In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert....
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Victor Herbert
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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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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Mr. Alfred Borden
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1939
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Mickey Rooney may have been born to play Mark Twain's legendary hellraiser Huck Finn, but 1939's The Adventures of...
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The King
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1939
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In this action film two Coast Guard pilots fall in love with the same woman. She chooses the more macho of the two, but soon...
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Tobias Bliss
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1939
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Spunky Joan Blondell is practically the whole show in the diverting comedy Good Girls Go to Paris. Blondell is cast as...
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1939
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In this prison drama, a physician ends up incarcerated after he treats a long-time patient who was a fugitive convict. As...
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Dr. MacAuley
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1939
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Veteran German director William Thiele managed to add a continental flavor to the MGM assembly-line romance Bridal Suite....
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Dr. Grauer
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1939
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"Discovered" for American films by Cecil B. DeMille, popular Hungarian actress Franceska Gaal made the last of her three...
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Mr. Brown
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1938
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Start Cheering is Columbia Pictures' idea of a college musical: Practically everyone in the cast is past the age of 30....
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1938
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Gabby MacArthur
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1938
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Thomas Mathews
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1938
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A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars:...
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John P. Dillingwell
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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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1937
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Uncle
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1937
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"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each...
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Oliver Stone
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1937
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Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the...
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Michael Steele
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1937
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League of Frightened Men was the second and last entry in Columbia's short-lived mystery series based on the "Nero Wolfe"...
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Nero Wolfe
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1937
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Joe Quinn
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1937
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Josef Von Sternberg, past directorial master of movie exotica, came down to earth with The King Steps Out, a major studio...
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Maximilian
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1936
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James B. Allenbury
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1936
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Humphrey Craig
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1936
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Harry Richman was a major stage and radio star of the 1930s, but his overbearing personality never clicked in films. After...
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Hector Courtney
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1936
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John Mitchell
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1935
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So Red the Rose is a Civil War drama that plays like a warm-up for Gone With the Wind--and, unlike Wind, has two genuine...
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Malcolm Bedford
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1935
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The creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission would soon render anachronistic such crime melodramas as...
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Capt. Bourne
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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Mr. Van Dyke
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1935
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G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric Father Brown was first brought to the screen in 1934, in the corpulent form of...
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Father Brown
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1935
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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Alexander Andrews
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1934
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Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka...
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Oliver Webb
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1934
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Columbia's Once to Every Woman was the first of A. J. Cronin's medical novels to be adapted for the screen. The drama of the...
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Dr. Selby
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1934
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Judge Daly
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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J.L. Higgins
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1934
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Inasmuch as the film was based on a novel by Swedish author Sigrid Boo, Fox's Servant's Entrance is logically set in Sweden....
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Viktor Nillson
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1934
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Inspired by the Titanic tragedy, Whom the Gods Destroy is a tour de force for character actor Walter Connolly. The star is...
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John Forrester
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1934
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Paramount's Eight Girls in a Boat was a remake of the 1932 German film of the same name. Impregnated by medical student David...
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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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A wealthy, but sad young woman falls in love with an impoverished fellow in this bittersweet romance. While her father is...
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Bill Holt
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1933
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One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as Kay Walling, a woman who is...
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Sam Parker
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1933
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Jones
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1933
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This Depression-era romantic drama, which offers a surprisingly potent and unsentimental view of the economic hardships of...
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Ira
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1933
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This drama, set within a boarding house, centers around a pregnant show girl abandoned by her boyfriend, a married man who...
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Lawton
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1933
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At age 26, Janet Gaynor was still playing "gamin" roles in such musical trifles as Paddy, the Next Best Thing. Gaynor stars...
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Major Adair
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1933
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May Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle...
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1933
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In this political melodrama, an idealistic freshman congressman swears to do his best to get relief for his impoverished...
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Sen. Wylie
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1932
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In this detective drama, a gumshoe falls in love with a torch singer who is unfortunately, involved with a crook. The two...
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Mossie Ennis
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1932
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