Paulette Goddard
Also Known As: Pauline Marion Goddard Levy, 宝莲·高黛, 保莉特·戈达德, پولت گادرد
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paulette Goddard (June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married to several notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque. Goddard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in So Proudly We Hail! (1943). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paulette Goddard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Whitestone Landing, Long Island, New York, USA
Birthday: June 03, 1910
Deathday: April 23, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Great Dictator
Overview: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-15
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Modern Times
Overview: A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-05
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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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Second Chorus
Overview: Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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An Ideal Husband
Overview: A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-14
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The Snoop Sisters
Overview: A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-18
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The Ghost Breakers
Overview: After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-21
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A Yank Comes Back
Overview: In a follow up to 'A Welcome to Britain', Burgess Meredith returns to look at a post-war Britain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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The Young in Heart
Overview: A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-06
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Reap the Wild Wind
Overview: The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
Overview: Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-15
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Pot o' Gold
Overview: Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-03
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The Cat and the Canary
Overview: Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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The Bohemian Girl
Overview: Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Hold Back the Dawn
Overview: Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Unconquered
Overview: England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-10
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North West Mounted Police
Overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Genres: Action Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-22
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On Our Merry Way
Overview: Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-03
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Vice Squad
Overview: A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-31
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Nothing But the Truth
Overview: A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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The Lady Has Plans
Overview: Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-20
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Kitty
Overview: Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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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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Charge of the Lancers
Overview: The downward spiral of the quality of films Paulette Goddard appeared in in the 1950's would cause a gravitational blackout to anyone viewing them in a single day, but with some of the all-time great schlock names serving as the producers---Sam Katzman, the Danziger brothers, Albert Zugsmith and---gasp---Sigmund Neufeld--- the results easily met the low expectations.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-01
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Time of Indifference
Overview: A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-24
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The Stranger Came Home
Overview: Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-24
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So Proudly We Hail
Overview: During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-09
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The Mouthpiece
Overview: A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
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All at Sea
Overview: "All at Sea" is a short documentary of Cooke, Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard all on Chaplin's yacht on an afternoon sail.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Variety Girl
Overview: Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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Bride of Vengeance
Overview: The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-07
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Babes in Bagdad
Overview: The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-07
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Suddenly It's Spring
Overview: A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-13
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The Crystal Ball
Overview: A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-22
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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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Anna Lucasta
Overview: A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-11
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Dramatic School
Overview: Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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The Torch
Overview: The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-02
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The Phantom
Overview: The Phantom, along with canine companion Devil, investigate wicked doings at the plantation of Mrs. Harris. An unsold TV pilot based on the popular superhero.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Standing Room Only
Overview: During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-07
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Paris Model
Overview: A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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Girl Grief
Overview: Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-08
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Sins of Jezebel
Overview: The aging king of Israel, Ahab, falls under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming Pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of his advisers and the prophet Elijah, marries her. Her plan to introduce her idols to Israel angers God, who wreaks vengeance on Israel.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-04
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I Love a Soldier
Overview: During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is over she refuses to spend her days and nights worrying about getting bad news about a man she has fallen for. But she doesn't count on meeting a soldier who is determined to change her mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-12
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Overview: Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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Show Business
Overview: The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-20
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The Kid from Spain
Overview: Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie gets mixed up in a bank robbery and is forced to drive the robbers to safety. To get rid of him they force him to leave the USA for Mexico, but a cop is following him. Eddie meets Ricardo there, Ricardo helps him avoid being arrested by the cop when he introduces Eddie as the great Spanish bullfighter Don Sebastian II. The problem is, the cop is still curious and has tickets for the bullfight. Eddie's situation becomes more critical, when he tries to help Ricardo to win the girl he loves, but she's engaged to a "real" Mexican, who is, unknown to her father, involved in illegal business. While trying to avoid all this trouble, Eddie himself falls in love with his friend's girl friend's sister Rosalie, who also want to see the great Don Sebastian II to kill the bull in the arena.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-17
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Kid Millions
Overview: A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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The Locked Door
Overview: On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-16
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The Forest Rangers
Overview: Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-21
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Hazard
Overview: A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-28
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City Streets
Overview: A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-18
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Overview: Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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Berth Marks
Overview: Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-01
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Overview: The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-16
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Duffy's Tavern
Overview: The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-28
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Whoopee!
Overview: Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
Genres: Music Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-26
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Ladies of the Big House
Overview: A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Roman Scandals
Overview: A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-27
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Palmy Days
Overview: Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychic, is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rob the payroll.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-23
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The Bowery
Overview: "In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-07
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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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Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
Overview: A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), from rags to riches, from the slums of London to glory.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-10
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This Is Bob Hope...
Overview: During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-29
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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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The Girl Habit
Overview: A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
Overview: In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well as a wide range of interviews (Paulette Goddard, Sydney Chaplin, Chuck Jones, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Joan Collins et al.) to examine the production history of "The Great Dictator", the film's importance as a satire, and legacy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-24
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