American Actress
Frances Dee
- Nov 26, 1909 - Mar 06, 2004 (age 94)
- 5' 5" (1.64 m)
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2011
Movie∙Oct 14, 2011
Vito
In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo …
In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBT representation in the media. He went on to write "The Celluloid Closet," the first book to critique Hollywood's portrayals of gays on screen. During the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Vito became a passionate advocate for justice via the newly formed ACT UP, before his death in 1990.
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2006
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Movie∙May 13, 2006
Far as the Eye Can See
A young woman steals her …
A young woman steals her best friend in the world, a horse named Jake, to prevent him from being sold to slaughter. But after driving to a remote, abandoned ranch, mechanical failure traps the animal inside its trailer. For three blistering days under the New Mexico sun she will try in vain to free him until she faces the toughest decision of her life: put the animal out of his misery or hope for a miracle.
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2004
Personal∙March 2004
Frances Dee
Frances Dee passed away.
1991
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Movie∙Mar 15, 1991
The Republic Pictures Story
A history of Republic …
A history of Republic Pictures studios, featuring hundreds of clips plus on-camera interviews with stars, director, stuntman, etc.
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1954
Movie∙Mar 3, 1954
Gypsy Colt
A beautiful spirited horse is so devoted to his young …
A beautiful spirited horse is so devoted to his young mistress that he undertakes an incredible 500-mile journey over treacherous terrain to be reunited with her.
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1953
Movie∙Aug 19, 1953
Mister Scoutmaster
Snobby TV star (Clifton Webb) worries that he is out of …
Snobby TV star (Clifton Webb) worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follow, all centered around one small boy who takes a liking to the old curmudgeon.
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1952
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1951
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Movie∙Oct 1, 1951
Reunion in Reno
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce …
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy which was loosely remade as IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES(1984).
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Movie∙Feb 3, 1951
Payment on Demand
The film is about divorce but with flashbacks as to why divorce …
The film is about divorce but with flashbacks as to why divorce occurs.
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1948
Movie∙Aug 3, 1948
Four Faces West
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for …
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
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1947
Movie∙Apr 25, 1947
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Writer Georges Duroy …
Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a hanger-on in the cafés and Folies Bergere crowd, and then moves on to dally with Clotilde de Morelle (Dame Angela Lansbury). Always striving to move upward on the social scale, he ditches her to marry Madeleine Forestier (Ann Dvorak). Now he gets on the fast track. He persuades Madame Walter (Katherine Emery), the wife of his publisher, to fall in love with him, and then compromises Madeleine to frame a divorce, so he can pursue Madame Walter's daughter, Suzanne (Susan Douglas Rubes). He moves along so well that ere long he is in legal position to usurp the title of one of France's most noble houses. The moral, at the end, is it is okay to mess with French women, but triffling with French titles is going too far.
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1945
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Movie∙Apr 12, 1945
Patrick the Great
Talented youngster Pat Donahue is working in the Berkshires. He …
Talented youngster Pat Donahue is working in the Berkshires. He learns of a great part in New York City and auditions. But after winning the role he finds out it was originally intended for...
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1943
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Movie∙Nov 10, 1943
Happy Land
In a typical American Midwestern city, Hartfield, Iowa, Lew …
In a typical American Midwestern city, Hartfield, Iowa, Lew Marsh (Don Ameche) is the owner of a drugstore. Everyone knows Lew and knew his grandfather, old "Gramp" Marsh (Harry Carey), who had passed on. One evening, Lew and his wife, Agnes (Frances Dee), reminisce lovingly about their son, "Rusty" (Richard Crane), when a telegram arrives from the Navy Department informing them that "Rusty" had been killed in action. Lew becomes bitter, avoids people, refuses to go near the family drugstore. "Gramp" appears before Lew and takes him in hand and together, they revisit the past: Lew's childhood; "Gramp" as a Civil War veteran; Lew's courtship of Agnes; the birth of "Rusty"; Lew as a WWI soldier; Rusty's boyhood days and into his attempt to decide between Lenore Prentiss and Gretchen Barry, and how Lenore becomes his girl just before he joins the Navy. This excursion into the past takes away Lew's bitterness and he now sees what America means.
