Virginia Brissac
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Virginia Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979) was an American stage and film actress. With her stern features, she often played schoolteachers and other authority figures. Her film career began in 1913 with two short films and ended with Rebel Without a Cause (1955), playing grandmother to the character that James Dean portrayed.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.77 |
Birthday | 1883-06-10 |
Place of Birth | San Jose, California, USA |
Also Known As | Virginia Alice Brisac, |
1955
Rebel Without a Cause
7.5/1574
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems...
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Rebel Without a Cause
1947
Monsieur Verdoux
7.745/404
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his wo...
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Monsieur Verdoux
1942
Lady Gangster
5.75/18
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money fro...
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Lady Gangster
1939
Dark Victory
7/134
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love w...
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Dark Victory
1951
Two of a Kind
6.7/12
Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son. Brandy...
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Two of a Kind
1942
The Mummy's Tomb
5.688/64
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian...
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The Mummy's Tomb
1950
Edge of Doom
5.9/18
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
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Edge of Doom
1940
Remember the Night
7.4/96
When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blo...
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Remember the Night
1941
Dressed to Kill
6.3/20
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
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Dressed to Kill
1945
Bewitched
5.3/20
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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Bewitched
1940
The Ghost Breakers
6.443/70
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning he...
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The Ghost Breakers
1941
The Little Foxes
7.479/165
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
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The Little Foxes
1939
Destry Rides Again
7.1/156
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into...
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Destry Rides Again
1944
Phantom Lady
7.038/120
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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Phantom Lady
1948
The Snake Pit
7.026/98
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions an...
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The Snake Pit
1946
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
4.3/11
Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrin...
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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
1945
The Scarlet Clue
5.9/21
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
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The Scarlet Clue
1942
The Big Shot
6.2/18
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunt...
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The Big Shot
1943
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
3.7/3
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
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The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1950
Harriet Craig
7.5/26
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
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Harriet Craig
1954
About Mrs. Leslie
7/5
A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.
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About Mrs. Leslie
1953
The Bandits of Corsica
5.8/3
Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.
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The Bandits of Corsica
1945
Three's a Crowd
0/0
What would you do in this house of fear... if you knew that your husband killed your former flame?
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Three's a Crowd
1946
The Mysterious Mr. M
3.8/2
An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is...
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The Mysterious Mr. M
1942
Lucky Jordan
6/3
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie...
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Lucky Jordan
1936
Three Godfathers
6.846/13
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Ar...
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Three Godfathers
1936
Down the Stretch
5.5/4
A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.
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Down the Stretch
1945
Why Girls Leave Home
5/5
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she...
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Why Girls Leave Home
1937
The Man in the Barn
5.3/6
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to surren...
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The Man in the Barn
1940
Little Old New York
4/5
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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Little Old New York
1941
Appointment for Love
5.2/4
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progress...
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Appointment for Love
1938
Delinquent Parents
8/1
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
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Delinquent Parents
1936
Murder by an Aristocrat
3/1
A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.
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Murder by an Aristocrat
1940
Chad Hanna
6/2
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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Chad Hanna
1951
Operation Pacific
6/49
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or n...
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Operation Pacific
1941
Washington Melodrama
5/4
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved...
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Washington Melodrama
1940
Strike Up the Band
6.2/23
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raisi...
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Strike Up the Band
1944
Together Again
5.4/9
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on an...
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Together Again
1940
Always a Bride
4.5/4
A young man wants to marry his sweetheart, but her parents will agree to their wedding only on one condition: he must run for mayor--and win. Comedy.
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Always a Bride
1937
Stolen Holiday
6.6/6
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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Stolen Holiday
1940
It's a Date
6.4/7
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 situ...
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It's a Date
1938
Young Dr. Kildare
6.5/8
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his k...
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Young Dr. Kildare
1936
The Big Noise
5/1
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half inte...
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The Big Noise
1949
Tension
6.771/48
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman,...
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Tension
1940
Hired Wife
6.8/4
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once t...
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Hired Wife
1940
Alias the Deacon
0/0
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
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Alias the Deacon
1937
Mountain Justice
5.5/2
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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Mountain Justice
1941
The Nurse's Secret
5/4
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
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The Nurse's Secret
1939
Jesse James
6.42/94
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Jesse James
1939
Wings of the Navy
6/5
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give...
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Wings of the Navy
1939
Young Mr. Lincoln
7.19/163
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first l...
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Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
A Child Is Born
6.5/3
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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A Child Is Born
1939
They Shall Have Music
5.9/7
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
1939
Invitation to Happiness
0/0
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
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Invitation to Happiness
1939
First Love
7.8/12
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's har...
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First Love
1939
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
4.9/7
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.
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The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1948
The Mating of Millie
6.8/9
Self-sufficient in life and successful in business, prim and proper Millie McGonigle wants just one more thing, a child. When she asks to adopt orphan...
