Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford launched a publicity campaign and built an image as a nationally known flapper by the end of the 1920s. By the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money. By the end of the 1930s, she was labeled "box office poison".
After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1955, she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company, through her marriage to company president Alfred Steele. After his death in 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forcibly retired in 1973. She continued acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s, when her performances became fewer; after the release of the horror film Trog in 1970, Crawford retired from the screen. Following a public appearance in 1974, after which unflattering photographs were published, Crawford withdrew from public life. She became more and more reclusive until her death in 1977.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.713 |
| Birthday | 1904-03-23 |
| Place of Birth | San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| Also Known As | Lucille Fay LeSueur, Lucille Le Sueur, Billie Cassin, Lucille Fay Le Sueur, |
1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
7.919/1035
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1945
Mildred Pierce
7.6/388
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Mildred Pierce
1947
Daisy Kenyon
6.7/47
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara....
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Daisy Kenyon
1947
Possessed
6.9/80
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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Possessed
1939
The Women
7.047/148
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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The Women
1967
The Karate Killers
4.9/13
International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret form...
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The Karate Killers
1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
5.708/24
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1938
Mannequin
6.1/19
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left beh...
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Mannequin
1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.631/379
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1949
It's a Great Feeling
5.9/27
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and...
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It's a Great Feeling
1943
Above Suspicion
6.4/29
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Above Suspicion
1954
Johnny Guitar
7.388/411
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Anothe...
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Johnny Guitar
1932
Grand Hotel
6.934/305
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Grand Hotel
1927
The Unknown
7.5/182
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really...
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The Unknown
1949
Flamingo Road
7/53
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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Flamingo Road
1947
Humoresque
7.1/58
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
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Humoresque
1941
A Woman's Face
7/63
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
1955
Queen Bee
6.5/31
A devilish Southern woman, married to a man who despises her, manages to manipulate those around her under the guise of being kind. But, when her sist...
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Queen Bee
1942
Reunion in France
6.6/17
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get hi...
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Reunion in France
1965
I Saw What You Did
6.208/65
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their tar...
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I Saw What You Did
1964
Strait-Jacket
6.6/119
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
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Strait-Jacket
1950
The Damned Don't Cry
7.1/57
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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The Damned Don't Cry
1928
Our Dancing Daughters
6.4/26
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
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Our Dancing Daughters
1967
Berserk!
5.545/44
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
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Berserk!
1956
Autumn Leaves
7/55
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
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Autumn Leaves
1932
Rain
6.8/46
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it in...
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Rain
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
1940
Susan and God
6.5/14
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
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Susan and God
1933
Dancing Lady
7/37
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get...
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Dancing Lady
1936
Love on the Run
6.4/15
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.
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Love on the Run
1969
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
0/0
Joan Crawford goes grocery shopping, in this short film for Pepsi-Cola.
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain
1934
Sadie McKee
6.8/21
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
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Sadie McKee
1970
Trog
4.4/39
Anthropologist Dr. Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte -- an Ice Age "missing link": half-caveman, half-ape -- in a local cave. Through medical e...
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Trog
1944
Hollywood Canteen
7.3/26
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club...
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Hollywood Canteen
1955
Female on the Beach
5.7/31
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn fin...
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Female on the Beach
2000
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
6.5/11
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subje...
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
1928
West Point
7.4/9
Arrogant and wise-cracking Brice Wayne enrolls at the United States Military Academy at West Point and adjusts to life as a plebe. He tries out for th...
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West Point
1934
Chained
6.8/16
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose inter...
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Chained
1952
Sudden Fear
7.282/126
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leadin...
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Sudden Fear
1940
Strange Cargo
7/51
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Strange Cargo
1931
Possessed
7.1/36
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer c...
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Possessed
1931
The Stolen Jools
5.589/28
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tubercu...
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The Stolen Jools
1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
6/18
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1941
When Ladies Meet
6.8/8
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces...
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When Ladies Meet
1959
The Best of Everything
6.4/34
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
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The Best of Everything
2017
Bette and Joan
0/0
Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archives to tell the story of one of Hollywood's greatest ever feuds - the rivalry between legendary actresses Bette...
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Bette and Joan
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
1963
The Caretakers
6.2/11
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
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The Caretakers
1952
This Woman Is Dangerous
5.7/21
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesi...
