Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known.
He appeared in over one hundred films, starring in over eighty, among them Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942), the romance film Bird of Paradise (1932), the adventure classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Gregory La Cava's bawdy comedy Bed of Roses (1933), George Stevens' romantic comedy The More the Merrier (1943), William Wyler's These Three, Come and Get It (both 1936) and Dead End (1937), Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast (1935), and a number of western films, including Wichita (1955) as Wyatt Earp and Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962), opposite Randolph Scott.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 13.69 |
| Birthday | 1905-11-05 |
| Place of Birth | South Pasadena, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Joel Albert McCrea, Джоэл Маккри, |
1932
The Most Dangerous Game
6.9/272
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive...
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The Most Dangerous Game
1942
The Palm Beach Story
7.035/188
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an...
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The Palm Beach Story
1940
Foreign Correspondent
6.967/390
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an a...
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Foreign Correspondent
1937
Dead End
6.968/125
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his...
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Dead End
1949
Colorado Territory
6.898/64
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.
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Colorado Territory
1944
The Great Moment
5.8/19
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and...
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The Great Moment
1962
Ride the High Country
7.041/218
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old f...
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Ride the High Country
1947
Ramrod
6.4/49
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "...
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Ramrod
1944
Buffalo Bill
5.7/35
Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
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Buffalo Bill
1939
Union Pacific
6.528/71
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp...
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Union Pacific
1945
The Unseen
4.5/21
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car cra...
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The Unseen
1941
Sullivan's Travels
7.416/462
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise a...
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Sullivan's Travels
1948
Four Faces West
5.6/19
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him hi...
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Four Faces West
1951
Hollywood Story
6.6/23
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot...
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Hollywood Story
1940
Primrose Path
6.523/22
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother....
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Primrose Path
1943
The More the Merrier
6.9/80
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believi...
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The More the Merrier
1936
These Three
7.211/38
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students e...
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These Three
1937
Internes Can't Take Money
6.4/16
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gang...
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Internes Can't Take Money
1932
Bird of Paradise
5/22
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Jo...
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Bird of Paradise
1935
Barbary Coast
6.554/28
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling hou...
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Barbary Coast
1936
Come and Get It
6.77/37
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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Come and Get It
1958
Fort Massacre
6/22
New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to rea...
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Fort Massacre
1959
The Gunfight at Dodge City
5.6/22
Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is ki...
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The Gunfight at Dodge City
1941
The Great Man's Lady
6.3/11
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is...
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The Great Man's Lady
1936
Adventure in Manhattan
5.8/13
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time...
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Adventure in Manhattan
1932
The Lost Squadron
6.3/18
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadisti...
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The Lost Squadron
1931
Girls About Town
6.4/8
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
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Girls About Town
1933
The Silver Cord
7.1/7
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well a...
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The Silver Cord
1946
The Virginian
6.1/19
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot...
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The Virginian
1937
Woman Chases Man
5.6/8
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
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Woman Chases Man
1931
Kept Husbands
5.4/21
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled d...
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Kept Husbands
1935
Private Worlds
5.9/7
At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr. Charl...
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Private Worlds
1931
Born to Love
5/5
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her chi...
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Born to Love
1932
Rockabye
6.2/10
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
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Rockabye
1957
The Oklahoman
5.6/12
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, no...
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The Oklahoman
1939
Espionage Agent
5.9/9
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an esp...
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Espionage Agent
1953
Rough Shoot
6.2/5
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hot...
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Rough Shoot
1957
Trooper Hook
6.6/16
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escape...
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Trooper Hook
1955
Stranger on Horseback
5.4/16
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the...
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Stranger on Horseback
1950
Stars in My Crown
6.9/47
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a...
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Stars in My Crown
1932
The Sport Parade
5.286/7
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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The Sport Parade
1935
Splendor
6.3/6
When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and t...
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Splendor
1934
The Richest Girl in the World
5.6/13
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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The Richest Girl in the World
1933
Chance at Heaven
5.6/9
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
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Chance at Heaven
1954
Border River
6.2/19
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in thi...
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Border River
1937
Wells Fargo
5.1/11
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fres...
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Wells Fargo
1933
Bed of Roses
6.3/13
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
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Bed of Roses
1951
Cattle Drive
6.1/13
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and t...
