 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal, George Zucco, Terry Kilburn, Henry Stephenson, E.E. Clive, Arthur Hohl, Mary Gordon, Holmes Herbert, Mary Forbes, May Beatty, Frank Dawson, Peter Willes
Clever detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful cohort, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are trying to foil an attempt by Professor Moriarty (George Zucco) to steal England's Crown Jewels. When Moriarty sends a death threat to socialite Ann Brandon (Ida Lupino), Holmes and Watson are sidetracked while Moriarty goes on with his plot to steal the jewels. Now, Holmes and Watson must split up to prevent murder as well as the theft.
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Beloved Enemy 1936 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: H.C. Potter
Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Jerome Cowan, David Niven, Henry Stephenson, Donald Crisp, Theodore von Eltz, David Torrence, Don "Red" Barry
An English woman, Helen Drummond (Merle Oberon), and an Irish insurrectionist, Dennis Riordan (Brian Aherne), are in love, but political problems threaten their romance.
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A Bill of Divorcement 1932  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke, David Manners, Henry Stephenson, Paul Cavanagh, Elizabeth Patterson, Gayle Evers, Julie Haydon
In this drama (Katharine Hepburn's first film) Sydney Fairfield (Hepburn) is caught in the dilemma of marrying the man she loves (David Manners) or staying home to care for her father (John Barrymore), who returned home from a long stay in a mental institution and was confronted by being divorced by his wife.
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 Captain Blood 1935  N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Donald Meek, J. Carrol Naish, Hobart Cavanaugh
This film represents the first teaming of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland and made them both stars. Surgeon Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) rebels against England's James II who deports him as a slave to the West Indies where he is purchased by Colonel Bishop (Lionel Atwill). Set free, Blood falls in love with Bishop's niece, Arabella (Olivia de Havilland), and he turns to piracy as part of his fight against slavery. This Hal Wallis film was nominated for an Oscar.
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Challenge to Lassie 1949 G, 76 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen, Alan Webb, Ross Ford, Henry Stephenson, Alan Napier, Sara Allgood, Edmund Breon, Arthur Shields, Lumsden Hare, Charles Irwin
This "Lassie" story takes place in 19th-century Edinburgh where Lassie has been keeping watch over her dead master's grave–until she encounters strict police Sergeant Davie (Reginald Owen) who wants Lassie destroyed because he claims she is a stray. But, Lassie's life is spared when kindly innkeeper John Traill (Edmund Gwenn) proves to the court that Lassie, indeed, is not a stray when they track her down to her deceased owner's gravesite.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Donald Crisp, Nigel Bruce, Henry Stephenson, David Niven, Spring Byington, J. Carrol Naish, E.E. Clive, C. Henry Gordon, G.P. Huntley, Robert Barrat, Walter Holbrook, Scotty Beckett
In this film version of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, set during the 1854 Crimean War, Major Geoffrey Vickers (Errol Flynn) vows revenge on the Indian potentate Surat Khan (C. Henry Gordon) after witnessing a slaughter of British citizens at a British fort commanded by Col. Campbell (Donald Crisp). Meanwhile, Geoffrey and his brother Perry (Patric Knowles), who is also a soldier, are both in love with Campbell's daughter Elsa (Olivia de Havilland), but it is Perry who wins her heart. Now, Geoffrey leads his Light Brigade into a fight to the death against the Russian soldiers who are providing supplies to Surat Khan.
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 Down Argentine Way 1940 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, J. Carrol Naish, Henry Stephenson, Kay Aldridge, Leonid Kinskey, Chris-Pin Martin, Robert Conway, Gregory Gaye, Bobby Stone, Charles Judels
American heiress Glenda (Betty Grable) visits Argentina where she hopes to find wealthy racehorse owner Ricardo Quintana (Don Ameche). She succeeds in reaching Ricardo, and they fall in love but must deal with their feuding families before living happily ever after. The film received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Original Song ("Down Argentine Way")
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Dramatic School 1938 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Cast: Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Alan Marshal, Lana Turner, Gale Sondergaard, Ann Rutherford, Hans Conried, Rand Brooks, Frank Puglia, Henry Stephenson
Louise (Luise Rainer) attends a dramatic school in Paris and has trouble juggling her career and marriage.