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Movie∙Apr 8, 1943
I Walked with a Zombie
Betsy, a young nurse, arrives …
Betsy, a young nurse, arrives in St. Sebastian, West Indies to care for Jessica Holland, wife of wealthy sugar plantation owner Paul Holland. When Betsy meets Jessica, she finds her walking as though in a trance. Dr. Maxwell explains that Jessica had a severe tropical fever that burned out portions of her spine, leaving her in a zombie-like state. Maxwell and Betsy recommend insulin shock treatment. Betsy also begins to wonder if voodoo might be able to cure her.
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1942
Movie∙May 21, 1942
Meet the Stewarts
A young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage …
A young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage work; trying to impress family, stay on budget, and remain as diplomatic towards each other as possible.
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1941
Movie∙Mar 7, 1941
A Man Betrayed
Country lawyer Lynn Hollister comes to the city to …
Country lawyer Lynn Hollister comes to the city to investigate the murder of a friend found shot after spending the evening in The Inferno, a night club that fronts for an illicit gambling operation. It is covertly run by an affable but corrupt politician, 'Boss' Tom Cameron, who uses voter fraud to maintain influence on city hall and the governor's mansion. Hollister learns that his friend was a winner in a dice game on the night of the murder and threatened exposure of Cameron's vice racket. Complications arise when other underworld forces vie to take over Cameron's operation, and Holister falls in love with Cameron's beautiful daughter.
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Movie∙Jan 21, 1941
So Ends Our Night
Story about three German refugees during World War II who are …
Story about three German refugees during World War II who are always hiding, always in fear of deportation.
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1939
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Movie∙Aug 4, 1939
Coast Guard
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" …
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love. Angry at first, Ray acts as best man at the wedding. Speed reverts to his old habits and often leaves Nancy alone. Broken-hearted, Nancy returns to her grandfather's home, where Ray often visits her. He is there when Speed, stunting over the house to gain Nancy's attention, cracks up his plane. Ray is forced to testify at Speed's court-martial, and Speed believes Ray is trying to ruin him and win Nancy. Dispatched to rescue work in the frozen North, Ray is lost in a polar blizzard. Nancy pleas to Speed to fly north and search for Ray and Speed, thinking Nancy loves Ray, agrees to go.
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1938
Movie∙Sep 28, 1938
If I Were King
Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 …
Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris.
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1937
Movie∙Dec 30, 1937
Wells Fargo
The life and career of a Wells Fargo official frames this …
The life and career of a Wells Fargo official frames this fictionalized account of the express company's formation.
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Movie∙Aug 9, 1937
Souls at Sea
Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story …
Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.
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1936
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Movie∙May 22, 1936
Half Angel
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her …
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
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1935

Child∙November 1935
David McCrea
David McCrea was born on November 15, 1935 in Los …
David McCrea was born on November 15, 1935 in Los Angeles County, California, USA as David Thomas McCrea.
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Movie∙Sep 13, 1935
The Gay Deception
Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a …
Mirabel 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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Movie∙Jun 13, 1935
Becky Sharp
Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky …
Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious- beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other "loved ones". In the movie we get to see the class distinctions in England at the time, and get a sense of what it was like for the English military at the time of the Napoleonic wars.
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1934
Child∙September 1934
Jody McCrea
Joel Dee McCrea, known as Jody McCrea (September 6, 1934 …
Joel Dee McCrea, known as Jody McCrea (September 6, 1934 – April 4, 2009), was an American film and television actor. He was the oldest of the three sons of veteran film actors Joel McCrea and Frances Dee.
