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Body and Soul   1931     2 stars    N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Charles Farrell, Elissa Landi, Humphrey Bogart, Myrna Loy, Don Dillaway, Crauford Kent, Pat Somerset, Ian Maclaren

  Believing Carla (Elissa Landi) to be his friend Jim's (Humphrey Bogart) lover, Mal Andrews (Charles Farrell) meets with Carla to tell her of Jim's death in military action.

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Breakfast for Two   1937     2 and a half stars    N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore, Frank M. Thomas, Donald Meek

  A Texas heiress, Valentine Ransom (Barbara Stanwyck), and a playboy, Jonathan Blair (Herbert Marshall), enjoy an on-again off-again romance because of their differences in life styles, but by the end of the story they live happily ever after.

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Cocoanut Grove   1938     1 and a half stars    N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Harriet Hilliard, Ben Blue, Rufe Davis, Billy Lee, Eve Arden, Yacht Club Boys

  Johnny Prentice (Fred MacMurray) and his band audition at the famous Cocoanut Grove nightclub.

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A Feather in Her Hat   1935     2 stars    N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Pauline Lord, Louis Hayward, Basil Rathbone, Billie Burke, Wendy Barrie, Thurston Hall, J.M. Kerrigan, David Niven, Victor Varconi, Nydia Westman

  In an attempt to ensure her son (Louis Hayward) a better chance in life, Clarissa Phipps (Pauline Lord) falsifies his identity to make it appear that he did not come from a humble heritage.

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The Hairy Ape   1944     2 stars    N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: William Bendix, Susan Hayward, John Loder, Alan Napier, Dorothy Comingore, Eddie Kane

  A wealthy woman traveler on a luxury liner meets an animal-like crewman and, while attracted to him, is scornful of his lack of breeding. From a Eugene O'Neill play.


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Internes Can't Take Money   1937     2 and a half stars    N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: You Can't Take Money

Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan, Stanley Ridges, Lee Bowman, Irving Bacon, Steve Pendleton, Pierre Watkin, Charles(2) Lane, Fay Holden

  In this, the first in a series of Dr. Kildare stories, a young intern (Joel McCrea) helps a woman (Barbara Stanwyck) find and retrieve her missing daughter.

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Jack London   1943     1 star    N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Adventures of Jack London
The Life of Jack London

Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen, Harry Davenport, Frank Craven, Virginia Mayo, Ralph Morgan, Louise Beavers, Jonathan Hale, Leonard Strong

  Fiction reigns in this loosely based biography of American author Jack London. This is a disappointing film that wastes potential talent.

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The Life of Vergie Winters   1934     2 and a half stars    N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Ann Harding, John Boles, Helen Vinson, Betty Furness, Frank Albertson, Lon Chaney Jr., Ben Alexander, Donald Crisp, Walter Brennan, Sara Haden

  Based on Louis Bromfield's novel, this is the story of a woman (Ann Harding) who rises above petty gossip and makes a go of her life. A handkerchief may be needed for some.

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Our Leading Citizen   1939     2 stars    N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Bob Burns, Susan Hayward, Joseph Allen, Gene Lockhart, Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Patterson, Clarence Kolb, Paul Guilfoyle, Fay Helm, Kathleen Lockhart

  A young lawyer, Clay (Joseph Allen), returns to his hometown to work with his deceased father's partner, Lem (Bob Burns). Lem's daughter, Judith (Susan Hayward), and Clay hit it off, but when he starts representing a factory owner who suppresses his workers for the sake of more money for himself, problems loom on the horizon.

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People Will Talk   1935     1 and a half stars    N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Leila Hyams, Dean Jagger, Ruthelma Stevens, Edward Brophy, Stanley Andrews, Cecil Cunningham, Jack Mulhall, Sam Flint

  Parents lovingly interfere in their daughter's marriage to get things back the way they were.

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Polly of the Circus   1932     2 stars    N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hatton, David Landau, Maude Eburne, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Ray Milland, Ruth Selwyn, Lillian Elliott

  When a very-proper minister, The Reverend John Hartley (Clark Gable), marries a circus performer, Polly (Marion Davies), problems from his superiors are inevitable.

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Winterset   1936     2 and a half stars    N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Santell  
Cast: Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Paul Guilfoyle, John Carradine, Maurice Moscovitch, Edward Ellis, Stanley Ridges, Mischa Auer, Willard Robertson, Myron McCormick, Helen Jerome Eddy

  Based on Maxwell Anderson's Broadway play–and bringing Burgess Meredith, Margo, and Eduardo Ciannelli to the screen to recreate their Broadway roles–this film is a fictionalized account of the famous Sacco/Vanzetti case. Fifteen years after his father (John Carradine) was found guilty of murder and executed, his son (Burgess Meredith) sets out to prove his father's innocence. This is Burgess Meredith's film debut. Look for a young Lucille Ball.


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Movie Quick Pick
1. Body and Soul (1931)
2. Breakfast for Two (1937)
3. Cocoanut Grove (1938)
4. A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
5. The Hairy Ape (1944)
6. Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
   aka: You Can't Take Money
7. Jack London (1943)
   aka: The Adventures of Jack London
   aka: The Life of Jack London
8. The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
9. Our Leading Citizen (1939)
10. People Will Talk (1935)
11. Polly of the Circus (1932)
12. Winterset (1936)


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