Loretta Young
Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 best actress Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer's Daughter, and received an Oscar nomination for her role in Come to the Stable, in 1950. Young then moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series called The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. Young, a devout Catholic, later worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3545 |
| Birthday | 1913-01-06 |
| Place of Birth | Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| Also Known As | Gretchen Michaela Young, Gretchen Young, Лоретта Янг, Saint Loretta, |
1968
The Movie Orgy
6.842/19
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...
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The Movie Orgy
1946
The Stranger
7.211/658
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of...
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The Stranger
1931
Platinum Blonde
6.7/56
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confineme...
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Platinum Blonde
1929
Seven Footprints to Satan
6.219/16
Before a planned African expedition, a man's fiancée worries her father's guest plans to steal one of her father's rubies. The couple are kidnapped an...
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Seven Footprints to Satan
1928
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
7.4/40
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but bot...
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1917
Sirens of the Sea
0/0
During a raging storm, a baby is washed up on shore on an island in Greece and is adopted by the wealthy Stanhopes, who name her Lorelei. Eighteen yea...
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Sirens of the Sea
1927
Naughty But Nice
9/1
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first...
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Naughty But Nice
1927
Her Wild Oat
10/1
In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, wh...
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Her Wild Oat
1928
The Head Man
8/1
Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician...
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The Head Man
1961
The Spark
0/0
When the Young Show was cancelled, Miss Young decided to produce a pilot for a new series. "The Spark" is the result. Its pilot never sold; it was rel...
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The Spark
1951
Cause for Alarm!
5.9/43
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
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Cause for Alarm!
1949
The Accused
6.135/26
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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The Accused
1948
Rachel and the Stranger
6.5/35
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.
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Rachel and the Stranger
1947
The Farmer's Daughter
7.125/40
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
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The Farmer's Daughter
1947
The Perfect Marriage
5.5/2
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
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The Perfect Marriage
1933
Employees' Entrance
6.13/27
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 y...
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Employees' Entrance
1933
She Had to Say Yes
5.7/10
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have be...
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She Had to Say Yes
1995
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
2/1
The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other photographer...
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Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
1933
Heroes for Sale
7.08/25
World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the pain...
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Heroes for Sale
1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
6.295/22
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice....
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1947
The Bishop's Wife
7.1/286
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily...
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The Bishop's Wife
1941
Bedtime Story
5.8/8
A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worl...
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Bedtime Story
1933
Midnight Mary
6.8/26
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 affa...
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Midnight Mary
1937
Love Is News
6.3/11
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are e...
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Love Is News
1932
Taxi!
6.814/35
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered...
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Taxi!
1934
Born to Be Bad
5.761/23
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be tak...
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Born to Be Bad
1945
Along Came Jones
5.784/37
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman...
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Along Came Jones
1931
The Stolen Jools
5.632/34
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tubercu...
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The Stolen Jools
1934
The White Parade
6.75/4
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious phys...
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The White Parade
1934
The House of Rothschild
6.2/23
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the busine...
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The House of Rothschild
1939
Eternally Yours
5.9/22
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengt...
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Eternally Yours
1942
A Night to Remember
6.735/17
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to creat...
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A Night to Remember
1935
The Crusades
6.4/19
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
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The Crusades
1932
They Call It Sin
6.045/11
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 cru...
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They Call It Sin
1930
The Devil to Pay!
5.804/23
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting...
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The Devil to Pay!
1935
Clive of India
5.1/12
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyo...
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Clive of India
1939
Wife, Husband and Friend
6.5/2
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer...
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Wife, Husband and Friend
1949
Mother Is a Freshman
9/2
Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The...
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Mother Is a Freshman
1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
6.8/10
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
1933
Zoo in Budapest
4.8/15
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a y...
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Zoo in Budapest
1949
Come to the Stable
6.655/29
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospita...
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Come to the Stable
1933
Man's Castle
6.8/36
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
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Man's Castle
1931
Big Business Girl
6.75/4
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
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Big Business Girl
1950
Key to the City
6.5/10
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is pro...
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Key to the City
1951
Half Angel
6.2/6
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress...
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Half Angel
1930
Loose Ankles
4.286/7
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the appr...
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Loose Ankles
1944
And Now Tomorrow
6/4
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't...
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And Now Tomorrow
1936
Ramona
5.8/6
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by t...
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Ramona
1937
Love Under Fire
5.25/4
A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
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Love Under Fire
1931
Beau Ideal
4.5/12
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
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Beau Ideal
1938
Four Men and a Prayer
6.5/13
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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Four Men and a Prayer
1940
He Stayed for Breakfast
8/1
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive...
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He Stayed for Breakfast
1932
Week-End Marriage
5.5/6
In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
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Week-End Marriage
1932
The Hatchet Man
5.4/13
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
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The Hatchet Man
1938
Suez
5.5/17
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Suez
1932
Life Begins
6.2/8
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situati...
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Life Begins
1935
Shanghai
7.3/3
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
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Shanghai
1935
Call of the Wild
6.3/54
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck...
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Call of the Wild
1938
Kentucky
6.077/13
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...
