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May Robson

May Robson

May Robson (19 April 1858 - 20 October 1942) was an actress and playwright. A major stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th century, Robson is best known today for the dozens of 1930s motion pictures she appeared in when she was well into her seventies, usually playing cross old ladies with hearts of gold.

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50 ...

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Joan of Paris (1942)

An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest. ...

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Playmates (1941)

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser ...

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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 (1941)

Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them. ...

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Million Dollar Baby (1941)

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression. ...

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Four Mothers (1941)

Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together. ...

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Breakdowns of 1940 (1940)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940. ...

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The Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam. ...

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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie M ...

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Irene (1940)

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 h ...

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Granny Get Your Gun (1940)

An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges. ...

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Breakdowns of 1939 (1939)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939. ...

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Four Wives (1939)

In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child. ...

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That's Right – You're Wrong (1939)

J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio of ...

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Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)

British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edit ...

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Daughters Courageous (1939)

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family recepti ...

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The Kid from Kokomo (1939)

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the rin ...

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Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)

Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried w ...

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They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk. ...

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The Texans (1938)

After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him. ...

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Four Daughters (1938)

Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns t ...

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Bringing Up Baby (1938)

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby. ...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder. ...

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The Perfect Specimen (1937)

Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world. ...

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A Star Is Born (1937)

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. S ...

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Woman in Distress (1937)

Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper reporter and his female rival determine that it is genuine but subsequently learn it has been stolen by a ...

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Rainbow on the River (1936)

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York. ...

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The Captain's Kid (1936)

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk. ...

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Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van's relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional. ...

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3 Kids and a Queen (1935)

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, ...

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Anna Karenina (1935)

In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier. ...

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Age of Indiscretion (1935)

A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance noveli ...

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Reckless (1935)

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire. ...

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Strangers All (1935)

Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children. ...

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Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)

The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt. ...

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Grand Old Girl (1935)

An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den. ...

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Movies on Sundays (1935)

A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow such screenings. ...

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Mills of the Gods (1934)

Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who's spearheading a tense worker's strike against the factory. After circu ...

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Lady by Choice (1934)

To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother. ...

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The Hollywood Gad-About (1934)

A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies. ...

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Straight Is the Way (1934)

Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies. ...

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You Can't Buy Everything (1934)

A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her. ...

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Dinner at Eight (1933)

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan P ...

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Alice in Wonderland (1933)

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters. ...

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Dancing Lady (1933)

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, ...

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The Solitaire Man (1933)

An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk. ...

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Broadway to Hollywood (1933)

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son. ...

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Lady for a Day (1933)

Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she ...

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Beauty for Sale (1933)

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs. ...

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One Man's Journey (1933)

Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and aban ...

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Reunion in Vienna (1933)

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan). ...

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The White Sister (1933)

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war. ...

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Men Must Fight (1933)

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war. ...

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Strange Interlude (1932)

After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his. ...

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If I Had a Million (1932)

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory. ...

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Little Orphan Annie (1932)

Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home. ...

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Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. ...

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Letty Lynton (1932)

Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. Wh ...

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The She-Wolf (1931)

An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer. ...

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