David O. Selznick — Producer (20)
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State's Attorney (1932) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
State's Attorney
director: George Archainbaud actor: John Barrymore / Helen Twelvetrees …
other title: El fiscal / La última acusación
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
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Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Stazione Termini
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Jennifer Jones / Montgomery Clift …
other title: Stazione Termini / Med natekspres Rom-Paris …
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
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Dinner at Eight (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dinner at Eight
director: George Cukor actor: Marie Dressler / John Barrymore …
other title: Pranzo alle otto / Dinner um acht …
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
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Little Orphan Annie (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Little Orphan Annie
director: John S. Robertson actor: Mitzi Green / Buster Phelps …
Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.
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A Tale of Two Cities (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Tale of Two Cities
director: Jack Conway actor: Ronald Colman / Elizabeth Allan …
other title: Le due città / Flucht aus Paris …
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
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The Paradine Case (1947) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Paradine Case
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Gregory Peck / Ann Todd …
other title: Il caso Paradine / Der Fall Paradin …
In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Though happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his enigmatic client and convinced of her innocence. His obsession clouds his judgment as he builds a defense implicating her servant, André Latour—an act that leads to devastating consequences both in court and at home.
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Dancing Lady (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dancing Lady
director: Robert Z. Leonard actor: Joan Crawford / Clark Gable …
other title: La danza di Venere / Ich tanze nur für Dich …
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
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The Fighting Generation (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Fighting Generation
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Jennifer Jones / Eddie Bracken
A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jennifer Jones as a nurse's aide. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Academy War Film Collection, in 2008.
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Prisoner of Zenda
director: John Cromwell actor: Ronald Colman / Madeleine Carroll …
other title: Il prigioniero di Zenda / Der Gefangene von Zenda …
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
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Spellbound (1945) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban KevGa-NeoDB TMDB Skybridge WikiData
Spellbound
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Ingrid Bergman / Harry Brown …
other title: Io ti salverò / Troldbunden …
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.