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The Mating of Millie
1943
The Hard Way
6.6/19
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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The Hard Way
1940
Black Friday
6.076/46
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon,...
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Black Friday
1944
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
0/0
Country radio singers of the '40s appear in this tale about a lothario who poses as a professor to seduce coeds.
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Sing, Neighbor, Sing
1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
7.54/88
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1943
Shadow of a Doubt
7.522/997
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderf...
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Shadow of a Doubt
1937
The Adventurous Blonde
5.4/11
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fi...
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The Adventurous Blonde
1941
The Great Lie
6.852/44
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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The Great Lie
1948
The Untamed Breed
5/1
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday E...
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The Untamed Breed
1937
White Bondage
6/3
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
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White Bondage
1940
Little Orvie
7/1
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
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Little Orvie
1939
Parents on Trial
0/0
According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's Parents on Trial, wherein...
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Parents on Trial
1945
G.I. Honeymoon
0/0
In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their wedding night the husband is c...
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G.I. Honeymoon
1936
Two Against the World
5.8/8
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a...
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Two Against the World
1945
Captain Eddie
6/2
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the earl...
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Captain Eddie
1948
Three Daring Daughters
5.7/6
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Three Daring Daughters
1948
Summer Holiday
4.9/9
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the gi...
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Summer Holiday
1938
Gateway
6.5/3
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in h...
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Gateway
1940
All This, and Heaven Too
7.304/46
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philip...
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All This, and Heaven Too
1950
No Man of Her Own
6.9/42
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
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No Man of Her Own
1940
The House Across the Bay
5.3/13
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be s...
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The House Across the Bay
1940
Lady with Red Hair
6.5/6
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Lady with Red Hair
1940
Cinderella's Feller
0/0
The story of Cinderella with a children's cast.
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Cinderella's Feller
1948
An Act of Murder
6.7/20
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
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An Act of Murder
1942
Take a Letter, Darling
6.5/11
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end...
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Take a Letter, Darling
1944
Faces in the Fog
3/1
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the docto...
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Faces in the Fog
1942
Tough as They Come
0/0
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and t...
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Tough as They Come
1942
Mug Town
7/1
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys m...
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Mug Town
1948
Old Los Angeles
5.5/2
Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Republic "specials." The film is set during the earl...
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Old Los Angeles
1949
The Last Bandit
6/1
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are bei...
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The Last Bandit
1941
Bad Men of Missouri
5.6/5
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buyin...
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Bad Men of Missouri
1952
Woman of the North Country
4.5/2
In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are...
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Woman of the North Country
1941
They Died with Their Boots On
6.6/105
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains th...
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They Died with Their Boots On
1935
Honeymoon Limited
6/2
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
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Honeymoon Limited
1941
Remember the Day
6.8/4
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Da...
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Remember the Day
1939
I Stole a Million
6/1
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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I Stole a Million
1942
Get Hep to Love
4/1
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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Get Hep to Love
1937
The Bad Man of Brimstone
6/2
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
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The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937
Idol of the Crowds
4.8/3
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship...
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Idol of the Crowds
1940
If I Had My Way
6.4/5
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, alon...
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If I Had My Way
1936
Love Letters of a Star
0/0
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to m...
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Love Letters of a Star
1944
This Is the Life
5/2
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice tra...
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This Is the Life
1944
Marriage Is a Private Affair
5.2/3
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. With...
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
1947
Pursued
6.5/78
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely...
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Pursued
1953
Meet Me at the Fair
7/1
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions...
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Meet Me at the Fair
1954
Executive Suite
7.01/51
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
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Executive Suite
1941
One Foot in Heaven
6.6/17
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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One Foot in Heaven
1943
Moonlight in Vermont
6/1
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
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Moonlight in Vermont
1944
Song of the Open Road
0/0
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with...
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Song of the Open Road
1939
The Forgotten Woman
0/0
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
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The Forgotten Woman
1946
Sister Kenny
6.464/14
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validi...
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Sister Kenny
1937
Artists & Models
0/0
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
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Artists & Models
1946
Hot Cargo
0/0
Two discharged service men go to the redwood country in northern California to visit the family of a buddy killed in the war. There, they find the fam...
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Hot Cargo
1947
Captain from Castile
7.2/27
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to f...
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Captain from Castile
1947
Secret Beyond the Door...
6.442/138
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full...
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Secret Beyond the Door...
1939
Stop, Look and Love
5/1
Daughter has trouble holding onto boyfriends because of her critical mother until understanding father comes to her aid.
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Stop, Look and Love
1950
Cheaper by the Dozen
6.314/78
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and...
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Cheaper by the Dozen
1953
Fair Wind to Java
4.9/7
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vesse...
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