Maureen O'Sullivan
Also Known As: Maureen Paula O'Sullivan, Морин О’Салливан, Maureen O’Sullivan
Biography: Maureen Paula O'Sullivan was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, on May 17, 1911. The future mother of Mia Farrow was a schooldays classmate of Vivien Leigh at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton in London. Even as a schoolgirl, Maureen desired an acting career; she studied hard and read widely. When the opportunity to be an actress came along, it almost dropped in her lap. The director Frank Borzage was in Dublin filming “Song o’ My Heart” (1930) when Maureen, then 18, met him. Borzage suggested a screen test, which she took. The results were more than favorable, as she won the part of Eileen O’Brien. The part was a substantial one, so much so that Maureen went on to Hollywood to complete the filming. Once in sunny California, Maureen wasted no time landing roles in other films such as “Just Imagine” (1930), “Princess and the Plumber” (1930), and “So This Is London” (1930). Maureen was on a roll that her contemporaries could only have wished for when they were coming up through the ranks. In 1932, Maureen was teamed up with Olympic medal winner Johnny Weissmuller for the first time in “Tarzan the Ape Man” (1932). Five other Tarzan films followed, the last being “Tarzan’s New York Adventure” (1942). The Tarzan epics rank as one of the most memorable series ever made. Most people agree that those movies would not have been successful had it not been for the fine acting talents, not to mention beauty, of Maureen O’Sullivan. But she was more than Jane Parker in the Tarzan films; she had great roles and played beautifully in films such as “The Flame Within” (1935), “David Copperfield” (1935), and “Anna Karenina” (1935). She turned in yet another fine performance in “Pride and Prejudice” (1940). After the 1940s, Maureen made far fewer films, not because she lost popularity but by choice. It isn’t always easy to walk away from a lucrative career, but she did because she wanted to devote more time to her husband, John Farrow, an Australian writer, and their seven children. The couple were married from 1936 until his death in 1963. She did not, however, retire completely; Maureen still found time to make an occasional appearance in films or TV or on the stage. Later movie-goers remember her as Elizabeth Alvorg in the hit film “Peggy Sue Got Married” (1986). Her final silver screen appearance was in “The River Pirates” (1988). Some TV movies followed, but only until 1996. She maintained homes in New Hampshire and Arizona, and it was in Scottsdale that Maureen died on June 23, 1998, of a heart attack. She was 87 years old.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
Birthday: May 17, 1911
Deathday: June 23, 1998
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Peggy Sue Got Married
Overview: Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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The Thin Man
Overview: A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-25
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Where Danger Lives
Overview: A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Overview: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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The Crooked Hearts
Overview: A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly cat-and-mouse game. This marked the TV-movie debut of both Rosalind Russell and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and was sadly also Russell's last film role.
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-08
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A Day at the Races
Overview: Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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Tarzan the Ape Man
Overview: James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-02
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Tarzan Finds a Son!
Overview: A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees, against Tarzan's will, to lead them to civilization.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-16
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Tarzan's New York Adventure
Overview: Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-01
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Tarzan's Secret Treasure
Overview: A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-01
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Payment Deferred
Overview: Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-01
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The Devil-Doll
Overview: Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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The Tall T
Overview: An independent former ranch foreman and an heiress are kidnapped by a trio of ruthless outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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Pride and Prejudice
Overview: Mrs. Bennet wishes to wed her five unmarried daughters and is overjoyed when a wealthy bachelor begins living nearby, but misunderstandings make happiness difficult.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Overview: Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-21
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David Copperfield
Overview: Charles Dickens' timeless tale of an ordinary young man who lives an extraordinary life, filled with people who help and hinder him.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-18
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The Phynx
Overview: A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-06
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All I Desire
Overview: In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-03
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Hide-Out
Overview: Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-24
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Tarzan Escapes
Overview: White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Let Us Live
Overview: When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Tarzan and His Mate
Overview: Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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The Big Clock
Overview: Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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Okay, America!
Overview: A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-08
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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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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Overview: Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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Just Imagine
Overview: New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
Genres: Comedy Music Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-23
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Skyscraper Souls
Overview: After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-16
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Too Scared to Scream
Overview: A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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Tugboat Annie
Overview: Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her conscientious son, Alec. Annie continually loses business because of Terry's drunken mistakes. Alec wants to quit school to work on the tug full time, but Annie will not sacrifice her son's education. A grown Alec has followed in his mother's footsteps and becomes a mariner, but a more upscale one as the captain of a luxury liner. Alec returns home with his fiancée, Pat - the boss' daughter - with a grand plan to save Annie from the life that drunkard Terry has provided her. But ultimately, it's Annie and Terry that need to be Alec's savior, and by their move show him the meaning of true commitment.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-04
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Stranded
Overview: A young woman and her grandmother living in an isolated farmhouse are kidnapped by aliens.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-20
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Bonzo Goes to College
Overview: When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-11
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Overview: A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-10
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West Point of the Air
Overview: An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-23
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A Connecticut Yankee
Overview: Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him. Upon awakening, Hank finds himself in the time of King Arthur. At Camelot Castle, Hank uses a cigarette lighter and his skill with a lasso to save himself from being executed as a demon. Hank so impresses Arthur that the king orders him to joust with one of his knights to save the life of Princess Alisande.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-06
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Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood
Overview: A timeless story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City, in the 1940s during World War II, roaming with his friends, playing practical jokes, and getting into trouble.
