Libby Taylor
Also Known As: Elizabeth A. Taylor
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: April 20, 1902
Deathday: August 23, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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I'm No Angel
Overview: The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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The Great McGinty
Overview: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Overview: A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-20
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Hollywood Hotel
Overview: After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-15
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When a Man Sees Red
Overview: Our hero tries to dissuade a pretty ranch owner from taking up with an unsavory character to no avail. Eventually, the lout proves himself to be a thief and a liar, out to wrest the ranch owner's property away from her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-24
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The Howards of Virginia
Overview: Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-19
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Bright Road
Overview: Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-17
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You're My Everything
Overview: In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-22
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Belle of the Nineties
Overview: Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-21
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Saratoga Trunk
Overview: An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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The Toy Wife
Overview: A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-10
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Mysterious Crossing
Overview: While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-27
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Calling All Curs
Overview: The Stooges run a pet hospital and are the proud surgeons of Garçon, a prized girl poodle of socialite Mrs. Bedford . When two men posing as reporters kidnap the poodle, the boys frantically try track them down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-25
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Camp Meetin'
Overview: Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in order to raise the funds needed to send the church pastor, played by Clinton Rosemond, to a church conference in Birmingham, Alabama.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-08
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Stage Struck
Overview: A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-12
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Fury and the Woman
Overview: A tough Irishman tries to help a logging company owner on Vancouver Island who is being sabotaged by a nearby competitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-22
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Shanghai
Overview: A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-19
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Smashing the Rackets
Overview: Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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Dangerous
Overview: Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Overview: Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
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Exclusive
Overview: When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-06
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Streamline Express
Overview: A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-15
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Overview: Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-10
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Babes in Arms
Overview: Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-10
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Three Smart Girls
Overview: The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-20
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The Hard Way
Overview: Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-13
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Woman Against Woman
Overview: A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-24
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Libeled Lady
Overview: When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Coney Island
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-18
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Santa Fe Trail
Overview: As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Blonde Inspiration
Overview: A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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Two Tickets to Broadway
Overview: A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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The Good Old Soak
Overview: A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-23
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Flight from Destiny
Overview: After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Overview: In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-20
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Imitation of Life
Overview: A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Another Part of the Forest
Overview: This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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Every Night at Eight
Overview: Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
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Mississippi
Overview: A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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For Me and My Gal
Overview: Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
Genres: Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-21
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Calling All Curs
Overview: The Stooges run a pet hospital and are the proud surgeons of Garçon, a prized girl poodle of socialite Mrs. Bedford . When two men posing as reporters kidnap the poodle, the boys frantically try track them down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-25
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Reckless
Overview: A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-19
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The Cole Case
Overview: Dr. Crabtree (Donald Meek) and Insp. Carr (John Hamilton) are visited by a man who has been receiving notes threatening to kill him. The latest note says he will die at eight o'clock tonight, so Carr sends a couple men to his house. Sure enough, the many is murdered under everyone's noses, so the two men must find out what really happened.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-01
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Overview: Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-26
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Ann Carver's Profession
Overview: Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-09
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Society Doctor
Overview: Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-25
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Overview: In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Sweet Music
Overview: A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-23
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Transient Lady
Overview: A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
Genres: Romance Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-04
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Star of Midnight
Overview: When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-19
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Black Sheep
Overview: On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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The Great Ziegfeld
Overview: At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-08
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The Last Train from Madrid
Overview: The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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The Buccaneer
Overview: French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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Secrets of an Actress
Overview: Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-10
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The Little Foxes
Overview: In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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My Gal Sal
Overview: Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-30
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And the Angels Sing
Overview: The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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This Is the Life
Overview: 18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret's fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret's divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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The Adventures of Mark Twain
Overview: A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-20
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Home in Indiana
Overview: 'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies. Though he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young filly that he plans to race make life bearable. He also finds romance with tomboyish 'Char' Bruce who shares his love for horses.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-15
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Cinderella Jones
Overview: Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-09
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Swamp Fire
Overview: Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance (Carol Thurston) by a rich outsider (Virginia Grey) who's nursed him back to health after a serious accident. She owns a large piece of the swamp and has outlawed hunting on her property. His rival Mike (Crabbe) is a trapper who harbors deep resentment for Johnny and his new wealthy friends. When he feels Johnny is responsible for the hunting ban, he resorts to destructive acts of vengeance.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-06
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Society Mugs
Overview: Muriel Allen needs an escort to Alice Preston's dinner party, and her maid Petunia mistakenly places a telephone call to Acme Exterminators instead of Acme Escorts. It's Shemp and Tom to the rescue, and they're assumed to be cultured college seniors. Guest of honor Lord Wafflebottom follows the pest exterminators' lead in proper American party manners, turning the dinner party into an uncouth display. When mice are conveniently spotted, the boys go to work, disrupting the party and the entire mansion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-19
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The Perfect Marriage
Overview: A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-24
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The Foxes of Harrow
Overview: An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-24
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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Overview: Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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