Biography: Kent Smith (born Frank Kent Smith) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Smith's early acting experience started in 1925 when he was one of the founders of the famed Harvard "University Players", which later included Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Joshua Logan and Margaret Sullavan in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Smith's stock experience also included productions with the Maryland Theatre in Baltimore. His professional acting debut was in 1929 in Blind Window in Baltimore, Mayland. He made his Broadway acting debut in 1932 in Men Must Fight. He also appeared on Broadway in Measure for Measure, Sweet Love Remembered, The Best Man, Ah, Wilderness!, Dodsworth, Saint Joan,, Old Acquaintance, Antony and Cleopatra and Bus Stop. Smith moved to Hollywood, California, where he made his film debut in The Garden Murder Case. He appeared in such films as Cat People, Hitler's Children, This Land Is Mine, Three Russian Girls, Youth Runs Wild, The Curse of the Cat People, The Spiral Staircase, Nora Prentiss, Magic Town, My Foolish Heart, The Fountainhead, and The Damned Don't Cry. He continued acting in films such as Comanche, Sayonara, Party Girl, The Mugger, Imitation General, The Badlanders, This Earth Is Mine, Strangers When We Meet, Susan Slade, The Balcony, A Distant Trumpet, Youngblood Hawke, and The Young Lovers. Smith had roles in television films such as How Awful About Allan, The Night Stalker, The Judge and Jake Wyler, The Cat Creature, The Affair and The Disappearance of Flight 412. His numerous television credits included a continuing role in the soap opera Peyton Place as Dr. Robert Morton; Smith's wife, actress Edith Atwater, played his character's wife on the series. He began guest-starring in television series in 1949 in The Philco Television Playhouse, and also appeared in Robert Montgomery Presents, Wagon Train, General Electric Theater, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, Have Gun Will Travel, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Beverly Hillbillies, Rawhide, The Americans, Barnaby Jones, The Outer Limits, Night Gallery, and the 1976 miniseries Once an Eagle. His last appearance was in a 1977 episode of Wonder Woman.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 19, 1907
Deathday: April 23, 1985
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1972-11-08
Overview: A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly cat-and-mouse game. This marked the TV-movie debut of both Rosalind Russell and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and was sadly also Russell's last film role.
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-08
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1949-06-25
Overview: An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-25
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1942-12-05
Overview: A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
Genres: Mystery Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-05
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1958-10-28
Overview: Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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1946-02-06
Overview: On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-06
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1947-02-22
Overview: Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-22
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1972-12-18
Overview: A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-18
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1957-12-25
Overview: Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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1944-04-01
Overview: Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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1978-12-01
Overview: A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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1950-05-13
Overview: Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-13
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1972-01-11
Overview: Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-11
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1939-04-19
Overview: The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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1943-05-07
Overview: Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-07
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1950-06-17
Overview: A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with a nefarious lawyer who persuades him to impersonate a wealthy man who went missing 7 years ago.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-17
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1962-04-05
Overview: An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy succeeds in making contact with the captain. The captain eventually discovers that this woman is not an enemy but rather a friend from a very unusual source.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-05
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1972-12-02
Overview: A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-02
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1958-11-01
Overview: A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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1964-05-20
Overview: In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-20
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1970-09-22
Overview: After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-22
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1969-05-08
Overview: In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-08
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1961-11-08
Overview: A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-08
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1967-09-17
Overview: A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-17
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1944-09-01
Overview: The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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1960-06-29
Overview: A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-29
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1973-03-14
Overview: While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-14
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1943-01-06
Overview: This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
Genres: Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-06
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1956-03-01
Overview: Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted Indian Commissioner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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1964-11-04
Overview: An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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1936-02-21
Overview: Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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1968-05-01
Overview: Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Kittibelle, who runs an alcohol abuse treatment center. Sam runs into a wall of silence obviously built by hush money and islanders fearful of reprisals from the rich and powerful family. The determined dad fights to uncover the information that will land the murderer in jail as he avenges the death of his daughter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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1973-12-11
Overview: When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police consult scholars from the local University to help with the investigation, which is taking a more serious turn as people connected with the case are killed by wounds that seem to be from a housecat.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-11
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1944-08-01
Overview: A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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1959-07-08
Overview: Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootleggers to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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1947-12-25
Overview: An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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1972-02-21
Overview: That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detecting telltale changes in pulse or other biometric readings of himself and the people around him. This ring and more electronic devices -- some embedded -- keep Lockwood linked with Probe Control, where experts and banks of computers provide instant mission-critical warnings, intel, even language translations. In this pilot film for the short-lived series "Search," Lockwood is on a quest to recover priceless diamonds stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-21
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1958-08-20
Overview: An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-20
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1964-11-12
Overview: A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-12
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1971-10-05
Overview: In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-05
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1952-05-15
Overview: A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-15
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1967-02-15
Overview: An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-15
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1943-12-30
Overview: Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. American test pilot John Hill (Kent Smith), who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. A last-act crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Nazis advance.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-30
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1947-10-07
Overview: Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-07
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1966-03-29
Overview: Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-29
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1973-11-20
Overview: A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-20
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1958-09-03
Overview: Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once The Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story is given an 1898 setting. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950's noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.
Genres: Western Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-03
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1950-01-19
Overview: After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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1968-05-01
Overview: A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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1974-10-01
Overview: Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To ferret out the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412. Shortly into the test, the jet picks up three blips on radar, and subsequently, two fighters scramble and mysteriously disappear. At this point, Flight 412 is monitored and forced to land by Digger Control, a top-level, military intelligence group that debunks UFO information. The intrepid colonel, kept in the dark about his crew, decides to investigate the matter himself.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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1967-12-15
Overview: When four geologists who form a combine of five industrial companies turn up dead, the race is on to determine whether the culprit is a group of high-powered industrial interests or the government. A trouble-shooter is hired to find a net of deadly intrigue and treachery. The prize: a field to be leased to private industry by the state.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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1972-10-02
Overview: A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-02
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1943-01-21
Overview: In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-21
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1972-12-17
Overview: A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-17
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1963-03-21
Overview: The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-21
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1970-08-07
Overview: From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-07
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1943-01-26
Overview: The story of Three Cadets and sexually transmitted diseases.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-26
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1946-09-07
Overview: This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-07
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1945-12-09
Overview: In this documentary short film, a U.S. Army lieutenant instructs soldiers in how to prepare for new and interesting jobs in civilian life after the war. He leads the soldiers through a number of checklists to determine what their interests are and how to make decisions and plans for future employment. One of the soldiers, T-5 Dailey, worries about his options, until his mirror-image self appears to talk him through a plan of action.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-09
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1945-12-03
Overview: This government documentary short film describes the concerns of the U.S. Army Air Forces over the safe, effective, and expeditious handling of the loading of bombs onto the Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber. A colonel briefs a command board on the problems inherent in the initial bomb-loading processes and the losses and injuries resultant from those processes. He then informs the board as to the development of new model hoists for loading bombs. The commanding general asks for approval from the board, and following input from an AAF tactical officer, the new hoist is approved.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-03
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1950-12-25
Overview: Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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1948-06-10
Overview: Documentary Feature winner "Design for Death" (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to Japan's role in WWII.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-10
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1943-11-01
Overview: Kent Smith educates about dental health.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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