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Movie∙Jun 28, 1934
Of Human Bondage
Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed …
Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with a waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and returns unmarried and pregnant. Philip gets her an apartment and they become engaged. Mildred runs off with another medical student. Philip takes her back again when she returns with her baby. She wrecks his apartment and burns the securities he needs to pay tuition. He gets a job as a salesman, has surgery on his foot, receives an inheritance, and returns to school where he learns Mildred is dying.
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Movie∙May 4, 1934
Finishing School
The trials and tribulations in a private, snobbish girls school.
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Movie∙Mar 9, 1934
Coming Out Party
It's Joy Stanhope's, a Park Avenue debutante, coming-out party. …
It's Joy Stanhope's, a Park Avenue debutante, coming-out party. It's the event of the winter and everyone is there, including the most eligible bachelor, Jimmy Wolverton. Chris Hanson, Joy's secret romance isn't. Joy knows her parents wouldn't approve of Chris being starving violinst and a son of poor immigrants. Chris being understanding allows Joy to pretend to date Jimmy to keep Joy's parents happy. But, when Chris sees Joy with Jimmy he becomes enraged. Chris confronts Joy and they argue, the fight ends in a night of passion. Joy discovers she pregnant with Chris' child. When she's about to tell Chris the news he interupts her with the news that he's taking a job in Europe with a famed Opera star. Joy decides not to tell him and let him go. While in Europe Chris learns about Joy's pregnancy, but when he returns; Chris gets the shock of his life...Joy has married Jimmy.
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Movie∙Mar 2, 1934
Keep 'Em Rolling
Sergeant Benny Walsh, a U.S. Army artilleryman, and his …
Sergeant Benny Walsh, a U.S. Army artilleryman, and his horse, Rodney, share a kindred spirit that is sympathetic to each other's needs. After years of service to his country, Sergeant Walsh, stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia, requests permission to re-enlist for the few months he needs that will qualify him for his-earned retirement pension. The request is denied by a self-styled efficiency expert who also tags Rodney for the glue factory in the process.
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1933
Movie∙Nov 17, 1933
Blood Money
Bill Bailey (George Bancroft) is a Los Angeles, California bail …
Bill Bailey (George Bancroft) is a Los Angeles, California bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. He falls in love with a slumming socialite who bluntly and startlingly declares her sexual preferences with this immortal line: "If I could find a man who would be my master and give me a good thrashing, I'd follow him around like a dog on a leash."
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Movie∙Nov 16, 1933
Little Women
Little Women is a "coming of age" drama tracing the lives of …
Little Women is a "coming of age" drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by thier beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.
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Marriage∙October 1933
Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) …
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned almost five decades and appeared in over 100 films. These films include Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942), the romance film Bird of Paradise (1932), the adventure classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Gregory La Cava's bawdy comedy Bed of Roses (1933), George Stevens' romantic comedy The More the Merrier (1943), William Wyler's These Three, Come and Get It (both 1936) and Dead End (1937), Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast (1935), and a number of western films, including Wichita (1955) as Wyatt Earp and Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962), opposite Randolph Scott.
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Movie∙Aug 31, 1933
One Man's Journey
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering …
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but something always gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
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Movie∙Jul 28, 1933
Headline Shooter
Roguish, cynical newsreel cameraman Bill Allen usually …
Roguish, cynical newsreel cameraman Bill Allen usually has a dame in one hand and a hip flask in the other, yet catches breaking stories and disasters of all sorts on film. When he meets newspaper columnist Jane Mallory, mutual attraction results; but she's too smart to fall for him (or is she?) unless he reforms (but does she really want him to?). Includes exciting stock footage of fire, flood and earthquake.
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Movie∙May 5, 1933
The Silver Cord
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son …
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.
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Movie∙Mar 10, 1933
King of the Jungle
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is …
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
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Movie∙Feb 18, 1933
The Crime of the Century
A doctor who is also a …
A doctor who is also a "mentalist" confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he's confessed to hasn't happened yet--although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all ...
