May Robson

May Robson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia May Robson (19 April 1858 - 20 October 1942) was an actress and playwright. A major stage actress of the late 19th and early 20th century, Robson is best known today for the dozens of 1930s motion pictures she appeared in when she was well into her seventies, usually playing cross old ladies with hearts of gold.

  • Title: May Robson
  • Popularity: 5.335
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1858-04-17
  • Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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  • Also Known As: Mary Jeanette Robison
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May Robson Movies

  • 1938
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    Bringing Up Baby

    Bringing Up Baby

    7.536 1938 HD

    David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Cary Grant

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  • 1937
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    A Star Is Born

    A Star Is Born

    7.186 1937 HD

    Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Janet Gaynor

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  • 1938
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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    6.6 1938 HD

    Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Tommy Kelly

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  • 1933
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    6 1933 HD

    In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Charlotte Henry

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  • 1939
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    They Made Me a Criminal

    They Made Me a Criminal

    6.3 1939 HD

    A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Garfield

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  • 1933
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    Lady for a Day

    Lady for a Day

    7.135 1933 HD

    Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Warren William

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  • 1933
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    Dancing Lady

    Dancing Lady

    7 1933 HD

    Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joan Crawford

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  • 1942
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    Joan of Paris

    Joan of Paris

    6.4 1942 HD

    An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Michèle Morgan

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  • 1936
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    Wife vs. Secretary

    Wife vs. Secretary

    6.8 1936 HD

    Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Clark Gable

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  • 1938
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    Four Daughters

    Four Daughters

    6.5 1938 HD

    Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Claude Rains

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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.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Jean Harlow

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    Lady by Choice

    Lady by Choice

    6 1934 HD

    To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Carole Lombard

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    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    6.6 1935 HD

    In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.

    Genre: History

    Cast: Greta Garbo

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  • 1941
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    Million Dollar Baby

    Million Dollar Baby

    6 1941 HD

    A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Priscilla Lane

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  • 1932
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    Red-Headed Woman

    Red-Headed Woman

    6.5 1932 HD

    Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jean Harlow

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  • 1933
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    Broadway to Hollywood

    Broadway to Hollywood

    4.6 1933 HD

    In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Alice Brady

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  • 1939
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    Nurse Edith Cavell

    Nurse Edith Cavell

    6.4 1939 HD

    British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anna Neagle

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  • 1933
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    The Solitaire Man

    The Solitaire Man

    6.5 1933 HD

    An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Herbert Marshall

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  • 1932
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    If I Had a Million

    If I Had a Million

    6.579 1932 HD

    An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gary Cooper

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  • 1932
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    Little Orphan Annie

    Little Orphan Annie

    5.8 1932 HD

    Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Mitzi Green

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  • 1939
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    Four Wives

    Four Wives

    5.1 1939 HD

    In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Priscilla Lane

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  • 1940
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    Irene

    Irene

    6 1940 HD

    Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Anna Neagle

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  • 1938
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    The Texans

    The Texans

    5.6 1938 HD

    After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Randolph Scott

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  • 1937
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    The Perfect Specimen

    The Perfect Specimen

    5.7 1937 HD

    Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Errol Flynn

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  • 1932
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    Strange Interlude

    Strange Interlude

    5.7 1932 HD

    After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Norma Shearer

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  • 1941
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    Four Mothers

    Four Mothers

    5.667 1941 HD

    Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Priscilla Lane

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  • 1939
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    Daughters Courageous

    Daughters Courageous

    6.1 1939 HD

    Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Garfield

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  • 1932
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    Letty Lynton

    Letty Lynton

    6.8 1932 HD

    Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Joan Crawford

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  • 1939
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    That's Right – You're Wrong

    That's Right – You're Wrong

    5.7 1939 HD

    J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Kay Kyser

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  • 1933
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    The White Sister

    The White Sister

    5.4 1933 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Helen Hayes

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  • 1933
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    Men Must Fight

    Men Must Fight

    5.7 1933 HD

    Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Diana Wynyard

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  • 1935
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    Vanessa: Her Love Story

    Vanessa: Her Love Story

    6 1935 HD

    The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Montgomery

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  • 1933
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    Beauty for Sale

    Beauty for Sale

    7 1933 HD

    A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Madge Evans

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  • 1935
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    Strangers All

    Strangers All

    5.5 1935 HD

    Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: May Robson

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  • 1934
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    Straight Is the Way

    Straight Is the Way

    5.5 1934 HD

    Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Franchot Tone

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  • 1933
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    Reunion in Vienna

