Charles Williams
Biography: Charles Williams was born on September 27, 1898 in Albany, New York. He was an actor and writer, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Hollywood and Vine (1945) and Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938). He was married to Isabel and Virginia Josephine Evans. He died on January 3, 1958 in Hollywood, California.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 27, 1898
Deathday: January 03, 1958
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Known For
It's a Wonderful Life
1946-12-20
It's a Wonderful Life
Overview: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942-03-27
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Overview: A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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End of the Road
1944-11-10
End of the Road
Overview: A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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Hitchhike to Happiness
1945-07-16
Hitchhike to Happiness
Overview: An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-16
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Main Street to Broadway
1953-10-12
Main Street to Broadway
Overview: In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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Strangers of the Evening
1932-05-14
Strangers of the Evening
Overview: Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-14
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Undercover Doctor
1939-06-09
Undercover Doctor
Overview: Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-09
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Without Reservations
1946-05-13
Without Reservations
Overview: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Charlie Chan on Broadway
1937-09-22
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Overview: Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-22
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The Judge
1949-01-31
The Judge
Overview: A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-31
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Wedding Present
1936-10-09
Wedding Present
Overview: Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Fighting Trouble
1956-09-16
Fighting Trouble
Overview: An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-16
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Hip Zip Hooray
1933-03-31
Hip Zip Hooray
Overview: Sheriff Bell inadvertently ends up as owner of a lingerie salon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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Moon Over Manhattan
1935-02-15
Moon Over Manhattan
Overview: A musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model. They try a couple of schemes to get Sally a job with the firm.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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Blossoms On Broadway
1937-11-19
Blossoms On Broadway
Overview: A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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Call of the Canyon
1942-08-17
Call of the Canyon
Overview: A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Task Force
1949-08-30
Task Force
Overview: After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-30
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Night and Day
1946-07-02
Night and Day
Overview: When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-02
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Song of the Open Road
1944-06-21
Song of the Open Road
Overview: A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-21
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Those High Grey Walls
1939-09-21
Those High Grey Walls
Overview: Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-21
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The Old Homestead
1922-10-08
The Old Homestead
Overview: Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-08
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938-04-07
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Overview: Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-07
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The Mad Genius
1931-09-30
The Mad Genius
Overview: A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-30
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The Nuisance
1933-06-03
The Nuisance
Overview: Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-03
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Career Girl
1944-01-11
Career Girl
Overview: Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-11
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The Girl from Monterrey
1943-10-04
The Girl from Monterrey
Overview: Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O'Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion to both men, Lita tries her best to have the match canceled, but there is much more to the boxing racket than she had ever imagined...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-04
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Stand-In
1937-10-29
Stand-In
Overview: An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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The Magnetic Monster
1953-02-18
The Magnetic Monster
Overview: The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-18
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The Pride of the Yankees
1942-07-14
The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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Heading for Heaven
1947-12-06
Heading for Heaven
Overview: A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-06
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Woman in the Dark
1934-11-08
Woman in the Dark
Overview: A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-08
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Queen of Burlesque
1946-07-24
Queen of Burlesque
Overview: Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-24
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Amateur Crook
1937-12-10
Amateur Crook
Overview: Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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Flying Fists
1937-07-01
Flying Fists
Overview: A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938-05-24
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Overview: Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-24
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Born to Be Wild
1938-02-16
Born to Be Wild
Overview: Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-16
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A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
1946-07-01
A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Overview: During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog's cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign
Genres: Drama Action Family War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-01
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Little Miss Broadway
1938-07-29
Little Miss Broadway
Overview: An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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The Flying Irishman
1939-04-07
The Flying Irishman
Overview: This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Sleepless Hollow
1936-05-08
Sleepless Hollow
Overview: Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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Girls' Town
1942-03-06
Girls' Town
Overview: A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Love and Hisses
1937-12-21
Love and Hisses
Overview: As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-21
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The Accused
1949-01-12
The Accused
Overview: A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-12
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History Is Made at Night
1937-03-05
History Is Made at Night
Overview: An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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Girl in 313
1940-05-31
Girl in 313
Overview: A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Primrose Path
1940-03-22
Primrose Path
Overview: Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Women Without Names
1940-03-14
Women Without Names
Overview: Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-14
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Rhythm on the Range
1936-07-01
Rhythm on the Range
Overview: Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-01
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Gasoline Alley
1951-01-02
Gasoline Alley
Overview: A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-02
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Strictly Unreliable
1932-04-30
Strictly Unreliable
Overview: Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-30
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Vogues of 1938
1937-08-18
Vogues of 1938
Overview: An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-18
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A Very Honorable Guy
1934-04-18
A Very Honorable Guy
Overview: Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-18
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Johnny Apollo
1940-04-19
Johnny Apollo
Overview: Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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Whispering Footsteps
1943-12-30
Whispering Footsteps
Overview: An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-30
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Greenwich Village
1944-09-27
Greenwich Village
Overview: In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-27
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Wife, Husband and Friend
1939-03-03
Wife, Husband and Friend
Overview: Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Wedlock Deadlock
1947-12-18
Wedlock Deadlock
Overview: Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-18
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One Thrilling Night
1942-06-05
One Thrilling Night
Overview: A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-05
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Blue, White, and Perfect
1942-01-06
Blue, White, and Perfect
Overview: In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
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Lady Chaser
1946-11-25
Lady Chaser
Overview: A poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger, then passed it on to her uncle.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-25
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Forgotten Women
1931-11-25
Forgotten Women
Overview: Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-25
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Kentucky Jubilee
1951-05-18
Kentucky Jubilee
Overview: A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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According to Mrs. Hoyle
1951-05-20
According to Mrs. Hoyle
Overview: A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-20
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Four Days Wonder
1936-12-03
Four Days Wonder
Overview: Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-03
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The Thin Man
1934-05-25
The Thin Man
Overview: A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-25
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Marked Men
1940-09-30
Marked Men
Overview: A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-30
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Hollywood Boulevard
1936-08-20
Hollywood Boulevard
Overview: With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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Lullaby of Broadway
1951-03-26
Lullaby of Broadway
Overview: Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-26
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Parole, Inc.
