New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking,...
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1957
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1956
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1956
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In the second episode of Walt Disney's two-part miniseries The Legends of Davy Crockett, frontiersman Davy Crockett (Fess...
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1955
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1955
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In this entry in the "Henry Latham" series, set during WW II, an independent young woman takes control of a flying school...
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Mayor Colton
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1951
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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1951
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1951
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In Lightning Strikes Twice, Ruth Roman stars a Shelley Carnes, a stage actress who champions the cause of Richard Trevelyan...
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1951
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After a lengthy absence from the screen, Judy Canova returned in the raucous musical Honeychile. The plot had been utilized...
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Al Moore
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1951
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In this entry in the "Henry Latham" comedy series, the parsimonious Henry protests the rising cost of meat and decides to...
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1950
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In this comedy, a local citizen, miffed by the mayor's new milk tax, buys his own cow. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1950
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The short but colorful life of American musical comedy star Marilyn Miller is given the standard prettified Hollywood...
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1949
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The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Raymond Walburn stars as...
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Mayor Colton
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1949
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The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery...
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1949
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The second entry in Monogram's "Father" series was 1949's Leave It to Henry. Raymond Walburn returns as small-town blowhard...
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Mayor Colton
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1949
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This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....
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1949
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The same week that Pine-Thomas Productions' Speed to Spare was tradeshown in Los Angeles, the company released another of its...
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Joel Hawkins
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1948
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Are You with It? is a Universal vehicle for Donald O'Connor, who in 1948 was just making the transition from juvenile parts...
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Jason Carter
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1948
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Finding a curiously silent young runaway boy (Dean Stockwell) whose head has been completely shaved, small town police call...
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1948
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In this musical comedy, Louise Ginglebusher (Deanna Durbin) is a girl from a small town who comes top New York City with...
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Mr. Buckingham
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1947
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Disparate twin brothers find themselves involved in romantic mayhem when their respective girl friends get them confused in...
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Mr. Wright
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1946
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Set upon the mighty Mississippi, this comedy chronicles the travails of a showboat captain trying to keep his operation...
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Mr. Witherspoon
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1946
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I Love a Bandleader is an easy-to-take vehicle for personable orchestra leader Phil Harris. "Old Curly" is cast as...
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B. Templeton Jones
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1945
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In this comedy drama a war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding...
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Wiggins
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1945
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It is said that producer Sam Goldwyn had a habit of addressing his new star of the 1940s, Danny Kaye, as "Eddie", confusing...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian father, wanting a better life for his son, fires the youth from their act. The deeply...
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Tim Martel
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1944
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In this musical romance, an ice skater comes to America to represent her country at a Lake Placid carnival. Unfortunately,...
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1944
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Singing, dancing, and ice skating are featured in this musical that focuses on ice-skating sensation Belita. The story...
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Timber
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1944
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Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away...
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1944
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Dr. Bilbo
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1944
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This youthful musical follows the romantic travails of a group of talented high school students and their charismatic high...
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Michael O'Bannon
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1944
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Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Three Is a Family is a 1940s farce that frequently substitutes noise for humor....
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1944
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In this crazy comedy, a casino worker writes a book about headhunters and finds himself the target of the leader of an...
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1944
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Bisbee
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1944
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In this musical, the three Andrews Sisters play elevator operators who work in an office building containing a music...
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Whipple
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1943
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Don "Red" Barry took a break from westerns to star in the fair-to-middling sentimental drama The West Side Kid. Barry is cast...
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1943
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In this lively romantic farce, a Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If...
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1943
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Change of Heart is the reissue title of the Republic musical Hit Parade of 1943. The studio had been turning out these annual...
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1943
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Robert Paige plays a struggling songwriter who poses as a millionaire cowboy. It's all part of a zany, wacky and nutty scheme...
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Ace Robbins
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1943
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Get Going is typical of the 60-minute musical comdies being churned out by Universal in the 1940s. A topical twist is added...
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Horace Doblem
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1943
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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1943
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Roy Rogers saves the day for the ranchers of Cherokee City in this fast-paced comedy-Western directed and produced by Joseph...
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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1942
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Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered...
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1942
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A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the...
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1942
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The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and...
