May Robson
Also Known As: Mary Jeanette Robison
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia May Robson (19 April 1858 - 20 October 1942) was an actress and playwright. A major stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th century, Robson is best known today for the dozens of 1930s motion pictures she appeared in when she was well into her seventies, usually playing cross old ladies with hearts of gold.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: April 17, 1858
Age: 167 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 20, 1942
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Bringing Up Baby
Overview: David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Overview: Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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A Star Is Born
Overview: Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-27
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-18
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They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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Lady for a Day
Overview: Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-13
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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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Joan of Paris
Overview: An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-20
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Wife vs. Secretary
Overview: Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Four Daughters
Overview: Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-09
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When Knights Were Bold
Overview: Two noblemen fight over a lady.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-05-20
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Lady by Choice
Overview: To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-15
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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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Anna Karenina
Overview: In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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Million Dollar Baby
Overview: A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-31
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Red-Headed Woman
Overview: Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-25
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Broadway to Hollywood
Overview: In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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If I Had a Million
Overview: An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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A Night Out
Overview: A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-31
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The Solitaire Man
Overview: An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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The Texans
Overview: After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-12
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Little Orphan Annie
Overview: Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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Four Wives
Overview: In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Irene
Overview: Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-23
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The Perfect Specimen
Overview: Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-23
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Daughters Courageous
Overview: Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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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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Four Mothers
Overview: Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-04
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Letty Lynton
Overview: Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-30
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That's Right – You're Wrong
Overview: J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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The White Sister
Overview: An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Men Must Fight
Overview: Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
Genres: Drama War Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-17
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Strangers All
Overview: Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-01
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
Overview: The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Beauty for Sale
Overview: A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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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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Reunion in Vienna
Overview: An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-16
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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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You Can't Buy Everything
Overview: A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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Grand Old Girl
Overview: An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-15
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One Man's Journey
Overview: Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-31
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Age of Indiscretion
Overview: A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-10
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
Overview: Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-25
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Overview: With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Overview: British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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Mills of the Gods
Overview: Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-15
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Rubber Tires
Overview: When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, their used car is worth more than they ever could have imagined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-07
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The Angel of Broadway
Overview: Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army girl and attends mission meetings on the East Side for atmosphere. There she meets Jerry Wilson, an honest truckdriver and friend of the Army captain. Although the act is a success, Babe is disillusioned to find Lonnie, a fellow worker who has been romancing her, stealing her money and making overtures to Big Bertha, the hard-boiled club hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-02
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Dinner at Eight
Overview: An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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Chicago
Overview: Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for Kander/Ebb's 1975 Broadway musical of the same name and its Oscar-winning 2002 film adaptation.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-23
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Movies on Sundays
Overview: A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow such screenings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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The King of Kings
Overview: The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-19
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Playmates
Overview: Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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Woman in Distress
Overview: Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper reporter and his female rival determine that it is genuine but subsequently learn it has been stolen by a gang of art thieves who plan to kill the spinster to prevent her from later identifying it.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-17
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The Captain's Kid
Overview: In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-14
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Granny Get Your Gun
Overview: An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-10
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Rainbow on the River
Overview: A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Overview: Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-02
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The Kid from Kokomo
Overview: Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-23
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How Molly Malone Made Good
Overview: Molly, an Irish girl just hired by a New York newspaper, is assigned as a test a chain interview of celebrities that must be accomplished within a set amount of time. She goes through innumerable paths and obstacles to achieve the goal.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-25
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The Hollywood Gad-About
Overview: A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-04
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Breakdowns of 1939
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-31
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Breakdowns of 1940
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-31
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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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Pals in Paradise
Overview: Bill Harvey discovers a lost mine, rich with gold. Geraldine "Jerry" Howard has the claim to it left her by her father. Bill tells her that the death of the claimant, her father, makes a claim void. Infuriated, she goes to John Kenton, a crooked lawyer, for aid. Kenton sees an opportunity for wealth if he marries Geraldine, but Bill tells her that Kenton is only after her money. She gets more infuriated. While Bill and a posse are raiding an immoral cabaret, Kenton raids the Paradise freight depot to steal the money. The depot catches fire and Kenton shoots his henchman to save himself. The town and Geraldine think Kenton is a hero. It is up to Bill to prove otherwise.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-22
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-18
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3 Kids and a Queen
Overview: An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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The She-Wolf
Overview: An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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A Harp in Hock
Overview: A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love, and was based on the short story by Evelyn Campbell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-10
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