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Walter Pidgeon

Walter Pidgeon

Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor who lived most of his adult life in the United States. He starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Miniver, The Bad and the Beautiful, Forbidden Planet, Advise and Consent and Funny Girl.

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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)

A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars. ...

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The ...

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Fritz Lang, drawings for a film (1989)

A short film using parts of the storyboard drawings for Fritz Lang's Man Hunt given to the French Cinémathèque to recreate a scene to showcase a part of the directors' creative process. ...

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Sextette (1978)

Glamorous silver screen sex symbol Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number six. As luck would have it, an international conference is at the same hotel and the Russian delegate is threatening to derail negotiatio ...

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Two-Minute Warning (1976)

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene. ...

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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s. ...

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That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers. ...

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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)

Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann. ...

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Murder on Flight 502 (1975)

On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands. ...

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You Lie So Deep, My Love (1975)

A disturbed man wants his girlfriend's love and his wife's money, and will stop at nothing to get them, even murder. ...

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The Lion Roars Again (1975)

A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975. ...

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That's Entertainment! (1974)

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history. ...

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The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974)

A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders. ...

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Live Again, Die Again (1974)

After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old man and her children older than she is. Her daughter has also developed a psychotic obsession with her and may be out to kill her. ...

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Harry in Your Pocket (1973)

A master thief and his drug-addicted partner teach two aspiring crooks how to steal wallets. ...

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The Neptune Factor (1973)

When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger. ...

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Skyjacked (1972)

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia. ...

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The Screaming Woman (1972)

A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident a ...

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The Mask of Sheba (1970)

Intrigue, romance, and the customary angry natives are the major elements in this tale of a hunt for a priceless gold mask in the jungles of Ethiopia. ...

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House on Greenapple Road (1970)

A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...and the body. ...

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Rascal (1969)

A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his father's frequent absences. ...

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Funny Girl (1968)

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein. ...

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The Vatican Affair (1968)

A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. ...

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Warning Shot (1967)

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case. ...

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967)

A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy. ...

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Cinderella (1965)

After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and performe ...

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The Shortest Day (1963)

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. ...

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Two Colonels (1963)

In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test. ...

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Advise & Consent (1962)

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job. ...

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Big Red (1962)

Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin's hunting dogs, and Émile's wife Therese (Janette Bertrand), Haggin's cook and housekeeper, live in a separate house ...

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction. ...

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Meet Me in St. Louis (1959)

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. ...

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Swiss Family Robinson (1958)

T.V. movie adaptation of The Swiss Family Robinson. A family is shipwrecked in the South Pacific and finds themselves stranded on a tropical island. They struggle to survive with precious few resources against the forces of nature and to adapt to their cir ...

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The Rack (1956)

Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for ...

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These Wilder Years (1956)

A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago. ...

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Forbidden Planet (1956)

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invi ...

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The Glass Slipper (1955)

Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball. ...

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Hit the Deck (1955)

Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business. ...

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Deep in My Heart (1954)

Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg. ...

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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new brid ...

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Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)

A writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run. He also gets to find out more about the Navy and Marine aviators themselves, their internal and external conflicts and dangers of their job. ...

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Executive Suite (1954)

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him. ...

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Dream Wife (1953)

Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all ...

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Scandal at Scourie (1953)

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no ...

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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred A ...

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The Hoaxters (1952)

A 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life. ...

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Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)

After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent. ...

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The Sellout (1952)

A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff. ...

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The Unknown Man (1951)

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty. ...

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Quo Vadis (1951)

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero. ...

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Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)

Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar. ...

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Soldiers Three (1951)

Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India. ...

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The Miniver Story (1950)

The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family. ...

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That Forsyte Woman (1949)

Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes an ...

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The Red Danube (1949)

A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect. ...

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Command Decision (1948)

High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost. ...

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Julia Misbehaves (1948)

Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother. ...

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If Winter Comes (1947)

The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - ...

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The Secret Heart (1946)

Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their pas ...

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Holiday in Mexico (1946)

Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl and that she has fully matured into adulthood. Eager to make her mark in the sophisticated world of forei ...

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Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with ...

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Mrs. Parkington (1944)

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society ...

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Twenty Years After (1944)

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases. ...

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Madame Curie (1943)

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists so ...

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The Youngest Profession (1943)

Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan als ...

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White Cargo (1942)

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a ...

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Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins th ...

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Design for Scandal (1941)

A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit. ...

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How Green Was My Valley (1941)

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century. ...

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Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and ...

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Man Hunt (1941)

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young ...

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Flight Command (1940)

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable ...

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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. ...

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Sky Murder (1940)

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpfu ...

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Phantom Raiders (1940)

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taur ...

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Dark Command (1940)

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp divisi ...

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It's a Date (1940)

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man. ...

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The House Across the Bay (1940)

Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolm ...

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Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture. ...

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Stronger Than Desire (1939)

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing. ...

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6,000 Enemies (1939)

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself. ...

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Society Lawyer (1939)

Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. ...

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Listen, Darling (1938)

To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the i ...

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Too Hot to Handle (1938)

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America ...

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The Shopworn Angel (1938)

During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over. ...

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The Girl of the Golden West (1938)

A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer. ...

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Man-Proof (1938)

A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman. ...

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A Girl with Ideas (1937)

A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper. ...

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My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)

A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters. ...

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Saratoga (1937)

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. ...

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As Good as Married (1937)

When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes. ...

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Girl Overboard (1937)

A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder. ...

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She's Dangerous (1937)

A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves. ...

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Fatal Lady (1936)

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she t ...

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Big Brown Eyes (1936)

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby. ...

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Good Badminton (1934)

This Vitaphone short has Hugh Herbert tossing in some comedy lines while Walter Pidgeon relates the history of the new-fad (in 1936) game of Badminton. Ace badminton players Bill Hurley and George F. (Jess) Willard, not to be confused with boxer Jess Willa ...

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Journal of a Crime (1934)

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime. ...

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The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair. ...

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Rockabye (1932)

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play. ...

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The Hot Heiress (1931)

Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family. ...

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Kiss Me Again (1931)

An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star. ...

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