265 Films & TV Shows Set In New England During The 20th Century
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Come to the Stable
New England New York 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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Portrait of Jennie
New York Massachusetts The 1930sThe screen's most romantic team! — A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
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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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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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The Spiral Staircase
Vermont The 1900sConflicts that freeze your emotions! Suspense that takes your breath! — In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions". One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
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Night and Day
Connecticut England The 1910s The 1920sSwellegant and elegant. Delux and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous meetings with Cole lead to a meeting at the alter. More than 20 Porter songs grace this tail of triumph and tragedy, with Grand lending is amiable voice to "You're the Top", "Night and Day" and more. Monty Wooley, a Yale contemporary of Porter, portrays himself. And Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Eve Arden and others provide vocals and verve. Lights down. Curtain up. Standards embraced by generations are yours to enjoy in "Night and Day."
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Two Sisters from Boston
New York Massachusetts The 1900s"Ladies an' Gents! The most inflammable damsels... the most terrific tenor... the most colossol schnozzle ...ever!" — Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Massachusetts The 1920sMore Delightful Adventures of Those "YOUNG and GAY" Girls! — Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.
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Our Town
New Hampshire The 1910s The 1900sTheir love affair was the talk of our town! — Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
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Captains Courageous
Massachusetts Atlantic Ocean The 1930sAs great as "Mutiny on the Bounty" — Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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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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The Miracle Man
Massachusetts The 1910sThe photoplay that reaches the soul — A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang. Lost film, only the most famous scene has survived.
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Monster Butler
Maine England The 1970sThe film is based on the true story of the serial-killing con man Roy Fontaine who worked as a butler and robbed and murdered numerous employers throughout England and Scotland.