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Una Merkel

Una Merkel

Southerner Una Merkel was a popular American stage, screen, and television actress. In movies, while often cast as the female lead, she more typically appeared in prominent supporting roles.

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That's Entertainment! III (1994)

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain. ...

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)

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

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That's Dancing! (1985)

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from its origins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, up to the break dance and music videos from the 80s. ...

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Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system. ...

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Spinout (1966)

Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race. ...

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A Tiger Walks (1964)

A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sheriff. She wants to capture th ...

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Summer Magic (1963)

Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, Mr. Hamilton, is a mysterious character away ...

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Summer and Smoke (1961)

In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door. ...

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The Parent Trap (1961)

Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their f ...

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The Mating Game (1959)

Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daught ...

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Aladdin (1958)

Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television. ...

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The Girl Most Likely (1958)

Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is rich, but she soon find ...

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The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957)

When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her film "The Kidnapped Bride", everyone thinks it's a publicity stunt. It's not. ...

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The Greer Case (1957)

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue. ...

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Bundle of Joy (1956)

Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the ...

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The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)

Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay. ...

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The Kentuckian (1955)

A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas. ...

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I Love Melvin (1953)

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk, and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. ...

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The Merry Widow (1952)

Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Mars ...

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With a Song in My Heart (1952)

Jane Froman, an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross, whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes in Lisbon, and she is partially crippled. Unable to walk ...

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Golden Girl (1951)

Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular. ...

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A Millionaire for Christy (1951)

Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's in financial straits, decides to try to snag Peter. Zany hijinks ensue and romantic sparks fly. ...

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Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)

A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love. ...

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Emergency Wedding (1950)

Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt. ...

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My Blue Heaven (1950)

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner. ...

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Kill the Umpire (1950)

Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine un ...

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The Man from Texas (1948)

James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her g ...

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The Bride Goes Wild (1948)

McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens ...

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It's a Joke, Son! (1947)

Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to s ...

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Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944)

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime. ...

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To Heir Is Human (1944)

Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance. ...

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Quack Service (1943)

Una and Gwen get jobs as process servers, and are assigned to serve papers on a prominent local doctor. ...

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This Is the Army (1943)

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, call ...

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Twin Beds (1942)

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes. ...

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The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)

A fugitive doctor tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders. ...

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Cracked Nuts (1941)

A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men... ...

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Road to Zanzibar (1941)

Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women. ...

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Double Date (1941)

Penny Kirkland's aunt and Jerry Baldwin's widowed father are attracted to each other. Preventing the pending marriage of the father and the aunt becomes a purpose in life for the two teenagers. ...

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The Bank Dick (1940)

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company ...

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Sandy Gets Her Man (1940)

A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry. ...

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Comin' Round the Mountain (1940)

A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio. ...

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Destry Rides Again (1939)

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent. ...

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On Borrowed Time (1939)

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arr ...

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Some Like It Hot (1939)

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other l ...

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Four Girls in White (1939)

Four student nurses at a large urban hospital cope with life's problems and career issues. ...

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Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to sug ...

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True Confession (1937)

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not. ...

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Checkers (1937)

A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm. ...

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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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The Good Old Soak (1937)

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction. ...

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Don't Tell the Wife (1937)

After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless stock in a New Mexico gold mine. ...

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Born to Dance (1936)

On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him. ...

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We Went to College (1936)

Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming. ...

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Speed (1936)

Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot ...

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Riffraff (1936)

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie. ...

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It's in the Air (1935)

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing bo ...

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Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secre ...

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Murder in the Fleet (1935)

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In orde ...

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Baby Face Harrington (1935)

Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2. ...

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One New York Night (1935)

Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louis ...

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The Night Is Young (1935)

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck. ...

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Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now ru ...

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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 Merry Widow (1934)

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country. ...

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Have a Heart (1934)

Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries t ...

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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)

Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal carg ...

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The Cat's-Paw (1934)

Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins and embarks upon a reform cr ...

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Paris Interlude (1934)

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro... ...

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Murder in the Private Car (1934)

Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson, and that she had been kidnapped as a baby 14 years ago by Luke's vind ...

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This Side of Heaven (1934)

A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement. ...

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The Women in His Life (1933)

An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him. ...

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Day of Reckoning (1933)

In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly ...

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Bombshell (1933)

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on. ...

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Menu (1933)

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion. ...

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Broadway to Hollywood (1933)

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son. ...

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Beauty for Sale (1933)

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs. ...

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Her First Mate (1933)

A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas. ...

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Midnight Mary (1933)

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs. ...

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Reunion in Vienna (1933)

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan). ...

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42nd Street (1933)

Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by he ...

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Clear All Wires! (1933)

Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with hi ...

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The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933)

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat. ...

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Whistling in the Dark (1933)

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder. ...

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Men Are Such Fools (1932)

An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even ...

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They Call It Sin (1932)

A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big city and is left fending for herself. ...

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Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. ...

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Huddle (1932)

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice. ...

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Man Wanted (1932)

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary. ...

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The Impatient Maiden (1932)

A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected. ...

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She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau where she risks terrible cruelty and even death. ...

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Private Lives (1931)

Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive at a hotel on the same day and are put in rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go well until Amanda see ...

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The Secret Witness (1931)

A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder. ...

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Wicked (1931)

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband. ...

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The Bargain (1931)

A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake. ...

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Daddy Long Legs (1931)

Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen fo ...

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The Maltese Falcon (1931)

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon. ...

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Six Cylinder Love (1931)

Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides. ...

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Don't Bet on Women (1931)

At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake. Herbert who is happily married, bets Fallon that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever sh ...

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Command Performance (1931)

Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty. ...

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