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Maine New EnglandMore than your eyes have ever seen! — Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met. He would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying the problem; but before he may go, he has to get permission from the gatekeeper by telling him his story. Adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical.
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Connecticut The 1950sHis loves...his world---both past and present---and the crisis they caused! — Tom Rath (Gregory Peck) is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria (Marisa Pavan), which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife (Jennifer Jones) to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins (Fredric March). Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.
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The Country Girl
MassachusettsHow far should a woman go... to redeem the man she loves? — An ex-theater actor is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening.
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The Seven Year Itch
Maine The 1950sIt TICKLES and TANTALIZES! - The funniest comedy since laughter began! — With his family away for their annual summer holiday, Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they soon start spending time together—maybe a little too much time!
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The Trouble With Harry
VermontA THRILLER with a difference! — Trouble erupts in a small, quiet New England town when a man's body is found in the woods. The problem is that almost everyone in town thinks that they had something to do with his death.
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Daddy Long Legs
MassachusettsWealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old residen, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.
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All That Heaven Allows
New EnglandHow much does Heaven Allow a Woman in Love? — Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
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Storm Fear
New England... tonight her terror would begin! — A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.
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White Christmas
Vermont The 1950s The 1940sJoyous entertainment for every season, any year!!!! — Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
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The Raid
Vermont The 1860sThe suspense thriller of the year ! — A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
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The Most Glamorous Entertainment Of Your Lifetime in CinemaScope. You See It Without Glasses! — Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
Massachusetts The 1850sMGM's Great Technicolor Romance! — In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
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The Actress
Massachusetts The 1910sThere's hope and heart-ache in the adventures of a stage-struck daughter! — The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
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The 49th Man
ConnecticutPLOT TO BLAST AMERICAN EXPOSED! — Two federal agents (John Ireland, Richard Denning) do not believe an atomic-bomb threat is just another war game.
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Confidentially Connie
MaineShe knew her way around men! — Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
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Love Is Better Than Ever
ConnecticutIt's Liz in a Whiz of a Racy Romance! — The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all. Thus she plans a trap for him...
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Vermont The 1920sHow you'll cheer the hit songs of the roaring twenties! — When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
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Plymouth Adventure
Massachusetts The 17th CenturyMGM presents The Great TECHNICOLOR Drama of the Sea ! — The story of the voyage of the "Mayflower" in its historic voyage across the Atlantic to the New World. The passenger list includes John Alden and Priscilla Mullins among those who made the 96-day storm-filled crossing. Along the way the Captain has an ill-starred romance with the wife of a religious fanatic that ends in a sudden, dramatic way off the coast of Cape Cod.
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All About Eve
ConnecticutIt's all about women... and their men! — From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
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Mystery Street
MassachusettsMYSTERY STREET will thrill you! — When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Rhode Island The 1920sHe's the New Father of His Country! — "Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
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Summer Stock
ConnecticutMGM brings on the show with music - dancing - Technicolor — To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
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My Foolish Heart
ConnecticutAfter a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
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A Woman of Distinction
MassachusettsIce-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.
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Little Women
Massachusetts The 1860sTHRILLS OF YOUNG LOVE! — Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
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You're My Everything
Massachusetts The 1920sIn 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies. Includes good imitation "silents" with classic cameo by Buster Keaton.
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Lost Boundaries
New HampshireThe True Story Of A Family Who Lived A Lie For Twenty Years! — A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. When the truth comes out, the more prejudiced neighbors demand their expulsion from the community.
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Come to the Stable
New England Connecticut The 1940sLaughs To Make Your Heart Ring Out With Joy ! — Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
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Song of Surrender
New England The 1900sIn 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in their ages in this May-to-December union, Elizha is a man of culture while Abigail is uneducated. Bruce Edridge, young, handsome and wealthy, comes into her life, and they fall in love. Abigail is now faced with two choices; the chance of wealth versus her present mediocre circumstances, or her love for Bruce versus her loyalty to Elisha.
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
ConnecticutLooks like the Blandings will have no heating problem! — An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
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Portrait of Jennie
Massachusetts The 1930sThe screen's most romantic team! — A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
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Deep Waters
MaineA state welfare agent (Jean Peters) persuades a Maine lobsterman (Dana Andrews) to take a troubled orphan boy (Dean Stockwell) aboard.
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Summer Holiday
Connecticut The 1900sM-G-M's Great American Musical! — Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father isn't too happy with their puppy-love, since Richard always share his revolutionary ideas with her.
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The Babe Ruth Story
New England The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe incredible life... the spectacular thrills... the fabulous times of America's best-loved hero....... — The baseball player (William Bendix) goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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Winter Meeting
ConnecticutYou've told me your secret, now I'll tell you mine. — A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.
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Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
MassachusettsLucky Mr. Peabody...Everybody thought he was DREAMING! — As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish. Predictable complications follow in rather tame fashion.
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The Bride Goes Wild
VermontM-G-M's Picture of Happy-go-lucky Love! — McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens is that Greg gets her soused. To keep her there to illustrate, John gets a juvenile delinquent named Danny to play his son and show how much pressure he is under. The ploy works at first, but Greg's heart was broken by Tillie, and Martha may be the girl who makes him forget all about her.
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The Kissing Bandit
Massachusetts The 19th CenturyThe Boldest Spectacle Ever Told in Song, Spectacle and Technicolor! — Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's footsteps and become "The Kissing Bandit".
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The Sainted Sisters
Maine The 1890sTwo female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with loot from their latest scam, hide out in a small Maine town, near the Canadian border. However - the residents of this small town aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.
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Boomerang!
ConnecticutIt comes back at you again and again! — In a quiet Connecticut town, a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the crime, no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence. Based on a true story.
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Daisy Kenyon
Massachusetts"I DON'T BELONG TO ANY MAN"! — Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O'Mara. O'Mara is married and has children. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
ConnecticutWalter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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Mourning Becomes Electra
New England The 1860s...Mother and daughter in love with the same man ... rivals in ruthlessness even to murder! — Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Massachusetts The 1870sA Merry Escapade! Scandalous! Joyous! — In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.
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The Late George Apley
Massachusetts The 1910sStop apologizing for sex, George Apley...you didn't invent it! — George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.
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Banjo
MassachusettsFamily drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's sent to live with her aunt in Boston.
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Time Out Of Mind
MaineCHAINED TO A MAN SHE DARED NOT LOVE! — The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
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The Stranger
ConnecticutThe most deceitful man a woman ever loved! — A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.
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