Franchot Tone
Biography: Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and many other films through the 1960s. In the early 1960s Tone appeared in character roles on TV dramas like Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franchot Tone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Birthday: February 27, 1905
Deathday: September 18, 1968
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Jigsaw
1949-03-11
Jigsaw
Overview: New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy is working hard on investigation about a series of murders related to an extremist group.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-11
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1935-11-22
Mutiny on the Bounty
Overview: Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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Mickey One
1965-09-27
Mickey One
Overview: A former comic is on the run from the mob.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-27
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Here Comes the Groom
1951-09-20
Here Comes the Groom
Overview: Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-20
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Nice Girl?
1941-02-21
Nice Girl?
Overview: Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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Dark Waters
1944-11-21
Dark Waters
Overview: Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-21
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Five Graves to Cairo
1943-05-26
Five Graves to Cairo
Overview: The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, who fears the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans.
Genres: War Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-26
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Every Girl Should Be Married
1948-12-25
Every Girl Should Be Married
Overview: Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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Without Honor
1949-10-26
Without Honor
Overview: Jane, a housewife, is confronted during her daily chores by Dennis, her married lover with whom she has had a long affair. Dennis tells Jane that he has to break off their relationship. She threatens suicide, but when she picks up a shish kabob skewer, the two struggle and Dennis is stabbed in the chest and collapses. Jane hides the body in the house. Before she can leave, her brother-in-law arrives and tells her that he knows about the affair and that he has invited her husband, her lover, and his wife to her house that evening so that he can tell them about the affair.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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I Love Trouble
1948-01-15
I Love Trouble
Overview: A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-15
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Bombshell
1933-10-13
Bombshell
Overview: A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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Dancing Lady
1933-11-24
Dancing Lady
Overview: Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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Phantom Lady
1944-01-28
Phantom Lady
Overview: A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-28
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Love on the Run
1936-11-20
Love on the Run
Overview: A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-20
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Sadie McKee
1934-05-09
Sadie McKee
Overview: A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935-01-11
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Overview: In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. After two casualties, the experienced but insubordinate Lieutenant Alan McGregor receives as replacement, the arrogant Lieutenant Forsythe and the immature son of Colonel Stone, Lieutenant Donald Stone. With the intention to prove that he will not have any privilege in the troop, the reception of Colonel Stone to his son is absolutely cold, but he becomes the protégé of McGregor. When Lieutenant Stone is kidnapped by Mohammed Khan, McGregor and Forsythe disobey the direct order of their commander, disguise as Indian peddlers and go to Khan's fortress to attempt to rescue their friend.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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Because of Him
1946-01-18
Because of Him
Overview: A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-18
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His Butler's Sister
1943-11-26
His Butler's Sister
Overview: Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-26
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The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949-12-12
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Overview: A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize that they may have to wrong man.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-12
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Advise & Consent
1962-06-06
Advise & Consent
Overview: Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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Three Loves Has Nancy
1938-09-02
Three Loves Has Nancy
Overview: A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-02
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Suzy
1936-07-20
Suzy
Overview: A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-20
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Reckless
1935-04-19
Reckless
Overview: A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-19
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Midnight Mary
1933-06-30
Midnight Mary
Overview: While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Dangerous
1935-12-25
Dangerous
Overview: Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Quality Street
1937-03-26
Quality Street
Overview: In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-26
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That Night with You
1945-09-28
That Night with You
Overview: In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on stage. The trouble begins when the girl's "mother" suddenly pays a call. For her own reasons, the woman decides to play along with the girl's ruse. Fortunately, by the story's end, the truth is revealed, all differences are reconciled and happiness ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-28
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Nobody Runs Forever
1968-08-22
Nobody Runs Forever
Overview: Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-22
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Her Husband's Affairs
1947-11-12
Her Husband's Affairs
Overview: Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-12
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Moulin Rouge
1934-01-10
Moulin Rouge
Overview: A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go to Raquel with a plan--unbeknownst to her husband, "Raquel" is actually her sister, and her plan is for them to switch places so she can fulfill her dream of going back on the stage. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-10
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Gabriel Over the White House
1933-03-31
Gabriel Over the White House
Overview: A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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Pilot #5
1943-06-24
Pilot #5
Overview: A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb on the Japanese carrier lying offshore. As the flight progresses, the commander asks the other pilots to tell him about George. They recount his rise from brilliant law student, through the time he became involved in the corrupt machine of his state's Governor, and his attempts to redeem himself, both in his own eyes, and in Fredie, his long-time love.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Gentlemen Are Born
1934-11-17
Gentlemen Are Born
Overview: A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-17
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The Girl from Missouri
1934-08-03
The Girl from Missouri
Overview: Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-03
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Today We Live
1933-03-03
Today We Live
Overview: Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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Star Spangled Rhythm
1942-03-05
Star Spangled Rhythm
Overview: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972-01-10
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Overview: A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-10
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Three Comrades
1938-06-02
Three Comrades
Overview: A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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The Stranger's Return
1933-07-28
The Stranger's Return
Overview: A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
