Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame. She won all 5 Golden Globes for which she was nominated, and was tied with Meryl Streep for wins until 2007 when Streep was awarded a sixth. Russell won a Tony Award in 1953 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Ruth in the Broadway show Wonderful Town (a musical based the film My Sister Eileen, in which she also starred). Russell was known for playing character roles, exceptionally wealthy, dignified ladylike women. She had a wide career span from the 1930s to the 1970s and attributed her long career to the fact that, although usually playing classy and glamorous roles, she never became a sex symbol, not being famous for her looks. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rosalind Russell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Rosalind Russell
  • Popularity: 4.721
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1907-06-04
  • Place of Birth: Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
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Rosalind Russell Movies

  • 1940
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    His Girl Friday

    His Girl Friday

    7.4 1940 HD

    Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his...

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  • 2006
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    On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'

    On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'

    1 2006 HD

    In this documentary short, film historian David Thomson and critic Molly Haskell analyze the themes of Howard Hawks's 1940 film "His Girl Friday."

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  • 2017
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    Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

    Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

    1 2017 HD

    In this 25-minute video essay, film scholar David Bordwell, co-author of "Film Art: An Introduction", conducts an analysis of Howard Hawks's "His...

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  • 1939
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    The Women

    The Women

    7 1939 HD

    A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

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  • 1972
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    The Crooked Hearts

    The Crooked Hearts

    7.8 1972 HD

    A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly...

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  • 1942
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    My Sister Eileen

    My Sister Eileen

    6.7 1942 HD

    Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen...

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  • 1948
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    The Velvet Touch

    The Velvet Touch

    6.1 1948 HD

    After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

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  • 1967
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    Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad

    Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad

    4.7 1967 HD

    A woman brings her son and husband to a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead...

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  • 1947
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    The Guilt of Janet Ames

    The Guilt of Janet Ames

    5.6 1947 HD

    A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.

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  • 1958
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    Auntie Mame

    Auntie Mame

    6.9 1958 HD

    Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues...

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  • 1966
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    The Trouble with Angels

    The Trouble with Angels

    6.6 1966 HD

    Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens...

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  • 1938
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    Four's a Crowd

    Four's a Crowd

    5.1 1938 HD

    A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.

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  • 1962
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    Gypsy

    Gypsy

    6.3 1962 HD

    Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention...

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  • 1955
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    Picnic

    Picnic

    6.3 1955 HD

    Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a...

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  • 1935
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    Reckless

    Reckless

    5.3 1935 HD

    A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

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  • 1946
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    Sister Kenny

    Sister Kenny

    6.5 1946 HD

    An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the...

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  • 1968
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    Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

    Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

    6.2 1968 HD

    Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country.

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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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  • 1947
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    Mourning Becomes Electra

    Mourning Becomes Electra

    6.3 1947 HD

    Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile...

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  • 1935
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    Rendezvous

    Rendezvous

    4.8 1935 HD

    A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

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  • 1934
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    Evelyn Prentice

    Evelyn Prentice

    6.6 1934 HD

    A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.

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  • 1938
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    The Citadel

    The Citadel

    6.3 1938 HD

    Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at...

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  • 1936
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    Under Two Flags

    Under Two Flags

    6 1936 HD

    Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major...

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  • 1937
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    Night Must Fall

    Night Must Fall

    7.1 1937 HD

    Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him...

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  • 1941
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    The Feminine Touch

    The Feminine Touch

    5.1 1941 HD

    A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind...

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  • 1941
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    Design for Scandal

    Design for Scandal

    5.2 1941 HD

    A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.

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  • 1941
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    They Met in Bombay

    They Met in Bombay

    7.4 1941 HD

    A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.

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  • 1935
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    The Casino Murder Case

    The Casino Murder Case

    6.5 1935 HD

    When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the...

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  • 1940
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    Hired Wife

    Hired Wife

    6.8 1940 HD

    Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

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  • 1942
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    Take a Letter, Darling

    Take a Letter, Darling

    6.5 1942 HD

    A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...

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  • 1945
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    She Wouldn't Say Yes

    She Wouldn't Say Yes

    5.9 1945 HD

    Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with...

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  • 1953
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    Never Wave at a WAC

    Never Wave at a WAC

    4.9 1953 HD

    A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many...

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  • 1936
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    Craig's Wife

    Craig's Wife

    6.3 1936 HD

    Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult...

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  • 1935
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    West Point of the Air

    West Point of the Air

    6 1935 HD

    An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.

