Walter Pidgeon
Birthday: 1897-09-22
Place of Birth: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Biography: Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor who lived most of his adult life in the United States. He starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Miniver, The Bad and the Beautiful, Forbidden Planet, Advise and Consent and Funny Girl.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction....
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Forbidden Planet
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scienti...
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Command Decision
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing ne...
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Man Hunt
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bav...
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Two-Minute Warning
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major ch...
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The Hoaxters
A 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to t...
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The Sellout
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff....
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Too Hot to Handle
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi...
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, ...
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Cinderella
After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to p...
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Sextette
On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to int...
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Mrs. Miniver
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxf...
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Dark Command
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place,...
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a stu...
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How Green Was My Valley
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn...
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Executive Suite
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to ...
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That Forsyte Woman
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who r...
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Million Dollar Mermaid
After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bat...
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Madame Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying...
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The Girl of the Golden West
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer....
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Big Red
Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Forne...
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The Neptune Factor
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it ...
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Funny Girl
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York,...
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The House Across the Bay
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charge...
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Saratoga
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y....
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter...
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Sky Murder
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth ...
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Phantom Raiders
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Lle...
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Advise & Consent
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffin...
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Swiss Family Robinson
T.V. movie adaptation of The Swiss Family Robinson. A family is shipwrecked in the South Pacific and...
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The Unknown Man
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty....
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Mrs. Parkington
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in fr...
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The Glass Slipper
In a musical retelling of the Cinderella tale, a mistreated scullery maid escapes the oppression of ...
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Dream Wife
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern...
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Julia Misbehaves
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years...
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Rascal
A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He...
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Big Brown Eyes
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detect...
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Harry in Your Pocket
A master thief and his drug-addicted partner teach two aspiring crooks how to steal wallets....
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The Rack
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In ...
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Listen, Darling
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she ...
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The Girl on the Late, Late Show
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has...
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Men of the Fighting Lady
A writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's ru...
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Blossoms in the Dust
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very y...
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The Miniver Story
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-W...
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ell...
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a w...
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Two Colonels
In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship...
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Design for Scandal
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry bos...
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Flight Command
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pe...
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Skyjacked
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia....
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Warning Shot
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case....
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White Cargo
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival ...
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The Shopworn Angel
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He me...
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Murder on Flight 502
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airlin...
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The Youngest Profession
Best friends Joan and Patricia are teenage autograph seekers who spend most of their day bumping int...
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Going Wild
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and...
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Hit the Deck
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business....
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir...
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Holiday in Mexico
Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey ...
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It's a Date
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more s...
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If Winter Comes
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily ...
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Calling Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar....
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The Screaming Woman
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the gr...
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters....
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Journal of a Crime
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime....
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Stronger Than Desire
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing....
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Society Lawyer
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall who was arrested for the ...
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The Hot Heiress
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to th...
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Man-Proof
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he...
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You Lie So Deep, My Love
A disturbed man wants his girlfriend's love and his wife's money, and will stop at nothing to get th...
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Scandal at Scourie
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitob...
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Live Again, Die Again
After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old ma...
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She's Dangerous
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of b...
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Kiss Me Again
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him...
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The Secret Heart
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death ...
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, an...
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and...
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Viennese Nights
In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa in...
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Bride of the Regiment
As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Mari...
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation
A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that h...
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The Mask of Sheba
Intrigue, romance, and the customary angry natives are the major elements in this tale of a hunt for...
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6,000 Enemies
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery char...
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House on Greenapple Road
A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy director...
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The Vatican Affair
A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome....
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Fatal Lady
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of...
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Fritz Lang, drawings for a film
A short film using parts of the storyboard drawings for Fritz Lang's Man Hunt given to the French Ci...
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Rockabye
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play....
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a din...
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Quo Vadis
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...
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The Gorilla
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an a...
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That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...
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The Kiss Before the Mirror
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who s...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...
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Meet Me in St. Louis
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 19...
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Mannequin
Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick, kidnap...
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Clothes Make the Woman
A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wou...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
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As Good as Married
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax...
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Miss Nobody
The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a g...
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Melody of Love
Historically significant as Universal's first 100% all-talkie, the production suffered from having a...
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Turn Back the Hours
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring ...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...
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The Outsider
Leontine Sturdee and her dancing partner Basil Owen tour Hungry. They meet Anton Ragatzy, a mystic f...
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The Girl from Rio
Paul Sinclair, engaged to Helen Graham, represents a large coffee concern in Rio de Janeiro and whil...
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Old Loves and New
Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geral...
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Her Private Life
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young Americ...
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Marriage License?
When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his moth...
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The Gateway of the Moon
To prevent discovery of the cruel methods he is using in building a Bolivian railway, Gillespie a ru...
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The 13th Juror
A 1927 American mystery film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue and Walter Anth...
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Woman Wise
In Jedda, Persia, American consul George Gage, known as a woman hater, is shocked when his newly arr...
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A Most Immoral Lady
Laura Sergeant (Leatrice Joy), together with her husband, Humphrey Sergeant (Sidney Blackmer) operat...
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Good Badminton
This Vitaphone short has Hugh Herbert tossing in some comedy lines while Walter Pidgeon relates the ...
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The Shortest Day
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor...
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The Lion Roars Again
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in ...
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Anniversary
Here you will see Marie Dressler, Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, Walter Huston and a host of other Ca...
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The All-Star Christmas Show
This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed ov...
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Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
Documentary on the History of Science Fiction Movies from The Day the Earth Stood Still onward....
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