Sylvia Sidney
Also Known As: Sophia Kosow, Sylvia Sydney, سیلویا سیدنی
Biography: Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow, August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American stage, screen and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award as Best Supporting Actress. She also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: August 09, 1910
Deathday: July 01, 1999
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Mars Attacks!
Overview: A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-13
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Man on the Ledge
Overview: Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk the man, Robert Cosick, down from his threatening perch and in the process learns the reasons for the Robert's suicide attempt.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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Damien – Omen II
Overview: Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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God Told Me To
Overview: A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-22
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Raid on Entebbe
Overview: Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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Sabotage
Overview: Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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A Small Killing
Overview: A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid row crone.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-24
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Dead End
Overview: Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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Andre's Mother
Overview: Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Katherine Gerard (Sada Thompson) who has lost her son to AIDS. Set at Andre's memorial service, the film follows Katherine's journey as she confronts the death of her son, the anguish of his lover Cal Porter (Richard Thomas), and, in flashbacks, the key moments of denial and miscommunication with those closest to her. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season nine, episode four).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-07
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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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Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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Behind the High Wall
Overview: A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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You and Me
Overview: Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Genres: Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-01
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Violent Saturday
Overview: Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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Snowbeast
Overview: A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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Madame Butterfly
Overview: Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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You Only Live Once
Overview: Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Overview: A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-10
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Thirty Day Princess
Overview: A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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Love from a Stranger
Overview: Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Overview: Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-21
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An Early Frost
Overview: Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Beatrice. But when Michael discovers he has AIDS and is dying of complications from the disease, he must open up to his parents and the rest of his family. Though fearful of their reactions, he introduces them to his longtime lover, Peter, and looks to them for support.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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Blood on the Sun
Overview: Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-26
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Overview: A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-13
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The Wagons Roll at Night
Overview: An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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An American Tragedy
Overview: A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
Overview: A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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Confessions of a Co-Ed
Overview: A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-11
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Street Scene
Overview: The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-05
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Les Miserables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-14
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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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Behold My Wife!
Overview: After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-06
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Pick-up
Overview: The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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Siege
Overview: A drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang. After learning that the police are stymied because the victims are too scared to testify against the bullying leader, a semi-retired toolmaker decides to take a stand.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-26
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Good Dame
Overview: A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can help her get out of town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-16
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Jennie Gerhardt
Overview: This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-08
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One Third of a Nation
Overview: The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-10
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Accent on Youth
Overview: A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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Pals
Overview: Two retired fishing buddies stumble on an unmarked suitcase filled with three million dollars in cash. Then the fun starts flying as fast as bullets.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Searching Wind
Overview: Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in Rome just as Mussolini is coming to power. There Alex marries Emily, daughter of a newspaper publisher who hires Cassie for his Paris bureau -- just before retiring from active management of his paper. Alex and Emily's son Sam, recently returned from active duty in World War II, learns the whole story one night in Washington when Emily invites Cassie to dinner. Sam has a story to tell, too.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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The Secret Night Caller
Overview: A man who is the pillar of his community has a secret - he has a compulsion to make obscene telephone calls.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-18
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Overview: Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Helen Morgan Story
Overview: Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-16
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The House That Shadows Built
Overview: The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Overview: Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-09
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The Miracle Man
Overview: A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-01
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The Brass Ring
Overview: A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Five Minutes from the Station
Overview: When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will take the opportunity to announce that Bert will be promoted to fill a new vacancy in the company's shipping department. But Mr. Mason has other plans for that vacancy, and for Bert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-30
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Overview: A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-26
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Night of 100 Stars III
Overview: A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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Beetlejuice
Overview: A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-30
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Used People
Overview: At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-16
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No Time at All
Overview: An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people on the ground.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-13
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Mr. Ace
Overview: A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-02
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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Overview: A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-05
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
Overview: Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-15
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Copkiller
Overview: A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-15
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Winner Take All
Overview: The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-03
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Breakdowns of 1941
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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The Witching of Ben Wagner
Overview: A new family moves into town and their son, Ben, meets a mysterious girl named Regina, who is rumoured to be a witch.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-31
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Hammett
Overview: Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-09
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Death at Love House
Overview: Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about the long dead Hollywood goddess. Joel, whose father had a passionate affair with Lorna, becomes obsessed with her. His wife attempts to break the spell which threatens their marriage and their very lives.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-02
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Thru Different Eyes
Overview: Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the prosecuting and the defense attorneys put forward sharply different versions of the character of Manning and his wife, Viola, and of the events leading up to the murder. The jury returns a verdict of guilty, but a young girl then comes forward and confesses that she killed Winfield for having wronged her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-13
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The Shadow Box
Overview: Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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Broadway Nights
Overview: Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producers catch the act and offer Fannie a job on their latest show; however, they have no place for Johnny, so Fannie turns down the offer. (Film considered lost.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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Finnegan Begin Again
Overview: A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-24
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Overview: A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-14
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The Gossip Columnist
Overview: New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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Make Me a Star
Overview: A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-01
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Having It All
Overview: Thera Baylin is a fashion designer with a husband in New York and another one in California.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-13
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Come Along with Me
Overview: Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town. There she rents a room in a boarding house and holds a seance with the other tenants, with comical results.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-16
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Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Overview: This entry of Screen Snapshots travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, and Ralph Staub visits and talks to many Hollywood notables as they arrive at the famed gambling city and vacation at a dude-ranch resort and spa. Included among the resort guests are Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hart, Yvonne De Carlo, Clara Bow and her husband, former western-movie star and current Nevada politician, Rex Bell.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-20
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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