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  • 1934
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    Forsaking All Others

    Forsaking All Others

    6.4 1934 HD

    A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.

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  • 1950
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    A Woman of Distinction

    A Woman of Distinction

    6.2 1950 HD

    Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy,...

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  • 1940
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    No Time for Comedy

    No Time for Comedy

    5.5 1940 HD

    An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

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  • 1945
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    Roughly Speaking

    Roughly Speaking

    6.8 1945 HD

    In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and...

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  • 1943
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    Flight for Freedom

    Flight for Freedom

    5.2 1943 HD

    A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of...

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  • 1961
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    A Majority of One

    A Majority of One

    5.7 1961 HD

    A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the...

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  • 1955
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    The Girl Rush

    The Girl Rush

    3.7 1955 HD

    When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single gal Kim Halliday jumps at a caller's claim that...

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  • 1937
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    Live, Love and Learn

    Live, Love and Learn

    5.8 1937 HD

    A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...

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  • 1971
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    Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

    Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

    6.1 1971 HD

    Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and...

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  • 1936
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    Trouble for Two

    Trouble for Two

    6 1936 HD

    A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called...

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  • 1995
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    The Flood of ‘55

    The Flood of ‘55

    1 1995 HD

    A documentary covering the great flood of 1955 that swept through the state of Connecticut, including testimonies and eyewitness accounts from...

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  • 1939
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    Fast and Loose

    Fast and Loose

    5.7 1939 HD

    The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

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  • 1935
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    The Night Is Young

    The Night Is Young

    5 1935 HD

    Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with...

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  • 1938
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    Man-Proof

    Man-Proof

    4.8 1938 HD

    A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.

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  • 1967
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    Rosie!

    Rosie!

    1 1967 HD

    An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.

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  • 1943
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    What a Woman

    What a Woman

    5.8 1943 HD

    An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.

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  • 1940
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    This Thing Called Love

    This Thing Called Love

    8 1940 HD

    Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

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  • 1949
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    Tell It to the Judge

    Tell It to the Judge

    6.3 1949 HD

    Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her...

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  • 1962
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    Five Finger Exercise

    Five Finger Exercise

    4.8 1962 HD

    The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.

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  • 1945
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary

    Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary

    1 1945 HD

    A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...

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  • 1942
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

    1 1942 HD

    The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

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  • 1936
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    It Had to Happen

    It Had to Happen

    5.5 1936 HD

    A poor boy rises to power in politics.

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  • 1958
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    Wonderful Town

    Wonderful Town

    6.6 1958 HD

    Ruth Sherwood and her sister, Eileen, have moved to 1935 Greenwich Village. They're surrounded by colorful Village characters (including an...

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  • 1934
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    The President Vanishes

    The President Vanishes

    7 1934 HD

    The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman...

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  • 1941
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    Breakdowns of 1941

    Breakdowns of 1941

    7 1941 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

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  • 1973
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    The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

    The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

    6 1973 HD

    Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.

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  • 1947
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    Blow-Ups of 1947

    Blow-Ups of 1947

    6.3 1947 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.

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  • 1994
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    That's Entertainment! III

    That's Entertainment! III

    6.9 1994 HD

    Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

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  • 1937
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    The Romance of Celluloid

    The Romance of Celluloid

    7 1937 HD

    Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater,...

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  • 1938
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    Breakdowns of 1938

    Breakdowns of 1938

    5 1938 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

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  • 1944
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    Breakdowns of 1944

    Breakdowns of 1944

    6.5 1944 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.

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  • 1940
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    Hollywood: Style Center of the World

    Hollywood: Style Center of the World

    5.5 1940 HD

    This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...

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  • 1939
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    From the Ends of the Earth

    From the Ends of the Earth

    1 1939 HD

    An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at...

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  • 1940
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    A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

    A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

    6.7 1940 HD

    This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

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  • 1936
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

    6 1936 HD

    Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to...

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  • 1988
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    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    6 1988 HD

    Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

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  • 1994
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    The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

    The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

    6.5 1994 HD

    James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959)...

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  • 1956
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    The Unguarded Moment

    The Unguarded Moment

    6.2 1956 HD

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  • 1971
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    Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

    Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

    6.1 1971 HD

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    5.5 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6.5 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1973
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    The American Film Institute Salute to ...

    The American Film Institute Salute to ...

    4.5 1973 HD

    In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally...

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    5.8 1953 HD

    Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    4.8 1961 HD

    The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.5 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.6 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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