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This Woman Is Dangerous
1942
Joan Crawford's Home Movies
0/0
The private Joan Crawford fought as hard to create a normal family life as she did to establish her career. She forged her own path and to that end be...
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Joan Crawford's Home Movies
1931
Laughing Sinners
5.4/12
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation A...
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Laughing Sinners
1933
Today We Live
6.5/15
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
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Today We Live
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
1930
Montana Moon
4.6/11
A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.
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Montana Moon
1929
Our Modern Maidens
5.9/14
Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic appointment. Me...
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Our Modern Maidens
1928
Across to Singapore
6.8/11
While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their ret...
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Across to Singapore
1934
Forsaking All Others
6.4/17
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
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Forsaking All Others
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
5.2/12
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
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
1926
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
5.8/16
A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also ha...
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
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
1937
The Bride Wore Red
6.7/21
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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The Bride Wore Red
1935
No More Ladies
5.1/7
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
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No More Ladies
1951
Goodbye, My Fancy
5.9/9
Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if...
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Goodbye, My Fancy
1931
Dance, Fools, Dance
6.4/19
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter...
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Dance, Fools, Dance
1930
Our Blushing Brides
5.9/16
Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affecti...
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Our Blushing Brides
1953
Torch Song
6/22
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who ma...
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Torch Song
1969
Journey to the Unknown
0/0
TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas is Coming' (episode 1.3) and 'The Last Visitor' (e...
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Journey to the Unknown
1932
Letty Lynton
6.8/8
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with...
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Letty Lynton
1957
The Story of Esther Costello
6.9/11
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in I...
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The Story of Esther Costello
1925
Pretty Ladies
4.7/3
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One...
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Pretty Ladies
2012
The Shirley Eder Tapes
0/0
These tapes consist on two interviews and three phone conversations (recorded without the knowledge of the two actresses) between newspaper columnist...
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The Shirley Eder Tapes
1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
6/1
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1929
Untamed
5.8/7
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man...
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Untamed
1926
The Boob
5.7/11
To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
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The Boob
1927
Spring Fever
6.9/8
Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at an exclusive country club.
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Spring Fever
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1931
This Modern Age
6/10
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
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This Modern Age
1939
The Ice Follies of 1939
5.6/10
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home,...
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The Ice Follies of 1939
1935
I Live My Life
6.4/8
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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I Live My Life
1930
Paid
6.8/13
Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conv...
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Paid
2007
Girl 27
6.4/14
The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other u...
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Girl 27
1964
Della
7.2/5
Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Bar...
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Della
2011
Possessed
0/0
I had a strong, slightly illicit, urge to commandeer the original train sequence from the 1931 film Possessed and make it move in such a way as to giv...
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Possessed
2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
7/2
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film bo...
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2006
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
6/2
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
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42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
10/1
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
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
2006
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
7/1
An overview of the iconic actresses' legendary careers, as well as the rivalry that colored "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
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Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
2016
Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
0/0
Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale discuss the unique qualities of "Johnny Guitar," its lasting appeal and the influence...
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Johnny Guitar: A Western Like No Other
2016
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
0/0
Larry Ceplair, co-author of The Inquisition in Hollywood, and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein, a former member of the Communist Party, discu...
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Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
2016
Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
0/0
Critics Kent Jones, B. Ruby Rich, Joe McElhaney and Miriam Bale take a closer look at the feminist overtones in "Johnny Guitar."
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Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?
1928
Dream of Love
7/2
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years la...
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Dream of Love
1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
0/0
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and...
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1928
The Law of the Range
2.5/2
Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering "Solitaire Kid".
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The Law of the Range
1972
Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death
6/1
Joan Crawford plays a widow named Joan Fairchild who stumbles upon a group of ESP enthusiasts that decide to use their abilities to scare her to death...
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Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death
1925
The Circle
5.4/11
Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must d...
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The Circle
1929
The Duke Steps Out
5/1
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his ha...
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The Duke Steps Out
The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel
0/0
The Joan Crawford crime thriller, The Damned Don't Cry (1950), is the topic of discussion for various interviewees.
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The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel
1953
At Home with Joan Crawford
6.3/3
Actress Joan Crawford appears in this public service announcement asking the theatre audience to give generously to The Jimmy Fund, which supports can...
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At Home with Joan Crawford
1974
That's Entertainment!
7.2/59
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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That's Entertainment!
