Norma Shearer
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s. Her early films cast her as the girl next door, but for most of the Pre-Code film era, beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies. Later she appeared in historical and period films. Unlike many of her MGM contemporaries, Shearer's fame declined steeply after retirement. By the time of her death in 1983, she was largely remembered at best for her "noble" roles in The Women, Marie Antoinette, and Romeo and Juliet. Shearer's legacy began to be re-evaluated in the 1990s with the publication of two biographies and the TCM (Turner Classic Movies) and VHS release of her films, many of them unseen since the implementation of the Production Code some sixty years before. Focus shifted to her pre-Code "divorcee" persona, and Shearer was rediscovered as "the exemplar of sophisticated [1930's] woman-hood... exploring love and sex with an honesty that would be considered frank by modern standards". Simultaneously, Shearer's ten-year collaboration with portrait photographer George Hurrell and her lasting contribution to fashion through the designs of Adrian were also recognized. Shearer is widely celebrated by some as one of cinema's feminist pioneers: "the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen". In March 2008, two of her most famous pre-code films, The Divorcee and A Free Soul, were released on DVD. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norma Shearer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 10, 1902
Deathday: June 12, 1983
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The Women
1939-09-01
The Women
Overview: A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929-11-23
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Overview: An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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The Wolf Man
1924-02-17
The Wolf Man
Overview: Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). But Stanley's personality changes whenever he drinks, and his brother (who also loves Beatrice) uses this to his advantage.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-17
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He Who Gets Slapped
1924-12-22
He Who Gets Slapped
Overview: After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-22
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Empty Hands
1924-08-17
Empty Hands
Overview: Claire Endicott throws a wild party and her father walks in to find her flirting with the very married Milt Bisnet. In an attempt to straighten her out, Endicott sends Claire to the Canadian northwoods, where his field engineer, Grimshaw, is working. While fishing, Claire is swept over the rapids and Grimshaw tries to rescue her. Both of them wind up in a remote gorge, and Grimshaw goes about building a hut as a shelter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-17
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Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27
Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Romeo and Juliet
1936-09-03
Romeo and Juliet
Overview: Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-03
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934-09-21
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Overview: Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-21
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Channing of the Northwest
1922-04-10
Channing of the Northwest
Overview: A foppish Londoner joins the Royal Canadian Mounties and tries to break a smuggling ring.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-10
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Married Flirts
1924-10-27
Married Flirts
Overview: Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. Jill Wetherell, who is looking for a rich husband, finds Wayne to be easy prey and Nelly catches them together. She divorces Wayne and travels to Europe. Jill, however, throws Wayne over for Perley Rex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-27
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A Man's Man
1929-05-25
A Man's Man
Overview: An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-25
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The Divorcee
1930-04-19
The Divorcee
Overview: When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-19
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A Free Soul
1931-06-02
A Free Soul
Overview: An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-02
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The Stolen Jools
1931-04-04
The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Lady of the Night
1925-02-23
Lady of the Night
Overview: The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity but worlds apart in society: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the daughter of the judge who sent Molly's father to prison. The girls' lives come together as they reach the age of eighteen, when Florence leaves the security of the exclusive Girls Select School, and Molly, now orphaned, begins her life after reform school.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-23
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Smilin' Through
1932-09-24
Smilin' Through
Overview: On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-24
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1928-01-30
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Overview: A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-30
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Her Cardboard Lover
1942-07-16
Her Cardboard Lover
Overview: A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-16
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Strangers May Kiss
1931-04-04
Strangers May Kiss
Overview: After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth continues to see Alan, even after she hears he may have a wife in France. When Alan's work sends him abroad, a lovesick Lisbeth struggles to understand her feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Private Lives
1931-12-12
Private Lives
Overview: Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive at a hotel on the same day and are put in rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go well until Amanda sees Elyot on the adjacent terrace.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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Their Own Desire
1929-12-27
Their Own Desire
Overview: Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays polo. After 23 years of marriage her father decides to divorce Lally's mother and remarry to soon-to-be-divorced Beth Cheever. This sours Lally on all men. While on vacation with her mother she meets Jack, who succeeds in stealing her heart. Then Lally discovers that Jack is the son of Beth Cheever, the woman who is to marry her father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-27
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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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The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929-06-08
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Overview: A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-08
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Escape
1940-11-01
Escape
Overview: An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Strange Interlude
1932-12-30
Strange Interlude
Overview: After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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Let Us Be Gay
1930-07-11
Let Us Be Gay
Overview: A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pursuing another woman. Unbeknownst to him, she is the same ex-wife he'd neglected, now transformed into a fashionable socialite.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-11
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Pretty Ladies
1925-09-06
Pretty Ladies
Overview: Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-06
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Upstage
1926-11-06
Upstage
Overview: Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, thinking she is the reason, meets a handsome leading man and joins up with him but, before long, he discovers 'she ain't a trouper' and she is soon performing with 4th-class acts in Tank Town America
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-06
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A Lady of Chance
1928-12-01
A Lady of Chance
Overview: A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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The Waning Sex
1926-09-05
The Waning Sex
Overview: Nina Duane is a criminal lawyer whose gender was professionally resented by Philip Barry, the District Attorney. She wins acquittal for man-chasing widow Mary Booth, then defeats her in romancing the D.A.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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The Devil's Circus
