Shelley Winters
Birthday: 1920-08-18
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Biography: Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades. She appeared in numerous films, and won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Other roles Winters appeared in include A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). In addition to film, Winters appeared in television, including a years-long tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and also authored three autobiographical books.
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The Poseidon Adventure
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape....
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Lolita
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
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The Stone Killer
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Maf...
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The Night of the Hunter
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...
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The Diary of Anne Frank
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
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The Silence of the Hams
The federal agent Joe Dee Foster is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal...
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Escape in the Fog
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees tw...
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King of the Gypsies
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandso...
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Cry of the City
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still ...
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Take One False Step
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presum...
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Pete's Dragon
Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes in...
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Bloody Mama
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 193...
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The Tenant
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit...
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Heavy
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy roadside restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the...
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist...
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the boh...
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The Initiation of Sarah
Shy misfit Sarah Goodwin has a secret gift: the ability to control — and destroy — with her mind. Wh...
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The Scalphunters
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recove...
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Harper
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him...
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A Place in the Sun
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy s...
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Larceny
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He fi...
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The Gangster
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sulliva...
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Odds Against Tomorrow
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tension...
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Frosty's Winter Wonderland
Years have passed since Frosty left for the North Pole, but his promise is kept when he hears news o...
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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldier...
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A Patch of Blue
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her esca...
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S.O.B.
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic...
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Cleopatra Jones
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug ...
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Elvis
This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to star...
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Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
Winterbolt is trying to make the North Pole his evil wonderland, and it is up to Frosty the Snowman,...
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The Pickle
Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead, he made "The Pickle" - a t...
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I Died a Thousand Times
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before reti...
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A Double Life
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage takin...
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Playgirl
If you remember Shelley Winters from "The Poseidon Adventure" or "Bloody Mama," you might tend to fo...
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Stepping Out
A has-been Broadway performer gives tap lessons to a group of misfits who, through their dance class...
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Winchester '73
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting com...
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The Portrait of a Lady
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhe...
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What's the Matter with Helen?
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious mu...
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Wild in the Streets
Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right ...
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Enter Laughing
A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman....
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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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Tonight and Every Night
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall....
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Alfie
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes...
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The Raging Tide
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide ...
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The Delta Force
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Leba...
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Poor Pretty Eddie
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge ru...
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The Big Knife
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a...
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Tentacles
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even th...
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Jury Duty
When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...
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An Average Little Man
A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring...
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The Visitor
An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reprodu...
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I Am a Camera
Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets fla...
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Phone Call from a Stranger
Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survi...
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Black Journal
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering a...
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The Young Savages
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder ...
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The Treasure of Pancho Villa
In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa....
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Fanny Hill
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another...
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On Cukor
Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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The Devil's Daughter
A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she mus...
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Diamonds
Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twi...
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City on Fire
An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reac...
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Time of Indifference
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her...
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Blume in Love
Lawyer Stephen Blume, who specializes in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his ow...
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South Sea Sinner
A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous,...
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Backfire!
Just as Jeremy Jackson attempts to become the first male firewoman in New York, fires begin mysterio...
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Witchfire
When her psychiatrist is killed in an auto accident, his mentally deranged patient and two of her ev...
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but...
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Revenge!
A deranged mother avenges herself on the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a...
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Saskatchewan
Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enli...
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The Chapman Report
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women....
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The Balcony
The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweepi...
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Meet Danny Wilson
A lounge singer sees his career skyrocket after he signs a contract for a mobster nightclub owner....
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Big Rose
Rose Winters, a private detective out of Los Angeles, teams with Ed Mills, a somewhat inexperienced ...
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Journey into Fear
U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab bus...
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Wives and Lovers
Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a stru...
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Untamed Frontier
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn D...
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Déjà Vu
A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated also believes that his present wife possesses ...
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To Dorothy, a Son
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband do...
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The Adventures of Nick Carter
Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's w...
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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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An Unremarkable Life
The close bond between two elderly sisters is threatened when one of them begins to have romantic fe...
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally ...
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Frenchie
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the me...
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Over the Brooklyn Bridge
A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domi...
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A House Is Not a Home
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello...
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The Sex Symbol
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and ho...
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Ellie
Set in the backwoods of the deep south. Young, beautiful Ellie has just witnessed the murder of her ...
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Hello Actors Studio
After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the...
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Touch of a Stranger
A mysterious stranger with a gun and a bullet wound turns up at the house of an old woman who is a r...
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My Man and I
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was wo...
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found...
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Purple People Eater
A kid plays the old novelty song "Purple People Eater" and the creature actually appears. The two th...
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Together Again
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for y...
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Killer McCoy
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerfu...
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A Death of Innocence
A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is tot...
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Red River
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive fr...
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Living in a Big Way
A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father ...
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The Magician of Lublin
Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career throug...
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Mambo
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count....
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Sailor's Holiday
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just bro...
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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on h...
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scen...
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How Do I Love Thee?
A professor recalls his atheistic father, his devoted mother and his father's blousy mistress....
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The Mad Room
Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to le...
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Groucho & Cavett
Discover the enduring friendship between television personality Dick Cavett and his mentor iconic co...
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Easier in the Dark
Two people start to live together and raise children and a double pattern is set. You're a couple an...
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Something to Hide
A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhike...
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New Orleans
A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz...
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Knickerbocker Holiday
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide th...
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That Lucky Touch
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculo...
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What a Woman
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book....
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Weep No More, My Lady
When demanding actress Leila is found drowned there are numerous suspects but the main suspect is he...
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There's Something About a Soldier
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training....
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Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
A documentary about the making of Jane Campion's 'The Portrait of a Lady'....
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Looping
A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying custo...
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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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Gideon
Gideon Dobbs is young, simple-minded man who has never stopped dreaming. He checks into a retirement...
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Cher... and Other Fantasies
In a prime time network special featuring songs from her latest album "Take Me Home," Cher finds her...
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The Re-Inforcer
A Jerry Lewis home movie remake of Humphrey Bogart's The Enforcer. Joe Lasagna (Dean Martin)'s reign...
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Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Short documentary about Charles Laughton's 1995 film "The Night of the Hunter," with interviews with...
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Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and...
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The Three Sisters
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream d...
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at ...
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Arthur? Arthur!
The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity, tha...
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Do It Debbie's Way
An aerobics workout video hosted by actress Debbie Reynolds and featuring other well known actresses...
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Very Close Quarters
Depicts a communal flat in Russia where the Government randomly assigns 20 people to live in a one-b...
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A Thousand and One Nights
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, w...
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Marlon Brando: The Wild One
An examination of the craft of Marlon Brando, narrated by professionals of the film industry. The fi...
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My Darling Vivian
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes...
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George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
This short documentary takes a look at director George Stevens' making of the classic 1951 film A Pl...
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Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies
Narrated by Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from TV's "Lost in Space"), this documentary spotlights some of...
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Bringing A Legend To Life
Promotional film taking a look at the making of John Carpenter's Elvis....
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The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe is a 1966 American documentary film chronicling the life and career of ...
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James Bond: The First 21 Years
A look back at the first 21 years of Britain's most successful film series....
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