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William Powell: A True Gentleman
A short documentary about William Powell.7.5
Year:
2005
Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.6.7
Year:
2003
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's.0.0
Year:
2002
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.6.5
Year:
1983
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.5.7
Year:
1975
Blow-Ups of 1947
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.6.3
Year:
1947
Wife Wanted
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.6.5
Year:
1946
Allotment Wives
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.6.0
Year:
1945
Divorce
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 marriage of her childhood boyfriend.5.0
Year:
1945
Four Jills in a Jeep
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.5.7
Year:
1944
Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.7.0
Year:
1943
Between Us Girls
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.6.0
Year:
1942
Always in My Heart
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 is in love with another man.6.0
Year:
1942
The Feminine Touch
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.5.1
Year:
1941
Charley's Aunt
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.5.8
Year:
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.4.0
Year:
1941
Play Girl
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.6.3
Year:
1941
Little Men
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 heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.6.1
Year:
1940
When the Daltons Rode
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 their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?6.0
Year:
1940
It's a Date
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 situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.6.4
Year:
1940
Breakdowns of 1939
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.7.0
Year:
1939
In Name Only
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.7.0
Year:
1939
Women in the Wind
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.6.8
Year:
1939
King of the Underworld
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.6.4
Year:
1939
Breakdowns of 1938
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.5.0
Year:
1938
Comet Over Broadway
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.5.0
Year:
1938
Secrets of an Actress
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.5.6
Year:
1938
My Bill
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.6.2
Year:
1938
Women Are Like That
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.5.7
Year:
1938
Breakdowns of 1937
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.6.0
Year:
1937
First Lady
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.6.2
Year:
1937
Confession
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 life.6.1
Year:
1937
Another Dawn
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 Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.6.2
Year:
1937
Stolen Holiday
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.6.6
Year:
1937
Breakdowns of 1936
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.0.0
Year:
1936
Give Me Your Heart
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.6.0
Year:
1936
The White Angel
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.8.0
Year:
1936
Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.5.0
Year:
1935
I Found Stella Parish
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.7.0
Year:
1935
The Goose and the Gander
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 to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.4.6
Year:
1935
Stranded
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.5.8
Year:
1935
Living on Velvet
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 money enters their life, their differences come to light.5.5
Year:
1935
Movies on Sundays
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 such screenings.0.0
Year:
1935
British Agent
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.5.5
Year:
1934
Dr. Monica
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.4.8
Year:
1934
Wonder Bar
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 the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.6.2
Year:
1934
Mandalay
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.5.9
Year:
1934
The House on 56th Street
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 suicide.5.2
Year:
1933
I Loved a Woman
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 love.4.8
Year:
1933
Mary Stevens, M.D.
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.6.0
Year:
1933
Storm at Daybreak
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 Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.5.8
Year:
1933
The Keyhole
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.4.9
Year:
1933
Cynara
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.4.8
Year:
1932
Trouble in Paradise
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.7.4
Year:
1932
One Way Passage
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 secret.7.2
Year:
1932
Jewel Robbery
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.6.5
Year:
1932
Street of Women
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 misunderstanding and dissolution, but ultimately love.4.8
Year:
1932
Man Wanted
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.5.5
Year:
1932
Strangers in Love
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.5.1
Year:
1932
The False Madonna
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.6.3
Year:
1931
Girls About Town
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.6.4
Year:
1931
24 Hours
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.5.5
Year:
1931
Guilty Hands
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.6.0
Year:
1931
Transgression
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.4.0
Year:
1931
The Vice Squad
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.7.0
Year:
1931
Ladies' Man
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 "society."4.3
Year:
1931
Scandal Sheet
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.0.0
Year:
1931
Passion Flower
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.5.6
Year:
1930
The Virtuous Sin
Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.5.0
Year:
1930
Let's Go Native
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.7.5
Year:
1930
For the Defense
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 out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.4.8
Year:
1930
Raffles
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 woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.6.0
Year:
1930
A Notorious Affair
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.4.4
Year:
1930
Paramount on Parade
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors6.1
Year:
1930
Street of Chance
'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 Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addiction and lifestyle, but they agree on a reconciliation and second honeymoon together and 'Natural' promises to give up gambling. However, his plans change when his brother, 'Babe' (Regis Toomey), arrives in town looking to score big, and 'Natural' has to devise a plan quickly to put him off gambling forever.6.6
Year:
1930
Behind the Make-Up
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 appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.6.2
Year:
1930
The Marriage Playground
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.5.8
Year:
1929
Illusion
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudeville partner, Claire, has chosen a new partner, but her "heart isn't in it" because she is disconsolate over Carlee. Curious about her new act, Carlee attends a performance and sees Claire nearly killed when she fails to substitute fake bullets for real ones. Rushing to her aid, Carlee realizes how much Claire means to him.0.0
Year:
1929
Dangerous Curves
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 "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.6.0
Year:
1929
The Cocoanuts
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.6.4
Year:
1929
Gentlemen of the Press
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.5.0
Year:
1929