Florence Wix
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 16, 1883
Deathday: November 23, 1956
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Known For
The Mating Season
1951-01-12
The Mating Season
Overview: Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-12
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The Cowboy and the Lady
1938-11-17
The Cowboy and the Lady
Overview: Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-17
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Easy Living
1937-07-16
Easy Living
Overview: J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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She Done Him Wrong
1933-02-09
She Done Him Wrong
Overview: New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-09
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The Unsuspected
1947-10-11
The Unsuspected
Overview: The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-11
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Love Me Tonight
1932-08-18
Love Me Tonight
Overview: A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-18
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Naughty Nanette
1927-04-15
Naughty Nanette
Overview: The Jazz Age rages in this comedy film starring Viola Dana as the madcap title character madly dashing through a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-15
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Fashions of 1934
1934-02-14
Fashions of 1934
Overview: When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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The Great Flamarion
1945-01-13
The Great Flamarion
Overview: A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-13
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Reaching for the Moon
1930-12-29
Reaching for the Moon
Overview: Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-29
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Sunny
1941-05-30
Sunny
Overview: Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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Outside These Walls
1939-05-04
Outside These Walls
Overview: Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-04
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Play Girl
1941-01-29
Play Girl
Overview: When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-29
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Deception
1946-10-26
Deception
Overview: After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-26
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To the Ends of the Earth
1948-02-07
To the Ends of the Earth
Overview: A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Stage Door
1937-10-08
Stage Door
Overview: The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Under Your Spell
1936-11-06
Under Your Spell
Overview: A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Reap the Wild Wind
1942-03-26
Reap the Wild Wind
Overview: The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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Johnny Eager
1941-12-09
Johnny Eager
Overview: A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
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Mrs. Miniver
1942-07-03
Mrs. Miniver
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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The Philadelphia Story
1940-12-05
The Philadelphia Story
Overview: When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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Lady on a Train
1945-08-03
Lady on a Train
Overview: While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-03
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Humoresque
1947-01-25
Humoresque
Overview: A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-25
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The Return of Boston Blackie
1927-08-01
The Return of Boston Blackie
Overview: Just out of jail and vowing to go straight, former jewel thief Boston Blackie, undertakes the reformation of a pretty blonde who has stolen a necklace from a cabaret dancer. He learns that the jewel belongs to the mother of the blonde girl, and the blonde's philandering father gave it as a gift to the cabaret girl. Now, Blackie must find a way to return the necklace to the owner's safe without arousing the suspicions of the girl's family.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-01
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The Vice Squad
1931-05-29
The Vice Squad
Overview: A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-29
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Trouble in Paradise
1932-10-30
Trouble in Paradise
Overview: Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-30
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Ladies of the Chorus
1948-12-30
Ladies of the Chorus
Overview: Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-30
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The Missing Guest
1938-08-12
The Missing Guest
Overview: Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the "blue room" of a haunted mansion where a number of people are gathered for a party. When one of the guests disappears from his room, "Scoop" decides to get to the bottom of things.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-12
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Devotion
1931-09-25
Devotion
Overview: A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-25
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Long Lost Father
1934-01-19
Long Lost Father
Overview: A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-19
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High Society
1956-07-17
High Society
Overview: After a divorce with her childhood friend, arrogant socialite Tracy Lord is remarrying but her ex-husband in still in love with her. Meanwhile, a gossip magazine blackmails Tracy's family into covering her new wedding. A musical remake of the 1940 romcom The Philadelphia Story.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-17
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Secrets
1924-03-24
Secrets
Overview: An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. They live a hardscrabble life there and suffered deprivation, hunger, Indian attacks, and the death of her baby. Although they eventually make a go of it, her husband becomes involved with another woman. Now that he is on his deathbed, will she forgive her husband after 40 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-24
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The Miracle Man
1932-04-01
The Miracle Man
Overview: A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-01
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Never Wave at a WAC
1953-01-28
Never Wave at a WAC
Overview: A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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She Goes to War
1929-06-07
She Goes to War
Overview: A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-07
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This Time for Keeps
1947-10-17
This Time for Keeps
Overview: An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-17
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Bum Voyage
1934-12-15
Bum Voyage
Overview: The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-15
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Broadminded
1931-08-01
Broadminded
Overview: Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Wells Fargo
1937-12-31
Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Beloved Enemy
1936-12-25
Beloved Enemy
Overview: In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Going Wild
1930-12-21
Going Wild
Overview: Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-21
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His Greatest Gamble
1934-08-10
His Greatest Gamble
Overview: A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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The Public Defender
1931-08-01
The Public Defender
Overview: A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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The Fatal Witness
1945-09-15
The Fatal Witness
Overview: A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-15
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The Story of Three Loves
1953-03-26
The Story of Three Loves
Overview: Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939-02-17
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Overview: Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Midnight
1939-03-24
Midnight
Overview: An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939-06-02
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Overview: The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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Good Girls Go to Paris
1939-06-20
Good Girls Go to Paris
Overview: Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-20
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In Name Only
1939-08-18
In Name Only
Overview: A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939-10-19
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
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Dracula
1931-02-12
Dracula
Overview: British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together and Dracula, a secret vampire, begins preying on London socialites.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-12
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Fury