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Relationship∙1933
Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) …
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned almost five decades and appeared in over 100 films. These films include Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942), the romance film Bird of Paradise (1932), the adventure classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Gregory La Cava's bawdy comedy Bed of Roses (1933), George Stevens' romantic comedy The More the Merrier (1943), William Wyler's These Three, Come and Get It (both 1936) and Dead End (1937), Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast (1935), and a number of western films, including Wichita (1955) as Wyatt Earp and Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962), opposite Randolph Scott.
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1932
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Movie∙Sep 17, 1932
The Night of June 13
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded …
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
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Movie∙Jun 10, 1932
Love Is a Racket
Jimmy writes the 'Up and Down Broadway' column for the …
Jimmy writes the 'Up and Down Broadway' column for the New York Globe, and he is head over heels for Mary. But Mary is more interested in her career and is looking at starring on Broadway with the help of Boncour. However, there is a problem with the rubber checks that she has written. When Jimmy tries to see if they will be held until she can pay them, he finds that they were paid in full by Shaw and now he wants Mary to show her appreciation. But no one except Shaw wants Shaw involved with Mary and it could mean trouble for everyone.
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Movie∙May 6, 1932
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
A young dress designer …
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal, who soon involves her--unwittingly--in a robbery. Sentenced to prison, she gives up her baby for adoption. When she is released 15 years later, she sets out to find her long-lost daughter. A police inspector gets involved in her search and, for reasons of his own, tries to dissuade her from finding her child.
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Movie∙Jan 9, 1932
This Reckless Age
This Reckless Age is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy …
This Reckless Age is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a Broadway play The Goose Hangs High by Lewis Beach.
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1931
Movie∙Dec 12, 1931
Working Girls
Two sisters have arrived in New York straight from the …
Two sisters have arrived in New York straight from the country and settle down in one of those boarding houses for single women. May, the older, is a bit naive, while June, the younger, is much more worldly and world-wise. The next day, they go out looking for jobs and June makes sure her older sister gets one, while she snags herself a job and a saxophone playing beau named Pat Kelly. May also finds a beau, Boyd Wheeler, a young lawyer with a degree from Harvard. While June enjoys herself and the presents she gets from Kelly, May falls more and more in love with Boyd and rejects a proposal from her boss, archaeologist Dr. von Schrader, who then fires her. Without a job, May is free to spend even more time with Boyd, despite her sister's warnings. She is heartbroken when she learns that Boyd has gotten engaged to a society girl. June does her best to comfort her sister and decides to ask Dr. von Schrader to hire May again. Since von Schrader has fallen in love with June, he rehires May who asks him to honor his proposal, which he does. A week before the wedding June learns that Boyd's engagement is off and tells him to stay away from her sister. Of course he doesn't listen and May is just as much in love with him as before. She reveals to June that she is pregnant and June decides it's time for a shotgun wedding. Afterwards, when she tells Dr. van Schrader that his wedding with May is off, he reveals that he has been in love with June for a while and they become a couple as well.
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Movie∙Nov 28, 1931
Nice Women
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the …
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
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Movie∙Nov 14, 1931
Rich Man's Folly
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the …
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
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Movie∙Aug 8, 1931
Caught
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who …
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.
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Movie∙Mar 21, 1931
June Moon
Aspiring lyricist Fred Stevens leaves Schenectady for New …
Aspiring lyricist Fred Stevens leaves Schenectady for New York City, with hopes of making it big in the songwriting business.
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1930
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Movie∙Dec 20, 1930
Along Came Youth
Rare Paramount film, supposedly lost save for a partial nitrate, …
Rare Paramount film, supposedly lost save for a partial nitrate, is typical boy chases girl film. Set in London, American Larry Brooks, former millionaire and now broke, pursues lovely ...
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Movie∙Oct 18, 1930
Playboy of Paris
Waiter Albert is incompetent is in conflict with the owner and …
Waiter Albert is incompetent is in conflict with the owner and his daughter. However a surprise inheritance means he must keep his job by day while escorting a glamorous socialite by night.
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1909
Birth∙November 1909
Frances Dee
Frances Dee was born.
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