Henry Stephenson

Henry Stephenson

From Wikipedia Henry Stephenson Garraway (16 April 1871 – 24 April 1956), sometimes credited as Harry Stephenson, was a British stage and film actor. He portrayed friendly and wise Gentleman in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his roles was Sir Joseph Banks in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist. Stephenson was educated in Rugby in Warwickshire and started acting in his twenties. He appeared on British and American stages and made his Broadway debut in 1901, playing the messenger in A Message from Mars. In the following decades, he appeared in over 30 Broadway plays. Henry Stephenson made his film debut in 1917 and appeared in a few silent films, but made his mark mostly as an elder man in sound films. Between 1931 and 1932, he appeared in the successful Broadway play Cyanara with over 200 performances. He came to Hollywood for the film version of Cyanara, starring Ronald Colman and with Henry Stephenson in a supporting role. In the same year year, he played the tycoon C.B. Gaerste in Red-Headed Woman and Doctor Alliott in A Bill of Divorcement. The following year, the English-born actor appeared as the intimidating yet warm-hearted Mr. Laurence in Little Women. The tall, white-haired actor specialized in portraying wise, dignified and friendly British gentlemans in supporting roles. He could be "both imposing and benevolent in his patrician portrayals, usually expounding words of wisdom or offering gentlemanly aid." He appeared overall in 90 films from 1917 to 1951, often as a doctor or professor, general, judge or aristocrat. He often played historical figures like Sir Joseph Banks in the oscar-winnig adventure film Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau in Marie Antoinette (1938). Stephenson worked with film star Errol Flynn in the films Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Prince and the Pauper, and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; often as Flynn's paternal friend and superior. He portrayed Sir Thomas Lancing in Tarzan Finds a Son! in 1939 and playing an entirely different role as Sir Guy Henderson in Tarzan and the Amazons in 1945. He seldom played dark figures, among the exceptions was the snobbish Mr. Bryant in Mr. Lucky in 1943. Stephenson also appeared in literature adaptions, for example as the friendly lawyer Havisham in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and as Mr. Brownlow in David Lean's literature adaption Oliver Twist (1948). He made his last film in 1949, but appeared in two TV-series in 1951 before the end of his career. In 1950, after finishing his role of Cardinal Gaspar de Quiroga in the drama play, That Lady, Stephenson retired from the stage. He married actress Ann Shoemaker. They had one daughter. Henry Stephenson died in 1956 at the age of 85 years. He was survived by Ann and his daughter.

  • Title : Henry Stephenson
  • Popularity : 3.842
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1871-04-15
  • Place of Birth : Granada, British West Indies
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  • Also Known As : Henry Stephenson Garraway, Henry Stephenson Garroway, Harry Stephenson
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Henry Stephenson Movies

  • 1948
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    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    7.467 1948 HD

    When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice....

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  • 1937
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    Conquest

    Conquest

    6.6 1937 HD

    A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence...

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  • 1936
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    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    6.8 1936 HD

    An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his...

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  • 1935
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    Mutiny on the Bounty

    Mutiny on the Bounty

    7.338 1935 HD

    Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent...

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  • 1939
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    Tarzan Finds a Son!

    Tarzan Finds a Son!

    6.1 1939 HD

    A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years...

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  • 1946
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    4.8 1946 HD

    A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.

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  • 1937
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    The Prince and the Pauper

    The Prince and the Pauper

    6.8 1937 HD

    Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace...

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  • 1949
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    Challenge to Lassie

    Challenge to Lassie

    4.8 1949 HD

    When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.

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  • 1940
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    Down Argentine Way

    Down Argentine Way

    6 1940 HD

    The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their...

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  • 1938
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    Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette

    6.3 1938 HD

    The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

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  • 1938
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    The Young in Heart

    The Young in Heart

    6.6 1938 HD

    A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.

