Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the...
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1970
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Ironside (Raymond Burr) launches an investigation when his psychologist friend Paul Bragen (Noah Keen) is murdered. It seems...
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1968
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Rosie! is directly based upon Ruth Gordon's play A Very Rich Woman, which was itself based upon a French play by Philippe...
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1967
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Lana Turner takes the lead in the seventh film version of Alexandre Bisson's glossy soap opera. Holly Parker (Turner) is...
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1966
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Repeated infidelities and an unexplained death set the stage for this glossy soap opera. Kit Jordan (Lana Turner) is a...
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1965
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Kelly (Constance Towers), a prostitute who wants to transform her life, beats up her pimp, takes the 75 dollars he owes her,...
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Candy
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1964
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This violent, gore-filled, effective horror tale by director Robert Gordon is about a totally wacko private zoo keeper,...
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Jenny
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1963
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Dan O'Herlihy guest-stars as Matthew Raine, a brilliant artist who has gone blind. Wallowing in self-pity, Matthew begins...
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1962
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Bob Hope was in the first stages of his cinematic decline when he starred in Bachelor in Paradise. Hope plays a "romance...
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1961
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This third film version of the lachrymose Fannie Hurst novel Back Street stars Susan Hayward as Rae Smith the role previously...
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Janey nee Smith
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1961
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The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the...
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1961
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In this emotional romance, the young backwoods girl Tammy lives in a houseboat on the river. She is very sad because she...
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Miss Jenks
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1961
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Wanting to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fortune, a glamorous wife talks her lover, who is also her...
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1960
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John Gant (Audie Murphy) rides into the town of Lordsburg and quietly checks into the hotel. He doesn't say much, nor does he...
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1959
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Small-minded small town 1950's mores threaten a youthful romance in this sudsy melodrama based on the play Teach Me How to...
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1958
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Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is a cynical newspaper columnist in San Francisco, handling women's advice -- by chance one...
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Sara Alidos
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1957
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Kim Novak is clearly out of her depth as legendary Broadway actress Jeanne Eagels, but one can't fault her for trying very...
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1957
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Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is Accused of Murder in this Republic programmer. And from the looks of things,...
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Sandra
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1956
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Estelle Hohengarten
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1955
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The Republic super-production The Last Command is a partial remake of the same studio's Man of Conquest (1939). But whereas...
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1955
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One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, The Eternal Sea is the biography of American admiral John M....
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Dorothy Buracker
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1955
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One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated...
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Alida Anderson
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1955
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The Fortyniners stars Wild Bill Elliot as California-based federal agent Sam Nelson. While others pan for gold, Sam searches...
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Stella Walker
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1954
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Target Earth was adapted from Paul W. Fairman's short story Deadly City. Set in, of all places, Chicago, this sci-fier...
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Vicki
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1954
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In this western, a brave cowgirl tries to steal the ill-gotten gains of an outlaw gang. The sheriff is hot on her heels. ~...
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1953
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The messed up love relationships between friends is addressed by a visiting Westerner. ~ Rovi...
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1953
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1953
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Considering its cast, it's surprising that Captain Scarface isn't better known. Filmed during the waning days of the 1950s...
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1953
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In this bizarre western, two prospectors strike it rich and set out across Death Valley with their riches. They are chased by...
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Mary Smith
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1952
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The Cinecolor "A" western Slaughter Trail anticipated High Noon by having its story narrated in song by troubadour...
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Lorabelle Larkin
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1951
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Filmmaker Andrew Stone was always a staunch believer in realism at all costs. Thus it was that much of Highway 301 was lensed...
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Mary Simms
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1950
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Director Budd Boetticher's love of bullfighting comes to the fore in this film drama, directed and co-written by Boetticher...
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Lisbeth Flood
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1950
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Lippert Studio's first 1951 release was the compact western 3 Desperate Men. The title characters are the Denton Brothers,...
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1950
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Homicidal criminal Charles McGraw busts out of jail, kidnapping the three people responsible for his incarceration. The...
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Carol
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1949
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"Tarzan with clothes on". That's how one reviewer summed up Sam Katzman's newest film series Jungle Jim, starring ex-Tarzan...
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Hilary Parker
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1948
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Radio humorist Henry Morgan made his film debut in So This is New York. Based on The Big Town, a collection of stories by...
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Ella Finch
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1948
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Producer Hal Roach's postwar attempt to create a new bunch of "Our Gang" kids resulted in two misfire Cinecolor comedies, the...
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1948
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In this drama, a wanderer is put on a fight card after promising the promoter that he will take a dive. He soon falls in...
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Janet Gilbert
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1948
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Cole Porter's Broadway musical Mexican Hayride was optioned by Universal in the mid-1940s, then remained in "development...
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Montana
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1948
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In this science fiction adventure, John Fairbanks (Richard Denning) is a former Marine who, while on duty, discovered a...
