Jennifer Jones
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Phylis Lee Isley (March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), better known by her stage name Jennifer Jones, was an American actress. A five-time Academy Award nominee, Jones won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Song of Bernadette (1943).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 02, 1919
Deathday: December 17, 2009
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988-10-24
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Overview: Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-24
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Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955-11-23
Good Morning, Miss Dove
Overview: Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor, who is a former student of Miss Dove's, comes to her aid. As many of her pupils, present and past, come to see her in the hospital, they reveal how Miss Dove has greatly impacted their lives over the years. These visitors include a police officer, a playwright, a banker, a convict, and an unmarried mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-23
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The Towering Inferno
1974-12-14
The Towering Inferno
Overview: At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-14
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Beat the Devil
1953-11-26
Beat the Devil
Overview: A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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Duel in the Sun
1946-12-31
Duel in the Sun
Overview: Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-31
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Portrait of Jennie
1948-12-25
Portrait of Jennie
Overview: A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956-04-12
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Overview: Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins. Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-12
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Since You Went Away
1944-06-30
Since You Went Away
Overview: In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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Carrie
1952-07-17
Carrie
Overview: Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-17
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The Song of Bernadette
1943-12-21
The Song of Bernadette
Overview: In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-21
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Madame Bovary
1949-08-25
Madame Bovary
Overview: A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-25
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A Farewell to Arms
1957-12-14
A Farewell to Arms
Overview: An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-14
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Ruby Gentry
1952-12-25
Ruby Gentry
Overview: A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015-08-27
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Overview: A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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We Were Strangers
1949-04-27
We Were Strangers
Overview: China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the city's cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolutionaries, they begin digging.
Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-27
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Cluny Brown
1946-06-02
Cluny Brown
Overview: Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-02
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New Frontier
1939-08-10
New Frontier
Overview: The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955-08-18
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Overview: A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-18
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Indiscretion of an American Wife
1953-04-02
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Overview: While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-02
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Gone to Earth
1950-11-06
Gone to Earth
Overview: Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin a fox hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her even after her marriage to the local pastor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-06
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Angel, Angel, Down We Go
1969-08-19
Angel, Angel, Down We Go
Overview: The overweight debutante daughter of the world's wealthiest couple falls in with a gang of tripped out, skydiving pseudo-reactionary pop stars, who take their beliefs of the American ideal to profoundly impossible heights.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-19
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Love Letters
1945-10-26
Love Letters
Overview: When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-26
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
1939-09-02
Dick Tracy's G-Men
Overview: A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-02
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Uncertain Verification
1965-04-30
Uncertain Verification
Overview: A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-30
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1957-01-16
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Overview: Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-16
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961-12-31
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Overview: Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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The Idol
1966-02-01
The Idol
Overview: A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-01
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973-01-01
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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That's Entertainment!
1974-06-21
That's Entertainment!
Overview: Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Genres: Documentary Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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The Fighting Generation
1944-10-01
The Fighting Generation
Overview: A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jennifer Jones as a nurse's aide. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Academy War Film Collection, in 2008.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-01
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The Streets of New York
1939-08-31
The Streets of New York
Overview: The story revolves around the efforts of the middle-class family Fairweather, newly impoverished by the financial panic, to survive against the villainous banker Gideon Bloodgood.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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Tender Is the Night
1962-01-19
Tender Is the Night
Overview: Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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