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Enchantment 1948 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger, Jayne Meadows, Leo G. Carroll, Shepperd Strudwick, Gigi Perreau, Melville Cooper, Henry Stephenson
Years ago, during another war, General Sir Roland Dane (David Niven) lost his chance for love with Lark Ingoldsby (Teresa Wright). Now he encourages ambulance driver Grizel Dabe (Evelyn Keyes) not to make this same mistake with pilot Pax Masterson (Farley Granger).
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Heartbeat 1946  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou, Basil Rathbone, Melville Cooper, Mikhail Rasumny, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mona Maris, Henry Stephenson, Ivan Lebedeff, Bess Flowers, Torben Meyer
After escaping from a reform school, Ariette (Ginger Rogers) returns to the life of a pickpocket in Paris. Now, she plies her trade on a young diplomat (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and ends up falling in love with him.
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Lady from Louisiana 1941  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: John Wayne, Ray Middleton, Ona Munson, Henry Stephenson, Helen Westley, Jack Pennick, Dorothy Dandridge, Shimen Ruskin, Jacqueline Dalya, Paul Scardon, James C. Morton
A lawyer, John Reynolds (John Wayne), leaves New England and travels to New Orleans where he looks into the lottery with plans to fight the local crime syndicate that is skimming off profits. On the trip to New Orleans, John meets Julie (Ona Munson) and falls in love. But, problems develop because Julie just happens to be the daughter of General Mirbeau (Henry Stephenson) who runs the gaming business that John is trying to clean up.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Mickey Rooney, Constance Collier, E.E. Clive, Una O'Connor, Jessie Ralph
This is a well-done version of the classic where a boy from New York becomes a British lord.
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Little Old New York 1940 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene, Brenda Joyce, Andy Devine, Henry Stephenson, Fritz Feld, Ward Bond, Roger Imhof, Clarence Wilson
This is the fictionalized biography of Robert Fulton (Richard Greene), inventor of the steam engine. This story involves his romance with Pat O'Day (Alice Faye).
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 Little Women 1933 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas, Frances Dee, Edna May Oliver, Jean Parker, Henry Stephenson, Spring Byington, Samuel S. Hinds, John Lodge, Douglass Montgomery, Nydia Westman, Harry Beresford, Mabel Colcord, Marion Ballou
Four New England sisters–Meg (Frances Dee), Jo (Katharine Hepburn), Beth (Jean Parker), and Amy (Joan Bennett)–learn to grow and survive under the loving care of their mother, Marmee (Spring Byington) while their beloved father (Samuel S. Hinds) is serving as a chaplain for the Union forces during the Civil War. This is the first film version of Louisa May Alcott's famous book, and it was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture and Director.
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Marie Antoinette 1938 N/R, 160 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut, Gladys George, Henry Stephenson, Reginald Gardiner, Cora Witherspoon
Set in pre-revolutionary France, MGM spared nothing on its opulent sets, French antiques, and expensive costumes in presenting this story of the doomed Austrian princess (Norma Shearer) who became Queen of France just as it became a "crumbling" empire.
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Mr. Lucky 1943 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: H.C. Potter
Cast: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Alan Carney, Henry Stephenson, Paul Stewart, Kay Johnson, J.M. Kerrigan, Florence Bates
A gambler (Cary Grant) plans to con a society woman (Laraine Day) out of the proceeds from her fund raising, but he reforms his ways after he falls in love with her.
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Mutiny on the Bounty 1935  N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Donald Crisp, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan, Henry Stephenson, Spring Byington, Ian Wolfe, Mamo Clark, Francis Lister, David Torrence, Percy Waram, DeWitt Jennings
This depiction of the 1787 mutiny aboard H.M.S. Bounty is a classic. The cruel Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton) sails his ship, H.M.S. Bounty, from England to Tahiti where the crew, including Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) and his friend midshipman Byam (Franchot Tone), enjoy the island paradise. While Tahiti was a paradise, life on the Bounty proves anything but, and the overly strict discipline of Bligh becomes so intense that First Mate Fletcher Christian leads the crew in a mutiny and sends Bligh and a few crew members adrift at sea in an open boat. The film received an Academy Award for Best Picture. It also was nominated for seven others–including three for Best Actor (Laughton, Gable, and Tone) and Best Director (Frank Lloyd).
