Virginia Bruce

Virginia Bruce

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Bruce (September 29, 1910 – February 24, 1982) was an American actress and singer. Born Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1928, she moved with her family to Los Angeles intending to enroll in the University of California, Los Angeles when a friendly wager sent her seeking film work. She got it as an extra in Why Bring That Up?. In 1930 she appeared on Broadway in the musical Smiles, followed by America's Sweetheart in 1931. She returned to Hollywood in 1932, where on August 10, 1932, she married John Gilbert, her co-star in the film Downstairs. She retired briefly after the birth of their daughter Susan Ann Gilbert. The couple divorced in 1934, and Virginia returned to a hectic schedule of film appearances. Gilbert died two years later in 1936. Bruce introduced the Cole Porter standard "I've Got You Under My Skin" in the film Born to Dance and co-starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical The Great Ziegfeld. One of her final film appearances was in Strangers When We Meet. In 1949, Bruce starred in a daily 30-minute radio drama. Make Believe Town was an afternoon program on CBS. Bruce married her second husband, film director J. Walter Ruben, in 1937, making the Wallace Beery western The Bad Man of Brimstone with him that year. Together they had a son named Christopher (b. 1941), before Ruben's death in 1942. In 1946, Bruce married Ali Ipar. They divorced in 1951 in order for him to receive a commission in the Turkish Military (which forbade promotions of men married to foreigners), but remarried in 1952 before divorcing again in 1964. Bruce died of cancer on February 24, 1982, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was 71.

  • Title : Virginia Bruce
  • Popularity : 4.88
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1910-09-29
  • Place of Birth : Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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  • Also Known As : Helen Virginia Briggs
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Virginia Bruce Movies

  • 1948
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    Night Has a Thousand Eyes

    Night Has a Thousand Eyes

    6.7 1948 HD

    When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how...

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  • 1935
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    The Murder Man

    The Murder Man

    6.923 1935 HD

    Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of...

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  • 1940
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    The Invisible Woman

    The Invisible Woman

    5.701 1940 HD

    Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her...

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  • 1936
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    The Great Ziegfeld

    The Great Ziegfeld

    6.235 1936 HD

    Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

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  • 1936
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    Born to Dance

    Born to Dance

    6.1 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1938
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    There Goes My Heart

    There Goes My Heart

    7.154 1938 HD

    An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

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  • 1932
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    Winner Take All

    Winner Take All

    5.3 1932 HD

    Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves...

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  • 1932
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    Kongo

    Kongo

    6.4 1932 HD

    The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the...

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  • 1960
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    Strangers When We Meet

    Strangers When We Meet

    6.4 1960 HD

    A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives...

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  • 1944
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    Action in Arabia

    Action in Arabia

    5.9 1944 HD

    Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.

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  • 1940
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    Hired Wife

    Hired Wife

    6.8 1940 HD

    Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

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  • 1930
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    Raffles

    Raffles

    6 1930 HD

    A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a...

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  • 1934
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    The Mighty Barnum

    The Mighty Barnum

    0.5 1934 HD

    20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind),...

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  • 1940
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    Flight Angels

    Flight Angels

    4.3 1940 HD

    Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary...

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  • 1949
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    State Department: File 649

    State Department: File 649

    5 1949 HD

    Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an...

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  • 1936
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    The Garden Murder Case

    The Garden Murder Case

    5.5 1936 HD

    Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major...

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  • 1938
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    Arsène Lupin Returns

    Arsène Lupin Returns

    5.8 1938 HD

    A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...

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  • 1940
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    The Man Who Talked Too Much

    The Man Who Talked Too Much

    6 1940 HD

    A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's...

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  • 1932
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    Downstairs

    Downstairs

    6.9 1932 HD

    In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive....

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  • 1935
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    Society Doctor

    Society Doctor

    6.3 1935 HD

    Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.

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  • 1938
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    Yellow Jack

    Yellow Jack

    5.6 1938 HD

    A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the...

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  • 1935
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    Let 'em Have It

    Let 'em Have It

    7 1935 HD

    Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

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  • 1934
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    Dangerous Corner

    Dangerous Corner

    5.7 1934 HD

    Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.

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  • 1935
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    Escapade

    Escapade

    1 1935 HD

    A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.

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  • 1934
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    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    4.9 1934 HD

    Jane Eyre is an orphan who was raised by her aunt until she came to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. But Jane is...

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  • 1939
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    Let Freedom Ring

    Let Freedom Ring

    6 1939 HD

    A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

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  • 1939
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    Stronger Than Desire

    Stronger Than Desire

    5.8 1939 HD

    An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

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  • 1939
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    Society Lawyer

    Society Lawyer

    5.1 1939 HD

    Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help...

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  • 1935
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    Shadow of Doubt

    Shadow of Doubt

    6.2 1935 HD

    When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.

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  • 1929
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    Woman Trap

    Woman Trap

    5.2 1929 HD

    In Woman Trap, Hal Skelly is hard-bitten police sergeant Dan Malone, whose mission in life is to rid his community of gangsters. The revelation that...

