
Una Merkel
Southerner Una Merkel was a popular American stage, screen, and television actress. In movies, while often cast as the female lead, she more typically appeared in prominent supporting roles.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.86 |
Birthday | 1903-12-10 |
Place of Birth | Covington, Kentucky, USA |
Also Known As | Una Kohnfelder, |

1940

The Bank Dick
6.5/118
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank gu...
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The Bank Dick

1933

42nd Street
6.9/184
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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42nd Street

1941

Road to Zanzibar
6.323/31
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
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Road to Zanzibar

1930

The Bat Whispers
6.3/27
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the...
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The Bat Whispers

1931

The Maltese Falcon
6.4/47
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette kno...
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The Maltese Falcon

1939

On Borrowed Time
7.5/23
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future...
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On Borrowed Time

1934

The Cat's-Paw
6.2/18
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as...
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The Cat's-Paw

1942

The Mad Doctor of Market Street
5.2/19
A fugitive doctor tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.
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The Mad Doctor of Market Street

1956

Bundle of Joy
6.4/16
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' so...
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Bundle of Joy

1959

The Mating Game
5.9/12
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to...
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The Mating Game

1943

This Is the Army
5.7/21
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son...
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This Is the Army

1939

Destry Rides Again
7.2/166
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

1933

Bombshell
6.5/52
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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Bombshell

1936

Born to Dance
6.1/26
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broad...
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Born to Dance

1934

The Merry Widow
6.745/55
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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The Merry Widow

1935

Broadway Melody of 1936
6.4/21
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is t...
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Broadway Melody of 1936

1937

Saratoga
6.3/17
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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Saratoga

1955

The Kentuckian
5.7/49
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
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The Kentuckian

1952

With a Song in My Heart
5.9/15
Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane'...
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With a Song in My Heart

1953

I Love Melvin
6.2/24
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and...
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I Love Melvin

1961

The Parent Trap
7.024/379
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their...
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The Parent Trap

1933

Midnight Mary
6.9/21
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affa...
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Midnight Mary

1934

Evelyn Prentice
6.6/27
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
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Evelyn Prentice

1956

The Kettles in the Ozarks
6.4/4
Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootlegger...
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The Kettles in the Ozarks

1932

Man Wanted
5.5/9
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
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Man Wanted

1961

Summer and Smoke
6.7/25
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
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Summer and Smoke

1933

The Women in His Life
4/4
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
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The Women in His Life

1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche
4/4
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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The Secret of Madame Blanche

1932

Red-Headed Woman
6.6/46
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force so...
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Red-Headed Woman

1932

They Call It Sin
5.8/10
An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a c...
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They Call It Sin

1936

Riffraff
5/13
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him an...
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Riffraff

1937

Don't Tell the Wife
0/0
After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless...
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Don't Tell the Wife

1931

Private Lives
6.3/16
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arriv...
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Private Lives

1948

The Bride Goes Wild
6/5
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and ha...
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The Bride Goes Wild

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

1939

Four Girls in White
6.3/3
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Four Girls in White

1951

Rich, Young and Pretty
5.6/8
A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.
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Rich, Young and Pretty

1937

True Confession
5.8/20
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she...
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True Confession

1948

The Man from Texas
6/1
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suff...
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The Man from Texas

1930

Abraham Lincoln
5.4/36
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early ye...
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Abraham Lincoln

1957

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
6/10
When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her film “The Kidnapped Bride”, everyone thinks it's a pu...
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The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

1939

Some Like It Hot
7.2/5
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggl...
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Some Like It Hot

1932

The Impatient Maiden
0/0
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
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The Impatient Maiden

1933

Clear All Wires!
6.5/2
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being r...
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Clear All Wires!

1947

It's a Joke, Son!
6.9/8
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merke...
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It's a Joke, Son!