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Of Human Bondage 1946 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, Edmund Gwenn, Marten Lamont, Alexis Smith, Patric Knowles, Janis Page, Henry Stephenson, Isobel Elsom, Una O'Connor
In this version of W. Somerset Maugham's story, the young medical student is replaced by a young artist (Paul Henreid), whose love affair with a promiscuous waitress (Eleanor Parker) nearly brings about his ruin.
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Oliver Twist 1948 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: David Lean
Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies, Anthony Newley, Henry Stephenson, Diana Dors, Mary Clare, Henry Edwards, Josephine Stuart, Ralph Truman, Kathleen Harrison, Gibb McLaughlin, Amy Veness
This is a very good version of Charles Dickens' story about the inhumane world of apprenticeship in 19th-century England. Beginning with his being left at an orphanage as a baby and enduring a hard life at the orphanage, the story then continues to Oliver's (John Howard Davies) escape to the streets. Now, Oliver, under the watchful eye of his tutor, the cruel Fagin (Alec Guinness) becomes a pickpocket on London's streets where more problems follow–until good luck finally shines on Oliver.
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 The Prince and the Pauper 1937 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Billy Mauch, Robert J. Mauch, Alan Hale, Montagu Love, Barton MacLane, Henry Stephenson, Eric Portman, Halliwell Hobbes, Lionel Pape, Leonard Willey, Murray Kinnell, Phyllis Barry, Ivan F. Simpson
Two boys meet–one is Prince Edward (Robert J. Mauch), and the other is a poor boy from London's slums, Tom (Billy Mauch)–and are struck by their physical resemblance to each other. While playing, they exchange clothes and identities, and Edward is evicted from the palace by the Captain of the Guard (Alan Hale) who believes he is a pauper. Now, Tom is thought to be the Prince of Wales by everyone except the evil Earl of Hertford (Claude Rains) who uses the deception as his chance to control the throne. Meanwhile, Edward lives with Tom's father (Barton MacLane) until he is befriended by a soldier of fortune, Miles Hendon (Errol Flynn), who takes him to the palace where he proves his real identity in time to be crowned King of England. A great musical score backs up this film version of Mark Twain's story.
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Elizabeth the Queen
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Nanette Fabray, Vincent Price, Alan Hale, Henry Stephenson, Henry Daniell, Leo G. Carroll
This 16th-century drama is VERY loosely based on the relationship of Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) and the Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn). They endure a love/hate affair leading to the Earl's execution in the Tower of London.
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Reckless 1935 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton, Rosalind Russell, Mickey Rooney, Henry Stephenson, Leon Ames
This musical extravaganza features Jean Harlow as a Broadway singer who finds that gaining acceptance in her playboy husband's (Franchot Tone) home is not an easy thing.
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Rings on Her Fingers 1942 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, Shepperd Strudwick, Spring Byington, Frank Orth, Henry Stephenson, Marjorie Gateson, George Lessey, Iris Adrian
John Wheeler (Henry Fonda) is conned by a trio of swindlers. However, one of the culprits, Susan Miller (Gene Tierney), falls in love with John and helps him regain his lost money.
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She Loves Me Not 1934 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Kitty Carlisle, Edward J. Nugent, Henry Stephenson, Warren Hymer, Lynne Overman, George Barbier, Henry Kolker, Judith Allen
After witnessing a murder, Curly Flagg (Miriam Hopkins), hides out at a men's college where she tries to evade the Mob. This film was remade as "True to the Army" and "How to be Very, Very Popular."
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Suez 1938 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Stephenson, Sidney Blackmer, Sig Ruman, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander
Ferdinand De Lesseps was the architect for the Suez Canal; that much is true. But the rest of the material for this film is pure fiction. As an art form, however, this Darryl F. Zanuck epic deserves high marks.
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Tarzan and the Amazons 1945 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Kurt Neumann
Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson, Maria Ouspenskaya, Barton MacLane, Donald Douglas, J.M. Kerrigan, Steven Geray, Shirley(2) O'Hara
An Amazon queen (Maria Ouspenskaya) and her tribe are endangered by traders and an archaeologist, but Tarzan comes to her aid.
