Kay Francis

Kay Francis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kay Francis (January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest paid American film actress. Some of her film related material and personal papers are available to scholars and researchers in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kay Francis,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title : Kay Francis
  • Popularity : 2.56
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1905-01-13
  • Place of Birth : Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : Katherine Edwina Gibbs, Katherine Francis
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Kay Francis Movies

  • 1932
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    Trouble in Paradise

    Trouble in Paradise

    7.418 1932 HD

    Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide...

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  • 1929
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    The Cocoanuts

    The Cocoanuts

    6.5 1929 HD

    During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

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  • 1939
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    In Name Only

    In Name Only

    7 1939 HD

    A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.

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  • 1939
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    King of the Underworld

    King of the Underworld

    6.4 1939 HD

    Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her...

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  • 1932
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    One Way Passage

    One Way Passage

    7.306 1932 HD

    A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's...

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  • 1945
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    Allotment Wives

    Allotment Wives

    6 1945 HD

    Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.

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  • 1941
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    Charley's Aunt

    Charley's Aunt

    5.8 1941 HD

    In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

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  • 1932
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    Jewel Robbery

    Jewel Robbery

    6.5 1932 HD

    A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

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  • 1933
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    The House on 56th Street

    The House on 56th Street

    5.2 1933 HD

    A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits...

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  • 1937
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    Confession

    Confession

    6.1 1937 HD

    Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's...

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  • 1937
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    Another Dawn

    Another Dawn

    6.2 1937 HD

    Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia...

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  • 1932
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    Man Wanted

    Man Wanted

    5.5 1932 HD

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

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  • 1941
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    The Feminine Touch

    The Feminine Touch

    5.1 1941 HD

    A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind...

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  • 1942
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    Always in My Heart

    Always in My Heart

    6 1942 HD

    A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife...

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  • 1931
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    Girls About Town

    Girls About Town

    6.4 1931 HD

    A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

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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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  • 1944
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    Four Jills in a Jeep

    Four Jills in a Jeep

    5.7 1944 HD

    Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

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  • 1946
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    Wife Wanted

    Wife Wanted

    6.5 1946 HD

    Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell...

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  • 1933
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    I Loved a Woman

    I Loved a Woman

    4.8 1933 HD

    The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...

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  • 1931
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    Transgression

    Transgression

    4 1931 HD

    When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.

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  • 1937
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    First Lady

    First Lady

    6.2 1937 HD

    A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

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  • 1934
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    Dr. Monica

    Dr. Monica

    4.8 1934 HD

    A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.

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  • 1941
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    Play Girl

    Play Girl

    6.3 1941 HD

    When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.

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  • 1940
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    It's a Date

    It's a Date

    6.4 1940 HD

    An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The...

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  • 1940
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    When the Daltons Rode

    When the Daltons Rode

    6 1940 HD

    Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing...

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  • 1934
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    Wonder Bar

    Wonder Bar

    6.2 1934 HD

    Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and...

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  • 1934
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    British Agent

    British Agent

    5.563 1934 HD

    In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

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  • 1935
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    The Goose and the Gander

    The Goose and the Gander

    4.6 1935 HD

    When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...

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  • 1931
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    Scandal Sheet

    Scandal Sheet

    1 1931 HD

    Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

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  • 1932
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    Street of Women

    Street of Women

    4.8 1932 HD

    An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to...

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  • 1931
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    Guilty Hands

    Guilty Hands

    5.8 1931 HD

    A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

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  • 1945
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    Divorce

    Divorce

    5 1945 HD

    A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the...

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  • 1929
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    Dangerous Curves

    Dangerous Curves

    5 1929 HD

    A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a...

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  • 1929
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    The Marriage Playground

    The Marriage Playground

    5.8 1929 HD

    A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their...

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  • 1932
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    Strangers in Love

    Strangers in Love

    5.1 1932 HD

    Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.

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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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  • 1938
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    Secrets of an Actress

    Secrets of an Actress

    5.6 1938 HD

    Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

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  • 1932
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    Cynara

    Cynara

    4.8 1932 HD

    A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.

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  • 1930
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    Street of Chance

    Street of Chance

    6.6 1930 HD

    'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay...

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  • 1930
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    A Notorious Affair

    A Notorious Affair

    4.4 1930 HD

    A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.

