 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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Behind Office Doors 1931  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Melville W. Brown
Cast: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Kitty Kelly, Edna Murphy, Catherine Dale Owen, Charles Sellon, William Morris, George Irving, Lon Poff
A secretary, Mary (Mary Astor), is the force behind the company president (Robert Ames) and is the real reason he has achieved such success. She is taken for granted, and so, finally, Mary becomes romantically attached to another executive, which forces the president to look at her in a different way.
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Bluebeard 1944 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stossel, Iris Adrian, George Pembroke, Teala Loring, Sonia Sorel, Henry Kolker, Emmett Lynn, Patti McCarty, Frank Darien, George Irving
John Carradine is at his spooky best as he plays deranged killer Gaston Morel, a deranged killer of beautiful women. Morel is an artist who picks up models, paints their pictures, and then kills them. He meets his match in a clever young woman (Jean Parker) who learns about Morel's crimes and is determined to bring him to justice.
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 Bright Eyes 1934  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell, Judith Allen, Lois Wilson, Charles Sellon, Jane Withers, Theodore von Eltz, Brandon Hurst, George Irving
Shirley Blake (Shirley Temple) is orphaned, and a custody battle ensues. This is the film in which Shirley Temple sang "On the Good Ship Lollipop."
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 Bringing Up Baby 1938  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Catlett, Fritz Feld, George Irving, Tala Birell, Virginia Walker, John Kelly, Leona Roberts, Ward Bond, Jack Carson
This is the movie classic in which Katharine Hepburn plays socialite Susan Vance who is raising a pet leopard, "Baby." Cary Grant takes on the role of a perfect foil as paleontologist David Huxley who is already engaged to be married to Miss Swallow (Virginia Walker), but he finds himself joining Susan in a hunt for the missing "Baby" and a priceless dinosaur bone–and, along the way, falling in love with Susan. A classy, hilarious comedy that remains timeless.
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Broken Lullaby 1932 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Man I Killed
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter, Tom Douglas, Emma Dunn, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Zasu Pitts, Frank Sheridan, George Bickel, George Irving, Lillian Elliott
A French soldier Paul Renaud (Phillip Holmes) kills enemy soldier Walter Holderlin (Tom Douglas) during a World War I battle. While trying to make it up to the dead man's parents (Lionel Barrymore and Loiuse Carter), he meets Walter's fiancee Elsa (Nancy Carroll) and falls in love with her. Well-told tale.
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Captain January 1936 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama
Director: David Butler
Cast: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, June Lang, Buddy Ebsen, Sara Haden, Jane Darwell, Nella Walker, Si Jenks, George Irving
After surviving a shipwreck, Star (Shirley Temple) is rescued by lighthouse-keeper Captain January (Guy Kibbee) and takes up a new life among the seafarers.
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 Charlie Chan at the Race Track 1936 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Comedy / Thriller
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart, Gavin Muir, Paul Fix, Jonathan Hale, George Irving, Frankie Darro, Gloria Roy, G.P. Huntley, Frank Coghlan Jr., Harry Strang, Holmes Herbett
Charlie Chan's (Warner Oland), racehorse owner friend, Major Kent (George Irving), is found dead in the stall of his championship horse while traveling via steamship from Australia to California. The ship stops at Hawaii, Charlie investigates, and determines that Kent's death was murder. With help from his son Lee (Keye Luke), Charlie uncovers an international gambling ring involved in the drugging of racehorses to fix races.
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Charlie Chan in Egypt 1935 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Louis King
Cast: Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Hayworth, Stepin Fetchit, Frank Conroy, Nigel De Brulier, Paul Porcasi, John Davidson, Jameson Thomas, Arthur Stone, James Eagles, Frank Reicher, George Irving, Anita Brown
Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is hired by a French museum to find out what is going on when crooks sell valuable Egyptian artifacts on the open market. When Chan arrives in Egypt, he finds mummy wrappings covering the body of a murdered archaeologist. Another murder occurs, but Chan, of course, does solve the mystery. Featured in this film is a very young Rita Cansino–soon to change her name to Rita Hayworth.
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Dangerous 1935 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge, Dick Foran, Pierre Watkin, Milton Kibbee, George Irving, Mary Treen
Bette Davis won the Oscar for her role as alcoholic ex-star Joyce Heath in this fair movie. Obviously, she is the highlight and makes it worth watching.
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Dishonored 1931 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland, Lew Cody, Barry Norton, Davison Clark, Wilfred Lucas, Bill Powell, George Irving, Joseph W. Girard, William B. Davidson
Magda (Marlene Dietrich) takes on the role of spy X-27 working for the Austrian Secret Service during World War I. She succeeds in her first assignment of tracking down information on Austrian Col. von Hindau (Warner Oland), and he commits suicide. On her next assignment, she falls in love with Lt. Kranau and allows him to escape. When her actions are uncovered, X-27 is caught and sentenced to execution. Problems arise at the execution when the Court Martial officer (Barry Norton) says that he cannot shoot a woman. There is a short respite followed ultimately by her execution.