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Tarzan Finds a Son! 1939 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Ian Hunter, Laraine Day, Henry Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Henry Wilcoxon, Morton Lowry, Gavin Muir
After Boy's (Johnny Sheffield) parents are killed in an airplane crash, Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) keep him out of the clutches of relatives who want to exploit him.
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Thirty Day Princess 1934 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Marion Gering
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Henry Stephenson, Vince Barnett, Edgar Norton, Ray Walker, Lucien Littlefield, Robert McWade, George Baxter
When a princess becomes ill and cannot go on her scheduled tour, an actress (Sylvia Sidney) fills in for her, and she falls in love with a reporter (Cary Grant) she meets while performing her duties.
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This Above All 1942 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper, Philip Merivale, Sara Allgood, Alexander Knox, Queenie Leonard, Melville Cooper, Jill Esmond, Holmes Herbert, Denis Green, Arthur Shields
Prudence Cathaway (Joan Fontaine) upsets her wealthy family when she wants no favors and enlists in the British Women's Air Force–WAFs–in World War II. While in training, she meets embittered Clive Briggs (Tyrone Power), who is recovering from wounds. When Clive decides to go AWOL rather than return to duty, Prudence tries to convince him that England is worth fighting for.
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Time Out of Mind 1947 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Eddie Albert, Leo G. Carroll, Helena Carter, John Abbott, Henry Stephenson, Samuel S. Hinds, Janet Shaw
Raised in a family of New England mariners, Chris Fortune (Robert Hutton) dreams of being a musician, but he must first convince his relatives that he has every intention of attaining his dream.
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Tomorrow at Seven 1933 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Chester Morris, Vivienne Osborne, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins, Henry Stephenson, Grant Mitchell, Charles Middleton, Oscar Apfel, Cornelius Keefe, Virginia Howell
The "Ace of Spades" is a killer on the loose in Chicago when mystery writer Neil Broderick (Chester Morris) along with bumbling detectives Clancy (Frank McHugh) and Dugan (Allen Jenkins) step in to save the day.
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When You're in Love 1937 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Robert Riskin
Cast: Grace Moore, Cary Grant, Aline MacMahon, Henry Stephenson, Thomas Mitchell, Emma Dunn, Louise Brooks, Catherine Doucet, Luis Alberni, Frank Puglia
Singer Louise Fuller (Grace Moore) hires American Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) to marry her so that she will have a passport out of Mexico.
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Wise Girl 1937 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leigh Jason
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland, Walter Abel, Henry Stephenson, Alec Craig, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Margaret Dumont, Gregory Gaye, Ivan Lebedeff, Rafael Storm
Susan Fletcher (Miriam Hopkins) falls in love with a struggling artist, John O'Halloran (Ray Milland), AFTER she tries to get custody of his two children.
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The Young in Heart 1938 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Richard Carlson, Minnie Dupree, Lya Lys, Henry Stephenson, Eily Malyon
An elderly woman, Miss Fortune (Minnie Dupree), convinces a family of con artists to mend their ways.
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| 1. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
2. The Animal Kingdom (1932)
3. Beloved Enemy (1936)
4. A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
5. Captain Blood (1935)
6. Challenge to Lassie (1949)
7. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
8. Cynara (1932)
9. Down Argentine Way (1940)
10. Dramatic School (1938)
11. Enchantment (1948)
12. Heartbeat (1946)
13. Lady from Louisiana (1941)
14. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
15. Little Old New York (1940)
16. Little Women (1933)
17. Marie Antoinette (1938)
18. Mr. Lucky (1943)
19. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
20. Of Human Bondage (1946)
21. Oliver Twist (1948)
22. The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
23. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
aka: Elizabeth the Queen
24. Reckless (1935)
25. Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
26. She Loves Me Not (1934)
27. Suez (1938)
28. Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
29. Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
30. Thirty Day Princess (1934)
31. This Above All (1942)
32. Time Out of Mind (1947)
33. Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
34. When You're in Love (1937)
35. Wise Girl (1937)
36. The Young in Heart (1938)
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