Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Birthday: 1909-12-09
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best-known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939), and The Corsican Brothers (1941). The son of Douglas Fairbanks and stepson of Mary Pickford, his first marriage was to actress Joan Crawford. In 1969, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Best Dressed List. The moving image collection of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., held at the Academy Film Archive, includes over 90 reels of home movies. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
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Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
An examination of "Little Caesar" (1931) by film historians and critics....
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Ghost Story
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old sec...
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The Crooked Hearts
A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts cl...
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Gunga Din
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with...
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Morning Glory
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. ...
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Is Zat So?
A rich man hires a pair of brothers, one to teach him to box and the other to manage him. Meanwhile,...
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Little Caesar
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?...
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A Woman of Affairs
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Nevill...
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Angels Over Broadway
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-...
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Sinbad the Sailor
Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexand...
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The Corsican Brothers
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' dea...
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The Rage of Paris
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try ...
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The Young in Heart
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss ...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take...
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The Rise of Catherine the Great
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Gr...
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Joy of Living
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel B...
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Having Wonderful Time
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and find...
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Hollywood Uncensored
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for mo...
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The Dawn Patrol
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promote...
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That Lady in Ermine
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hun...
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The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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A Texas Steer
Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't rea...
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The Barker
A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far ...
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Love Is a Racket
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster....
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The Exile
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by...
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Outward Bound
A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of the...
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Kingdom Of Gifts
The story revolves around the theme of giving and the joy of sharing wealth. The plot unfolds as the...
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Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Arguably the quintessential film siren of the silent era, Mary Pickford was known as "America's Swee...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a sal...
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Our Modern Maidens
Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting ...
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Accused
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for...
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Union Depot
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr...
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Mr. Drake's Duck
Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a...
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Loose Ankles
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only recei...
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State Secret
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious Ea...
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Rulers of the Sea
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks...
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I Like Your Nerve
A bookworm goes to Latin America and saves a politician's daughter from a forced marriage....
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Jump for Glory
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner....
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Parachute Jumper
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depr...
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Green Hell
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure....
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Scarlet Dawn
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Con...
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Man of the Moment
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself....
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Captured!
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest a...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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The Power of the Press
The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm h...
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Chances
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to...
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It's Tough to Be Famous
Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an eng...
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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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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out....
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Party Girl
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a we...
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The Sun Never Sets
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home fr...
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Success at Any Price
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market cra...
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Mimi
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspirati...
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Safari
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hu...
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The Narrow Corner
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island....
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MG...
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The Show of Shows
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and ...
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The Forward Pass
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for...
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Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great...
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Stella Dallas
An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy ma...
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One Night at Susie's
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did...
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The Amateur Gentleman
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at...
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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archi...
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Night of 100 Stars III
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen K...
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The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness
A documentary about the film roles of British actor Alec Guinness. Volume 8 in a series produced by ...
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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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The Air Mail
Russ Kane obtains work as a pilot in the airmail service with the purpose of robbing the mails. Howe...
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On Location with Gunga Din
A documentary focusing on the production history and legacy of the adventure-comedy phenomenon, Gung...
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The Fighting O'Flynn
A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars....
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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and inter...
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Chase a Crooked Shadow
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dea...
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winni...
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Man Bait
Madge Dreyer is a sales girl in a large department store whose street-wise past long ago taught her ...
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Three's Company
Compilation of 3 episodes of the TV series "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents ...". "The Surgeon", "Ta...
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Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's grea...
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The Way of All Men
A variety of broad-painted and unlikely characters are trapped in an underground café when a Mississ...
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Strong Medicine
TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new mi...
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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, sil...
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The Hostage Tower
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel...
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Fast Life
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to de...
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The Garden of Eden
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carl...
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The American Venus
A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the...
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Wild Horse Mesa
Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Na...
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Little Accident
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby....
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirl...
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The Careless Age
Sir John Hayward, a noted surgeon, decides that his son Wyn, a medical student, needs a vacation as ...
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From Raquel with Love
Musical Special designed to showcase the minimal talents of Raquel Welch. Highlights include: a sce...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots....
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Women Love Diamonds
A young woman can't marry a millionaire because she was born illegitimately....
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The Costume Designer
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...
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Red and Blue
Musical short, filmed for the abandoned portmanteau film Red, White and Zero (1967)....
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Red, White, and Zero
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Bri...
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The Awakening
"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on N...
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled c...
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The Art of Film: Vintage Hitchcock
Documentary about the early British films by director Alfred Hitchcock....
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The Genie
A young woman discovers her grandfather owns the true Aladdin's lamp and discovers it's handsome Gen...
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Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, ...
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son....
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
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American Aristocracy
A young man fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daught...
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La Belle Epoque
Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...
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Dead Man's Curve
A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our...
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Trial by Jury
Set around a classic case of broken vows – the defendant having literally left the claimant at the a...
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Cox and Box
Cox works by day, and Box by night. Their rascally landlord lets the same room to both of them and d...
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H.M.S. Pinafore
Captain's daughter Josephine and common sailor Ralph Rackstraw are in love. However, their relations...
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The Pirates of Penzance
As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been appr...
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The Mikado
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...
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The Gondoliers
A couple of happy-go-lucky Venetian gondoliers discover that one of them is heir to the throne of a ...
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Iolanthe
Half-fae-half-mortal shepherd Strephon wants to wed shepherdress Phyllis, but, although she reciproc...
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depres...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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The Aviator
Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on...
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The Canterville Ghost
An American ambassador moves his family into a haunted English castle....
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Stars and Stripes: Hollywood and World War II
American Movie Classics produced this original salute to those celebrities who worked to improve the...
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Laurence Olivier: a life
A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/dir...
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The Real Charlie Chaplin
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he g...
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The Legend of Robin Hood
Musical version of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Songs by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen in...
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The Jazz Age
When Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade, ...
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The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...
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Modern Mothers
Adele Dayton, a famous actress, visits her daughter, Mildred, whom she left with relatives as an inf...
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