Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor. Douglas came to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy Ninotchka with Greta Garbo. Douglas later played mature and fatherly characters, as in his Academy Award–winning performances in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979) and his Academy Award–nominated performance in I Never Sang for My Father (1970). In the last few years of his life Douglas appeared in films with supernatural stories involving ghosts. Douglas appeared as "Senator Joseph Carmichael" in The Changeling in 1980 and Ghost Story in 1981 in his final completed film role.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.951 |
| Birthday | 1901-04-05 |
| Place of Birth | Macon, Georgia, USA |
| Also Known As | Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, |
1939
Ninotchka
7.5/383
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Ninotchka
1979
Being There
7.619/976
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the s...
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Being There
1962
Billy Budd
7.3/67
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
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Billy Budd
1972
The Candidate
6.487/155
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
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The Candidate
1976
The Tenant
7.621/1116
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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The Tenant
1932
The Old Dark House
6.7/260
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
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The Old Dark House
1981
Ghost Story
6/145
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies...
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Ghost Story
1963
Hud
7.257/307
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for...
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Hud
1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
7.006/179
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with proble...
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1941
A Woman's Face
7/64
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
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A Woman's Face
1980
The Changeling
7/623
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house tha...
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The Changeling
1964
The Americanization of Emily
6.6/72
American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged...
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The Americanization of Emily
1933
The Vampire Bat
5.4/68
A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
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The Vampire Bat
1941
That Uncertain Feeling
6.468/47
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
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That Uncertain Feeling
1942
They All Kissed the Bride
5.8/8
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book...
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They All Kissed the Bride
1935
Annie Oakley
6.367/30
Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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Annie Oakley
1938
That Certain Age
5/6
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send h...
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That Certain Age
1947
The Guilt of Janet Ames
5.6/13
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
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The Guilt of Janet Ames
1937
Angel
6.8/71
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
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Angel
1937
Captains Courageous
7.418/158
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vesse...
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Captains Courageous
1979
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
5.9/24
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging princ...
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1940
Third Finger, Left Hand
6.8/12
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jef...
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Third Finger, Left Hand
1935
She Married Her Boss
7/1
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his sp...
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She Married Her Boss
1936
Theodora Goes Wild
6.547/43
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Th...
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Theodora Goes Wild
1933
Counsellor at Law
6.6/25
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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Counsellor at Law
1965
Rapture
6.9/33
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph dev...
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Rapture
1949
A Woman's Secret
5.6/36
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal p...
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A Woman's Secret
1970
I Never Sang for My Father
6.6/36
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother under...
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I Never Sang for My Father
1972
One Is a Lonely Number
5.2/6
A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a...
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One Is a Lonely Number
1935
The People's Enemy
6/1
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became ri...
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The People's Enemy
1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
6.422/64
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 u...
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
1948
My Own True Love
5.5/1
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was impri...
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My Own True Love
1941
Our Wife
5.7/3
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
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Our Wife
1941
Two-Faced Woman
6.4/27
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
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Two-Faced Woman
1947
The Sea of Grass
6.2/26
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
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The Sea of Grass
1931
Tonight or Never
5.857/7
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
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Tonight or Never
1939
Tell No Tales
5.3/5
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Tell No Tales
1951
My Forbidden Past
5.7/18
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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My Forbidden Past
1940
Too Many Husbands
6.3/17
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
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Too Many Husbands
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6/2
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
0/0
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
1932
As You Desire Me
6.2/12
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's es...
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As You Desire Me
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
5.2/13
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who i...
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The Gorgeous Hussy
1939
Good Girls Go to Paris
7.1/9
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...
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Good Girls Go to Paris
1938
The Shining Hour
6.6/21
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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The Shining Hour
1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
5.8/7
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...
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Arsène Lupin Returns
1937
I Met Him in Paris
5/3
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into...
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I Met Him in Paris
1940
He Stayed for Breakfast
0/0
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive...
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He Stayed for Breakfast
1949
The Great Sinner
6.7/20
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
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The Great Sinner
1964
Advance to the Rear
5/12
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbur...
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Advance to the Rear
1938
There's Always a Woman
5.8/13
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give...
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There's Always a Woman
1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
5.8/10
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For...
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
1931
Prestige
5.5/2
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
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Prestige
1934
Dangerous Corner
5.7/3
Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
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Dangerous Corner
1937
I'll Take Romance
5/2
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, how...
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I'll Take Romance
1938
Fast Company
5.4/8
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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Fast Company
1938
The Toy Wife
4.8/6
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
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The Toy Wife
1936
And So They Were Married
5.6/5
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention...
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And So They Were Married
1951
On the Loose
6/4
After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes a...
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On the Loose
1980
Tell Me a Riddle
6/4
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their grandda...
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Tell Me a Riddle
1934
Woman in the Dark
6.1/15
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is dis...
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Woman in the Dark
1942
We Were Dancing
4.2/4
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American s...
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We Were Dancing
1940
This Thing Called Love
8/4
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
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This Thing Called Love
1971
Death Takes a Holiday
5.2/4
Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a bea...
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Death Takes a Holiday
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
1970
Hunters Are for Killing
4.5/2
A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. However, his adoptive father, who holds him responsi...
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Hunters Are for Killing
1978
The Making of a President
0/0
In wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak at the town’s upcoming ecumenical war bonds rally. Ho...
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The Making of a President
1943
Three Hearts for Julia
6/1
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
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Three Hearts for Julia
1935
The Lone Wolf Returns
5.9/7
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from t...
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The Lone Wolf Returns
1974
Murder or Mercy
0/0
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.
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Murder or Mercy
1982
The Hot Touch
4.4/5
A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer fi...
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The Hot Touch
1977
Intimate Strangers
5/1
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
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Intimate Strangers
1967
Hotel
6.1/21
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock...
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Hotel
1938
There's That Woman Again
5/1
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's...
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There's That Woman Again
1973
The Going Up of David Lev
0/0
A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to find out more about his father's death. He skips sc...
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The Going Up of David Lev
1958
The Plot to Kill Stalin
0/0
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including...
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The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
Old Man
0/0
In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.
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Old Man
1957
The Greer Case
0/0
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
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The Greer Case
1967
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
0/0
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning...
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1977
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
0/0
The story of a gentle and loving grandfather who encourages his grandson's ambition to be a painter.
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Portrait of Grandpa Doc
1937
Women of Glamour
5/1
A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.
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Women of Glamour
1968
Companions in Nightmare
5.5/2
One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.
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Companions in Nightmare
1965
Inherit the Wind
8/1
A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal min...
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Inherit the Wind
1932
The Wiser Sex
6/1
A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.
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The Wiser Sex
1965
Once Upon a Tractor
5/1
Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NYC and the UN as their destination. A short film di...
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Once Upon a Tractor
1932
The Broken Wing
5/3
In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lol...
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The Broken Wing
1974
The Death Squad
7/3
When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals...
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The Death Squad
1967
The Crucible
3.5/2
Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
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The Crucible
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5/3
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.8/35
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1939
From the Ends of the Earth
0/0
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at t...
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From the Ends of the Earth
1990
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
9/3
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed comm...
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
8/3
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1933
Nagana
0/0
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
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Nagana
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
6.3/3
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1939
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
6/0
The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars.
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Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
1939
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
4/1
Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomos...
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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1959
Judgment at Nuremberg
0/0
Judgment at Nuremberg is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was a co...
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