In addition to highlighting some of Lucille Ball's funniest TV moments, Lucy's Lost Episodes includes various commercial...
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2000
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Here's a slew of songs taken from the popular I Love Lucy series. Included here are: "Babalu Rap" (Produced by...
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1991
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Lucille Ball is honored in this program which features many of her television and film appearances. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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This episode is not only a reworking of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour featuring Betty Grable and Harry James, but it also...
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Maintenance Man
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1965
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Released in April of 1962 to take advantage of the new baseball season and the enthusiasm surrounding some of its...
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Bill Turner
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1962
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Bub O'Casey (1960-1965)
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1960
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Fred Mertz
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1957
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Several changes occurred in the I Love Lucy format during the series' sixth and final season on the air. For one thing,...
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Fred Mertz
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1956
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I Love Lucy boasted a new sponsor (General Foods, taking over from Philip Morris Cigarettes), a new director, and new...
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Fred Mertz
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1955
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Even though I Love Lucy was still America's top-rated series as it entered its fourth season, the producers -- including...
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Fred Mertz
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1954
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Though it was hard to top the "pregnancy" throughline that permeated the second season of I Love Lucy, the series maintained...
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Fred Mertz
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1953
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America's third most popular TV show during its first season, I Love Lucy skyrocketed to number one during Season Two -- no...
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Fred Mertz
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1952
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The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by...
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Baldy Gunder
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1952
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1951
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Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with...
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1951
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Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J....
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Len Sickles
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1951
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By the time the first 35 episodes of I Love Lucy had been shown on CBS' Monday night lineup, virtually everybody in America...
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Fred Mertz
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1951
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Arguably the most popular TV situation comedy in the known world (and possibly a few worlds beyond that!), I Love Lucy has...
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1951
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1950
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Best known to posterity as the third wife of Cary Grant, Betsy Drake enjoyed a substantial film career during the postwar...
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Corcoran
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1950
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This film, which is one of a series based on the characters from the Blondie comic strip, finds Dagwood entering the Army...
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1950
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This early CBS-TV show featured a rare appearance by comedian Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers in a situation comedy, Papa...
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1950
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William Bendix is perfectly cast as a diehard baseball fan who hates umpires with every fibre of his being. Bendix' devotion...
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1950
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Though she may have won an Oscar in 1948, Jane Wyman still had a Warner Bros. contract to fulfill, even if it meant appearing...
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1949
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When a priceless diamond is stolen from a museum exhibition all suspicion falls upon the notorious Lone Wolf, a former jewel...
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Inspector Crane
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1949
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Infused with religious themes, this crime drama is considered a minor example of film noir. Set in Los Angeles, it tells the...
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1949
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1949
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Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders....
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1949
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Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven deserves a historical footnote as director William Castle's only comedy western. Future...
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1948
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Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one,...
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Knobby Walsh
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1948
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The Girl From Manhattan is a minor but watchable variation on the old "mortgage-on-the-farm" plot device. The girl of the...
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1948
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George Seaton's 1948 comedy Chicken Every Sunday was based on the play by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein as well as...
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1948
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The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics, The Babe Ruth Story is definitely in the "So Bad It's Good" category. An...
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Jack Dunn
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1948
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Small-town department store manager Sam Clayton (Gary Cooper) is a born "Good Samaritan", which in his case translates as...
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1948
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In this musical, the fourth entry in a five-film series, three singers come together to form a nightclub act. Their...
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Harry Holmes
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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Blondie's Anniversary invades territory already mapped out by Columbia's two-reel Hugh Herbert comedies. Blondie...
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1947
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A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley...
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1947
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Police Lieutenant
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1947
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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1947
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by...
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1947
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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1947
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In this mystery, a private detective is falsely accused of murder by his secretary who wants to protect her little sister...
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Webb
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1946
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Inspector Manning
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1946
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Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing...
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1946
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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1946
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Owen Wister's 1902 novel was made into a movie several times, most notably in 1929, with Gary Cooper starring. This 1946...
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1946
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Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
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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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Wolf Wylie
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1945
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In this drama, an aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a...
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Sandy Hill
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1945
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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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The Fighting Seabees is Republic Pictures' rip-roaring tribute to the US Navy's Construction Batallions (C.B.), without whom...
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Eddie Powers
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1944
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Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian...
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1944
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It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he...
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1944
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The last of three films starring Red Skelton as ace radio detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, Whistling in Brooklyn opens with...
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1943
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This patriotic WW II-era bit of anti-Japanese propaganda centers on a white Texas college student who becomes such good...
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1943
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In this musical, the vocalist and her chamber music quintet lose their job when a conniving manager of a rival orchestra...
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Mike Simms
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1943
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It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers' pennant win. Lloyd Nolan portrays...
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Sam Sloan
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1942
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One of the most frequently revived of the Pine-Thomas productions of the 1940s, Wildcat is set amongst the oil fields of...
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Oliver Westbrook
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1942
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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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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1942
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In this drama, an aspiring prizefighter disobeys his father, an oil baron, by pursuing his fortune in the ring rather than...
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'Hotfoot'
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1942
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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Cult-favorite director Anthony Mann's second filmic effort was the unprepossessing Universal mini-musical Moonlight in...
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Barney Crane
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1942
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Footsteps in the Dark is a comedy/mystery, starring Errol Flynn as a wealthy investment counselor who secretly doubles as a...