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Cattle Drive
1934
Gambling Lady
6.3/17
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks ou...
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Gambling Lady
1973
The Great American Cowboy
6/4
The battle between two rodeo stars for the world championship: veteran Larry Mahan and newcomer Phil Lyne. Narrated by Cowboy Hall of Fame actor Joel...
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The Great American Cowboy
1931
The Common Law
5.5/11
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
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The Common Law
1957
The Tall Stranger
6.6/17
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-b...
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The Tall Stranger
1955
Wichita
6.2/51
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect...
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Wichita
1950
Saddle Tramp
6.3/10
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck real...
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Saddle Tramp
1939
They Shall Have Music
6/8
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the...
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They Shall Have Music
1956
The First Texan
6.1/8
After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any...
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The First Texan
1950
The Outriders
6.9/12
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raider...
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The Outriders
1930
The Silver Horde
5.3/14
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
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The Silver Horde
1936
Banjo on My Knee
5.8/12
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.
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Banjo on My Knee
1949
South of St. Louis
5.6/16
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each...
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South of St. Louis
1927
The Fair Co-Ed
5.5/2
Marion go off to college where she joins the basketball team to be near the coach, Bob. She instantly makes a rival of Betty, who's also interested in...
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The Fair Co-Ed
1957
Gunsight Ridge
6/11
An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.
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Gunsight Ridge
1929
Dynamite
6.2/11
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will...
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Dynamite
1953
The Lone Hand
5.2/8
Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults of a band of outlaws. After the murder of a Pinke...
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The Lone Hand
1952
The San Francisco Story
4.8/6
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn...
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The San Francisco Story
1929
So This Is College
4.2/5
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
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So This Is College
1933
One Man's Journey
7.1/10
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his so...
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One Man's Journey
1940
He Married His Wife
5.1/8
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...
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He Married His Wife
1950
Frenchie
5.7/11
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she onl...
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Frenchie
1976
Mustang Country
4.7/3
A rancher and former rodeo star comes across a runaway boy while he is hunting a wild stallion.
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Mustang Country
1958
Cattle Empire
6/18
After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree, a trail boss is hired by the same town's leading...
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Cattle Empire
1935
Woman Wanted
6.3/7
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Bax...
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Woman Wanted
1932
Business and Pleasure
4/1
On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he becomes...
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Business and Pleasure
1938
Three Blind Mice
6/5
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite an...
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Three Blind Mice
1928
Dead Man's Curve
0/0
A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our hero discovers this only after losing an importan...
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Dead Man's Curve
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3/3
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1941
Reaching for the Sun
6/2
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
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Reaching for the Sun
1933
Scarlet River
4.5/4
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
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Scarlet River
1935
Our Little Girl
4.3/3
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become at...
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Our Little Girl
1936
Two in a Crowd
0/0
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress...
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Two in a Crowd
1928
The Divine Lady
5.3/22
Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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The Divine Lady
1938
Youth Takes a Fling
1/1
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it m...
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Youth Takes a Fling
1931
Once a Sinner
0/0
As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial assistance from her ex-lover Dick Kent, who still...
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Once a Sinner
1929
The Single Standard
6.2/4
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
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The Single Standard
1954
Black Horse Canyon
5.9/7
The story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him.
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Black Horse Canyon
1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
7/1
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellen...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1930
Lightnin'
3.7/3
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while...
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Lightnin'
1966
The Young Rounders
0/0
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The Young Rounders
1940
Breakdowns of 1940
4/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
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Breakdowns of 1940
1970
Cry Blood Apache
2.5/11
Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback sequences featuring son Jody) explains his brutal m...
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Cry Blood Apache
1960
The Crowning Experience
5/1
Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that, with her earnings, she established many sch...
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The Crowning Experience
1970
Sioux Nation
8.5/1
Joel McCrea stars in this unreleased Western from 1970.
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Sioux Nation
1927
The Enemy
5.5/2
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli...
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The Enemy
1934
Half a Sinner
0/0
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
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Half a Sinner
2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
6.4/14
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
5.6/12
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1943
Stars on Horseback
0/0
A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.
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Stars on Horseback
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
7.3/6
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
1982
Night of 100 Stars
6.5/2
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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