Ann Sheridan
Also Known As: Clara Lou Sheridan, The "Oomph" Girl
Biography: Ann Sheridan, or Clara Lou Sheridan, (February 21, 1915 - January 21, 1967) was an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films San Quentin (1937) with Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, City for Conquest (1940) with Cagney and Elia Kazan, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) with Bette Davis, Kings Row (1942) with Ronald Reagan, Nora Prentiss (1947), and I Was a Male War Bride (1949) with Cary Grant.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Denton, Texas, USA
Birthday: February 21, 1915
Deathday: January 21, 1967
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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City for Conquest
Overview: The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-21
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I Was a Male War Bride
Overview: After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-26
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Overview: An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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Castle on the Hudson
Overview: A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-17
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They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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Nora Prentiss
Overview: Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-22
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Angels with Dirty Faces
Overview: Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-26
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Woman on the Run
Overview: Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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George Washington Slept Here
Overview: New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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The Glass Key
Overview: When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-15
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Black Legion
Overview: When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-30
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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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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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It All Came True
Overview: After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-06
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They Drive by Night
Overview: Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Silver River
Overview: Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-20
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Dodge City
Overview: In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-08
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The Fighting Westerner
Overview: A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where a valuable radium strike may have been made.
Genres: Mystery Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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San Quentin
Overview: Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-24
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Showbiz Goes to War
Overview: While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Kings Row
Overview: Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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The Unfaithful
Overview: Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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Edge of Darkness
Overview: The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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Mystery House
Overview: When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to get to the bottom of the case.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-21
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The Patient in Room 18
Overview: Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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Torrid Zone
Overview: A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
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The Great O'Malley
Overview: His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-13
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The Doughgirls
Overview: Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-25
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Wings for the Eagle
Overview: Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-18
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Juke Girl
Overview: During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-30
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Letter of Introduction
Overview: An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Overview: Compilation of several episodes of the TV series Pistols 'n' Petticoats.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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Good Sam
Overview: Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Sing Me a Love Song
Overview: A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Overview: A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-26
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Honeymoon for Three
Overview: Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-18
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Come Next Spring
Overview: Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-09
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Legends of the West
Overview: Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer, Billy the Kid, Crazy Horse and the O.K. Corral
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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Take Me to Town
Overview: Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Meanwhile, the three sons of widower Will Hall come to town in search of a wife for their dad. Vermilion needs to lay low to escape the marshal, so she accepts the boys' offer to visit pioneer community Pine Grove. Once there, she annoys local Mrs. Grundys but eventually starts to fit in.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-19
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Overview: A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-09
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The Footloose Heiress
Overview: A rich businessman brings home a homeless man who promises to tame his willful 18-year-old daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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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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Limehouse Blues
Overview: Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class, white pickpocket, diminishing his pride in the Chinese half of his heritage and sparking the jealousy of the nightclub's moody star performer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-11
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The Red Blood of Courage
Overview: A man posing as Mark Henry is after Henry's oil land but Henry's niece is part owner and he needs to marry her off to his henchman Slager. Mountie Jim Sullivan arives posing as a wanted man and is soon caught up in the plot when Slager, wanting everything for himself, kills his boss and makes Jim a prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Overview: A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known pictures.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Wine, Women and Horses
Overview: An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-11
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Stella
Overview: Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-20
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Navy Blues
Overview: On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-13
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Appointment in Honduras
Overview: On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
Genres: Adventure Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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You Belong to Me
Overview: When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-08
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Naughty But Nice
Overview: Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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Shine on Harvest Moon
Overview: Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-10
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Alcatraz Island
Overview: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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Indianapolis Speedway
Overview: A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-05
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Car 99
Overview: A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-02
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She Loved a Fireman
Overview: A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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One More Tomorrow
Overview: Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-24
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Steel Town
Overview: Steve Kostain, nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up. He rooms with a steel working family, the McNamaras, and falls for the daughter, "Red", who is already involved with another steelworker. Although he is at first has a hard time with his co-workers, he eventually wins them over, and also wins the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-09
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Just Across the Street
Overview: A plumber's secretary poses as the daughter of a prominent society couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-15
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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Overview: Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll see stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Boris Karloff, Edward G. Robinson, Errol Flynn and more. They're not so perfect after all when these flubbed moments are caught on film!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-29
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Out Where the Stars Begin
Overview: When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-28
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Murder at the Vanities
Overview: Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Genres: Music Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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Little Miss Thoroughbred
Overview: A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-04
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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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Bolero
Overview: The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-23
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Ready for Love
Overview: In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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Ladies Should Listen
Overview: The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Overview: The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-28
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Search for Beauty
Overview: Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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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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Broadway Musketeers
Overview: Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-08
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Winter Carnival
Overview: A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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Blow-Ups of 1947
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-31
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Come On, Marines!
Overview: "Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. It comes as a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18-25 year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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Enter Madame
Overview: Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-04
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One Hour Late
Overview: A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Breakdowns of 1938
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
Overview: Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-28
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Breakdowns of 1940
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-31
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Blow-Ups of 1946
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-31
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The Notorious Sophie Lang
Overview: After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off guard by having her fall for a handsome and suave jewel thief who happens to be in the U.S. traveling under an assumed name.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-20
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Fighting Youth
Overview: A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even though he is a star player for State's team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Woman and the Hunter
Overview: When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a man hunt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-13
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Overview: Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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College Rhythm
Overview: The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight
Overview: In this short film, four popular songs, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "Moonlight Bay", "In the Evening By the Moonlight", and "Shine on Harvest Moon", about moonlight are presented.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-24
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Okay for Sound
Overview: This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-07
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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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Many Happy Returns
Overview: Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Shoot the Works
Overview: The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends up the loser -- at least until he gets wise to himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-18
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Kiss and Make-Up
Overview: Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Wagon Wheels
Overview: A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch. Along the way, the wagon train battles Indians led by Kenneth Murdock, a trapper who doesn't welcome competition for Oregon's lucrative fur trade. Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Romance Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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The Lemon Drop Kid
Overview: The Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He takes it on the lam with his sidekick, The Professor.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-27
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Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Overview: Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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Rumba
Overview: A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-08
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The Crusades
Overview: King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
Genres: Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-21
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Hollywood Extra Girl
Overview: A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-22
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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Overview: Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomoson, as well as Hollywood luminaries such as Franklyn Pangborn, Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, Mickey Rooney, Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-08
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Home on the Range
Overview: Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted' gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold Far North gets too hot for them and they move to greener pastures in the western United States. Business is good until a young cattleman, Tom Hatfield, falls for their trap. But Georgia falls in love with him and this causes problems for her partners.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Breakdowns of 1942
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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The Extraordinary Seaman
Overview: Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain.
Genres: Adventure War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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