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Carole Lane
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1948
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In this psychological drama, a group of people are stranded in a remote jungle after a plane crash. The disparate reactions...
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1948
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1947
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A disappearing scientist and a spooky mansion get wrapped up together. ~ John Bush, Rovi...
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1947
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A talented small town gal from Tennessee ends up in the big city after she is discovered by a talent scout. Though the scout...
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Lorraine Royle
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1947
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Promoted from Republic B westerns to "A" productions, William "Wild Bill" Elliot found himself in the sort of roles...
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1947
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This adventure, set upon the mighty Mississippi, features two former Tarzans. One of them is a river-boat captain who was...
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Janet Hilton
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1946
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This marked the first starring role for Rondo Hatton, previously seen in a few Sherlock Holmes films as the spine-snapping...
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1946
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Paula
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1946
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Vicki
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1945
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Rita Dane
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1945
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In this western, a Montana cattle rancher travels to San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast and ends up falling in love...
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1945
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In 1912, John Bunny and Flora Finch starred in the one-reel farce The New Secretary, wherein Bunny's wife hires a homely...
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Diana Lee
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1945
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The old bromide about a group of avaricious heirs waiting for an old millionaire to die is trotted out in Grissly's Millions....
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Katherine Palmor Bentley
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1945
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A bizarre love affair forms the basis of this drama. It all begins with a few love letters between a Marine sergeant...
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1944
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In this wartime espionage drama, Nazis open up a covert operation in the US. Outwardly it is a high-class dress shop, but...
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Terry
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1943
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Edna Van Dyke
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1943
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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At 70 minutes, the Roy Rogers musical western Idaho was packaged and promoted as a "special", rather than just another...
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Terry
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1943
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Grand Central Murder was intended as a followup to the MGM "sleeper" Kid Glove Killer, with the earlier film's star, Van...
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Sue Custer
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1942
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In his final film before entering war service, Gene Autry joins the World Wide Wild West Show, a faltering enterprise about...
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Jennifer Benton
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1942
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In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker. When she...
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1942
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This final "Tarzan" entry from the MGM assembly line is arguably one the least effective of the series, though it certainly...
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Connie Beach
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1942
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In the last of the Marx Brothers' MGM films, The Big Store, Groucho Marx plays two-bit detective Wolf J. Flywheel, hired by...
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Joan Sutton
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1941
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In addition to his supporting-player duties at MGM, Frank Morgan could always be counted upon to star in the studio's...
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1941
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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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Jane Wilson
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1941
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With a little extra effort, Washington Melodrama might have passed muster as an A picture. Frank Morgan stars as millionaire...
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1941
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Margie Blake
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1941
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Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in...
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Fran Post
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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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Patricia Casey
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1940
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Dumb but honest insurance agent Henry Twinkle (Lew Ayres) is in love with Mary Blake (Rita Johnson), the secretary of Henry's...
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Lila Hanley
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1940
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This touching romance is based on a play by Rachel Crothers. An aging sea captain squanders his fortune on a bad business...
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Mary Peabody
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1940
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It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that the MGM programmer Hullabaloo bears no relation to the 1960s rock-and-roll series...
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Laura Merriweather
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1940
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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Lois MacFay
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1939
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1939
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1939
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The fifth of MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, The Hardys Ride High finds the Hardy family outside their usual small-town environs....
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1939
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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Susan Thorson
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1939
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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1939
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The second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the...
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1938
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Viennese-born Luise Rainer plays a young Parisian girl who attends an exclusive drama school, working nights at a factory to...
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1938
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When Marie Dressler died in 1934, the career of her frequent screen partner Polly Moran went into eclipse. Four years later,...
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Sally
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1938
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In director Reinh Schunzel's film Rich Man, Poor Girl, the upper crust collides with the more financially unfortunate members...
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1938
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1938
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Andrea Leeds, whose career had shifted into hyperdrive after her brilliant performance in Stage Door (1937), stars in the...
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1938
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1938
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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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This drama chronicles the fate of two disparate brothers, both of whom work at the same power plant. One of them is...
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Kitty
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1937
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Released in Great Britain as Gangster's Valley, Secret Valley is a modern western (that is, it takes place in 1937). Richard...
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Jean Carlo
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1937
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In this remake of the 1920 Will Rogers comedy Honest Hutch, Wallace Beery stars as the eponymous Hutch, the ne'er-do-well...
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1936
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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James Cagney manages to retain his pre-Code cockiness within post-Code limitations in the likeable St. Louis Kid. Cagney and...
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1934
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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1933
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When European princess Lee comes back to her Midwestern hometown, she is thought to be a seamstress and goes along with the...
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1931
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D. W. Griffith had originally been announced as the director of the Universal "super-production" version of Uncle Tom's...
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Eva
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1928
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This silent adventure is best remembered for its spectacular forest fire scenes that were staged and shot by extraordinary...
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1928
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