 Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1940  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart, Mary Howard, Howard Da Silva, Dorothy Tree, Harvey Stephens, Minor Watson, Alan Baxter, Elisabeth Risdon, Aldrich Bowker, Maurice Murphy, Louis Jean Heydt, Clem Bevans
Based on Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize winning play, this is a classic film about the 16th President, covering his childhood through election to the Presidency. Along with Lincoln's professional life, highlighted by his debates with Stephen Douglas (Gene Lockhart), his personal life, including the doomed courtship of Ann Rutledge (Mary Howard) and later marriage to Mary Todd (Ruth Gordon in her screen debut) are also part of the story.
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Delinquent Parents 1938  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Grinde
Cast: Doris Weston, Maurice Murphy, Helen MacKellar, Morgan Wallace, Terry Walker, Theodore von Eltz, Richard Tucker, Carlyle Moore Jr., Marjorie Reynolds, Harry Hayden, Betty Blythe, Byron Foulger
Following World War I, Edith (Marjorie Reynolds) was dumped by her husband (Carlyle Moore Jr.), and, finding it impossible to raise their baby, Edith placed Carol up for adoption. Years later, Carol (Doris Weston) learns that she was adopted, leaves home, and finds work. But, she gets in trouble with the law, and the court judge set up to handle Carol's case is an older and wiser Edith (Helen MacKellar), her birth mother. By story's end, both Carol and Edith win.
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Pilgrimage 1933  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henrietta Crosman, Norman Foster, Heather Angel, Marian Nixon, Lucille La Verne, Hedda Hopper, Charley Grapewin, Maurice Murphy, Robert Warwick, Betty Blythe
A mother's (Henrietta Crosman) selfish interests lead to her son's (Norman Foster) death during World War I. Now, she visits his gravesite in France hoping to make sense out of all that has transpired.
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Stella Dallas 1925 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Belle Bennett, Ronald Colman, Lois Moran, Alice Joyce, Jean Hersholt, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beatrix Pryor, Vera Lewis, Maurice Murphy, Jack Murphy
Having given up legal rights to her daughter, Laurel (Lois Moran), Stella (Belle Bennett) must stay on the sidelines and watch her daughter from afar.
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Tailspin Tommy 1934  N/R, 230 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Maurice Murphy, Noah Beery Jr., Patricia Farr, Walter Miller, Grant Withers, Charles A. Browne, Monte Montague, Edmund Cobb, Bryant Washburn, John Davidson, Harrison Green, William Desmond
Tailspin Tommy Tompkins (Maurice Murphy) and cohort Skeeter Milligan (Noah Berry Jr.) are working for a mail-delivery airline when a rival airline sends out its dogfighting planes with the mission of destroying Tommy's plane and seizing control of the mail-delivery business. A 12-part serial for the 1930s' Saturday matinees.
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Tovarich 1937  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Basil Rathbone, Charles Boyer, Anita Louise, Melville Cooper, Isabel Jeans, Maurice Murphy, Morris Carnovsky, Gregory Gaye, Montagu Love
After fleeing Russia during the revolution, a couple (Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer) arrives in Paris and find employment as domestic servants. They have with them a fortune from the czar, but their honesty prevents them from using it for their own comforts.
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| 1. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
2. Curly Top (1935)
3. Delinquent Parents (1938)
4. Pilgrimage (1933)
5. Stella Dallas (1925)
6. Tailspin Tommy (1934)
7. Tovarich (1937)
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