Alan Marshal
Also Known As: Alan Marshall, Alan M. Willey, Alan Willey
Biography: Alan Marshal (born Alan Marshal Willey; 29 January 1909 – 9 July 1961) was an actor who performed on stage in the United States and in Hollywood films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthday: January 30, 1909
Deathday: July 10, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Conquest
Overview: A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-22
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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After the Thin Man
Overview: Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Day of the Outlaw
Overview: Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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House on Haunted Hill
Overview: Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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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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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Overview: A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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The White Cliffs of Dover
Overview: American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-11
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Lydia
Overview: Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-18
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Night Must Fall
Overview: Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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Tom, Dick and Harry
Overview: Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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Four Girls in White
Overview: Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Irene
Overview: Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-23
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The Garden of Allah
Overview: The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-14
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Overview: Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Married and in Love
Overview: Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates runs into writer Doris Wilding, his old college flame, whom he has not seen in ten years. After reminiscing about their past, Doris and Leslie make a dinner date with their respective spouses. On the eve of the Yates's dinner party, Leslie's wife Helen brings home a magazine article written by Doris, which sparks Leslie's memory of his separation from her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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Dramatic School
Overview: Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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I Met My Love Again
Overview: In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Bride by Mistake
Overview: The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-26
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Parnell
Overview: Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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Exile Express
Overview: A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-27
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Overview: Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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The Greer Case
Overview: When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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The Opposite Sex
Overview: Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-15
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Invisible Enemy
Overview: Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-03
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The Road to Reno
Overview: An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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Twenty Years After
Overview: This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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