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1941
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In this drama an eager-beaver reporter loses his job when he prints a false story about a society girl. The unemployed...
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George "Bang" Carson
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1941
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To those under the age of 60, it should be noted that the title of this lively Universal filler was inspired by a popular...
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Beheegan
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1941
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Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but...
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1941
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1941
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A crime organization affects the lives of an ex-newspaper reporter and the socialite who cost the reporter his job. ~ Rovi...
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1941
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No relation to the Cracked Nuts he directed in 1931, this hokey sci-fi-comedy from director Edward F. Cline stars Stuart...
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1941
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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Scoop Trimble
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1940
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1940
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Filmed with the full cooperation of the Golden Gloves Tournament Association, this Paramount programmer stars...
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Emory Balzar
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1940
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This zany comedy-mystery gets under way when wiseguy reporter Jimmie Daniels (Robert Paige) and tipsy sports editor Buzz...
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Matt Kingsley
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1940
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Future Universal contractees Robert Paige and Grace MacDonald (in her film debut) star in the Paramount mini-musical Dancing...
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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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The brief but lively film career of infant star Baby Sandy came to an end with Sandy Gets Her Man. In this one, Sandy is the...
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Police Chief O'Hara
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1940
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1940
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A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic....
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Les Woodbury
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1940
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In this domestic comedy, a husband and wife manage an apartment building owned by the husband's pal. Meanwhile they must...
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1939
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In this boxing drama, an ex-champ finds himself working as a doorman at a nightclub. His son aspires to a high caliber...
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Mushy Harrington
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1939
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This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of...
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Harry Long
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1939
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In this domestic comedy, a young woman's mother keeps frightening her beaus right out the door with her incessant critical...
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Joe Haller
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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 Duke
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1939
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In this crime drama, a young hood and a seductress team up and rob a gas station. As she requires an opulent, exciting...
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1939
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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1939
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Finishing out her Paramount Pictures contract, opera star Gladys Swarthout sings not a single note in the tense little...
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Inspector Weber
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1939
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In this drama, an ingenious journalist finds himself at odds with his brother the district attorney over his unconventional...
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Bright Eyes
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1939
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It can be said with some certainty that Paramount's Touchdown, Army is not a baseball picture. Taking time out from his...
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Jack Heffernan
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1938
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Sons of the Legion is a showcase for Paramount's juvenile-talent pool-specifically, Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee and Billy...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, a girl with a lively imagination gets in hot water when she tries to make her tall tales real. Gloria...
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Dusty Rhodes
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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Snoop Donlan
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1938
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Though not the most versatile of actors, granite-jawed Jack Holt does just fine with a dual role in Columbia's...
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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John Peterson
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1937
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A female con artist becomes involved in the abduction of a miner. The target of the con is a wealthy Easterner. The con...
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1937
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1936
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General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) is a politically ambitious Chinese bandit who holds the Northern districts in a grip of terror....
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1936
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In this musical, a young lady is sent to an East coast finishing school. She doesn't realize that it is a bogus school run by...
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Milton Shakespeare
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1936
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Bill Mullins
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1936
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Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a...
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Hank Meyers
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1936
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In this frothy romantic adventure, Marlene Dietrich plays Madeleine de Beaupre, a devious jewel thief. After sneaking a...
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Mr. Gibson
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1936
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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Benton
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1936
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In this comedy a persistent, pesky fountaineer takes to following two government agents in hopes of becoming one of them....
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Hogan
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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Coach Soapy Moreland
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1936
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Musical comedy star Eddie Cantor stars in this story, well suited to his talents, as Eddie Pink, a meek gentleman who works...
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Copple
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1936
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Never mind the title and the musical content: College Scandal is at heart a murder mystery, and a pretty suspenseful one at...
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Chief of Police Magoun
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1935
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Produced on a reasonably lavish scale by the usually parsimonious Mascot Pictures, Harmony Lane was the first of three filmed...
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Christy
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1935
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In this musical, a coal stoker for a ship finds himself turned into a singing sensation when someone hears him lustily...
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Briney O'Brien
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1935
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Sgt. Barrel
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1935
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Sunshine Joe
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1935
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In this comedy, a con artist gets elected to the chamber of commerce in his home town. He then goes there with three fellow...
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Painless
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1935
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In this rollicking adaptation of Ring Lardner's short story, Joe E. Brown plays an ace baseball player whose insistence upon...
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Cap
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1935
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German actress Dorothea Wieck, who achieved international fame in Maedchen in Uniform, was given a brief shot at Hollywood...
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Capt. Murphy
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1934
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Marshall Neilan, a great silent film director on the verge of obscurity, had one last big-studio stand with The Lemon Drop...
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The Professor
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1934
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In this courtroom thriller, a hypnotic psychic uses his gift for dubious ends by running a gambling den. The trouble begins...
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1934
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1934
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This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of...
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Fraser
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1934
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Bolero stars George Raft as Raoul de Barre, an arrogant dancer who rises to fame in the years prior to, during, and after WW...
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Mike DeBaere
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1934
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1934
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No relation to the 1955 Cold War melodrama of the same title, the confusing 1933 melange Hell and High Water takes place in a...
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1933
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Vaudeville performer George Dwight (Roger Pryor) finds himself stranded in the small town of Walkerville, and talks his way...
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1933
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