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The Divorcee 1930 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge, Helene Millard, Robert Elliott, Mary Doran, Tyler Brooke, George Irving, Zelda Sears, Judith Wood, Theodor Von Eltz
Shortly after their whirlwind courtship and marriage, Jerry (Norma Shearer) discovers that her husband Ted (Chester Morris) is having an affair with Janice (Mary Doran). Jerry's solution is to kick Ted out of her bed and sleep with Ted's best friend Don (Robert Montgomery). Now, other lovers become part of Jerry's life until she finally returns to Ted and all is forgiven. While this film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing, it was Norma Shearer who walked away with the Oscar for Best Actress for 1929/30.
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A Free Soul 1931 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, Leslie Howard, Clark Gable, James Gleason, Lucy Beaumont, Claire Whitney, Frank Sheridan, Edward Brophy, George Irving, Roscoe Ates, Bess Flowers, James Donlan, Henry Hall, Lee Phelps
Lionel Barrymore won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the boozing lawyer, Stephen Ashe, whose daughter (Norma Shearer) becomes part of a romantic triangle with gangster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable) and her fiance, Dwight Winthrop (Leslie Howard). This film was later remade as "The Girl Who Had Everything."
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Hearts in Bondage 1936 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Ayres
Cast: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Charlotte Henry, Henry B. Walthall, Fritz Leiber, George Irving, Irving Pichel, J.M. Kerrigan, Frank McGlynn Sr., Ben Alexander, Oscar Apfel, Clay Clement, Edward Gargan
During the Civil War, a Union naval officer, Lieutenant Kenneth Reynolds (James Dunn), is stripped of his commission after he sinks, instead of obeying orders by Confederate forces to set fire to his ship, the Merrimac. Later, the Confederates raise the Merrimac and restore it. Meanwhile, Reynolds is reinstated and serves on the Monitor during which time he is involved in the historic battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac.
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The Mandarin Mystery 1936  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Ralph Staub
Cast: Eddie Quillan, Charlotte Henry, Rita La Roy, Wade Boteler, Franklin Pangborn, George Irving, Kay Hughes, William Newell, George Walcott, Edwin Stanley, Edgar Allen, Bert Roach
The popular hero of mystery novels, Ellery Queen, is brought to the screen with Eddie Quillan in the role of the sleuth. He sets out to recover a valuable Mandarin stamp that has been stolen and to solve murders that occurred during the heist. Even though Quillan had the same initials as Ellery Queen, he just didn't seem to fit the role–especially when the film was played more for laughs than for the mystery. No further Ellery Queen films were made until four years later.
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Manhattan Love Song 1934 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leonard Fields
Cast: Robert Armstrong, Dixie Lee, Nydia Westman, Helen Flint, Franklin Pangborn, Cecil Cunningham, Harold Waldridge, Herman Bing, Harrison Greene, George Irving, Emmett Vogan, Eddie Dean
Geraldine (Dixie Lee) and Carol (Helen Flint) are wealthy sisters who are in for a shock when they find that a crooked investor has lost their money. Their chauffeur, Williams (Robert Armstrong), and the maid, Annette (Nydai Westman), have enough money to buy the sisters' home, and the sisters reverse roles with them and become their servants.
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Merrily We Go to Hell 1932 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Cast: Fredric March, Sylvia Sidney, Adrienne Allen, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Kent Taylor, Cary Grant, George Irving, Esther Howard, Florence Britton, Charles Coleman, Harry Cording, Edwin Maxwell, Dennis O'Keefe, Harry Strang, Theresa Harris
A young heiress, Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney), marries dashing reporter Jerry Corbett (Fredric March) and–too late–discovers his problem with alcohol. Adding to the problem is Claire (Adrienne Allen) who has her eyes set on Jerry and works to get him away from Joan. Joan gets fed up, leaves Jerry, and returns to her father's (George Irving) home. Now, Joan learns that she is pregnant, and Jerry, meanwhile, dumps Claire when he realizes that he really loves Joan. Love does conquer all of the problems, and Jerry swears off alcohol in order to build a life together with Joan.
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The Oil Raider 1934 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Gloria Shea, George Irving, Max Wagner, Emmett Vogan, Harold Minjir, Hal Taliaferro, Tom London, Tetsu Komai, Chuck Morrison
Dave Warren's (Buster Crabbe) crew is drilling for oil in Oak Glenn Basin when they run into trouble caused by the corrupt financier, J.T. Varley (George Irving), who is plotting to delay drilling so that he can foreclose on the loan for the oil rig.