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They Gave Him a Gun
1937-05-07
They Gave Him a Gun
Overview: With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
Genres: War Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
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The Gorgeous Hussy
1936-08-28
The Gorgeous Hussy
Overview: It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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The Bride Wore Red
1937-10-08
The Bride Wore Red
Overview: A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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No More Ladies
1935-06-14
No More Ladies
Overview: A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-14
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The World Moves On
1934-06-27
The World Moves On
Overview: Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-27
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Exclusive Story
1936-01-17
Exclusive Story
Overview: A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Trail of the Vigilantes
1940-12-13
Trail of the Vigilantes
Overview: A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Fast and Furious
1939-10-06
Fast and Furious
Overview: Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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The King Steps Out
1936-05-27
The King Steps Out
Overview: Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-27
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Straight Is the Way
1934-08-10
Straight Is the Way
Overview: Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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Stage Mother
1933-09-29
Stage Mother
Overview: Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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The Girl Downstairs
1938-12-23
The Girl Downstairs
Overview: A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-23
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The Unguarded Hour
1936-04-10
The Unguarded Hour
Overview: A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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Man-Proof
1938-01-07
Man-Proof
Overview: A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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Love Is a Headache
1938-01-14
Love Is a Headache
Overview: A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Between Two Women
1937-07-09
Between Two Women
Overview: Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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Uncle Vanya
1957-12-13
Uncle Vanya
Overview: A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-13
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One New York Night
1935-03-08
One New York Night
Overview: Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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True to Life
1943-12-24
True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Lost Honeymoon
1947-03-29
Lost Honeymoon
Overview: An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-29
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See How They Run
1964-10-07
See How They Run
Overview: Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-07
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Honeymoon
1947-05-17
Honeymoon
Overview: A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-17
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The Hour Before the Dawn
1944-05-10
The Hour Before the Dawn
Overview: A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-10
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942-04-28
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Overview: Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-28
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989-06-26
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Overview: A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-26
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1996-09-30
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Overview: Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-30
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She Knew All the Answers
1941-05-13
She Knew All the Answers
Overview: Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-13
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Shadow Over Elveron
1968-03-05
Shadow Over Elveron
Overview: A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to get the community to stand up for what is right.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-05
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Twelve Angry Men
1954-09-20
Twelve Angry Men
Overview: Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-20
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The Wiser Sex
1932-03-14
The Wiser Sex
Overview: A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-14
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This Woman Is Mine
1941-08-22
This Woman Is Mine
Overview: Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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Bitter Heritage
1958-08-07
Bitter Heritage
Overview: A powerful story of the son of America's most famous outlaw: Jesse James. Jesse, Jr. struggles to return to the town which his father lived. His love interest is Elizabeth Montgomery.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-07
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Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
1961-01-01
Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
Overview: Madame Tirelou is a witch who will not allow her daughter Marie to marry her one true love Louis. The witch puts a curse on Louis should he ever set eyes on Marie again. Louis enlists the help of his old friend Fred to break the witch's spell so the young lovers may finally marry. However, Madame Tirelou proves more powerful than non-believer Fred bargained for. This is actually the Un-Aired Pilot of what was planned to be a weekly television show to run in a 30 minute spot.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Little Foxes
1956-12-16
The Little Foxes
Overview: A tale of greed, one-upmanship, family distrust, abuse, apathy, and lost love, set in the deep south at the turn of the twentieth century.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-16
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
That's Entertainment, Part II
Overview: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
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The Romance of Celluloid
1937-08-27
The Romance of Celluloid
Overview: Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production of which include cotton and silver; construction crews who build sets including those to look like cities, towns and villages around the world; a visit with Jack Dawn who demonstrates the process of creating a makeup design; the screen testing process, where many an acting hopeful gets his/her start; the work of the candid camera man, the prying eyes behind the movie camera; a visit with Adrian, who designs the clothes worn by many of the stars on screen; and a visit with Herbert Stothart as he conducts his musical score for Conquest (1937). These behind the scenes looks provide the opportunity to get acquainted with the cavalcade of MGM stars and their productions that will grace the silver screen in the 1937/38 movie season.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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How to Make a French Dish
1964-01-29
How to Make a French Dish
Overview: In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and killed during an attempted robbery. She later marries and has a daughter. Unfortunately she alienates herself from her daughter when she has an affair with her daughter's fiance. Her remorse is short lived. The film jumps back to the present with the woman leaving the casino on the arm of a handsome millionaire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-29
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In Harm's Way
1965-04-06
In Harm's Way
Overview: A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-06
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943-10-16
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Overview: This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-16
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991-10-28
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Overview: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-28
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Too Old for Dolls
1955-02-24
Too Old for Dolls
Overview: Parents are concerned that their teen-aged daughter doesn't have a date for her school's formal dance. She assures them she has a boy named Al all lined up. Recalling that "Al" was the name of her imaginary childhood friend, Dad arranges for one of the boys from the office to escort her. It turns out that Al really does exist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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