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    Movies

    Duck Soup (1933)

    Spies (Harpo Marx, Chico Marx) intervene when Freedonia's prime minister (Groucho Marx) declares war...

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    Great Expectations

    Dickens' orphan Pip (John Mills) goes to London to become a gentleman, thanks to his anonymous...

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    People

    Tanny

    Tanny appeared in movies such as Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, Human Lanterns, and The...

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    People

    Hsiao Yao

    Hsiao Yao appeared in the movie The Empress Dowager.

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    People

    Miao Tien

    Miao Tien appeared in movies such as The Empress Dowager, Ba-Pai Chuang Shih, and The Missing.

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    People

    Cecil Weston

    South African-born actress Cecil Weston came to America with her husband, cinematographer/producer...

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    Spring Byington

    Orphaned as a child, Colorado-born Spring Byington became a professional actress with the Elitch...

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    People

    Ivy Ling Po

    Ivy Ling Po appeared in the movies Hainan Jifan and The Empress Dowager.

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    David Chiang

    David Chiang appeared in movies such as Chop-Socky: Cinema Hong Kong and Once Upon a Time in China...

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    A Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

    Runyonesque Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford) turns Apple Annie (Bette Davis) into a Manhattan dowager in...

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    Last Emperor (1987)

    Named Emperor of China at age 3 in 1908, Pu Yi (John Lone) becomes a prisoner of destiny.

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    Caught on a Train

    Over the course of one night and many miles, the lives of three passengers aboard a trans-European...

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    Movies

    The Empress Dowager

    The Empress Dowager tells the story of the last imperial family member who actually ruled in China...

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    Die Letzte Geschichte von Schloss Konigswald

    Elderly female aristocrats gather at an ancient castle to live in grand style and escape the chaos...

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    The Case of the Frightened Lady

    A stage play by the astonishingly prolific Edgar Wallace was the source for the British melodrama...

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    The Last Days of Dolwyn

    A Welshwoman (Edith Evans) floods her village to hide her stepson's (Richard Burton) act of murder.

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    The Passing of the Third Floor Back

    The Passing of the Third Floor Back, Jerome K. Jerome's mystical 1908 stage play, was given...

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    Bodyguard (1948)

    An ousted Los Angeles homicide detective (Lawrence Tierney) goes to work for a widow and is framed...

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    The Man at Six

    As the curtain rises, the faithful butler to an elderly dowager is found murdered. The dowager...

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    The Man from Blankley's

    The difference between social classes provides the basis for this comedy. The trouble begins when a...

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    Time to Kill

    Like most of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne"detective series, Time to Kill was based on a source...

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    Where's Charley?

    Where's Charley?, Frank Loesser's hit Broadway musical version of Brandon Thomas' evergreen stage...

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    Yesterday's Wife

    This drama -- slightly sensational and moralistic -- was typical of the feature fare put out by...

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    Movies

    Anjaan

    Star-turned-director Amiya Chakravarty spins this Bombay Talkies-produced romantic melodrama....

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    TV

    Timepiece (1996-1997)

    An old watch plays an important part in a story of love and forgiveness in this prequel to ``The...

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    TV

    The Mikado (1988)

    Japanese prince Nanki-Poo (Henry Ingram) escapes an arranged marriage to a dowager and falls for...

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    TV

    The Screaming Woman (1972)

    A contemporary gothic horror story that has a dowager, an ex-mental patient, discovering a woman...