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Private Number 1936 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, Patsy Kelly, Basil Rathbone, Paul Harvey, Monroe Owsley, George Irving, John Miljan, Jane Darwell, Marjorie Gateson, Joe E. Lewis
Richard Winfield (Robert Taylor) falls in love with, and marries, his mother's household servant, Ellen (Loretta Young). Then, to protect the family's social status, they keep the marriage secret.
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 Son of Dracula 1943 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Louise Allbritton, Robert Paige, Evelyn Ankers, Pat Moriarity, Frank Craven, J. Edward Bromberg, Samuel S. Hinds, Etta McDaniel, George Irving
Lon Chaney Jr. plays a mean Count Alucard–DRACULA spelled backwards. He marries Katherine Caldwell (Louise Allbritton), but their extracurricular activities are doomed from the start because her ex-fiance, Frank Stanley (Robert Paige), hovers nearby.
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The Spoilers 1930  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Western / Action
Director: Edwin Carewe
Cast: Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson, William "Stage" Boyd, Oscar Apfel, James Kirkwood, Slim Summerville, Harry Green, Lloyd Ingraham, George Irving, Knute Erickson, Merrill McCormick, John Beck, Jack Holmes, Charles K. French
In this early Western film, gold prospector Roy Glenister (Gary Cooper) meets and falls in love with Helen (Kay Johnson) while voyaging to the Yukon. When Glenister arrives in Alaska, his partners Slapjack Simms and Joe Dextry (Slim Summerville and James Kirkwood) inform him that they are in danger of losing their mine because U.S. marshal Voorhees (Jack Holmes), Judge Stillman (Lloyd Ingraham), and politician Alec McNamara (William "Stage" Boyd) are conspiring to gain ownership of the mines in the area. Helen suggests that they take the matter to court, but that turns out to be impossible. Finally, Glenister takes matters into his own hands and whips McNamara in a powerful fistfight. 1 User Review
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| | orlalobo1 01/30/2007 | i would be happy to rate this movie if i could ever see it. i am 65 & this is the only
gary cooper movie i have never(of sound pictures). why isn't it ever shown on
tv or out on dvd. i like the john wayne version but i really want to see the 1930 version with gary cooper.
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Streets of New York 1939 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Abe Lincoln of Ninth Avenue
Director: William Nigh
Cast: Jackie Cooper, Martin Spellman, Sidney Miller, Buddy Pepper, Bobby Stone, David Durand, Dick Purcell, Marjorie Reynolds, George Cleveland, Robert Emmett O'Connor, George Irving, Robert Emmett Keane
Idealist Jimmy Keenan (Jackie Cooper) attends law school at night and works at a NYC newspaper stand by day. When the mob demands a piece of the action, Jimmy and his young friend, Gimpy (Martin Spellman), fight back.
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Wanderer of the Wasteland 1924 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Irvin Willat
Cast: Jack Holt, Noah Beery, George Irving, Kathlyn Williams, Billie Dove, Jim Mason, Richard Neill, James Gordon, William A. Carroll, Willard Cooley
Based on a Zane Grey novel, this is the story of Adam Larey (Jack Holt) who confronts his younger brother, Guerd (Jim Mason), concerning his gambling. When his brother is accidentally shot, Adam flees into the wasteland. Upon finding that his brother was only wounded, Adam returns to both his brother and his girlfriend, Ruth (Billie Dove). This was the first Technicolor Western.
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You're Telling Me 1934 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter, Kathleen Howard, Dell Henderson, Robert McKenzie, George Irving, Nora Cecil, Tammany Young, James B. "Pop" Kenton, Don Brodie, Eric Mayne, George MacQuarrie
W.C. Fields develops the complicated character of Sam Bisbee, an eccentric inventor, in this vintage film made great by Fields' acting and comedy skills. Sam has become nothing more than a joke in his town because of his inability to sell his inventions. But, when he meets Princess Lescaboura (Adrienne Ames) and tells her how he wants to market his inventions as the means to aid his family, Princess Lescaboura steps in. She tells the townsfolk how much she admires Sam, and Sam rises to new heights among the town's citizens and finally earns their respect.
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| 1. 42nd Street (1933)
2. Behind Office Doors (1931)
3. Bluebeard (1944)
4. Bright Eyes (1934)
5. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
6. Broken Lullaby (1932)
aka: The Man I Killed
7. Captain January (1936)
8. Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
9. Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)
10. Coquette (1929)
11. Dangerous (1935)
12. Dishonored (1931)
13. The Divorcee (1930)
14. A Free Soul (1931)
15. Hearts in Bondage (1936)
16. The Mandarin Mystery (1936)
17. Manhattan Love Song (1934)
18. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
19. The Oil Raider (1934)
20. Private Number (1936)
21. Son of Dracula (1943)
22. The Spoilers (1930)
23. Streets of New York (1939)
aka: The Abe Lincoln of Ninth Avenue
24. Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924)
25. You're Telling Me (1934)
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