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1942
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Universal and producer/director Henry Koster had plans to make Diana Barrymore, the daughter of John Barrymore, into another...
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1942
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The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a...
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Gribble
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1942
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and...
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1941
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Bandleader Orrin Tucker and his featured vocalist "Wee" Bonnie Baker are the stars of the Paramount pocket musical You're the...
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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1941
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1941
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Rather than play famous outlaw Cole Younger in this film, Warner Bros. contract star Humphrey Bogart chose suspension....
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1941
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In this comedy drama, a medicine show con-man pretends to be a wealthy man to impress his long-lost daughter who is slated...
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1941
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Ann Sheridan and her then-husband George Brent did their expected box-office duty in the Warner Bros. comedy Honeymoon for...
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1941
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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1941
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The comic effusions of Hugh "woo woo" Herbert helps to keep this otherwise forgettable farce afloat. It all begins when Bob...
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1941
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It has been alleged that Horror Island was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s horror films. While it certainly looks...
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1941
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The virile Warner Bros. programmer Steel Against the Sky stars Lloyd Nolan and Craig Stevens as steelworkers Rocky and Chuck...
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1941
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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1941
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It's hard to believe that Wild Bill Hickok Rides is a Warner Bros. picture-and harder still to believe that Constance Bennett...
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Sylvester Twigg
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1941
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This is the first of two filmed adaptations of Al Capp's classic comic strip, in which the title hillbilly (Granville Owen)...
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1940
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In addition to his yearly manifest of six 2-reel comedies, Leon Errol always managed to squeeze a few feature-film...
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Tommy Lane
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1940
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In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a...
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1940
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When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto (Christian Rub) builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings...
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J. Worthington Foulfellow
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1940
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Remedy for Riches was the fourth in RKO Radio's six-entry "Dr. Christian" series. Jean Hersholt returns as Dr. Christian, the...
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Clem
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1940
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1940
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This mistaken-identity concoction takes place on a college campus--a familiar locale for Paramount B-pictures. Wayne Morris...
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1940
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A young, naive schoolteacher gets in over her head when the advances of a suitor grow too ardent. To escape his unwanted...
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Station Attendant
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1940
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Exile Express was the last film produced by Grand National Pictures, and a worthy farewell it was. Anna Sten, former Sam...
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Gus
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1939
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The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by...
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1939
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A singing waiter with a wonderful operatic voice finds himself in the squared circle facing heavyweight boxers after he gets...
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Skip Davis
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1939
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Louis Armstrong steals the show as the groom to Jeepers Creepers, a skittish racehorse that can only settle down and run when...
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Franklin Dexter
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1939
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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an...
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1938
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An airy screwball comedy, Danger--Love at Work explores the lives of a wealthy but wacky family. Ann Sothern plays the...
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1937
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In this detective adventure, a young woman is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from her boss and takes off for Spain...
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Tip Conway
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1937
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1937
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If you're wondering which Warners musical featured the songs "Old King Cole" and "Have You Got Any Castles?," we refer you to...
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Prof. Sylvester Biddle
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1937
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The hyped-up 1930s radio feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and columnist Walter Winchell is all but forgotten today, but...
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1937
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Director Roy Del Ruth and singing star Dick Powell were raided from the Warner Bros. stables for this frothy musical comedy...
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1937
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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Nifty Bailey
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1937
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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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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1936
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This lively riverboat musical shows off the vocal and terpsichorean talents of former Ziegfeld Follies star Barbara Stanwyck...
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1936
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For a change of pace, Warner Bros. contract tenor James Melton sings no opera in Sing Me A Love Song -- nor does he sing...
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1936
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Four Days Wonder is adapted from the A. A. Milne novel of the same name. New Universal contractee Jeanne Dante stars as...
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Duffy
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1936
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Jake Sherman
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1936
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1936
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Casting an envious eye towards the huge box-office take of Columbia's Grace Moore vehicles, Republic hoped to strike gold in...
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1936
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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Susan (ZaSu Pitts) is a plain-Jane wallflower who spends a day at Coney Island. Here she catches the eye of equally shy (and...
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Gilbert
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1935
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It's a dark and stormy night. The butler of a large mansion is annoyed by the howling of a cat. He fires a few gunshots at...
