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  • One Night of Love picture
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    One Night of Love (1934)

    A budding opera singer (Grace Moore) goes to Europe and falls in love with her famous singing...

  • Pick a Star picture
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    Pick a Star

    An Iowa girl (Rosina Lawrence) with hopes of stardom heads to Hollywood for a screen test.

  • Prix De Beauté picture
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    Prix De Beauté

    The French Prix de Beaute stars cult figure Louise Brooks as a nondescript typist for a Parisian...

  • San Francisco picture
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    San Francisco (1936)

    A Barbary Coast gambler (Clark Gable) loves his new saloon singer (Jeanette MacDonald), then loses...

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    State Fair (1945)

    Iowans take their son (Dick Haymes), daughter (Jeanne Crain), prize boar and mincemeat to the state...

  • The Story of Robin Hood picture
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    The Story of Robin Hood (1952)

    Friar Tuck, Little John, Maid Marian (Joan Rice) and the rest help the forest outlaw (Richard Todd)...

  • Texas Terror picture
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    Texas Terror (1935)

    A lawman (John Wayne) gets the outlaw (LeRoy Mason) who shot his friend.

  • Winchester '73 picture
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    Winchester '73 (1950)

    A man (James Stewart) tracks his prize repeating-rifle back around to the man who stole it.

  • All-American Coed picture
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    All-American Coed (1941)

    Fraternity brothers enter one (Johnny Downs) of their own in a beauty contest after a women's...

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    The American Venus

    The physical attributes of lovely leading lady Esther Ralston are amply displayed in American Venus....

  • The Aviator picture
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    The Aviator (1929)

    Misadventures of a bogus flyer.

  • Blondie Hits the Jackpot picture
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    Blondie Hits the Jackpot

    Blondie (Penny Singleton) tries to help when Dagwood (Arthur Lake) loses his job and is forced to...

  • Blondie in Society picture
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    Blondie in Society

    Blondie in Society is another delightful excursion into comic insanity for Blondie (Penny...

  • Buccaneer's Girl picture
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    Buccaneer's Girl (1950)

    A New Orleans entertainer falls for a pirate who has another identity.

  • The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble picture
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    The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble

    This comedy is last entry in the five-movie series "The Cohens and Kellys." In this episode, Sidney...

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    Dance Hall

    Just before directing the comedy classic The Lavender Hill Mob, Charles Crichton dashed off the...

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    Dancing Co-Ed

    A studio press agent (Roscoe Karns) plants a girl (Lana Turner) in a college so she can win a bogus...

  • Dancing Sweeties picture
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    Dancing Sweeties

    Dancing Sweeties is set primarily in a Chicago dance emporium. During a dance contest, Bill (Grant...

  • Dead Man's Curve picture
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    Dead Man's Curve

    No, Dead Man's Curve does not star Jan and Dean-mainly because it was filmed before either one of...

  • Every Night at Eight picture
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    Every Night at Eight

    Alice Faye, Frances Langford, and Patsy Kelly play three humble factory workers (with a...

  • Everybody's Doing It picture
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    Everybody's Doing It

    Gangsters kidnap a boozing artist (Preston Foster) for the answers to his popular cash-prize picture...

  • Flying Luck picture
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    Flying Luck

    Dapper, diminutive slapstick comedian Monty Banks spoofed the aviation-film cycle in Flying Luck....

  • Hard to Handle picture
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    Hard to Handle (1933)

    A press agent (James Cagney) promotes a dance marathon and meets a contestant (Mary Brian) and her...

  • Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour picture
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    Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour

    Adenoidal teenager Henry Aldrich (James Lydon) "gets glamour" when he wins first prize in a...

  • Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout picture
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    Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout

    This was the seventh entry in Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series, and there were still two more to...

  • Idea Girl picture
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    Idea Girl

    The Idea Girl in this Universal mini-musical is songplugger Pat O'Rourke (played by Julie Bishop,...

  • In the Stretch picture
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    In the Stretch

    You've probably already deduced that the silent In the Stretch is a racetrack story. Writer/director...

  • It Happens Every Thursday picture
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    It Happens Every Thursday

    Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature...

  • Jam Session picture
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    Jam Session (1944)

    An aspiring dancer (Ann Miller) wins her way to Hollywood where she falls for a screenwriter (Jess...

  • Leave It to Blondie picture
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    Leave It to Blondie (1945)

    After a two-year layoff, Columbia revived its moneymaking "Blondie" series with 1945's Leave It to...