Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 - October 26, 1952) was an American actress whose portrayal of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939) won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black person to win an Academy Award. After working as early as the 1910s as a band vocalist, Hattie McDaniel debuted as a maid in The Golden West (1932). Her maid-mammy characters became steadily more assertive, showing up first in Judge Priest (1934) and becoming pronounced in Alice Adams (1935). In this one, directed by George Stevens and aided and abetted by star Katharine Hepburn, she makes it clear she has little use for her employers' pretentious status seeking. By The Mad Miss Manton (1938) the character she portrays actually tells off her socialite employer Barbara Stanwyck and her snooty friends. This path extends into the greatest role of McDaniel's career, Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). Mammy is, in a number of ways, superior to most of the white folk surrounding her. From that point, McDaniel's roles unfortunately descended, with the characters becoming more and more menial. McDaniel played on the "Amos and Andy" and Eddie Cantor radio shows in the 1930s and 1940s, the title character in her own radio show "Beulah" (1947-51), and the same part on TV (Beulah, 1950).

  • Title: Hattie McDaniel
  • Popularity: 4.505
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1893-06-10
  • Place of Birth: Wichita, Kansas, USA
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  • Also Known As: Hattie McDaniels
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Hattie McDaniel Movies

  • 1939
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    Gone with the Wind

    Gone with the Wind

    7.9 1939 HD

    The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and...

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  • 1934
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    Judge Priest

    Judge Priest

    6.4 1934 HD

    Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great...

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  • 1934
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    King Kelly of the U.S.A.

    King Kelly of the U.S.A.

    3.5 1934 HD

    A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the...

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  • 1936
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    Show Boat

    Show Boat

    6.756 1936 HD

    Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

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  • 1932
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    Blonde Venus

    Blonde Venus

    6.8 1932 HD

    In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as...

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  • 1946
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    Song of the South

    Song of the South

    6.423 1946 HD

    Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life...

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  • 1935
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    Murder by Television

    Murder by Television

    3.7 1935 HD

    James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process...

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  • 1942
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    George Washington Slept Here

    George Washington Slept Here

    6.286 1942 HD

    New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in...

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  • 1938
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    Carefree

    Carefree

    6.608 1938 HD

    Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor...

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  • 1944
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    Since You Went Away

    Since You Went Away

    6.5 1944 HD

    In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind...

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  • 1946
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    Never Say Goodbye

    Never Say Goodbye

    6.3 1946 HD

    Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip...

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  • 1942
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    In This Our Life

    In This Our Life

    6.7 1942 HD

    An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.

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  • 1938
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    The Mad Miss Manton

    The Mad Miss Manton

    6.5 1938 HD

    When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves...

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  • 1935
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    Alice Adams

    Alice Adams

    6.7 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    The Great Lie

    The Great Lie

    6.9 1941 HD

    After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

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  • 1937
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    Saratoga

    Saratoga

    6.3 1937 HD

    A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

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  • 1941
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    They Died with Their Boots On

    They Died with Their Boots On

    6.6 1941 HD

    The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains...

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  • 1947
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    The Flame

    The Flame

    5.4 1947 HD

    George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, lives in constant jealousy, hatred and...

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  • 1941
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    Affectionately Yours

    Affectionately Yours

    4.8 1941 HD

    A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.

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  • 1949
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    The Big Wheel

    The Big Wheel

    5.8 1949 HD

    The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.

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  • 1948
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    Family Honeymoon

    Family Honeymoon

    5.7 1948 HD

    Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on...

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  • 1938
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    The Shopworn Angel

    The Shopworn Angel

    7.1 1938 HD

    During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car...

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  • 1939
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    Zenobia

    Zenobia

    4.6 1939 HD

    A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

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  • 1938
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    The Shining Hour

    The Shining Hour

    6.6 1938 HD

    A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

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  • 1946
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    Margie

    Margie

    6.9 1946 HD

    A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

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  • 1938
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    Battle of Broadway

    Battle of Broadway

    4.2 1938 HD

    The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938...

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  • 1937
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    True Confession

    True Confession

    5.8 1937 HD

    A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she...

