Edward Arnold

Edward Arnold

Birthday: 1890-02-17

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Edward Arnold (born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider; February 17, 1890 – April 26, 1956) was an American actor. Arnold began his acting career on the New York stage and became a film actor in 1916. A burly man with a commanding style and superb baritone voice, he was a popular screen personality for decades, and was the star of such film classics as Diamond Jim (1935) (a role he reprised in Le roman de Lillian Russell (1940)) Arnold appeared in over 150 films and was President of The Screen Actors Guild shortly before his death in 1956.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...

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Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun

Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's...

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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc...

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Meet John Doe
Meet John Doe

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who ...

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You Can't Take It with You
You Can't Take It with You

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Take Me Out to the Ball Game

The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a s...

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The Houston Story
The Houston Story

A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil....

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City That Never Sleeps
City That Never Sleeps

Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his st...

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I'm No Angel
I'm No Angel

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she ...

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Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You

The director's son gives interesting anecdotes about Frank Capra's making of the 1938 hit comedy, "Y...

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Johnny Eager
Johnny Eager

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love....

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All That Money Can Buy
All That Money Can Buy

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scrat...

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Miami Exposé
Miami Exposé

A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades....

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The Glass Key
The Glass Key

When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicate...

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Three on a Match
Three on a Match

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throw...

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Roman Scandals
Roman Scandals

A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asl...

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Ziegfeld Follies
Ziegfeld Follies

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his gr...

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Kismet
Kismet

Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to ...

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Idiot's Delight
Idiot's Delight

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are close...

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Sadie McKee
Sadie McKee

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house....

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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment

A man is haunted by a murder he's committed....

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Hide-Out
Hide-Out

Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the f...

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Johnny Apollo
Johnny Apollo

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then tur...

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Mrs. Parkington
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 Toast of New York
The Toast of New York

After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, a...

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Easy Living
Easy Living

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bou...

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Okay, America!
Okay, America!

A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell....

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Belles on Their Toes
Belles on Their Toes

The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet ...

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Thirty Day Princess
Thirty Day Princess

A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contr...

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Eyes in the Night
Eyes in the Night

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an o...

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Remember Last Night?
Remember Last Night?

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host ha...

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Come and Get It
Come and Get It

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years l...

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Unholy Partners
Unholy Partners

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner....

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Week-End at the Waldorf
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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Design for Scandal
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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Nothing But the Truth
Nothing But the Truth

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twen...

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The Hidden Eye
The Hidden Eye

A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of mu...

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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
The War Against Mrs. Hadley

Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the...

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The Hucksters
The Hucksters

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be...

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Main Street After Dark
Main Street After Dark

A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang....

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The Yellow Cab Man
The Yellow Cab Man

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is alway...

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No Leave, No Love
No Leave, No Love

A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his...

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The Misleading Lady
The Misleading Lady

Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack...

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The Return of Eve
The Return of Eve

Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took...

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Dear Ruth
Dear Ruth

Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins,...

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Dear Wife
Dear Wife

In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, ...

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The Mighty McGurk
The Mighty McGurk

A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from Eng...

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The Youngest Profession
The Youngest Profession

Best friends Joan and Patricia are teenage autograph seekers who spend most of their day bumping int...

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Slightly Honorable
Slightly Honorable

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name....

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Three Daring Daughters
Three Daring Daughters

Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband....

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The Earl of Chicago
The Earl of Chicago

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Ear...

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Secret of the Blue Room
Secret of the Blue Room

According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night ...

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The Lady from Cheyenne
The Lady from Cheyenne

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founde...

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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Biography of a Bachelor Girl

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsy...

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The White Sister
The White Sister

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war....

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My Brother Talks to Horses
My Brother Talks to Horses

Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horse...

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Dear Brat
Dear Brat

Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of ...

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Meet Nero Wolfe
Meet Nero Wolfe

Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comforta...

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Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star....

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Whistling in the Dark
Whistling in the Dark

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist the...

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Wallflower
Wallflower

Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy....

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Jennie Gerhardt
Jennie Gerhardt

This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series o...

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Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring

A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press....

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Big Jack
Big Jack

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America....

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Blossoms On Broadway
Blossoms On Broadway

A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway....

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Ellis in Freedomland
Ellis in Freedomland

Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first ...

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Janie Gets Married
Janie Gets Married

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

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Janie
Janie

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

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Wednesday's Child
Wednesday's Child

A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced....

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Standing Room Only
Standing Room Only

During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the...

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Three Wise Fools
Three Wise Fools

An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men....

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Big City
Big City

A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a mi...

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Inflation
Inflation

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States....

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John Meade's Woman
John Meade's Woman

"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she...

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Man About Town
Man About Town

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't t...

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The Barbarian
The Barbarian

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself....

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Sutter's Gold
Sutter's Gold

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush....

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The Crowd Roars
The Crowd Roars

A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's...

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Rasputin and the Empress
Rasputin and the Empress

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russ...

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Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu

The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle....

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Diamond Jim
Diamond Jim

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady....

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John Loves Mary
John Loves Mary

After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence w...

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Land of Liberty
Land of Liberty

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939....

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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers f...

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He Who Gets Slapped
He Who Gets Slapped

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a...

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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
The Life of Jimmy Dolan

Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and woman...

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The President Vanishes
The President Vanishes

The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol...

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Command Decision
Command Decision

High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing ne...

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Million Dollar Ransom
Million Dollar Ransom

To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helpi...

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That's Entertainment!
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 Penalty
The Penalty

In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his...

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...

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The Skipper Surprised His Wife
The Skipper Surprised His Wife

A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship....

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Duck Soup
Duck Soup

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring S...

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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of ...

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Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series....

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Living It Up
Living It Up

Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he fi...

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The Ambassador's Daughter
The Ambassador's Daughter

While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to h...

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Madame Spy
Madame Spy

Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigne...

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Blow-Ups of 1947
Blow-Ups of 1947

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

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Afraid to Talk
Afraid to Talk

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taki...

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Unknown Blonde
Unknown Blonde

An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds ...

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Phil-for-Short
Phil-for-Short

A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the dau...

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Blow-Ups of 1946
Blow-Ups of 1946

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946....

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A Star Is Born World Premiere
A Star Is Born World Premiere

Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest wo...

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Her Bodyguard
Her Bodyguard

The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the ...

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Man of Conflict
Man of Conflict

Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has ...

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

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

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A Broadway Saint
A Broadway Saint

Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vaca...

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Murder in the Pullman
Murder in the Pullman

Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on th...

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The Cost
The Cost

Against her father's wishes, Pauline Gardner marries John Dumont, a young philanderer, on his promis...

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The Higher Destiny
The Higher Destiny

A physician advises Helen Blair to seek a different climate. She is without money. Philip Cobb, her ...

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The Despoiler
The Despoiler

Wealthy miner, Ben Cameron's son, Bruce, becomes the criminal "The Shadow" after being disinherited ...

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