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Anne Shirley

Anne Shirley

Anne Shirley (born Dawn Evelyeen Paris) was an American child, teen, and young adult screen actress. She retired at age 26. Initially appearing in films under the name Dawn O'Day, she changed her name to Anne Shirley (the name of the title character she portrayed) upon the success of the 1934 film Anne of Green Gables.

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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage. ...

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Make Mine Laughs (1949)

A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new. ...

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Movieland Magic (1946)

Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely holds the WB house record for a 20-minute film containing footage from the most different titles in their inve ...

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Murder, My Sweet (1944)

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit. ...

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Music in Manhattan (1944)

Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not ...

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Man from Frisco (1944)

Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. ...

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Government Girl (1943)

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort. ...

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Bombardier (1943)

A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with ...

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The Powers Girl (1943)

Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy. ...

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Lady Bodyguard (1943)

A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires ...

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The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)

In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict ...

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Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)

Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old count ...

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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941)

Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world p ...

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Unexpected Uncle (1941)

An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy. ...

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All That Money Can Buy (1941)

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farm ...

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West Point Widow (1941)

In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career. ...

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Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)

Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' sequels. ...

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Saturday's Children (1940)

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet. ...

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Vigil in the Night (1940)

A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake. ...

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Career (1939)

Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman. ...

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Sorority House (1939)

A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join. ...

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Boy Slaves (1939)

Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp". ...

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A Man to Remember (1938)

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients. ...

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Girls' School (1938)

Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a ...

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Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town. ...

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Law of the Underworld (1938)

A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution ...

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Condemned Women (1938)

A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison. ...

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Stella Dallas (1937)

After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter. ...

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Meet the Missus (1937)

A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest. ...

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Too Many Wives (1937)

An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp. ...

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Make Way for a Lady (1936)

An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings. ...

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M'Liss (1936)

The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher. ...

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Chatterbox (1936)

Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working ...

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Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder. ...

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A Night at the Biltmore Bowl (1935)

Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles. ...

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Chasing Yesterday (1935)

An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daughter, now an orphan forced to attend a strict boarding school. ...

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Anne of Green Gables (1934)

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers. ...

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Bachelor Bait (1934)

After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking. ...

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The Key (1934)

A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man. ...

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Finishing School (1934)

Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship. ...

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School for Girls (1934)

After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the managemen ...

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The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)

Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and sk ...

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Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted. ...

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Three on a Match (1932)

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs. ...

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The Purchase Price (1932)

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfrien ...

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So Big! (1932)

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son. ...

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Young America (1932)

Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The ...

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Emma (1932)

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father. ...

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Rich Man's Folly (1931)

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son. ...

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Gun Smoke (1931)

Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed ...

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