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  • 1936
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    Beloved Enemy

    Beloved Enemy

    6.1 1936 HD

    In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is...

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  • 1936
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    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    6.5 1936 HD

    In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances...

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  • 1946
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    The Locket

    The Locket

    6.397 1946 HD

    A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

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  • 1947
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    Ivy

    Ivy

    6.8 1947 HD

    When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr....

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  • 1935
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    Captain Blood

    Captain Blood

    7.249 1935 HD

    Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

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  • 1939
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    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    6.225 1939 HD

    This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

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  • 1939
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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    6.844 1939 HD

    Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis,...

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  • 1943
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    Mr. Lucky

    Mr. Lucky

    6.9 1943 HD

    A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

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  • 1933
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    Little Women

    Little Women

    6.8 1933 HD

    Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences...

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  • 1935
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    Reckless

    Reckless

    5.3 1935 HD

    A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

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  • 1937
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    When You're in Love

    When You're in Love

    6.7 1937 HD

    An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene.

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  • 1944
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    Two Girls and a Sailor

    Two Girls and a Sailor

    5.7 1944 HD

    A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is...

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  • 1948
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    Julia Misbehaves

    Julia Misbehaves

    6.5 1948 HD

    Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites...

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  • 1934
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    Thirty Day Princess

    Thirty Day Princess

    6.8 1934 HD

    A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly...

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  • 1932
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    A Bill of Divorcement

    A Bill of Divorcement

    6.227 1932 HD

    A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to...

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  • 1935
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    Rendezvous

    Rendezvous

    4.8 1935 HD

    A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

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  • 1937
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    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    5.2 1937 HD

    Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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  • 1938
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    The Baroness and the Butler

    The Baroness and the Butler

    5.2 1938 HD

    A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

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  • 1943
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    The Mantrap

    The Mantrap

    6 1943 HD

    Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of...

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  • 1945
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    Tarzan and the Amazons

    Tarzan and the Amazons

    6.3 1945 HD

    A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the...

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  • 1932
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    Red-Headed Woman

    Red-Headed Woman

    6.611 1932 HD

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

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  • 1932
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    The Animal Kingdom

    The Animal Kingdom

    5.7 1932 HD

    Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage,...

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  • 1946
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    The Green Years

    The Green Years

    6.4 1946 HD

    An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather...

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  • 1942
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    This Above All

    This Above All

    6.6 1942 HD

    In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with...

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  • 1933
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    If I Were Free

    If I Were Free

    5 1933 HD

    A recently divorced interior decorator falls in love with a married barrister.

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  • 1934
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    She Loves Me Not

    She Loves Me Not

    5.6 1934 HD

    A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

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  • 1934
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    The Richest Girl in the World

    The Richest Girl in the World

    5.615 1934 HD

    Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't...

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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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  • 1942
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    Half Way to Shanghai

    Half Way to Shanghai

    1 1942 HD

    A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.

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  • 1932
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    Guilty as Hell

    Guilty as Hell

    5.8 1932 HD

    Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his innocence. We see the murder and the framing set-up at the...

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  • 1934
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    The Mystery of Mr. X

    The Mystery of Mr. X

    7 1934 HD

    A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.

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  • 1937
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    Wise Girl

    Wise Girl

    7 1937 HD

    Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds...

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  • 1946
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    Of Human Bondage

    Of Human Bondage

    6 1946 HD

    A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for...

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  • 1933
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    Tomorrow at Seven

    Tomorrow at Seven

    6 1933 HD

    People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".

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  • 1933
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    Blind Adventure

    Blind Adventure

    5.5 1933 HD

    Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they...

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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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  • 1934
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    Stingaree

    Stingaree

    5.9 1934 HD

    A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by...

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  • 1935
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    Vanessa: Her Love Story

    Vanessa: Her Love Story

    6 1935 HD

    The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.

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  • 1936
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    Hearts Divided

    Hearts Divided

    5 1936 HD

    Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.