1935

Biography of a Bachelor Girl
6.3/3
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeki...
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl

1933

Menu
5.2/11
A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
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Menu

1933

Day of Reckoning
5/6
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-r...
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Day of Reckoning

1934

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
5.3/10
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisti...
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

1931

Wicked
4.667/3
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
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Wicked

1952

The Merry Widow
5.8/9
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Mars...
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The Merry Widow

1951

A Millionaire for Christy
6.4/5
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's i...
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A Millionaire for Christy

1933

Whistling in the Dark
5.6/5
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.
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Whistling in the Dark

1933

Beauty for Sale
7/5
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of...
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Beauty for Sale

1951

Golden Girl
5.5/4
Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popul...
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Golden Girl

1933

Reunion in Vienna
6.8/4
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).
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Reunion in Vienna

1932

Huddle
6.6/5
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...
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Huddle

1936

Speed
5.8/8
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane...
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Speed

1935

The Night Is Young
5/2
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with balle...
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The Night Is Young

1935

One New York Night
0/0
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, a...
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One New York Night

1934

Have a Heart
7/2
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanim...
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Have a Heart

1931

Daddy Long Legs
4/3
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds h...
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Daddy Long Legs

1934

This Side of Heaven
7/5
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
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This Side of Heaven

1934

Murder in the Private Car
5.4/12
Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daug...
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Murder in the Private Car

1933

Her First Mate
0/0
A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
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Her First Mate

1932

She Wanted a Millionaire
0/0
Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to...
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She Wanted a Millionaire

1931

Six Cylinder Love
0/0
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.
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Six Cylinder Love

1963

Summer Magic
6.685/46
Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up...
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Summer Magic

1936

We Went to College
3/2
Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.
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We Went to College

1950

My Blue Heaven
7/3
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on e...
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My Blue Heaven

1935

Murder in the Fleet
5/2
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of te...
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Murder in the Fleet

1958

The Girl Most Likely
3.7/4
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing de...
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The Girl Most Likely

1935

Baby Face Harrington
4.8/5
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No....
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Baby Face Harrington

1932

Men Are Such Fools
0/0
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is...
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Men Are Such Fools

1931

Don't Bet on Women
4.2/5
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert...
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Don't Bet on Women

1950

Emergency Wedding
5.5/2
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients....
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Emergency Wedding

1934

Paris Interlude
3.5/4
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
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Paris Interlude

1931

Command Performance
4.1/4
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance t...
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Command Performance

1941

Cracked Nuts
0/0
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked att...
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Cracked Nuts

1933

Broadway to Hollywood
4.6/5
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
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Broadway to Hollywood

1931

The Secret Witness
3/2
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor belie...
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The Secret Witness

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

1935

It's in the Air
5/2
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, bu...
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It's in the Air

1950

Kill the Umpire
6.333/6
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Ev...
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Kill the Umpire

1937

The Good Old Soak
0/0
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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The Good Old Soak

1944

Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
4/2
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.

1964

A Tiger Walks
5.7/13
A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and eve...
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A Tiger Walks

1966

Spinout
5.6/37
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
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Spinout

1944

To Heir Is Human
0/0
Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance.
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To Heir Is Human

1994

That's Entertainment! III
6.9/35
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

1942

Twin Beds
2.7/3
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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Twin Beds

1943

Quack Service
0/0
Una and Gwen get jobs as process servers, and are assigned to serve papers on a prominent local doctor.
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Quack Service

1938

Hollywood Goes to Town
7/3
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which h...
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Hollywood Goes to Town

1940

Sandy Gets Her Man
4/1
A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.
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Sandy Gets Her Man

1937

Checkers
0/0
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
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Checkers

1940

Comin' Round the Mountain
0/0
A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.
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Comin' Round the Mountain

1988

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6/1
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1985

That's Dancing!
7/18
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30...
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That's Dancing!

1930

The Eyes of the World
0/0
The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film star...
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The Eyes of the World

1931

The Bargain
0/0
A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.
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The Bargain

1958

Aladdin
0/0
Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television.
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