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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1948
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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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1945
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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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1944
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Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted...
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1942
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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1941
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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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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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1939
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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1938
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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1935
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1934
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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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1933
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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1932
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Red Dust was lensed almost entirely on MGM's back lot; even so, we are utterly convinced that the film takes place in...
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1932
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An early example of a "vanity" production, this feature-length documentary is comprised of glorified home movies taken by...
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1931
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Ellen Neal (Constance Bennett) is a "nice" girl -- just turned 18 -- who's been picked up in a raid on a speakeasy where she...
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1930
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In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi...
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1930
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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1929
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If Hollywood gossip columnists can be believed, Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez were lovers -- and very passionate ones -- when...
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1929
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The tiny but voluptuous chassis of Clara Bow is given ample display in the exotic romance Hula. The story takes place in...
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1928
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Anne Nichols' Broadway comedy Abie's Irish Rose was almost universally panned when it opened in 1923. But despite the moans...
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1928
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1928
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This was Emil Jannings' first American-made picture, and his portrayal is reminiscent of his characters in his previous...
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1927
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1927
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Even though Big Bill Devens (Ernest Torrence) is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife...
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1926
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Clara Bow plays an inveterate flirt who impulsively marries much-older mountain man Ernest Torrence. When city lawyer...
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1926
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Almost 30 years before the Peter O'Toole picture, Joseph Conrad's novel was first filmed as a silent. It was directed in...
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1925
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Based on a story by Harold Bell Wright, this average silent western starred Warner Baxter as the son who almost loses his...
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1925
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The subject matter to this Victor Fleming-directed drama is typically virile -- it takes place in Sacramento during the Gold...
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1925
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Adventure was an appropriate title for a book by Jack London, and when his tale of the South Seas was made into a film, the...
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1925
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The story to this sea melodrama was written by Byron Morgan. Morgan was best known for the fast-paced auto tales he wrote for...
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1924
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1924
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As might be expected, director Victor Fleming, who always did well with outdoorsy material, deftly handles this adaptation of...
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1923
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The plot to this routine Paramount drama was apparently inspired by current interest in the work of Emile Coue, a hypnotist...
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1923
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1923
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Leading lady Lois Wilson considered this fine western her favorite of six films she starred in opposite virile leading man...
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1923
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Paramount starred Agnes Ayers for the first time in this tragedy, adapted from the novel by Sir Gilbert Parker....
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1922
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This fast-paced comedy came from the pen of husband and wife screenwriting team Anita Loos and John Emerson. After his...
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1922
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Victor Fleming was still a relatively new director when he helmed this melodrama, an adaptation of the stage play by Harry...
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1922
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Eve Orrin (Constance Talmadge) is at the mercy of her possessive mother (Effie Shannon), who has a case of "nerves" every...
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1921
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This picture had three things in its favor right from the start -- its star, Constance Talmadge; the fact that women had...
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1921
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After finishing his first costumer swashbuckler The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. reverted to his standard formula...
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1920
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This lively silent romantic comedy was the second film made by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for the new United Artists company. Much...
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1920
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1919
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Douglas Fairbanks Sr. stars as Ned Thacker, who is born during a Kansas cyclone (coincidentally the same manner in which...
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1917
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Daydreaming clerk Douglas Fairbanks discovers that he's of royal blood. In fact, if his information is correct, he's next in...
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1917
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1917
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Rancher Warren Bronson (Herbert Standing) is plagued by cattle rustlers, so he gets Western detective Fancy Jim Sherwood...
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1917
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Jeff Hillington (Douglas Fairbanks) is the extremely naive son of a wealthy Eastern family -- he loves the Old West so much...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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The Good Bad Man is at once a straight western and a gentle spoof of the genre. Douglas Fairbanks plays a fellow who calls...
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1916
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American Aristocracy is a breezy satirical silent farce totally dominated by its star, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Screenwriter...
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1916
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