 42nd Street 1933  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, George E. Stone, Allen Jenkins, Ned Sparks, Edward J. Nugent, Robert McWade, Louise Beavers, George Irving
Busby Berkeley's musical numbers highlight this entertaining film about what goes on behind the scenes of the Broadway musical show, "Pretty Lady." The show's director Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) is in poor health but wants to enjoy one more hit before he retires. When the show's temperamental star, Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) breaks her ankle on the night of the show's opening, chorus girl Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler) fills in and takes over the lead. Featured numbers include" "You're getting to Be a Habit with Me," "Shuffle off to Buffalo," and "42nd Street." The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
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The Affairs of Anatol 1921  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Bebe Daniels, Monte Blue, Theodore Roberts, Theodore Kosloff, Polly Moran, Raymond Hatton, William Boyd
Loose lifestyles following World War I are the subject of this film about a bored husband Anatol DeWitt Spencer (Wallace Reid) who has numerous affairs while his wife, Vivian (Gloria Swanson), finds a lover of her own.
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 Dixiana 1930  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Luther Reed
Cast: Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Joseph Cawthorn, Jobyna Howland, Dorothy Lee, Ralf Harolde, Bill Robinson, Eddy Chandler, Eugene Jackson, Robert Livingston
The popular comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey star as Peewee and Gaylord bringing comedy relief to this musical starring Bebe Daniels as their sister who is about to marry a wealthy Southern plantation heir (Everett Marshall).
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Male and Female 1919 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Mildred Reardon, Bebe Daniels, Robert Cain, Julia Faye, Rhy Darby
Members of a shipwreck survive because they forget class distinctions and work as a unit; however, when they finally return to England all the old biases return. Watch for the scene in which a lion's paw rests on a woman's shoulder–one of the most memorable of Cecil B. DeMille's scenes.
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 The Maltese Falcon 1931 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Dangerous Female
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Bebe Daniels, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, J. Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel, Thelma Todd, Walter Long, Dwight Frye
Although not as popular as the Humphrey Bogart version 10 years later, this first (of three) filming of Dashiell Hammett's story, is good. Private Eye Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) takes a case for Ruth (Bebe Daniels), whose sister is missing. Ultimately, it becomes a case of looking for a valuable statuette (with others also in pursuit) and pursuing the murderer of his partner. The 1936 version is titled "Satan Met a Lady."
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Monsieur Beaucaire 1924 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Sidney Olcott
Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lowell Sherman, Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon, John Davidson, Ian Maclaren, Paulette Duval, Oswald Yorke, Flora Finch
The Duc de Chartres (Rudolph Valentino) experiences adventures in London during his temporary banishment form King Louis XV court.
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Reaching for the Moon 1931 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels, Edward Everett Horton, Jack Mulhall, Claud Allister, Walter Walker, June MacCloy, Helen Jerome Eddy, Bing Crosby
Millionaire Larry Day (Douglas Fairbanks) takes lessons from his valet, Roger (Edward Everett Horton), on how to appeal to women and then follows beautiful Vivien (Bebe Daniels) on an ocean cruise where he woos and then marries her. Just when Larry believes he has found true happiness, the stock market crashes. Larry loses his fortune, but will he also lose Vivien? Watch for Bing Crosby who croons "Low Down" while entertaining in the ballroom aboard ship.
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Why Change Your Wife? 1920 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff, Sylvia Ashton, Clarence Geldart, Mayme Kelso, Lucien Littlefield, Edna Mae Cooper, Jane Wolfe, William Boyd
Robert (Thomas Meighan) divorces his wife, Beth (Gloria Swanson), for another woman (Bebe Daniels) only to fall in love with Beth again at a summer resort.
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World of Comedy 1962 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Documentary
aka: Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy
Director: Harold Lloyd
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Mildred Davis
This film represents the compilation of Harold Lloyd's silent comedies and includes "Safety Last" (1923), "Hot Water" (1924), "Girl Shy" (1924), and "The Kid Brother" (1924). Also included are scenes from Lloyd's talkies and include "Movie Crazy (1932) and "Feet First" (1930). Assembled by Lloyd himself, the scenes provide good viewing.
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| 1. 42nd Street (1933)
2. The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
3. Dixiana (1930)
4. Male and Female (1919)
5. The Maltese Falcon (1931)
aka: Dangerous Female
6. Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
7. Reaching for the Moon (1931)
8. Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
9. World of Comedy (1962)
aka: Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy
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