1948-11-24
Parole, Inc.
Overview: A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-24
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Hazard
1948-05-28
Hazard
Overview: A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-28
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939-12-22
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Overview: Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Days of Jesse James
1939-12-20
Days of Jesse James
Overview: Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-20
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Trade Winds
1938-12-28
Trade Winds
Overview: After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-28
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Men with Wings
1938-07-16
Men with Wings
Overview: Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-16
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery
1938-02-21
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Overview: A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-21
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Espionage
1937-02-26
Espionage
Overview: Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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It Happened in Hollywood
1937-09-07
It Happened in Hollywood
Overview: A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-07
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The Lady from Cheyenne
1941-04-11
The Lady from Cheyenne
Overview: Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Call of the Rockies
1944-07-14
Call of the Rockies
Overview: Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of dastardly highwaymen embroiled in an extortion ring. Sunset and Frog must then go undercover to set things right for a mining town under siege. Galloping hooves, spittin' six shooters, and all manner of disreputable behavior ensue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-14
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Love Is News
1937-02-26
Love Is News
Overview: When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Dance Team
1932-01-17
Dance Team
Overview: Jimmy Mulligan and Poppy Kirk, both out of work, strike up a conversation outside a radio shop and discover a shared dream of hitting it big dancing and decide to team up. As “Mulligan & Kirk” they have their highs and lows while falling in love but eventually find enormous success. Their personal relationship, however, hits a few snags on the way to a happy ending.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-17
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Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937-04-05
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Overview: Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-05
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Gateway
1938-08-05
Gateway
Overview: Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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Gambling Ship
1933-06-23
Gambling Ship
Overview: Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-23
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Big Business
1937-06-18
Big Business
Overview: A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Grand Ole Opry
1940-06-25
Grand Ole Opry
Overview: Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-25
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The Trespasser
1947-07-03
The Trespasser
Overview: Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-03
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Passkey to Danger
1946-05-11
Passkey to Danger
Overview: An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-11
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Atlantic City
1944-09-15
Atlantic City
Overview: In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-15
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Redhead from Manhattan
1943-05-06
Redhead from Manhattan
Overview: Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-06
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Sinner Take All
1936-12-18
Sinner Take All
Overview: A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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The Missourians
1950-11-25
The Missourians
Overview: In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-born Steve Kovacs is fighting a two-edged sword of prejudice; his foreign birth and also the fact that his brother, Nick Kovacs, is the leader of an outlaw gang known as The Missourians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-25
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Sabotage
1939-10-13
Sabotage
Overview: The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Saddle Pals
1947-06-05
Saddle Pals
Overview: Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-05
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Fair Warning
1937-03-05
Fair Warning
Overview: In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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The Fleet's In
1942-01-24
The Fleet's In
Overview: Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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Sky Racket
1937-10-01
Sky Racket
Overview: A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Marshal of Amarillo
1948-07-15
Marshal of Amarillo
Overview: Nugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the stage. They arrive late at night and it is so spooky that Nugget leaves for Amarillo. Unknown to him, the dead body of Short is in the wagon. When Sheriff Lane comes upon Nugget and the body, he goes to investigate and finds no trace of Underwood at all. But he soon finds that Underwood was carrying $50,000 in cash and he believes the story Nugget is telling.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-15
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The Great Man's Lady
1941-10-31
The Great Man's Lady
Overview: In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
1948-10-07
The Strange Mrs. Crane
Overview: Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-07
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Blondie of the Follies
1932-09-01
Blondie of the Follies
Overview: New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Mr. District Attorney
1941-03-27
Mr. District Attorney
Overview: An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-27
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My Favorite Spy
1942-06-12
My Favorite Spy
Overview: The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
1944-03-07
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Overview: A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-07
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Time to Kill
1942-12-24
Time to Kill
Overview: Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-24
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Central Airport
1933-04-15
Central Airport
Overview: Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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The West Side Kid
1943-08-23
The West Side Kid
Overview: Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-23
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988-11-22
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Overview: Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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Night in New Orleans
1942-07-01
Night in New Orleans
Overview: A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Identity Unknown
1945-04-02
Identity Unknown
Overview: A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-02
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Hollywood and Vine
1945-04-25
Hollywood and Vine
Overview: A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-25
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The Man Who Walked Alone
1945-03-15
The Man Who Walked Alone
Overview: A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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The Ice Follies of 1939
1939-03-10
The Ice Follies of 1939
Overview: Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-10
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Wake Up and Live
1937-08-23
Wake Up and Live
Overview: Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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A Lawless Street
1955-11-15
A Lawless Street
Overview: A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-15
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I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943-05-14
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Overview: A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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The Gay Nighties
1933-06-22
The Gay Nighties
Overview: This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-22
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Merry Go Round of 1938
1937-11-14
Merry Go Round of 1938
Overview: Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-14
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946-05-02
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Overview: A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-02
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Flying Cadets
1941-10-24
Flying Cadets
Overview: Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-24
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Scared Stiff
1945-06-22
Scared Stiff
Overview: A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-22
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Sadie McKee
1934-05-09
Sadie McKee
Overview: A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
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Made on Broadway
1933-05-19
Made on Broadway
Overview: A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-19
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