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1935
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Walter Catlett plays Charles J. Porter, a mild-mannered, middle-class milquetoast of a man who thinks he can be a heavyweight...
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Charles J. Porter
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1935
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1935
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1934
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It's Grand Hotel on the high seas, with a remarkable cast -- particularly for the usually parsimonious Columbia Pictures. As...
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1934
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1934
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Olsen's Night Out is the alternate title for Olsen's Big Moment. Swedish-dialect comedian El Brendel stars as Olsen, a...
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Robert Brewster III
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1934
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Emerson Treacy stars in this Mack Sennett-produced comedy short as Clarence, a hapless would-be lover (a "quivering mass of...
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1933
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Walter Catlett is the unhappy losing suitor in this Mack Sennett-produced short, disrupting a wedding and overwise...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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While travelling through Arizona, carnival huckster Smiley Wells (James Dunn) makes the acquaintance of sweet small-town girl...
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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In this war comedy, the reluctant hero finds himself drafted and forced to fight the Germans whom he feels he has nothing...
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1933
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Running just under an hour, Sport Parade stars Joel McCrea as a sportwriter who accidently becomes a champion wrestler. In...
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Promoter Morrison
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1932
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Hoping to match the success of his boisterous (and Oscar-winning) silent comedy Two Arabian Knights, and at the same time...
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1932
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An elderly gentleman finds himself in a difficult situation when he finds himself faced with becoming a burden on his...
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1932
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Despite a troubled production that witnessed the exits of both leading man (Phillips Holmes) and director (George...
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1932
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In this romantic comedy a demanding French actress is upset because she has not recently received the proper adulation from...
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Col. Wallace
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1932
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1932
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Undoubtedly inspired by Charles Lindbergh's unprecedented sudden fame (but not the ensuing tragedy), Mary McCall's 1932 novel...
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Joseph Greg Chapin
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1932
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Based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse, Mervyn LeRoy directs the black-and-white 1932 comedy drama Big City Blues....
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1932
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The pleasures of the flesh confront the discipline of the Lord's teachings in this screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's...
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Quartermaster Bates
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1932
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As indicated by its "catchphrase" title, Okay America is one of several early-1930s films based on the exploits of gossip...
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City editor
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1932
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Based on a best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst, Back Street concerns an ill-starred couple, Rae (Irene Dunne) and Walter...
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1932
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Eddie Cantor plays Eddie Simpson, a shy and jumpy young fellow who spontaneously bursts into song whenever he gets nervous....
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1931
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A truly jaw-dropping experience, Makers of Men is an unabashed celebration of Conditional Love. Jack Holt plays Dudley, a...
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1931
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A rather bleak comedy-drama from Frank Capra, Platinum Blonde basically starts where Capra's later and much more buoyant It...
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1931
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Murphy
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1931
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One of the most delightful of Marion Davies' early talkies, The Floradora Girl is set in New York at the turn of the century....
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1930
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In this backstage musical, an aspiring actor comes to Hollywood to get his big break. Trouble ensues when he is mistaken for...
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Rex Wardell
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1930
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Filmed in "Fox Grandeur," an early widescreen process, Happy Days was the immediate follow-up to Fox Studios'...
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1930
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Shortly before retiring from films to become an actor's agent (and, incidentally, Mrs. Alan Ladd), the ebullient Sue Carol...
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Mr. Goldfarb
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1930
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1930
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In this comedy, set during the 1900s, a Florodora girl slowly falls for a gentle millionaire. Songs include: "My Kind Of...
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De Boer
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1930
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In this pygmalionesque musical, a drab secretary leads a boring life until a good friend intervenes. The friend begins a...
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1930
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Dixie Lee, best known to latter-day viewers as the first wife of Bing Crosby, essayed a leading role in the early Fox talkie...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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In this musical romance, a showgirl tours Europe in a troupe. There she falls in love with a Balkan prince. Naturally, his...
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Joe Glitner
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1929
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1927
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Summer Bachelors is predicated on a hot-weather ritual which was later satirized to the hilt in George Axelrod's...
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1926
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Stage actor Alfred Lunt makes one of his rare screen appearances in this light comedy, based on the novel by Allen Updegraff....
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John McNab
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1924
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