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  • 1942
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    Careful, Soft Shoulders

    Careful, Soft Shoulders

    6 1942 HD

    In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American...

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  • 1937
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    Between Two Women

    Between Two Women

    5.7 1937 HD

    Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love...

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  • 1944
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    Brazil

    Brazil

    5.2 1944 HD

    Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot...

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  • 1935
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    Metropolitan

    Metropolitan

    1 1935 HD

    Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and...

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  • 1938
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    The First Hundred Years

    The First Hundred Years

    6 1938 HD

    David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave...

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  • 1941
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    Adventure in Washington

    Adventure in Washington

    6.5 1941 HD

    A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.

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  • 1939
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    Hollywood Hobbies

    Hollywood Hobbies

    5.6 1939 HD

    In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

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  • 1954
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    The Plague

    The Plague

    6 1954 HD

    A nurse in the Red Crescent (the Turkish equivalent of the Red Cross) fights to save the populace during a plague.

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  • 1930
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    The Social Lion

    The Social Lion

    6 1930 HD

    Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most...

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  • 1937
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    The Bad Man of Brimstone

    The Bad Man of Brimstone

    6 1937 HD

    A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.

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  • 1932
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    The Miracle Man

    The Miracle Man

    5.667 1932 HD

    A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and...

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  • 1930
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    Young Eagles

    Young Eagles

    6 1930 HD

    Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by...

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  • 1939
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    Land of Liberty

    Land of Liberty

    1 1939 HD

    This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

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  • 1937
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    Wife, Doctor and Nurse

    Wife, Doctor and Nurse

    6 1937 HD

    Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

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  • 1930
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    Follow Thru

    Follow Thru

    7.2 1930 HD

    Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend,...

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  • 1938
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    Woman Against Woman

    Woman Against Woman

    6.5 1938 HD

    A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

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  • 1930
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    Safety in Numbers

    Safety in Numbers

    5 1930 HD

    Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.

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  • 1935
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    Times Square Lady

    Times Square Lady

    6 1935 HD

    A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir...

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  • 1929
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    The River of Romance

    The River of Romance

    1 1929 HD

    Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he...

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  • 1938
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    There's That Woman Again

    There's That Woman Again

    5 1938 HD

    Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when...

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  • 1935
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    Here Comes the Band

    Here Comes the Band

    5 1935 HD

    In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...

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  • 1974
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    That's Entertainment!

    That's Entertainment!

    7.2 1974 HD

    Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

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  • 1945
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    Love, Honor and Goodbye

    Love, Honor and Goodbye

    4.5 1945 HD

    A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.

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  • 1937
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    Women of Glamour

    Women of Glamour

    5 1937 HD

    A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.

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  • 1942
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    Butch Minds the Baby

    Butch Minds the Baby

    1 1942 HD

    Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe...

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  • 1937
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    When Love Is Young

    When Love Is Young

    1 1937 HD

    In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a...

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  • 1929
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    Hard to Get

    Hard to Get

    1 1929 HD

    A dress shop employee falls in love with a millionaire.

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  • 1930
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    Let's Go Native

    Let's Go Native

    7.5 1930 HD

    The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

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  • 1942
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    Pardon My Sarong

    Pardon My Sarong

    6.521 1942 HD

    A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat...

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  • 1955
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    The Reluctant Bride

    The Reluctant Bride

    5 1955 HD

    A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose...

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  • 1930
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    Only the Brave

    Only the Brave

    1 1930 HD

    Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to...

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  • 1930
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    Whoopee!

    Whoopee!

    6.5 1930 HD

    Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with...

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  • 1929
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    Pointed Heels

    Pointed Heels

    7.2 1929 HD

    Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss...

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  • 1930
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    Paramount on Parade

    Paramount on Parade

    6.4 1930 HD

    This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

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  • 1932
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    Sky Bride

    Sky Bride

    1 1932 HD

    Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager, Alec Dugan, performing at fairs and air shows...

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  • 1930
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    The Love Parade

    The Love Parade

    6.656 1930 HD

    The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

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  • 1930
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    Slightly Scarlet

    Slightly Scarlet

    5 1930 HD

    Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony,...

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  • 1935
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    A Dream Comes True

    A Dream Comes True

    5.5 1935 HD

    A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

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  • 1935
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    Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

    Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

    5.6 1935 HD

    Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.

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  • 1940
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    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    6.5 1940 HD

    This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

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  • 2003
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    Complicated Women

    Complicated Women

    6.7 2003 HD

    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...

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  • 1938
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    Hollywood Goes to Town

    Hollywood Goes to Town

    7 1938 HD

    This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...

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  • 1988
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    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    6 1988 HD

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

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  • 1929
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    Fugitives

    Fugitives

    1 1929 HD

    Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening...

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  • 1930
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    Lilies of the Field

    Lilies of the Field

    3.5 1930 HD

    Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1955
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    Matinee Theater

    Matinee Theater

    4.6 1955 HD

    Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily...

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    6.2 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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