Adam Had Four Sons 1941  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward, Fay Wray, Richard Denning, Robert "Buddy" Shaw, June Lockhart, Johnny Downs, Helen Westley, Clarence Muse
This is the Stoddard family saga covering 30 years in the early 20th century. Ingrid Bergman plays the governess who devotes herself to family service through all the trials and tribulations as well as the joys and successes.
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 All About Eve 1950  N/R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates, Walter Hampden, Randy Stuart, Craig Hill
This Oscar winner for Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (George Sanders), and three other awards tells the story of young actress Eve's (Anne Baxter) attempts to reach stardom without paying her dues by joining a group of famous Broadway types. A candid and humorous look at New York theater is the result. Bette Davis: "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride." The film also received eight other Oscar nominations including two for Best Actress (Bette Davis and Anne Baxter) and two for Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter). The 14 total nominations tied 1997's "Titanic" as the most received by any film.
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Black Magic 1949   N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Latimore, Valentina Cortese, Margot Grahame, Berry Kroeger, Gregory Gaye, Raymond Burr, Stephen Bekassy
Cagliostro (Orson Welles) uses his hypnotic powers in the 18th century for his own gains within the royal court. 1 User Review
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Cafe Metropole 1937 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Edward H. Griffith
Cast: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Charles Winninger, Helen Westley, Christian Rub, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Georges Renavent, Leonid Kinskey, Hal K. Dawson, Louis Mercier, Gino Corrado, Jules Raucourt, Paul Porcasi
Monsieur Victor (Adolphe Menjou) owns the Cafe Metropole, but he faces a prison term if he does not replace the money he has embezzled from the cafe. He thinks he has the money when he wins at the casino, and playboy Alexander Brown (Tyrone Power) gives him a check, but the check bounces. Now, Victor forces Alexander to pretend to be a Russian prince, "Alexis Penayev," and woo a wealthy American, Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young), so that they can use her money to pay off the debt. The courtship begins, Alexis and Laura fall in love, and then the real prince (Gregory Ratoff) makes himself known. Has Victor taken on more than he can handle?
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Exodus 1960  N/R, 210 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer, David Opatoshu, Jill Haworth, Marius Goring, Michael Wager, Alexandra Stewart
This is Leon Uris's story about the settling of a new Israel following World War II. In this well-produced historical film, Ari (Paul Newman) is a leader of the Jewish underground Hagannah. He commandeers a ship to bring 600 Jews into the newly partitioned Palestine just before the United Nations votes to make Palestine a Jewish state. Ari achieves victory, and now 30,000 more Jews relocate into the Holy Land. Sal Mineo received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. One other nomination was received, and the film won an Oscar for Best Cinematography.
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I Was an Adventuress 1940 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, Peter Lorre, Sig Ruman, Fritz Feld, Cora Witherspoon, Anthony Kemble-Cooper, Paul Porcasi, Roger Imhof
Tanya (Vera Zorina) is a member of a team of con-artists/jewel thieves. She decides to go straight after she meets the love of her life (Richard Greene), though he thinks she is a countess. The other two team members (Erich von Stroheim and Peter Lorre) don't like that and decide to interfere. Stroheim and Lorre are a great pair.
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Intermezzo, a Love Story 1939  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Intermezzo
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Cecil Kellaway, Ann E. Todd, Enid Bennett, Edward Fielding, Douglas Scott
In this great, but tragic, love story, Ingrid Bergman plays the piano accompanist and lover of a world-famous violinist (Leslie Howard) in their ill-fated romance. She played the same role three years earlier in the Swedish version; this was her first English-speaking film.
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Irish Eyes Are Smiling 1944 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Monty Woolley, June Haver, Dick Haymes, Anthony Quinn, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Veda Ann Borg, Clarence Kolb, Chick Chandler, Marion Martin, George Chandler
Eleven of his songs are highlighted in this sentimental biography of American composer Ernest R. Ball (Dick Haymes).
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 I'm No Angel 1933  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Kent Taylor, Gregory Ratoff, Ralf Harolde, Gertrude Michael, Russell Hopton, Hattie McDaniel, Nat Pendleton, Gertrude Howard
This is one of Mae West's best films. She plays a lion tamer in a sideshow who becomes entangled in an affair that results in a court case where she proves more than capable of providing her own defense.
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The Moon Is Blue 1953 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara, Tom Tully, Dawn Addams, Albert Bassermann, Fortunio Bonanova, Gregory Ratoff, Hardy Kruger, Johanna Matz
Considered risque when it was released in the 1950s, this is the story of a young woman, Polly (Maggie McNamara), who flaunts her virginity. Maggie received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
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Moss Rose 1947 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Peggy Cummins, Ethel Barrymore, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, George Zucco, Patricia Medina, Rhys Williams, Patrick O'Moore, Billy Bevan
Chorus girl Belle Adair (Peggy Cummins) uses blackmail as an entry into society to get Michael whose mother, Lady Margaret Drego (Ethel Barrymore), allows her selfish love for her son to cause two murders.
