Lillian Yarbo
Biography: Lillian Yarbo is an actress, known for You Can't Take It with You (1938), Destry Rides Again (1939) and The Great Man's Lady (1942).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 17, 1905
Deathday: June 12, 1996
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You Can't Take It with You
1938-09-01
You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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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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Saratoga Trunk
1945-11-21
Saratoga Trunk
Overview: An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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Persons in Hiding
1939-02-10
Persons in Hiding
Overview: During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-10
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Society Lawyer
1939-03-21
Society Lawyer
Overview: Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-21
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Moon Over Her Shoulder
1941-10-23
Moon Over Her Shoulder
Overview: Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-23
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939-06-02
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Overview: Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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Wives Under Suspicion
1938-06-03
Wives Under Suspicion
Overview: A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-03
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Stella Dallas
1937-08-06
Stella Dallas
Overview: After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-06
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The Family Next Door
1939-03-30
The Family Next Door
Overview: Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-30
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Henry Aldrich for President
1941-10-17
Henry Aldrich for President
Overview: Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939-03-29
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Overview: In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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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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Way Down South
1939-07-21
Way Down South
Overview: In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-21
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Destry Rides Again
1939-11-30
Destry Rides Again
Overview: Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-30
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Kentucky
1938-12-30
Kentucky
Overview: Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Lucky Cisco Kid
1940-06-28
Lucky Cisco Kid
Overview: Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Rainbow on the River
1936-12-18
Rainbow on the River
Overview: A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Big Town Girl
1937-12-03
Big Town Girl
Overview: When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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The Return of Frank James
1940-08-10
The Return of Frank James
Overview: Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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Lillian Russell
1940-05-24
Lillian Russell
Overview: Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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They Drive by Night
1940-07-26
They Drive by Night
Overview: Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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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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Cafe Society
1939-03-03
Cafe Society
Overview: A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942-01-31
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Overview: The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-31
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Swing Shift Maisie
1943-10-01
Swing Shift Maisie
Overview: Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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Night Unto Night
1949-06-10
Night Unto Night
Overview: A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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Penrod's Double Trouble
1938-07-23
Penrod's Double Trouble
Overview: When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-23
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Presenting Lily Mars
1943-04-29
Presenting Lily Mars
Overview: Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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The Naughty Nineties
1945-06-20
The Naughty Nineties
Overview: In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-20
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My Brother Talks to Horses
1947-02-04
My Brother Talks to Horses
Overview: Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-04
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The Gang's All Here
1943-12-24
The Gang's All Here
Overview: A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Between Us Girls
1942-09-04
Between Us Girls
Overview: A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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