1926-02-14
The Devil's Circus
Overview: In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast life of crime. Before long, his fate intersects with that of Mary, a devout orphan, prompting a romance and a reevaluation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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Riptide
1934-03-29
Riptide
Overview: Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-29
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After Midnight
1927-08-20
After Midnight
Overview: When Joe, a hold-up man, tries to rob Mary, a nightclub hostess, she winds winds up knocking him out. She takes pity on him, however, and nurses him back to health. He decides to go straight and marry her. Mary buys a $1000 Liberty Bond as an investment, while Joe saves up and buys a taxi to start his own business. Then Maisie, Mary's wild and money-crazy sister, shows up, which leads to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-20
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Girl 27
2007-07-27
Girl 27
Overview: The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-27
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We Were Dancing
1942-04-30
We Were Dancing
Overview: A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-30
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Lucretia Lombard
1923-12-08
Lucretia Lombard
Overview: Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-08
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1929-07-06
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Overview: There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. Webley, Fay is again the center of attention for Arthur and Elton with her leaning towards stuffy old Elton. When Arthur sees Charles, Fay's Butler, lurking in the gardens, he remembers that Charles was a thief caught in Monte Carlo and he figures that Fay may be more interested in the pearls of Mrs. Webley, which she is. After Fay takes the pearls, but before she can toss them out the window, she is caught by Arthur who is very disappointed in how things are turning out.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-06
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A Clouded Name
1923-02-19
A Clouded Name
Overview: To avoid seeing Marjorie Dare, Jim Allen visits Stewart Leighton at the latter's country home. (Five years earlier Jim's engagement to Marjorie Dare was broken when her mother was killed and his father disappeared.) Through certain circumstance Marjorie also becomes Leighton's guest, and Jim moves out into the woods. There he meets Smiles, a little girl in the care of strange old Ben Tangleface. Leighton wishes to wed Marjorie for her money and is trying forcefully to persuade her to accept him when Jim comes to the rescue. But Ben, his memory stirred by the sight of Leighton, kills him. Explanations reveal Smiles to be Dorothy's sister and Ben, Jim's father. He was wounded while defending Marjorie's mother, whom Leighton killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-19
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004-02-03
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Overview: Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-03
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The Tower of Lies
1925-10-10
The Tower of Lies
Overview: After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-10
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Sports on the Silver Screen
1997-03-16
Sports on the Silver Screen
Overview: HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-16
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The Christmas Party
1931-12-17
The Christmas Party
Overview: In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-17
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Broadway After Dark
1924-05-19
Broadway After Dark
Overview: Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him to reject the superficial life of his set.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-19
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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990-07-23
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Overview: Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.
Genres: Documentary History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-23
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The Actress
1928-04-27
The Actress
Overview: A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The rest of the play deals with the budding romance and trials and tribulations of their love, as well as the changing face of late-19th-century theatre.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-27
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Way Down East
1920-09-03
Way Down East
Overview: A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-03
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Going Hollywood
1933-12-22
Going Hollywood
Overview: The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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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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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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We're switching to Hollywood
1931-06-09
We're switching to Hollywood
Overview: A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-06-09
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940-10-24
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Overview: This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-24
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1925 Studio Tour
1925-04-09
1925 Studio Tour
Overview: A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-09
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The Restless Sex
1920-11-12
The Restless Sex
Overview: A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-12
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That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
That's Entertainment! III
Overview: Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002-08-16
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Overview: Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-16
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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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Waking Up the Town
1925-03-30
Waking Up the Town
Overview: Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in love with her. Joyce has a number of bizarre inventions and he dreams of harnessing the nearby falls for power, but he can't get any financing from the town banker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-30
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The Latest from Paris
1928-02-04
The Latest from Paris
Overview: The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, heroine Ann Dolan works for Blogg, while her sweetheart Joe Adams is employed by Littauer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-04
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The Snob
1924-11-10
The Snob
Overview: Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-10
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A Slave of Fashion
1925-08-23
A Slave of Fashion
Overview: Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York. En route, she is involved in a train wreck in which another woman is killed. Katherine finds the woman's purse and, among its contents, discovers an invitation for the woman to spend 6 months in an unoccupied luxury apartment in Manhattan. Katherine seizes this opportunity and sets up housekeeping in the elegant suite, living well and dressing in the newest fashions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-23
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940-07-31
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Overview: This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-31
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Judy Garland: By Myself
2004-02-25
Judy Garland: By Myself
Overview: As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life presented a smiling kid with the big voice, who, alongside Mickey Rooney, just wanted to put on a show. But drugs, overwork, even psychological abuse at the hands of the studio is now part of the Garland legend. But despite the number of Garland books and documentaries, one account has always been missing -- Garland herself never managed to write a memoir. She did make several attempts at an autobiography, often recording stories on a tape recorder. Judy Garland: By Myself (2004), finally fills in the blanks - using Judy's personal recordings to tell the story in her own words.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-25
