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The Blue Bird (1940) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Blue Bird
director: Walter Lang actor: Shirley Temple / Spring Byington …
other title: Alla ricerca della felicità / O Pássaro Azul …
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
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Anthony Adverse (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Anthony Adverse
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Fredric March / Olivia de Havilland …
other title: Avorio nero / Ein rastloses Leben …
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Seventh Heaven (1937) IMDb TMDB
Seventh Heaven
director: Henry King actor: Simone Simon / James Stewart …
other title: Settimo cielo / Im siebenten Himmel …
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
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Dramatic School (1938) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dramatic School
director: Robert B. Sinclair actor: Luise Rainer / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Coup de théâtre / Passione ardente
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
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Pirates of Monterey (1947) IMDb TMDB
Pirates of Monterey
director: Alfred L. Werker actor: Maria Montez / Rod Cameron …
other title: Piratas de Monterey / Die Piraten von Monterey …
A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.
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The Climax (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Climax
director: George Waggner actor: Boris Karloff / Susanna Foster …
other title: La voce magica / La Passion du docteur Hohner …
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
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Maid of Salem (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Maid of Salem
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Claudette Colbert / Fred MacMurray …
other title: La vergine di Salem / La muchacha de Salem …
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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A Night to Remember (1942) IMDb TMDB
A Night to Remember
director: Richard Wallace actor: Loretta Young / Brian Aherne …
other title: ¡Qué noche aquella!
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
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My Favorite Blonde (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
My Favorite Blonde
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Bob Hope / Madeleine Carroll …
other title: Geliebte Spionin / La Blonde de mes rêves …
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Paris Calling (1941) IMDb TMDB
Paris Calling
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: Elisabeth Bergner / Randolph Scott …
other title: Ici Londres
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...
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The Cat and the Canary (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Cat and the Canary
director: Elliott Nugent actor: Bob Hope / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Il fantasma di mezzanotte / Erbschaft um Mitternacht …
Relatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.
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The Cat Creature (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Cat Creature
director: Curtis Harrington actor: Meredith Baxter / David Hedison …
other title: Die Katzengöttin
When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police consult scholars from the local University to help with the investigation, which is taking a more serious turn as people connected with the case are killed by wounds that seem to be from a housecat.
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The Time of Their Lives (1946) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Time of Their Lives
director: Charles Barton actor: Bud Abbott / Lou Costello …
other title: Se ci sei batti due colpi / Deux Nigauds dans le manoir hanté …
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.