Herschel Graham
Also Known As: Herschel Lee Graham
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bixby, Oklahoma, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 05, 1904
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 18, 1964
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Dodsworth
Overview: A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-23
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Strictly Unconventional
Overview: An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-03
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All in a Night's Work
Overview: After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Overview: Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-06
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Vicki
Overview: A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-05
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Phantom Lady
Overview: A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-28
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Bannerline
Overview: A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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The Stooge
Overview: Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Shadow of the Thin Man
Overview: High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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East Side, West Side
Overview: A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-22
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Joan of Arc
Overview: In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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The Band Wagon
Overview: A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-07
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Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
Overview: The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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The Devil's Hairpin
Overview: Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. He now holds a trendy café who keeps him busy full time until one day, Tony Boari, a new champion racer, challenges him.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-04
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Kid Galahad
Overview: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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The Man with the Golden Arm
Overview: When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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Rails Into Laramie
Overview: A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-14
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Secret Beyond the Door
Overview: After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-24
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Holiday for Lovers
Overview: Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-21
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Written on the Wind
Overview: Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-04
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The Apartment
Overview: Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-21
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Overview: It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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The Garment Jungle
Overview: Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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Lucky Me
Overview: Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-09
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Dead Reckoning
Overview: War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-31
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Overview: Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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Lover Come Back
Overview: Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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Topper
Overview: Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Overview: Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-14
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Never Wave at a WAC
Overview: A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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The Wheeler Dealers
Overview: Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-14
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Overview: Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Louisa
Overview: Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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All Through the Night
Overview: Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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The Parent Trap
Overview: Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-13
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Room for One More
Overview: Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-10
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One Touch of Venus
Overview: A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-01
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The Spider Woman
Overview: Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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My Friend Irma Goes West
Overview: Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-25
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State of the Union
Overview: An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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Boys' Night Out
Overview: Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-21
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The Thrill of It All
Overview: A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-17
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Carrie
Overview: Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-17
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Mister 880
Overview: The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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Gypsy
Overview: Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-01
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Nazi Agent
Overview: Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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The Best Man
Overview: The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-05
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An Affair to Remember
Overview: A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-11
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The Secret Fury
Overview: The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
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Zero Hour!
Overview: In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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Railroaded!
Overview: A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-25
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Pat and Mike
Overview: Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-13
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Monsieur Verdoux
Overview: The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-26
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The Great Lie
Overview: After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-05
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Foreign Correspondent
Overview: American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Holy Matrimony
Overview: An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-24
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You Were Never Lovelier
Overview: An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-19
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Tales of Manhattan
Overview: Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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A Night at the Ritz
Overview: A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-23
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Dear Heart
Overview: A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-07
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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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Ninotchka
Overview: A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-23
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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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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Overview: A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-18
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Scandal Sheet
Overview: A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-16
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The Fountainhead
Overview: An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-25
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Red Canyon
Overview: A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-27
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Damn Yankees
Overview: Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-26
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Magnificent Obsession
Overview: Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-07
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The Young Philadelphians
Overview: Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-21
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A Place in the Sun
Overview: A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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Titanic
Overview: Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-11
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
Overview: Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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Compulsion
Overview: Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
Genres: Crime Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Mighty Joe Young
Overview: A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-27
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The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Unfaithfully Yours
Overview: Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-10
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Kiss Me Kate
Overview: A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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Dial M for Murder
Overview: When American writer Mark Halliday visits the very married Margot Wendice in London, he unknowingly sets off a chain of blackmail and murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-29
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Sweet Bird of Youth
Overview: Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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It's Always Fair Weather
Overview: Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-30
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Dead Ringer
Overview: The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-19
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Three Secrets
Overview: A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-20
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The Five Pennies
Overview: Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then tragedy strikes when their daughter contracts polio.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-18
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Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Overview: Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-06
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Nobody Lives Forever
Overview: A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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Phone Call from a Stranger
Overview: Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Giant
Overview: Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-08
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The Star
Overview: Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despite entreaties from both her daughter, Gretchen, and one-time professional colleague Jim Johannsen, Margaret remains convinced that she can regain her former glory. As she sets her sights on a coveted Hollywood role, Johannsen tries doggedly to get his unrequited love to see the folly of her ways.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-11
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Home Before Dark
Overview: A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-16
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High Noon
Overview: Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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It's a Wonderful Life
Overview: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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Sabrina
Overview: Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-10
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Witness for the Prosecution
Overview: An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony confuses him.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Overview: The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-04
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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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Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Seven Thieves
Overview: A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-11
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Slightly French
Overview: A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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Charlie Chan at the Opera
Overview: A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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Alias Nick Beal
Overview: After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Genres: Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Born to Be Bad
Overview: Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-28
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The Gunfighter
Overview: The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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Hollywood Story
Overview: An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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Father of the Bride
Overview: Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Body and Soul
Overview: Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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Lured
Overview: Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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Tender Is the Night
Overview: Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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Harriet Craig
Overview: A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-02
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The Fly
Overview: Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre, who tells him that she has just killed her husband, André. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that André invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber during the matter transference.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-16
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World for Ransom
Overview: In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-31
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Fate Is the Hunter
Overview: A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-08
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
Overview: Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.
Genres: Music Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Let's Make It Legal
Overview: A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-31
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The Solid Gold Cadillac
Overview: Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-22
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It Should Happen to You
Overview: Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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South of Monterey
Overview: The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) hears of a land-swindling scheme devised by the police Commandante (Martin Garralaga) and the tax collector (Harry Woods) in a small western town. Cisco's efforts against the plot cause the thieves to fall out, and Cisco is able to return the land to the rightful owners.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-15
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Scared Stiff
Overview: A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
Genres: Music Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-27
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Youngblood Hawke
Overview: An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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