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940-05-29
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Overview: This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-29
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Hollywood Goes to Town
1938-07-07
Hollywood Goes to Town
Overview: This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-07
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Complicated Women
2003-05-06
Complicated Women
Overview: Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-06
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Twenty Years After
1944-01-01
Twenty Years After
Overview: This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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From the Ends of the Earth
1939-05-28
From the Ends of the Earth
Overview: An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the Circus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-28
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988-10-01
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Overview: This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008-03-03
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Overview: A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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The Film Parade
1933-01-01
The Film Parade
Overview: Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a 52-minute feature called The Film Parade that was shown in New York and favorably reviewed by "Variety" in 1933. He continued tinkering with the film for the rest of the decade, and later filmmakers and distributors used Blackton's footage for stock or to produce their own variously titled and truncated versions. -UCLA Film & Television Archive
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Another Romance of Celluloid
1938-02-05
Another Romance of Celluloid
Overview: This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of current MGM productions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
2019-05-22
Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
Overview: Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-22
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Master Will Shakespeare
1936-06-13
Master Will Shakespeare
Overview: A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-13
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His Secretary
1925-12-06
His Secretary
Overview: When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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Blue Water
1924-04-16
Blue Water
Overview: Early Canadian Drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-16
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Excuse Me
1925-01-19
Excuse Me
Overview: A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-19
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The Wanters
1923-11-26
The Wanters
Overview: Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns home with his new bride. She is snubbed by his relatives and shocked by the hypocrisy of his wealthy friends. Disillusioned, she runs away: Elliot follows and saves her from being hit by a train when her foot gets caught in a switch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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The Trail of the Law
1924-01-25
The Trail of the Law
Overview: In Maine, a girl masquerades as a boy during the day after her mother is killed by an unknown assailant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-25
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The Bootleggers
1922-04-01
The Bootleggers
Overview: Jose Fernand seems interested in luring Helen Barnes onto his ship than he is in smuggling. The innocent orphan miss goes, accompanied by her younger sister Alice. With the boat out to sea, Fernand proceeds to attack the girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-01
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The Taming of the Shrewd
1922-04-10
The Taming of the Shrewd
Overview: Part 5 of The Leather Pushers boxing film series.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-10
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The Devil's Partner
1923-06-01
The Devil's Partner
Overview: An adventure tale set in the North Woods. The villain, smuggler Jules Payette, would give anything if Jeanne would give in. Saving her virtue in the nick of time is stalwart Pierre, who turns out to be a Northwest Mountie.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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Broken Barriers
1924-08-18
Broken Barriers
Overview: A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-18
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The Stealers
1920-10-03
The Stealers
Overview: Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pickpockets masquerading as religious workers who ply their trade in the wake of a traveling carnival company. He tries to keep the true nature of his work secret from his daughter Julie, but she learns the truth while traveling with his band for a week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-03
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Man and Wife
1923-03-25
Man and Wife
Overview: Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr. Howard Fleming, a famed brain surgeon. Supposedly she dies in a fire, and some time later Fleming takes a vacation in the country, where by some odd coincidence he winds up meeting Dolly, Dora's sister. Without realizing her relationship to Dora, he marries her. Soon Dolly is expecting, and not long after, Dora pops up -- she survived the fire, but has been left hopelessly insane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-25
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Pleasure Mad
1923-11-05
Pleasure Mad
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-05
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Torchy's Millions
1920-10-03
Torchy's Millions
Overview: A 1920 silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-03
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The Man Who Paid
1922-03-01
The Man Who Paid
Overview: In her first leading role, a very young Norma Shearer played Jeanne, a wild girl of the Canadian Northwest who marries and has a child with a mystery man, Oliver Thornton
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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The Star Boarder
1919-05-26
The Star Boarder
Overview: Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to get back in the comfortable jail. Exchanging clothes with a lookalike escaped prisoner, he goes back, only to find he's to be hung. Now desperate to leave again, he joins other cons in a jailbreak.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-26
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The Demi-Bride
1927-02-19
The Demi-Bride
Overview: Trouble begins when Mme. Girard steps out on her husband, Criquette's father, to fool around with rakish Phillippe Levaux. When Monsieur Girard finds out, Criquette saves her stepmother from scandal by tricking Levaux into a hasty marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-19
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The End of the World
1925-04-01
The End of the World
Overview: Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no capital with which to realize them. Abner Hope, who is regarded as a "queer one," tell Jack that the world will end on September 1st, and gives him his savings to spend during the few remaining weeks. As a result, Jack becomes a king of power, and becomes engaged to Curt Horndyke's daughter, although he loves Mary Ellen, Abner's granddaughter. Then comes the climax - the end of the world - which, with its dénouement, makes one of the most fascinating endings ever screened.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-01
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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939-04-08
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Overview: Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomoson, as well as Hollywood luminaries such as Franklyn Pangborn, Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, Mickey Rooney, Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-08
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The Flapper
1920-05-10
The Flapper
Overview: A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with a pair of jewel thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-10
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The End of the World
The End of the World
Overview: A lost silent film from 1922. Plot unknown.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
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