Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, his titular role in a series of films featuring the character Sweedie, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Beery appeared in some 250 movies over a 36-year span.
In Le Livre d'Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the ...
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As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life presented a smiling kid with the big voice, who, alongside Mickey Rooney, just wanted to put on a show. But d ...
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Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to wi ...
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Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimens ...
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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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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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Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history. ...
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Overview of director King Vidor's filmography. ...
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Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history. ...
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A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy. ...
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Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America. ...
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Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie, Judy suspects that her father is having an affair with a beautiful da ...
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Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters. ...
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A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District. ...
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Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications. ...
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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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It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge. ...
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An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father. ...
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An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post. ...
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A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture. ...
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Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan. ...
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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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With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave. ...
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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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It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got ...
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A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates. ...
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A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I. ...
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This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939. ...
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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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A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime. ...
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A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom. ...
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A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race. ...
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In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock. ...
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A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son. ...
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Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo. ...
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A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction. ...
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Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash. ...
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A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba. ...
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At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembe ...
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A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier. ...
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Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard! ...
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20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934. ...
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In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure. ...
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In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death. ...
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Sylvia is a French teacher at an all-girls school who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lie ahead when Lili gets in the way. ...
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Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her conscientious son, Alec. Annie continually loses business because of Terry's drunken mistakes. Alec wants to quit ...
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Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters. ...
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Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache. ...
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The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land. ...
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In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out. ...
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A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son. ...
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Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium. ...
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