1936-06-05
Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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Men Call It Love
1931-03-14
Men Call It Love
Overview: Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-14
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City Lights
1931-02-06
City Lights
Overview: A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-06
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Laugh Your Blues Away
1942-11-12
Laugh Your Blues Away
Overview: Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-12
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Street Girl
1929-08-21
Street Girl
Overview: A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-21
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Remember the Night
1940-01-19
Remember the Night
Overview: Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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I Take This Woman
1940-02-02
I Take This Woman
Overview: On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936-04-09
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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A Notorious Affair
1930-04-26
A Notorious Affair
Overview: A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-26
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Duck Soup
1933-11-12
Duck Soup
Overview: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-12
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Limelight
1952-10-23
Limelight
Overview: A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-23
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The Killers
1946-08-30
The Killers
Overview: Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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Angel Face
1953-01-02
Angel Face
Overview: Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-02
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Rhythm on the River
1940-08-28
Rhythm on the River
Overview: Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-28
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I Was an Adventuress
1940-05-10
I Was an Adventuress
Overview: Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Here Is My Heart
1934-12-28
Here Is My Heart
Overview: A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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And Sudden Death
1936-06-16
And Sudden Death
Overview: An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-16
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Dressed to Kill
1928-03-17
Dressed to Kill
Overview: A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-17
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Down to Their Last Yacht
1934-08-31
Down to Their Last Yacht
Overview: Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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The Road to Reno
1931-09-25
The Road to Reno
Overview: Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-25
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Break of Hearts
1935-05-31
Break of Hearts
Overview: Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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The Buccaneer
1938-02-04
The Buccaneer
Overview: French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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Arsène Lupin
1932-02-26
Arsène Lupin
Overview: A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-26
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Crime Doctor
1943-06-22
Crime Doctor
Overview: Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-22
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The Spider Woman
1943-12-24
The Spider Woman
Overview: Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Fun on a Weekend
1947-05-15
Fun on a Weekend
Overview: Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-15
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Torch Singer
1933-09-08
Torch Singer
Overview: When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-08
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The Rage of Paris
1938-06-09
The Rage of Paris
Overview: Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-09
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Design for Living
1933-12-29
Design for Living
Overview: An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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Strange Affair
1944-10-05
Strange Affair
Overview: Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-05
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Walk Softly, Stranger
1950-10-14
Walk Softly, Stranger
Overview: A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-14
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The Devil to Pay!
1930-12-18
The Devil to Pay!
Overview: Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-18
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Lydia
1941-09-18
Lydia
Overview: Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-18
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Lured
1947-08-28
Lured
Overview: Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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Anchors Aweigh
1945-08-13
Anchors Aweigh
Overview: Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-13
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941-12-24
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Overview: An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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Devotion
1946-04-05
Devotion
Overview: In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-05
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Spring Fever
1927-10-22
Spring Fever
Overview: Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at an exclusive country club.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-22
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The Female
1924-08-31
The Female
Overview: A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love triangle melodrama, from the Cynthia Stocklet Story. Dalla (Betty Compson) is a pretty orphan who is adopted by a wealthy man. When she matures, he invites her to England (leaving her beau behind),and eventually marries her. After her husband is murdered, she is accused of the crime, because she has still been seeing her old beau Col. Valentia (Warner Baxter). After eventually being cleared of the crime Della maries her first love...Valentia.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-31
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Goodbye, My Fancy
1951-05-19
Goodbye, My Fancy
Overview: Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-19
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Murders in the Zoo
1933-03-31
Murders in the Zoo
Overview: Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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The Brighton Strangler
1945-05-10
The Brighton Strangler
Overview: After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-10
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Kitty
1945-10-16
Kitty
Overview: Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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A Successful Calamity
1932-09-17
A Successful Calamity
Overview: Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-17
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The Old Maid
1939-08-16
The Old Maid
Overview: The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-16
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Huddle
1932-05-14
Huddle
Overview: Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-14
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The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938-02-11
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Overview: The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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Hollow Triumph
1948-08-18
Hollow Triumph
Overview: Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-18
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By Whose Hand?
1932-07-06
By Whose Hand?
Overview: On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-06
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Platinum Blonde
1931-10-31
Platinum Blonde
Overview: Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-31
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Cocktail Hour
1933-06-05
Cocktail Hour
Overview: Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has as much right as a man to play around.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-05
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King of Chinatown
1939-03-17
King of Chinatown
Overview: A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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Blue Skies
1946-10-15
Blue Skies
Overview: Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-15
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The Good Fairy
1935-02-18
The Good Fairy
Overview: In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-18
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Double Indemnity
1944-07-06
Double Indemnity
Overview: A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-06
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Make Way for Tomorrow
1937-05-09
Make Way for Tomorrow
Overview: At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-09
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