After Office Hours 1935  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke, Katharine Alexander, Henry Travers, Harvey Stephens, William Demarest, Hale Hamilton, Henry Armetta
Jim Branch (Clark Gable) manages a big-city newspaper and joins forces with fired reporter Sharon Norwood (Constance Bennett). Together, they dig up the roots of a major scandal.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Forbidden Alliance
Director: Sidney Franklin
Cast: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katharine Alexander, Ian Wolfe, Ralph Forbes, Una O'Connor, Ferdinand Munier, Leo G. Carroll
This film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Norma Shearer was also nominated for Best Actress. The story relates the love affair and marriage of Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) and Robert Browning (Fredric March).
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Dance, Girl, Dance 1940  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy, Maria Ouspenskaya, Mary Carlisle, Katharine Alexander, Edward Brophy, Walter Abel, Harold Huber, Ernest Truex, Chester Clute, Emma Dunn, Sidney Blackmer
Judy O'Brien (Maureen O'Hara) arrives in New York City planning to gain fame as a ballerina. As luck would have it, she gets a job working as a stooge for strip-tease dancer Bubbles (Lucille Ball) who dances a ballet as a lead-in to her strip show. The two women encounter problems when they both fall for playboy Jimmy Harris (Louis Hayward), and physical fighting is used to determine who should have Jimmy. But that issue is settled after Jimmy's ex-wife (Virginia Field) decides to take him back.
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Double Wedding 1937 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice, John Beal, Edgar Kennedy, Sidney Toler, Mary Gordon, Jessie Ralph, Donald Meek, Katharine Alexander
While taking on Cupid's role to promote the wedding of Irene (Florence Rice), artist Charlie Lodge (William Powell) and Irene's sister Margit (Myrna Loy) find their own romance.
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Enchanted April 1935 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Ann Harding, Frank Morgan, Katharine Alexander, Reginald Owen, Jane Baxter, Ralph Forbes, Jessie Ralph, Charles Judels, Rafaela Ottiano, Ethel Griffies, May Beatty, Inez Palange, Gwendolyn Logan, Hector Samo
This is a good rendition of Elizabeth von Arnim's novel about two English women–Lottie Wilkins (Ann Harding) and Rose Arbuthnot (Katherine Alexander)–who have had enough of their husbands and take off for a vacation and a better life. They rent a castle overlooking the Mediterranean in San Salvatore, Italy. Joining them in Italy are Mrs. Fisher (Jessie Ralph) and Lady Caroline (Jane Baxter). Now, the four ladies spend their month together supposedly free from their husbands–but not without complications. Remade in 1992.
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The Girl from 10th Avenue 1935 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge, Philip Reed, Katharine Alexander, Helen Jerome Eddy, Adrian Rosley, Mary Treen
Miriam (Bette Davis) helps her boss Geoffrey Sherwood (Ian Hunter) out of his alcoholic doldrums and into their marriage–just in time to be confronted with his ex-flame who now wants him back. Good performance, as usual, by Bette Davis, but lots of soap.
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 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Marshal, Walter Hampden, Harry Davenport, George Zucco, Fritz Leiber, Katharine Alexander, Etienne Girardot, Arthur Hohl, Minna Gombell, Helene Whitney
The bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, deformed hunchback Quasimodo (Charles Laughton), falls in love with beautiful gypsy Esmeralda (Maureen O'Hara) when the Chief Justice of Paris Jean Frollo (Cedric Hardwicke) sends him to abduct her. The abduction plan fails when Captain of the Guard Phoebus (Alan Marshal) saves her, and Quasimodo is sentenced to a flogging. Now, Esmeralda is the only one willing to bring water to Quasimodo while he is being held captive in the public square. But, more problems develop, and Quasimodo's love for Esmeralda will end in tragedy. A great movie.