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Kentucky
1931
I Like Your Nerve
5.857/7
A bookworm goes to Latin America and saves a politician's daughter from a forced marriage.
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I Like Your Nerve
1933
Grand Slam
4.6/5
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
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Grand Slam
1943
China
6.9/16
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the s...
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China
1941
The Lady from Cheyenne
5.7/5
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes...
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The Lady from Cheyenne
1937
Café Metropole
7.25/12
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
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Café Metropole
1934
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
5.625/12
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisti...
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1930
The Second Floor Mystery
8/1
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the m...
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The Second Floor Mystery
1929
The Squall
4/7
A feisty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
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The Squall
1937
Second Honeymoon
6.375/8
Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys...
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Second Honeymoon
1930
Road to Paradise
6.364/11
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
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Road to Paradise
1936
Ladies in Love
6.5/6
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.
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Ladies in Love
1930
The Truth About Youth
6.167/6
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
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The Truth About Youth
1931
The Ruling Voice
6.2/8
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
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The Ruling Voice
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
7/3
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1933
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
6.2/9
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he...
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1936
The Unguarded Hour
6.4/5
A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.
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The Unguarded Hour
1930
The Right of Way
5.167/6
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds...
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The Right of Way
1953
It Happens Every Thursday
6.286/7
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problem...
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It Happens Every Thursday
1952
Paula
8.2/2
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Ov...
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Paula
1932
Play Girl
5/7
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
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Play Girl
1952
Because of You
6.625/8
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
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Because of You
1933
The Devil's in Love
6/5
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. When military doctor Andre Morand is wrongfully convicted of a murder, he e...
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The Devil's in Love
1938
Three Blind Mice
6.1/7
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with, Pamela poses as a socialite a...
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Three Blind Mice
1936
Private Number
6.667/6
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler a...
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Private Number
1930
Kismet
4/4
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the ca...
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Kismet
2006
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
6/2
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
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42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
1929
The Forward Pass
9/1
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith...
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The Forward Pass
1930
Show Girl in Hollywood
5.75/10
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
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Show Girl in Hollywood
1929
The Show of Shows
6.6/5
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the firs...
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The Show of Shows
1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
7/3
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1928
Scarlet Seas
4/4
A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long a...
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Scarlet Seas
1930
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
4.5/5
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, atten...
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
War Nurse
5.222/9
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
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War Nurse
1934
Caravan
6.5/2
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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Caravan
1944
Ladies Courageous
5.333/3
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
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Ladies Courageous
1986
Christmas Eve
6.75/8
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wan...
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Christmas Eve
1941
The Men in Her Life
6.7/7
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor...
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The Men in Her Life
1931
Three Girls Lost
8/1
Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartmenthouse resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him.
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Three Girls Lost
1929
Fast Life
9/1
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of t...
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Fast Life
1931
Too Young to Marry
8/1
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his si...
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Too Young to Marry
1989
Lady in a Corner
4.5/4
Grace Guthrie tries to stave off the hostile take over of her publishing empire. While fighting off a ruthless British business-mogul, she must also d...
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Lady in a Corner
1929
The Girl in the Glass Cage
7.5/2
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her...
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The Girl in the Glass Cage
1921
The Sheik
5.9/63
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The...
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The Sheik
1943
Show-Business at War
7/4
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Show-Business at War
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
6.3/9
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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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1929
The Careless Age
8/1
Sir John Hayward, a noted surgeon, decides that his son Wyn, a medical student, needs a vacation as a temporary diversion from his studies. At Como, W...
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The Careless Age
2003
Complicated Women
6.9/12
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 fi...
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Complicated Women
1950
You Can Change The World
6.4/5
Comedian Jack Benny has his butler, Rochester, call several of his celebrity friends over to the house. Benny introduces them to a Catholic priest, wh...
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You Can Change The World
1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
7/2
Bobby Jones teaches an angry old man how to use the Brassie, while simultaneously freeing his daughter from his oppressive clutches.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
1950
The Costume Designer
10/1
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct...
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The Costume Designer
1941
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
7/2
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's co...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1930
The Man from Blankley's
7/2
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
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The Man from Blankley's
2000
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
6.8/13
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subje...
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
1928
The Magnificent Flirt
7/1
Count D'Estrange tries to save his nephew Hubert from Denise Laverne he believes a heartless flirt. Denise's mother Mme. Florence Laverne uses all her...
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The Magnificent Flirt
2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
6.067/15
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
1935
Hollywood Extra Girl
7.5/2
A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.
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Hollywood Extra Girl
1917
The Primrose Ring
0/0
Margaret MacLean, who has been saved from life in a wheelchair by the miracle of medicine, vows to devote her life to caring for crippled children. Sh...
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The Primrose Ring
1919
The Only Way
7/1
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The Only Way
1921
White and Unmarried
10/1
When an underworld figure inherits a fortune, he goes straight and endeavors to become a respectable businessman. But on a trip to Paris, he encounter...
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White and Unmarried
1928
The Whip Woman
10/1
A different kind of a story about a different kind of a girl---a modern, young cavewoman who whipped her way into the heart of a man who wanted to for...
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The Whip Woman
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
6/7
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
4.4/5
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 t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
8/9
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...
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