This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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1934
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In this drama, a woman goes mad with grief after her lover dumps her. Many years pass and the woman remains embittered and...
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1934
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Helen Hayes reportedly turned down the opportunity to play the title role in this dreary melodrama about self-sacrificing...
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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1934
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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1933
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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1933
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In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company...
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1933
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Marie Dressler plays the title character, tugboat captain Annie Brennan, in this 1933 Hollywood box office hit. Her husband...
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1933
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New Morals for Old was the teasing title for a somewhat sedate film about the ongoing rejection of middle-class values by the...
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1932
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Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) is the matriarch of a banking family who has run the Warren Bank for years, until she turns it...
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1932
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Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper...
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1932
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In this slapstick comedy set in a posh beauty salon, the owner asks her matronly sister, a postman's wife, to come and...
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1931
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A man who unthinkingly sullied the honor of a virtuous girl now must deal with his own ethical downfall in this drama. Willi...
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1931
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In this comedy, a female mayoral candidate promises to rid the town of gangsters. She joined the race in the first place...
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1931
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Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle...
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1931
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It was once theorized by critic Andrew Sarris that this 1931 Greta Garbo vehicle was subtitled "Her Fall & Rise" rather than...
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1931
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1930
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Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on...
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1930
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Nine years before stepping into the role of Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone essayed the character of S.S. Van Dyne's...
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1930
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This romantic adventure chronicles the escapades of one of Napoleon's followers. After his leader's exile, the follower is...
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1929
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Those who believe that It Happened One Night was the first film to tap the comic potential of "auto courts" (later known as...
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1927
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Silent-film leading man Harrison Ford (no relation to the current box-office champion) stars as John Douglas Jr., a...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1927
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The "wise wife" is Helen Blaisdell (Phyllis Haver), the loving missus of John Blaisdell (Owen Moore). Unfortunately, John's...
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1927
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One of the few surviving films of Leatrice Joy, the wife of screen heartthrob John Gilbert, The Clinging Vine is a typically...
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1926
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1924
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Becky Warder (Madge Kennedy) habitually tells white lies, and this eventually lands her in hot water with her husband Tom...
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1920
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