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Spring Byington

Spring Byington

Spring Byington (October 17, 1886 – September 7, 1971) was an American actress. Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. She was a key MGM contract player, appearing in films from the 1930s through the 1960s.

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Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' (1997)

Documentary about the making of Disney's Animated Classic. ...

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line (1997)

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck. ...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War. ...

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Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)

Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York. ...

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The Rocket Man (1954)

After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a cute couple getting together. ...

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Because You're Mine (1952)

A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp. ...

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No Room for the Groom (1952)

A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper's daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a house full of relatives. ...

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Angels in the Outfield (1951)

The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance. ...

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Bannerline (1951)

A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption. ...

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According to Mrs. Hoyle (1951)

A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters. ...

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Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)

A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter. ...

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Devil's Doorway (1950)

A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people. ...

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The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950)

A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship. ...

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Louisa (1950)

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town. ...

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Please Believe Me (1950)

A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men aboard both plan on winning her hand before she reaches America. One is a gambler interested in her money, and ...

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The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper. ...

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The Big Wheel (1949)

The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes. ...

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In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail. ...

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B.F.'s Daughter (1948)

Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy. ...

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It Had to Be You (1947)

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality. ...

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Cynthia (1947)

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date. ...

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Singapore (1947)

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnes ...

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Living in a Big Way (1947)

A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce. ...

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Little Mister Jim (1947)

After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking. ...

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My Brother Talks to Horses (1947)

Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who ne ...

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Faithful in My Fashion (1946)

A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man. ...

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Dragonwyck (1946)

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as wit ...

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A Letter for Evie (1946)

Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but h ...

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Meet Me on Broadway (1946)

Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise w ...

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Captain Eddie (1945)

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942. ...

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Thrill of a Romance (1945)

A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon. ...

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The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, o ...

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Salty O'Rourke (1945)

A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse. ...

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I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant ...

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Reward Unlimited (1944)

Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013. ...

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The Heavenly Body (1944)

The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true. ...

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Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry ...

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Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant. ...

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The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)

Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom. ...

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The Affairs of Martha (1942)

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé. ...

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Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in o ...

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Roxie Hart (1942)

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927. ...

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The Vanishing Virginian (1942)

The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change. ...

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When Ladies Meet (1941)

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is. ...

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Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery. ...

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The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy ...

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Meet John Doe (1941)

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically ...

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Arkansas Judge (1941)

Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander. ...

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Lucky Partners (1940)

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results. ...

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My Love Came Back (1940)

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins whe ...

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On Their Own (1940)

The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue. ...

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Young as You Feel (1940)

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home. ...

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Laddie (1940)

Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England. ...

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The Blue Bird (1940)

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entiti ...

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A Child Is Born (1939)

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward. ...

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Too Busy to Work (1939)

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores. ...

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Quick Millions (1939)

In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon. ...

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Chicken Wagon Family (1939)

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free lif ...

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Land of Liberty (1939)

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939. ...

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The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939)

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set. ...

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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone ...

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Everybody's Baby (1939)

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic. ...

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Down on the Farm (1938)

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest. ...

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You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted ...

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Safety in Numbers (1938)

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit. ...

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A Trip to Paris (1938)

The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists. ...

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Jezebel (1938)

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her. ...

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Love on a Budget (1938)

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses. ...

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Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938)

Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney. ...

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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 Buccaneer (1938)

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812. ...

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Borrowing Trouble (1937)

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to. ...

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It's Love I'm After (1937)

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady. ...

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Hot Water (1937)

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article. ...

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Big Business (1937)

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy. ...

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Hotel Haywire (1937)

Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket. The gag backfires, whereupon Parkhouse finds himself in hot water with his own wife. Threatened with divorce, Parkhouse is advis ...

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The Road Back (1937)

After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. ...

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A Family Affair (1937)

Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and his son, Andy discovers Polly Benedict. As usual, Judge Hardy is co ...

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Penrod and Sam (1937)

A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out. ...

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Green Light (1937)

A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility. ...

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Clarence (1937)

The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't stand ...

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Off to the Races (1937)

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse. ...

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Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, pe ...

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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must end ...

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The Girl on the Front Page (1936)

The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket. ...

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Dodsworth (1936)

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life. ...

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Stage Struck (1936)

A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract. ...

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Back to Nature (1936)

The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography. ...

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Palm Springs (1936)

A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own. ...

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Educating Father (1936)

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy. ...

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Every Saturday Night (1936)

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes. ...

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The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936)

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound. ...

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Ah, Wilderness! (1935)

At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembe ...

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The Great Impersonation (1935)

The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy. ...

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Broadway Hostess (1935)

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer. ...

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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge. ...

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Way Down East (1935)

A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about. ...

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Orchids to You (1935)

An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney. ...

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Love Me Forever (1935)

A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him. ...

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Werewolf of London (1935)

A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster. ...

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Little Women (1933)

Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences tribulations, joy, and kindness from their wealthy neighbor and his high-spirited grandson. ...

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