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Once in a Lifetime 1932 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Russell Mack
Cast: Jack Oakie, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, Russell Hopton, Zasu Pitts, Louise Fazenda, Gregory Ratoff, Onslow Stevens, Alan Ladd, Robert McWade
This film views Hollywood through the eyes of playwrights George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart who see the entire Hollywood scene as inane, especially when the talkies arrive on the scene.
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Once in Paris... 1978 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank D. Gilroy
Cast: Wayne Rogers, Gayle Hunnicutt, Jack Lenoir, Philippe March, Yul Brynner, Lillian Randolph, Robert Montgomery, Kay Kendall, Gregory Ratoff, Geoffrey Toone
An American screenwriter (Wayne Rogers) goes to Paris to work and, instead, falls in love with a beautiful British woman (Gayle Hunnicutt).
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Oscar Wilde 1960 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Neville, Ralph Richardson, Dennis Price, Alexander Knox, Edward Chapman, Martin Benson, Robert Harris, Henry Oscar
The famed libel trial of Oscar Wilde (Robert Morley) is depicted in this film, which was released at the same time as "The Trials of Oscar Wilde" with Peter Finch in the title role.
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Paris Underground 1945 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Madame Pimpernel
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields, George Rigaud, Kurt Kreuger, Charles Andre, Leslie Vincent, Eily Malyon, Vladimir Sokoloff, Gregory Gaye, Andrew V. McLaglen, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Richard Ryen
This film is based on the activities of Etta Shiber who, during World War II, used the Paris Underground system to help hundreds of allied aviators escape. Kitty and Emmeline (Constance Bennett and Gracie Fields) are trapped in Paris by the Nazi occupation forces. They become involved in helping allied aviators escape until they are captured and tortured. They are eventually rescued by an American soldier.
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The Road to Glory 1936 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang, Gregory Ratoff, Victor Kilian, Paul Stanton, John Qualen, Paul Fix, Julius Tannen
During World War I, a French regiment under the command of Captain La Roche (Warner Baxter) is in the midst of trench warfare, giving and taking one foot at a time. The heavy-drinking captain is in a love triangle involving his lieutenant (Fredric March) and a nurse (June Lang) when along comes his father (Lionel Barrymore), the oldest private, to join the regiment as a replacement. Based on a French film and co-written by William Faulkner.
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Seventh Heaven 1937 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Henry King
Cast: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, John Qualen, Victor Kilian, Sig Ruman, Thomas Beck, Georges Renavent, Mady Christians, Rafaela Ottiano, Rolo Lloyd, Edward Keane
Diane (Simone Simon) is exploited as a prostitute by her sister Nana (Gale Sondergaard) and then thrown out of the house. A Parisian sewer worker, Chico (James Stewart), rescues Diane, and she moves into his slum apartment. World War I breaks out just as Chico realizes that he is in love with Diane, but he is drafted and leaves for the front. Four years later, Chico, blinded during the war, returns to a loving Diane who is waiting for him.
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Sitting Pretty 1933 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Harry Joe Brown
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Thelma Todd, Gregory Ratoff, Lew Cody, Jerry Tucker, Hale Hamilton, Walter Walker, Kenneth Thomson
Struggling songwriters (Jack Oakie and Jack Haley) hit the big time in Hollywood.
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The Sun Also Rises 1957 N/R, 129 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert, Gregory Ratoff, Marcel Dalio, Robert Evans, Eduardo Noriega, Henry Daniell
This is an excellent rendition of Hemingway's classic story about the "Lost Generation" of expatriates who roamed Europe between the two World Wars. The plot revolves around an American writer (Tyrone Power) who suffers from impotence following the war.
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That Dangerous Age 1949 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: If This Be Sin
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Elizabeth Allan, George Curzon, Barry Jones, William Mervyn, Patrick Waddington
An illicit affair between Lady Cathy Brooke (Myrna Loy) and Michael Barclaigh (Richard Greene) becomes the subject of rumormongers when her husband (Roger Livesey) becomes ill.
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What Price Hollywood? 1932 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Brooks Benedict, Louise Beavers, Bryant Washburn, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Florence Roberts, Heinie Conklin
An alcoholic Hollywood producer, Maximilian Carey (Lowell Sherman), helps a waitress, Mary Evans (Constance Bennett), attain stardom and then sinks into his alcoholic abyss, which ends in suicide.
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| 1. Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
2. All About Eve (1950)
3. Black Magic (1949)
4. Cafe Metropole (1937)
5. Exodus (1960)
6. The Heat's On (1943)
aka: Tropicana
7. I Was an Adventuress (1940)
8. Intermezzo, a Love Story (1939)
aka: Intermezzo
9. Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
10. I'm No Angel (1933)
11. The Moon Is Blue (1953)
12. Moss Rose (1947)
13. Once in a Lifetime (1932)
14. Once in Paris... (1978)
15. Once More, with Feeling (1960)
16. Oscar Wilde (1960)
17. Paris Underground (1945)
aka: Madame Pimpernel
18. The Road to Glory (1936)
19. Seventh Heaven (1937)
20. Sitting Pretty (1933)
21. The Sun Also Rises (1957)
22. That Dangerous Age (1949)
aka: If This Be Sin
23. What Price Hollywood? (1932)
24. Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
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