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More Than a Secretary
New YorkIt's Howlarious! — When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
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Pennies from Heaven
New YorkFUN...when Crosby croons himself out of jail and lands on a merry-go-round with the meanest of brats! — Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
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Chatterbox
New YorkANN SHIRLEY IN A HEART STORMING STORY OF A STAGE STRUCK RED HEAD — Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.
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Spendthrift
New YorkHe ran a fortune into a shoestring in his hunt for romance! — A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
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The Lady Consents
New YorkTwo Great Stars and a Brilliant Cast in a Drama of Reckless Romance and Adventure — Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
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Frankie and Johnnie
New YorkThe story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie.
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My Marriage
New YorkWhen gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
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The Murder Man
New YorkSteve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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Dangerous
New YorkAn alcoholic actress considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated but shows she's as dangerous as ever. — Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. Unaware that she is married to Gordon, he asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play. When Gordon refuses to give Joyce a divorce, she runs the car into a tree crippling him for life. Joyce urges Dan return to Gail, opens her play, and begs Gordon for forgiveness.
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The Gay Deception
New YorkMirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she does get to be a queen after all.
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The Gilded Lily
New YorkIt Happened One Night On a Park Bench! — Secretary Marilyn "Lynn" David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray Granville, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Pete Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Pete learns that the already-engaged Gray has hurt Lynn, he fabricates an article casting her as "No Girl," who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Lynn unexpected fame, and Gray returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.
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Murder on a Honeymoon
New YorkShiver and shake while you giggle and quake! — A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
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The Winning Ticket
New YorkThe Howling Sweepstakes Comedy — A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
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Splendor
New York"My husband's own family tossed my heart to the highest bidder!" — When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and the loss of their mansion and social position, they had hoped that Brighton would marry wealthy heiress and family friend, Edith Gilbert.
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One More Spring
New YorkSHE KNEW WOMAN'S GREATEST NEED...the want of love. HE HAD MAN'S GREATEST GIFT...the power to dream! — Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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If You Could Only Cook
New YorkSHE GAVE UP HER PARK BENCH FOR HIM! HE GAVE UP MILLIONS FOR HER! — An auto engineer (Herbert Marshall) and a professor's daughter (Jean Arthur) pose as married servants in a mobster's (Leo Carrillo) mansion.
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Personal Maid's Secret
New YorkConvulsingly Confided to You! — A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
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The Irish in Us
New YorkBlarney..Sentiment..Songs of the Heart..All Depicted in the Smash Hit "The Irish In Us" — A boxer (James Cagney) and his policeman brother (Pat O'Brien) feud over a police captain's daughter (Olivia de Havilland).
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
New YorkA farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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The Girl from 10th Avenue
New YorkA Shop Girl shows a Society Leader what it takes to Hold a Man! — When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam
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Romance in Manhattan
New YorkKarel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
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Metropolitan
New YorkOpera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
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Under Pressure
New YorkTwo members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
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Here's to Romance
New YorkWhen the world's greatest tenor sings a love song — you get a new screen thrill! — Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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The Thin Man
New YorkA laugh tops every thrilling moment! — A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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Manhattan Melodrama
New York The 1920s The 1900sRECKLESS with WOMEN...He pursued them ..."petted" them...promised them nothing and got away with everything! — The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Sweet Adeline
New York The 1890sIn 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
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Sadie McKee
New YorkA maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
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Dames
New YorkA WORLD'S FAIR OF BEAUTY, SONG - LAUGHTER! — A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show.
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Hide-Out
New YorkDelightfully Produced By The Makers Of The Thin Man — Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
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Thirty Day Princess
New York...She had him going and coming...in a double romance! — A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
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Kid Millions
New York The 1930sHE HAD PLENTY OF DOLLARS AND NO SENSE! — A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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The Age of Innocence
New York The 1870sAn engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
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The Girl from Missouri
New YorkLeaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
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Forsaking All Others
New YorkSTAR-STUDDED GLORY! It's Gay! It's Thrilling! — A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
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Now I'll Tell
New York The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA Woman Tells All! — A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
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Murder on the Blackboard
New YorkThey Laughed When Miss Withers Sniffed a Clue; But Kicked Themselves Ever After for Laughing — There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
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Hi, Nellie!
New YorkManaging Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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Double Door
New YorkBased on a 1933 stage production billed as “The Play That Made Broadway Gasp,” it features an over-the-top performance by Mary Morris (repeating her stage role) as a domineering money-bags whose suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother (Kent Taylor) brings a new bride (Venable) home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies. (Gene Siskel Film Center)
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Success at Any Price
New YorkA young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
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Change of Heart
New YorkThe most glorious sweethearts of the screen together again! — Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
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Stolen Sweets
New YorkWealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
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Bowery Daze
New York The 1890sIn the 1890's, Krazy runs a sleazy dive in the Bowery where Kitty sings and dances for a mostly drunken, low class clientèle. as the beer flows and the piano tinkles, a big, tough guy comes in and starts trouble, but everyone pelts him with fists, furniture and beer mugs until he's vanquished.
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Affairs of a Gentleman
New YorkWhen a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
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King Kong
New YorkA Monster of Creation’s Dawn Breaks Loose in Our World Today! — Adventurous filmmaker, Carl Denham, sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to displayed on Broadway as Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
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42nd Street
New York The 1930sThe Greatest Musical hit the Screen Has Ever Known! — A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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Baby Face
New YorkShe climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong! — A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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Footlight Parade
New YorkClimaxing Warner Bros.' glittering parade of musicals! — A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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Gold Diggers of 1933
New York The 1930sThe Biggest Show On Earth! — Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy songwriter Brad saves the day by funding a new Depression-themed musical for the girls to star in, but when his stuffy high-society brother finds out and threatens to disown Brad, Carol and her gold-digging friends scheme to keep the show going, hooking a couple of millionaires along the way.
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