Genres: Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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The Steel Cage
Overview: Drama set in San Quentin prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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A Yank at Oxford
Overview: A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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Maisie Was a Lady
Overview: Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-10
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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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Port of Seven Seas
Overview: In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
Overview: A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
Overview: A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-15
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Song o' My Heart
Overview: Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he’s always loved. Mary’s aunt convinced her to marry a man for his money; he has recently deserted her, leaving her penniless. She and her two children, Eileen and Tad, move in with the selfish and austere aunt. Eileen is falling in love with Fergus, a young man who’s off to Dublin to seek his fortune. Sean is drawn out of retirement and goes on tour in America. At his first concert, he’s nervous and out of sorts until the last song, when peace descends on him like a gift. What has happened, and can family life be set right?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-11
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Duffy of San Quentin
Overview: San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Stage Mother
Overview: Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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Never Too Late
Overview: A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-04
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The Big Shot
Overview: A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Between Two Women
Overview: Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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Mandy's Grandmother
Overview: A young tomboy and her prim grandmother quickly forget the disappointment of their first meeting and become friends.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Wild Heritage
Overview: Travails of a family heading West in a covered wagon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-23
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Hold That Kiss
Overview: Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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Woman Wanted
Overview: Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
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Spring Madness
Overview: Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
Overview: When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennifer once lived and worked as a reporter. Nearly immediately, they discover that all is not right within this picturesque town. The town's economic troubles pale next to the danger the Harts find themselves in as they try to sort out whether their friend's death was murder, and what sinister secrets may lie behind the truth.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-18
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The Flame Within
Overview: Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-17
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The Crowd Roars
Overview: A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-06
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Cardinal Richelieu
Overview: The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-18
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The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story
Overview: A lamb that had wandered off plays a significant part in the Nativity.
Genres: TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Sporting Blood
Overview: Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-11
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In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
Overview: A look at Tarzan on the big and small screen with interviews with some of those who have played him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-22
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Mission Over Korea
Overview: A rookie pilot in the Korean War wants to avenge his brother's death.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-01
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The Bishop Misbehaves
Overview: On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serious, and hearing that she plans to rob Mr. Waller, the man who has cheated her father out of thousands of pounds, Donald agrees. A robbery at a pub is arranged, but the Bishop of Broadminster, an avid mystery fan, and his sister stumble into it. Playing detective the Bishop complicates matters and each side, the Bishop, the unscrupulous Waller, the gang Hester hires, and Hester and Donald, each get the upper hand along the way.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
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The Romance of Celluloid
Overview: Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production of which include cotton and silver; construction crews who build sets including those to look like cities, towns and villages around the world; a visit with Jack Dawn who demonstrates the process of creating a makeup design; the screen testing process, where many an acting hopeful gets his/her start; the work of the candid camera man, the prying eyes behind the movie camera; a visit with Adrian, who designs the clothes worn by many of the stars on screen; and a visit with Herbert Stothart as he conducts his musical score for Conquest (1937). These behind the scenes looks provide the opportunity to get acquainted with the cavalcade of MGM stars and their productions that will grace the silver screen in the 1937/38 movie season.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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Hollywood - The Second Step
Overview: This short follows the early career of actress Jane Barnes. She starts by doing extra work. After several months she is offered a studio contract (the "first step"). However, her work consists mostly of fashion shoots and bit parts that end up on the cutting room floor. She is even used as a stand-in for Maureen O'Sullivan on the set of a Tarzan movie when camera angles and lighting must be set up.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-02
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Tarzan Revisited
Overview: Tarzan: the super hero who never goes out of fashion. The son of British Royalty, he is raised by apes in the African jungle and finds his true love, Jane. Swinging through trees, communicating with wild animals, he is exotic, entertaining and accessible. This film recounts the birth of the character in the mind of Edgar Rice Burroughs and how each generation has reinvented and reinterpreted him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-28
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Skyline
Overview: Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-08
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Overview: This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-29
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Robbers' Roost
Overview: Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan is overheard he is made a prisoner.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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Fast Companions
Overview: A crooked jockey tries to reform.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-22
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Complicated Women
Overview: Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-06
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Overview: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
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The Silver Lining
Overview: A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-16
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The Edge of Innocence
Overview: An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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So This Is London
Overview: Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-23
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The Princess and the Plumber
Overview: A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-21
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It's Showtime
Overview: A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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Ellis in Freedomland
Overview: Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-15
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With Murder in Mind
Overview: A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-12
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Screen Snapshots No. 11
Overview: Long before the release of the cult film Dracula vs. Frankenstein, the original stars of Dracula and Frankenstein met face to face--for a game of chess. The scene is from an early 1934 episode of Columbia Pictures' Screen Snapshots, a series of short films featuring the off-screen lives of Hollywood stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Overview: Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-03
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The Habitation of Dragons
Overview: Two brothers of totally different natures live in a small town in Texas. Since the death of their father they confront one another all the time for all kind of major and minor problems.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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The Great Houdinis
Overview: A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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Morning's at Seven
Overview: In a small Midwestern town in the 1920s, four sisters' lives are turned upside down when one sister's son brings his fiancée home to meet his eccentric family for the first time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Blessed Midnight
Overview: When a boy steals a cake for his beloved aunt on Christmas Eve, his young friend tries to set things straight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-18
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Screen Actors
Overview: This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-13
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Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
Overview: Documentary about the film Where Danger Lives (1950)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-31
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No Resting Place
Overview: The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Resting Place. Filmed on location in Ireland, the film is a lightly fictionalized study of that country's itinerant workmen. Michael Gough plays tinker Alec Kyle, whose life is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a man. Kyle spends the rest of the film evading Guard Mannigan (Noel Purcell), a civil servant who relies on instinct rather than scientific deduction to get his man. Without ever trying to elicit sympathy for his characters, director Rotha manages to compellingly detail the miserable living and working conditions of Ireland's nomad artisans.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-12
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Overview: Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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