
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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Empress Agrippa
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1933
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This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean...
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Luise Marheim
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1933
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Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts star as Mark and Connie, a pair deceptively innocent-looking con artists. Connie has made a...
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Elsie Carpenter
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1933
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In this comedy a maid and a butler work for a very rich man. The trouble begins when their employer dies and leaves his...
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Lola Montrose
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1933
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In this suspenseful mystery, a murderous psychopath aboard a luxury liner begins a series of grisly but creative murders....
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1933
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Mme. Collins
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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Sarah Dennet
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1932
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Based on a short-lived stage comedy, The Sap from Syracuse stars Jack Oakie in the title role. A humble laborer on a luxury...
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1930
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This is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a...
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1929
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