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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magn ...

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William Powell: A True Gentleman (2005)

A short documentary about William Powell. ...

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Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell (1993)

Actress Sharon Stone hosts this documentary about the life and career of 1930s sex symbol Jean Harlow. Included are clips from many of her films, photos and stories about her life before she became a movie star, and accounts of her troubled personal life, ...

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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To (1990)

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an act ...

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1988)

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life. ...

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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)

In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and professional life that features intimate personal accounts, interviews and clips from his most acclaimed work on the ...

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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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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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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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It's Showtime (1976)

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors. ...

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression. ...

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The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history. ...

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Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961)

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s. ...

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Mister Roberts (1955)

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton. ...

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How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process. ...

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The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)

Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients. ...

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The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952)

Young David, orphaned en route to California, falls into the hands of medicine-show rascal Baltimore Dan. Years later, now a trained thief, he's adopted by eccentric 'Doc' Brown, retired miner and pharmacist. Doc and David become fast friends in their scen ...

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It's a Big Country (1951)

Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a unive ...

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Dancing in the Dark (1949)

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: S ...

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Take One False Step (1949)

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested. ...

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Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though ...

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The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen. ...

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Life with Father (1947)

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost. ...

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Song of the Thin Man (1947)

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club. ...

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The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautifu ...

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Ziegfeld Follies (1945)

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style. ...

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The Great Morgan (1945)

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. ...

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The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation. ...

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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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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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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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Crossroads (1942)

A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember. ...

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Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder. ...

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Love Crazy (1941)

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity. ...

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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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I Love You Again (1940)

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife. ...

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Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Craw ...

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Another Thin Man (1939)

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate. ...

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From the Ends of the Earth (1939)

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the ...

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The Baroness and the Butler (1938)

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government. ...

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Double Wedding (1937)

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process. ...

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The Romance of Celluloid (1937)

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production ...

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The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia. ...

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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord. ...

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After the Thin Man (1936)

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's ...

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Libeled Lady (1936)

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty ...

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My Man Godfrey (1936)

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagri ...

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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife. ...

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The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. ...

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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singi ...

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Rendezvous (1935)

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies. ...

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Escapade (1935)

A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. ...

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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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Star of Midnight (1935)

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception. ...

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Evelyn Prentice (1934)

A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity. ...

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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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The Thin Man (1934)

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts. ...

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Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman. ...

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Fashions of 1934 (1934)

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses. ...

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The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue. ...

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Double Harness (1933)

After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband. ...

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Private Detective 62 (1933)

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, ...

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Lawyer Man (1932)

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in hi ...

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One Way Passage (1932)

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret. ...

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Jewel Robbery (1932)

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop. ...

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High Pressure (1932)

Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber... ...

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The Road to Singapore (1931)

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband. ...

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Ladies' Man (1931)

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society. ...

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Man of the World (1931)

A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle. ...

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