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In Name Only 1939 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn, Peggy Ann Garner, Helen Vinson, Katharine Alexander, Jonathan Hale, Frank Puglia, Nella Walker
Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Alec Walker (Cary Grant) meets and falls in love with a beautiful widow, Julie Eden (Carole Lombard), but their plans for the future depend on his current wife (Kay Francis) granting the divorce.
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John Loves Mary 1949 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Jack Carson, Patricia Neal, Wayne Morris, Edward Arnold, Virginia Field, Paul Harvey, Katharine Alexander, Irving Bacon, Ernest Cossart
Patricia Neal makes her film debut in this film, based on Norman Krasna's Broadway play, about a British woman who marries her American boyfriend (Ronald Reagan) as a way to reach America's shores.
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Kiss and Tell 1945 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Shirley Temple, Jerome Courtland, Walter Abel, Katharine Alexander, Robert Benchley, Porter Hall, Tom Tully, Darryl Hickman, Kathryn Card, Darren McGavin
This film is based on the Broadway character Corliss Archer. In this episode, Corliss (Shirley Temple) tries to keep news of her brother's marriage a secret.
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 Now, Voyager 1942 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Ilka Chase, Bonita Granville, John Loder, Franklin Pangborn, Lee Patrick, Charles Drake, Katharine Alexander, Mary Wickes, James Rennie, Reed Hadley, Janis Wilson
Lonely spinster Charlotte (Bette Davis) has been turned into an introverted woman by her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper) but changes her life around–thanks to a psychiatrist, Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains). Charlotte embarks on an ocean voyage off South America and begins a shipboard romance with unhappily married Jerry Duran (Paul Henreid). While on the voyage, her mother dies, and Charlotte returns home. She meets Jerry's troubled daughter Tina, and the two bond. But there is not much hope of Jerry divorcing his wife. Bette Davis and Gladys Cooper were nominated for Oscars (Best Actress and Supporting Actress).
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Operator 13 1934 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, Jean Parker, Katharine Alexander, Hattie McDaniel, Willard Robertson, Henry Wadsworth, Douglass Dumbrille, Fuzzy Knight, Sidney Toler
Set during the Civil War, Gail Loveless (Marion Davies) is a Union spy who falls in love with Confederate Captain Jack Gailliard (Gary Cooper), a man who does his own bit of spying.
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Sis Hopkins 1941 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joseph Santley
Cast: Judy Canova, Bob Crosby, Charles Butterworth, Jerry Colonna, Susan Hayward, Katharine Alexander, Carol Adams, Lynn Merrick, Charles(2) Lane, Andrew Tombes
Sis Hopkins (Judy Canova) heads for college in a big city and sings her way to success and popularity.
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Splendor 1935 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Paul Cavanagh, Helen Westley, Billie Burke, Katharine Alexander, David Niven, Arthur Treacher, Ivan F. Simpson, Reginald Sheffield
When wealthy Brighton Lorrimore (Joel McCrea) brings home his new wife Phyllis (Miriam Hopkins), the family has problems accepting her lower social status.
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That Certain Woman 1937 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Donald Crisp, Hugh O'Connell, Katharine Alexander, Mary Philips, Minor Watson, Sidney Toler
Following her marriage to Jack Merrick (Henry Fonda), a rich alcoholic, Mary (Bette Davis), finds her past life as a widow has been discovered. Merrick's father (Donald Crisp) forces an annulment of Mary's marriage. Later, when Merrick learns that Mary has a son, the Merricks try to gain custody of the boy.
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| 1. After Office Hours (1935)
2. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
aka: Forbidden Alliance
3. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
4. Double Wedding (1937)
5. Enchanted April (1935)
6. The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)
7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
8. In Name Only (1939)
9. John Loves Mary (1949)
10. Kiss and Tell (1945)
11. Now, Voyager (1942)
12. Operator 13 (1934)
13. Sis Hopkins (1941)
14. Splendor (1935)
15. That Certain Woman (1937)
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