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  • 1930
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    The Virtuous Sin

    The Virtuous Sin

    5 1930 HD

    Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.

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  • 1935
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    Stranded

    Stranded

    5.8 1935 HD

    A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

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  • 1939
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    Women in the Wind

    Women in the Wind

    6.8 1939 HD

    A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

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  • 1936
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    Give Me Your Heart

    Give Me Your Heart

    6 1936 HD

    An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

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  • 1937
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    Stolen Holiday

    Stolen Holiday

    6.6 1937 HD

    A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

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  • 1983
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    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    6.5 1983 HD

    Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

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  • 1930
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    Passion Flower

    Passion Flower

    5.6 1930 HD

    A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.

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  • 1933
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    Mary Stevens, M.D.

    Mary Stevens, M.D.

    6 1933 HD

    A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.

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  • 1933
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    The Keyhole

    The Keyhole

    4.9 1933 HD

    A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

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  • 1930
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    Behind the Make-Up

    Behind the Make-Up

    6.2 1930 HD

    Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his...

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  • 1935
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    Living on Velvet

    Living on Velvet

    5.4 1935 HD

    A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of...

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  • 1930
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    For the Defense

    For the Defense

    4.85 1930 HD

    William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them...

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  • 1931
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    The Vice Squad

    The Vice Squad

    7 1931 HD

    A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

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  • 1938
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    Women Are Like That

    Women Are Like That

    5.7 1938 HD

    Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use...

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  • 1938
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    Comet Over Broadway

    Comet Over Broadway

    5 1938 HD

    Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

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  • 1931
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    24 Hours

    24 Hours

    5.5 1931 HD

    A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.

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  • 1935
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    I Found Stella Parish

    I Found Stella Parish

    7 1935 HD

    A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

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  • 1931
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    The False Madonna

    The False Madonna

    6.3 1931 HD

    A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.

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  • 1931
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    Ladies' Man

    Ladies' Man

    4.3 1931 HD

    A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in...

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  • 1934
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    Mandalay

    Mandalay

    5.9 1934 HD

    Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

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  • 1933
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    Storm at Daybreak

    Storm at Daybreak

    5.8 1933 HD

    Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...

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  • 1936
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    The White Angel

    The White Angel

    8 1936 HD

    In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...

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  • 1935
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    Movies on Sundays

    Movies on Sundays

    1 1935 HD

    A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow...

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  • 1929
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    Illusion

    Illusion

    1 1929 HD

    A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his...

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  • 1938
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    My Bill

    My Bill

    6.2 1938 HD

    An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

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  • 1940
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    Little Men

    Little Men

    6.1 1940 HD

    Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's...

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  • 2005
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    William Powell: A True Gentleman

    William Powell: A True Gentleman

    7.5 2005 HD

    A short documentary about William Powell.

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  • 1929
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    Gentlemen of the Press

    Gentlemen of the Press

    5 1929 HD

    A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.

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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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  • 1936
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    Breakdowns of 1936

    Breakdowns of 1936

    1 1936 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

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  • 1942
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    Between Us Girls

    Between Us Girls

    6 1942 HD

    A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.

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  • 2002
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    Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

    Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

    1 2002 HD

    Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's.

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  • 1947
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    Blow-Ups of 1947

    Blow-Ups of 1947

    6.3 1947 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.

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  • 1941
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    The Man Who Lost Himself

    The Man Who Lost Himself

    4 1941 HD

    John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do...

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  • 1938
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    Breakdowns of 1938

    Breakdowns of 1938

    5 1938 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

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  • 1937
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    Breakdowns of 1937

    Breakdowns of 1937

    6 1937 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.

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  • 1939
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    Breakdowns of 1939

    Breakdowns of 1939

    7 1939 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.

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  • 1935
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    Things You Never See on the Screen

    Things You Never See on the Screen

    5 1935 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

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  • 1943
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    Show-Business at War

    Show-Business at War

    7 1943 HD

    A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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  • 1975
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    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    5.7 1975 HD

    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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  • 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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  • 1945
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    Allotment Wives

    Allotment Wives

    6 1945 HD

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  • 1945
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    Divorce

    Divorce

    5 1945 HD

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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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    Prudential Family Playhouse

    Prudential Family Playhouse

    6 1950 HD

    Prudential Family Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on live CBS from October 1950 to March 1951.

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