George Stevens — Director (21)
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Greatest Story Ever Told
director: George Stevens actor: Max von Sydow / Michael Anderson Jr. …
other title: La più grande storia mai raccontata / A Maior História de Todos os Tempos …
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
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Kentucky Kernels (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kentucky Kernels
director: George Stevens actor: Bert Wheeler / Robert Woolsey …
other title: Dos y medio
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
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The Only Game in Town (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Only Game in Town
director: George Stevens actor: Warren Beatty / Elizabeth Taylor …
other title: L'unico gioco in città / Jogo de Paixões …
Fran walks into a piano bar for pizza. She comes back home with Joe, the piano player. Joe plans on winning $5,000 and leave Las Vegas. Fran waits for something else. Meanwhile, he moves in with her.
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I Remember Mama (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
I Remember Mama
director: George Stevens actor: Irene Dunne / Barbara Bel Geddes …
other title: Mamma ti ricordo! / Geheimnis einer Mutter …
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
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Alice Adams (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Alice Adams
director: George Stevens actor: Katharine Hepburn / Fred MacMurray …
other title: Primo amore / Désirs secrets …
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
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A Damsel in Distress (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Damsel in Distress
director: George Stevens actor: Fred Astaire / George Burns …
other title: Una magnifica avventura / Ein Fräulein in Nöten …
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.
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Hollywood Party (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hollywood Party
director: Richard Boleslawski / Allan Dwan … actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: La grande festa / Laurel & Hardy - Hollywood Party …
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
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Swing Time (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Swing Time
director: George Stevens actor: Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Follie d'inverno / Ritmo Louco …
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
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The Talk of the Town (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Talk of the Town
director: George Stevens actor: Cary Grant / Jean Arthur …
other title: Un evaso ha bussato alla porta / Zeuge der Anklage …
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
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Gunga Din (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gunga Din
director: George Stevens actor: Cary Grant / Victor McLaglen …
other title: Aufstand in Sidi Hakim
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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The More the Merrier (1943) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The More the Merrier
director: George Stevens actor: Jean Arthur / Joel McCrea …
other title: Molta brigata vita beata / Immer mehr, immer fröhlicher …
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
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A Place in the Sun (1951) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
A Place in the Sun
director: George Stevens actor: Montgomery Clift / Elizabeth Taylor …
other title: Un posto al sole / En Plads I Solen …
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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Vivacious Lady (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Vivacious Lady
director: George Stevens actor: Ginger Rogers / James Stewart …
other title: Una donna vivace / Que Papai Não Sabia …
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
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Giant (1956) [Movie]
Giant
director: George Stevens actor: Elizabeth Taylor / Rock Hudson …
other title: Il gigante / Giganten …
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
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Shane (1953) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Shane
director: George Stevens actor: Alan Ladd / Jean Arthur …
other title: Il cavaliere della valle solitaria / Shane, den tavse rytter …
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.