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  • 1937
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    The Crime Nobody Saw

    The Crime Nobody Saw

    5 1937 HD

    Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

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  • 1932
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    The Boiling Point

    The Boiling Point

    4 1932 HD

    Jimmy's uncle gives him 30 days probation on Kirk's ranch to control his temper or lose his inheritance. There he gets tangled up with a gang of...

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  • 1932
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    Are You Listening?

    Are You Listening?

    5 1932 HD

    WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and...

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  • 1983
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    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    6.5 1983 HD

    Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

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  • 1934
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    Mickey's Rescue

    Mickey's Rescue

    1 1934 HD

    When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home.

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  • 1944
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    Janie

    Janie

    5.5 1944 HD

    Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

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  • 1946
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    Janie Gets Married

    Janie Gets Married

    6 1946 HD

    Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

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  • 1948
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    Mickey

    Mickey

    6 1948 HD

    A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.

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  • 1940
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    Maryland

    Maryland

    6.2 1940 HD

    A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his...

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  • 1938
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    Vivacious Lady

    Vivacious Lady

    6.8 1938 HD

    College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

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  • 1937
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    Merry Go Round of 1938

    Merry Go Round of 1938

    5 1937 HD

    Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.

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  • 1937
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    Sky Racket

    Sky Racket

    3.3 1937 HD

    A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky.

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  • 1937
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    Over the Goal

    Over the Goal

    3 1937 HD

    The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would...

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  • 1932
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    Hypnotized

    Hypnotized

    1 1932 HD

    A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.

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  • 1937
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    The Wildcatter

    The Wildcatter

    1 1937 HD

    Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing. In Texas, Lucky...

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  • 1961
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    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    3.3 1961 HD

    Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

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  • 1933
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    I'm No Angel

    I'm No Angel

    6.3 1933 HD

    The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head...

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  • 1936
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    Arbor Day

    Arbor Day

    6 1936 HD

    Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.

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  • 1935
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    We're Only Human

    We're Only Human

    6.5 1935 HD

    A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.

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  • 2004
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    Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry

    Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry

    1 2004 HD

    “I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry,” McDaniel said as she accepted the 1st...

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  • 1937
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    Nothing Sacred

    Nothing Sacred

    6.21 1937 HD

    When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

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  • 1932
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    The Washington Masquerade

    The Washington Masquerade

    6.5 1932 HD

    An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle...

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  • 1942
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    The Male Animal

    The Male Animal

    4.1 1942 HD

    The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also...

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  • 1937
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    Don't Tell the Wife

    Don't Tell the Wife

    1 1937 HD

    After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless...

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  • 1935
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    Music Is Magic

    Music Is Magic

    4 1935 HD

    An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

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  • 1937
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    Quick Money

    Quick Money

    4 1937 HD

    Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years....

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  • 1936
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    Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

    Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

    6.3 1936 HD

    Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul,...

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  • 1934
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    Fate's Fathead

    Fate's Fathead

    1 1934 HD

    Accidental meetings and misconceptions lead a blissfully happy couple to fight and squabble.

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  • 1935
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    China Seas

    China Seas

    6.3 1935 HD

    Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only...

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  • 1934
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    City Park

    City Park

    1 1934 HD

    The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into...

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  • 1936
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    The Bride Walks Out

    The Bride Walks Out

    5.3 1936 HD

    Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that...

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  • 1936
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    Postal Inspector

    Postal Inspector

    6.2 1936 HD

    Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

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  • 1937
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    Racing Lady

    Racing Lady

    5.3 1937 HD

    A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in...

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  • 1934
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    Merry Wives of Reno

    Merry Wives of Reno

    4.8 1934 HD

    Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.

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  • 1934
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    Flirtation

    Flirtation

    4.4 1934 HD

    A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.

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  • 1935
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    Traveling Saleslady

    Traveling Saleslady

    5.9 1935 HD

    A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and...

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  • 1933
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    Hello, Sister!

    Hello, Sister!

    6 1933 HD

    Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...

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  • 1936
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    High Tension

    High Tension

    5.4 1936 HD

    Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

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  • 1944
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    3 Is a Family

    3 Is a Family

    1 1944 HD

    Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his...