1927
Winners Of The Wilderness
7.5/2
During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
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Winners Of The Wilderness
1996
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
7.5/2
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. D...
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1927
Twelve Miles Out
6/1
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry s...
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Twelve Miles Out
1933
Fast Workers
5.3/6
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she...
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Fast Workers
1971
Journey to Murder
0/0
Television movie that consists of two episodes from the UK TV series Journey to the Unknown (1968): Do Me a Favor and Kill Me (1968) and The Killing B...
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Journey to Murder
1931
We're switching to Hollywood
4.8/4
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak...
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We're switching to Hollywood
2004
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
4.6/29
There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad...
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The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
1925
1925 Studio Tour
6.2/15
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
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1925 Studio Tour
1994
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
0/0
Share the magical memories - and see clips from her Oscar winning performances - in this profile of the "First Lady of the American screen."
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Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
1994
That's Entertainment! III
6.9/34
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G...
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That's Entertainment! III
1947
Through Many Windows
0/0
Joan Crawford appears in and narrates a Red Feather Community Chest charity appeal for movie-goers. She talks about how your contributions will help o...
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Through Many Windows
1928
Rose-Marie
5/1
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim K...
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Rose-Marie
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
1927
The Taxi Dancer
6.5/2
A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.
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The Taxi Dancer
1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.3/102
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy,...
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
Proud Flesh
6/2
The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but...
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Proud Flesh
1925
The Only Thing
2/1
Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution erupts and the king is assassinated. Chief revolut...
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The Only Thing
1926
The Merry Widow
6.8/34
When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is...
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The Merry Widow
1925
Lady of the Night
6/12
The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity but worlds apart in society: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the daug...
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Lady of the Night
1966
The Oscar
5.1/14
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the...
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The Oscar
1954
A Star Is Born World Premiere
8/2
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
1925
Sally, Irene and Mary
5.5/7
The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
1925
A Slave of Fashion
2/1
Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York. En route, she is involved in...
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A Slave of Fashion
1925
Old Clothes
3/1
Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love wit...
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Old Clothes
1946
Blow-Ups of 1946
6/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946.
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Blow-Ups of 1946
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
5.5/2
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1969
Night Gallery
7.1/18
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by...
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Night Gallery
2003
Complicated Women
6.7/11
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 fi...
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Complicated Women
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.8/34
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
1937
The Romance of Celluloid
7/2
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are...
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The Romance of Celluloid
1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
6.7/6
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a tal...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1928
Fashion News
5/1
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Fashion News
1964
How to Plan a Movie Murder
4/1
The writer, director and star of the 1964 horror film Strait-Jacket in a humorous featurette in which they plan "the perfect murder."
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How to Plan a Movie Murder
1969
Garbo
4/1
Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo.
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Garbo
1959
Woman on the Run
4/1
Pilot episode, directed by Dick Powell.
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Woman on the Run
2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
4.9/4
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines t...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
1965
The Love Goddesses
6.3/22
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry change...
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The Love Goddesses
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
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
7.5/12
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
6.97/50
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
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And the Oscar Goes To...
2007
Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy
0/0
One of America's best loved comedians, Tim Conway (The Carol Burnett Show, Mchale's Navy) is featured here in hilarious TV clips from the 1960s. Conwa...
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Tim Conway: Timeless Comedy
1926
Paris
7/2
The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.
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Paris
1927
The Understanding Heart
7/2
Two men in love with the same girl are trapped with her in a forest fire.
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The Understanding Heart
1928
Four Walls
7/2
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
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Four Walls
1937
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
5/1
A tour of Hollywood, featuring such star frequented spots as the Vendome, the Lakeside Golf Club, the West Side Tennis Club, the Santa Anita Racetrack...
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Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
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
1925
The Midshipman
6/1
Produced under the supervision of the U.S. Navy. James Randall, an upperclassman at the Naval Academy, falls in love with Patricia Lawrence, the siste...
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The Midshipman
2002
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
6.6/8
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as "mommie dearest....
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Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
2002
Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
0/0
A look back at the classic 1964 film of horror and suspense starring Joan Crawford as an axe-murderer just released from the mental hospital. Includes...
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Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
1968
This was the Mary
0/0
The final transatlantic crossing of the Queen Mary ocean liner.
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This was the Mary
2017
Spielberg
7.6/277
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
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