    Reunion in Vienna

    7 1933 HD

    An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: John Barrymore

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    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    6.5 1983 HD

    Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Bud Abbott

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  • 1934
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    You Can't Buy Everything

    You Can't Buy Everything

    7 1934 HD

    A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: May Robson

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  • 1935
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    Grand Old Girl

    Grand Old Girl

    6.5 1935 HD

    An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: May Robson

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  • 1933
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    One Man's Journey

    One Man's Journey

    7.1 1933 HD

    Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lionel Barrymore

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  • 1935
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    Age of Indiscretion

    Age of Indiscretion

    5.2 1935 HD

    A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Paul Lukas

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  • 1939
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    Yes, My Darling Daughter

    Yes, My Darling Daughter

    4 1939 HD

    Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Priscilla Lane

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  • 1940
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    The Texas Rangers Ride Again

    The Texas Rangers Ride Again

    5.5 1940 HD

    With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Ellen Drew

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  • 1940
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    Granny Get Your Gun

    Granny Get Your Gun

    3.5 1940 HD

    An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.

    Genre: Western

    Cast: May Robson

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  • 1927
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    Rubber Tires

    Rubber Tires

    6.5 1927 HD

    When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them,...

    Genre:

    Cast: Bessie Love

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  • 1927
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    The Angel of Broadway

    The Angel of Broadway

    1 1927 HD

    Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Leatrice Joy

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  • 1933
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    Dinner at Eight

    Dinner at Eight

    6.758 1933 HD

    An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Marie Dressler

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  • 1927
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    Chicago

    Chicago

    5.471 1927 HD

    Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Phyllis Haver

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  • 1935
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    Movies on Sundays

    Movies on Sundays

    1 1935 HD

    A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow...

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    Cast: Irvin S. Cobb

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  • 1927
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    The King of Kings

    The King of Kings

    6.5 1927 HD

    The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: H.B. Warner

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  • 1941
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    Playmates

    Playmates

    4.8 1941 HD

    Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Kay Kyser

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  • 1937
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    Woman in Distress

    Woman in Distress

    6 1937 HD

    Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: May Robson

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  • 1934
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    Mills of the Gods

    Mills of the Gods

    1 1934 HD

    Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: May Robson

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  • 1936
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    The Captain's Kid

    The Captain's Kid

    6 1936 HD

    In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: May Robson

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    Rainbow on the River

    Rainbow on the River

    9 1936 HD

    A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Bobby Breen

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  • 1941
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    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

    1 1941 HD

    Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Hedda Hopper

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  • 1939
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    The Kid from Kokomo

    The Kid from Kokomo

    6 1939 HD

    Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Pat O’Brien

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  • 1915
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    How Molly Malone Made Good

    How Molly Malone Made Good

    5 1915 HD

    Molly, an Irish girl just hired by a New York newspaper, is assigned as a test a chain interview of celebrities that must be accomplished within a...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Marguerite Gale

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  • 1934
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    The Hollywood Gad-About

    The Hollywood Gad-About

    4 1934 HD

    A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Walter Winchell

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  • 1939
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    Breakdowns of 1939

    Breakdowns of 1939

    1 1939 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Joan Blondell

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  • 1940
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    Breakdowns of 1940

    Breakdowns of 1940

    4 1940 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Humphrey Bogart

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  • 1940
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    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    6.5 1940 HD

    This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Carey Wilson

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  • 1926
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    Pals in Paradise

    Pals in Paradise

    6 1926 HD

    Bill Harvey discovers a lost mine, rich with gold. Geraldine "Jerry" Howard has the claim to it left her by her father. Bill tells her that the death...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Rudolph Schildkraut

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  • 1920
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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    6.781 1920 HD

    A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: John Barrymore

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  • 1935
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    3 Kids and a Queen

    3 Kids and a Queen

    6 1935 HD

    An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: May Robson

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  • 1931
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    The She-Wolf

    The She-Wolf

    1 1931 HD

    An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: May Robson

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  • 1927
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    A Harp in Hock

    A Harp in Hock

    1 1927 HD

    A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Rudolph Schildkraut

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  • 1908
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    When Knights Were Bold

    When Knights Were Bold

    4 1908 HD

    Two noblemen fight over a lady.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Linda Arvidson

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  • 1916
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    A Night Out

    A Night Out

    1 1916 HD

    A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: May Robson

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  • 1916
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    A Night Out

    A Night Out

    1 1916 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: May Robson

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