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  • 1943
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    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    6.1 1943 HD

    An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

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  • 1943
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    Johnny Come Lately

    Johnny Come Lately

    6.7 1943 HD

    Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will...

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  • 1936
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    Reunion

    Reunion

    1 1936 HD

    Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for...

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  • 1936
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    Libeled Lady

    Libeled Lady

    7.32 1936 HD

    When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...

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  • 1939
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    Everybody's Baby

    Everybody's Baby

    1 1939 HD

    The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

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  • 1944
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    Hi, Beautiful

    Hi, Beautiful

    9.5 1944 HD

    Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a...

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  • 2022
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    The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5

    The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5

    1 2022 HD

    The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5 contains the next 12 Our Gang sound shorts produced by the Hal Roach Studios: Anniversary...

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  • 1936
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    The Singing Kid

    The Singing Kid

    4 1936 HD

    Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl...

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  • 1937
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    Mississippi Moods

    Mississippi Moods

    1 1937 HD

    A Leslie Goodwins' feature film.

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  • 1934
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    Babbitt

    Babbitt

    6 1934 HD

    Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George...

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  • 1932
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    The Impatient Maiden

    The Impatient Maiden

    1 1932 HD

    A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.

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  • 1935
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    The Little Colonel

    The Little Colonel

    6.433 1935 HD

    After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to...

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  • 1936
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    Star for a Night

    Star for a Night

    6 1936 HD

    Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

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  • 1933
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    Good-bye Love

    Good-bye Love

    5.5 1933 HD

    A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy,...

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  • 1940
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    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    6.5 1940 HD

    This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

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  • 1935
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    Wig-Wag

    Wig-Wag

    1 1935 HD

    When Dorothy jilts her fiancee, he tries to make her jealous by getting a friend of his to dress like a woman and pose as his new girlfriend.

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  • 1988
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    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    8 1988 HD

    This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

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  • 1985
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    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

    5.583 1985 HD

    Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

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  • 2009
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    1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

    1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

    7.5 2009 HD

    This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

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  • 2014
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    And the Oscar Goes To...

    And the Oscar Goes To...

    6.971 2014 HD

    The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

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  • 1934
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    Operator 13

    Operator 13

    5.7 1934 HD

    American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress...

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  • 1934
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    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    7 1934 HD

    A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...

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  • 1935
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    Another Face

    Another Face

    4.2 1935 HD

    The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!

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  • 1936
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    The First Baby

    The First Baby

    1 1936 HD

    When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.

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  • 1985
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    Musical Comedy Tonight III

    Musical Comedy Tonight III

    1 1985 HD

    Sylvia Fine hosts this musical show featuring some great American singing and dancing stars, featuring music by Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Berlin and...

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  • 1936
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    Gentle Julia

    Gentle Julia

    1 1936 HD

    A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.

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  • 1936
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    Can This Be Dixie?

    Can This Be Dixie?

    1 1936 HD

    A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

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  • 1934
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    Lost in the Stratosphere

    Lost in the Stratosphere

    4.7 1934 HD

    Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But...

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  • 1937
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    45 Fathers

    45 Fathers

    1 1937 HD

    An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.

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  • 1934
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    The Chases of Pimple Street

    The Chases of Pimple Street

    6 1934 HD

    In order to get out of his boss's doghouse, Charley pairs his troublesome sister-in-law with an important client and inevitable complications result.

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  • 1935
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    Okay Toots!

    Okay Toots!

    1 1935 HD

    Charley Chase, a stockbroker, gets rich by mistake, has parking trouble, then at home finds his wife Toots seeing a psychic who apparently causes...

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  • 1935
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    Anniversary Trouble

    Anniversary Trouble

    6.5 1935 HD

    The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.

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  • 1950
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    The Beulah Show

    The Beulah Show

    7 1950 HD

    The Beulah Show is an American situation-comedy series that ran on CBS Radio from 1945 to 1954, and on ABC Television from 1950 to 1952. The show is...

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  • 2018
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    Explained

    Explained

    7.5 2018 HD

    This documentary series, made in partnership with Vox, explain some of the world's current trends, from politics, to science to pop culture.

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