The Garden of Allah 1936  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone, Charles Boyer, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine, Tilly Losch, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Brandon, Lucile Watson, Helen Jerome Eddy
Set in Algeria, this is the story of a monk, Boris Androvsky, who has forsaken his calling and settles into a marriage with Domini Enfilden (Marlene Dietrich). He begins to question the wisdom of his choice.
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Hollywood Party 1934  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charles Butterworth, Polly Moran, Robert Young, Lupe Velez, Three Stooges, Tom Kennedy, George Givot
Jimmy Schnarzan (Jimmy Durante) throws a party to get people interested in his failing jungle series. The result is splashy musical numbers and appearances by comedians of the day.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney 1937  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph, Nigel Bruce, Benita Hume, Melville Cooper, Ralph Forbes, Sara Haden
This remake of the 1929 film casts Joan Crawford in the title role of an American jewel thief who travels in upper-crust London society where her victims are easy prey. This film, too, was remade in 1951 as "The Law and the Lady."
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 Les Miserables 1935  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Florence Eldridge, Rochelle Hudson, Marilyn Knowlden, Frances Drake, Jessie Ralph, John Carradine, Ferdinand Gottschalk
This excellent movie deals with a starving man, Jean Valjean (Fredric March), who steals a loaf of bread and is tormented ever after. There are several versions, both before and after this one. The film received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.
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Men in White 1934  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allan, Otto Kruger, Henry B. Walthall, Wallace Ford, Samuel S. Hinds, Frank Puglia, Russell Hopton
This film led to a number of Hollywood stories about personal lives of doctors. This story is about a surgeon (Clark Gable) who is devoted to medicine but has problems in his love life.
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Metropolitan 1935 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Lawrence Tibbett, Virginia Bruce, Alice Brady, Cesar Romero, Thurston Hall, Luis Alberni, Jane Darwell, Walter Brennan, Jessie Ralph, Ruth Donnelly
Thomas Renwick (Lawrence Tibbett) and Anne Merrill (Virginia Bruce) form their own opera company in Philadelphia when they fail to be accepted by the Metropolitan Opera Company.
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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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Three Godfathers 1936 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Miracle in the Sand
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, Irene Hervey, Sidney Toler, Dorothy Tree, Roger Imhof, Willard Robertson, Robert Livingston, John Sheehan
Three outlaws are on the run after robbing a bank when they come upon a covered wagon with a dying woman and a newborn baby inside. Though not unanimous, they decide that saving the baby is the top priority.
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| 1. The Garden of Allah (1936)
2. Hollywood Party (1934)
3. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
4. Les Miserables (1935)
5. Men in White (1934)
6. Metropolitan (1935)
7. Operator 13 (1934)
8. Three Godfathers (1936)
aka: Miracle in the Sand
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