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Small Town Girl
MassachusettsThe most widely read romance of the year...with new romantic team! — Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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The Moon's Our Home
New York New Hampshire"We'll fight every day, darling, and make up every night!" — A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic war of the sexes leads inevitably to love.
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A Message to Garcia
District of Columbia The 1890sA fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
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Sinner Take All
New YorkA young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Dancing Pirate
Massachusetts The 1820sThe first dancing musical in 100% new Technicolor — Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.
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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 York New JerseyFUN...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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Hearts Divided
Maryland The 1800sIT'S GAY! GRAND! GLORIOUS! — Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
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Skunked Again
New JerseyKiko the Kangaroo and Farmer Al Falfa and all the animals take an expedition to the North Pole in a dirigible but the skunks are made to ride in a small- trailer towed by the dirigible...or back of the blimp. Once there they all participate in winter sports. The local walrus lodges a complaint against the visitors.
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Down to the Sea
FloridaGreek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
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Chatterbox
New York New EnglandANN 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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The Wedding Night
ConnecticutTONIGHT She'd leave the man she LOVED with all her SOUL...to MARRY the man she despised! — While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
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The Littlest Rebel
Virginia The 1860sAmerica's Little Sweetheart . . . The Dimpled Darling You Love in the Greatest of Civil War Dramas ! — Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
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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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Ah, Wilderness!
Connecticut The 1900sThe play that startled the nation! — At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembered, small town America.
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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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The Ghost Goes West
Florida The 1930s The 18th CenturyThe most romantic ghost you've ever seen! — An American businessman's family convinces him to buy a Scottish castle and disassemble it to ship it to America brick by brick, where it will be put it back together. The castle though is not the only part of the deal, with it goes the several-hundred year old ghost who haunts it.
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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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Buddy the Gee Man
District of Columbia"Federal Agent Buddy" receives a telegram stating, "Conduct secret investigation as to the treatment accorded prisoners by ward at Sing Song Prison. signed, Fuller Pepp, chief."
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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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Red Salute
District of ColumbiaTrue! Timely! Terrific! See the effect RED teachings have on the youth of today! — The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
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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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Convention Girl
New JerseyA cabaret hostess is broken-hearted because she loves a gambler who does not love her.
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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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Blue Smoke
MarylandBritish sports film directed by Ralph Ince.
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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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The Scarlet Letter
Massachusetts The 17th CenturyThree Generations have Thrilled to its Absorbing Drama! — In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
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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 York ConnecticutDelightfully 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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