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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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  • 1944
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    Secrets of Scotland Yard

    Secrets of Scotland Yard

    5.3 1944 HD

    Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After...

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  • 1933
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    Double Harness

    Double Harness

    6.7 1933 HD

    After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.

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  • 1938
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    Dramatic School

    Dramatic School

    6.2 1938 HD

    Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at...

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  • 1934
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    Outcast Lady

    Outcast Lady

    6.3 1934 HD

    A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.

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  • 1935
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    The Night Is Young

    The Night Is Young

    5 1935 HD

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

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  • 1919
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    A Society Exile

    A Society Exile

    1 1919 HD

    Nora Shard, a young American girl living in England, is ostracized from society for her presumed part in a scandal which culminated in a...

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  • 1935
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    O'Shaughnessy's Boy

    O'Shaughnessy's Boy

    6 1935 HD

    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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  • 1934
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    What Every Woman Knows

    What Every Woman Knows

    7 1934 HD

    Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must...

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  • 1940
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    Spring Parade

    Spring Parade

    6.8 1940 HD

    In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she...

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  • 1934
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    Man of Two Worlds

    Man of Two Worlds

    6 1934 HD

    A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.

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  • 1947
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    The Homestretch

    The Homestretch

    1 1947 HD

    A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.

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  • 1940
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    Little Old New York

    Little Old New York

    4 1940 HD

    Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

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  • 1935
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    The Flame Within

    The Flame Within

    5.2 1935 HD

    Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.

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  • 1941
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    Lady from Louisiana

    Lady from Louisiana

    5.2 1941 HD

    Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...

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  • 1938
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    Suez

    Suez

    5.4 1938 HD

    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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  • 1925
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    Men and Women

    Men and Women

    1 1925 HD

    Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock market. With his newfound...

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  • 1944
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    The Hour Before the Dawn

    The Hour Before the Dawn

    5 1944 HD

    A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she...

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  • 1936
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    Walking on Air

    Walking on Air

    5.8 1936 HD

    A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.

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  • 1948
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    Enchantment

    Enchantment

    6.4 1948 HD

    Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last...

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  • 1936
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    Half Angel

    Half Angel

    1 1936 HD

    Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.

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  • 1946
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    Her Sister's Secret

    Her Sister's Secret

    6.5 1946 HD

    A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. He asks her to marry...

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  • 1947
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    Dark Delusion

    Dark Delusion

    6 1947 HD

    Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents'...

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  • 1933
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    My Lips Betray

    My Lips Betray

    1 1933 HD

    In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing...

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  • 1935
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    The Perfect Gentleman

    The Perfect Gentleman

    4.5 1935 HD

    A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.

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  • 1946
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    The Return of Monte Cristo

    The Return of Monte Cristo

    6.5 1946 HD

    Louis Hayward, star of 1940's Son of Monte Cristo, returns to Alexandre Dumas territory in Columbia's Return of Monte Cristo. This time, Hayward...

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  • 1947
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    Time Out of Mind

    Time Out of Mind

    5 1947 HD

    The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.

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  • 1934
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    One More River

    One More River

    5.3 1934 HD

    A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.

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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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  • 1944
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    Reckless Age

    Reckless Age

    1 1944 HD

    Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one...

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  • 1934
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    All Men Are Enemies

    All Men Are Enemies

    1 1934 HD

    A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I.

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  • 1942
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    Rings on Her Fingers

    Rings on Her Fingers

    6.5 1942 HD

    Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have....

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  • 1946
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    Night and Day

    Night and Day

    5.7 1946 HD

    When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee...

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  • 1947
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    Song of Love

    Song of Love

    6.7 1947 HD

    Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their...

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  • 1925
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    Wild, Wild Susan

    Wild, Wild Susan

    1 1925 HD

    Wealthy New York girl, Susan Van Dusen, in search of thrills and laughter, leaves home and finds work with a private detective agency. She meets Tod...

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