Esther Dale

Esther Dale

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Esther Dale (November 10, 1885 – July 23, 1961) was an American actress, best known perhaps for her role as Aunt Genevieve in the 1935 Shirley Temple vehicle, Curly Top. On the stage, Dale starred in Carrie Nation on Broadway in 1933. Her other Broadway credits include Harvest of Years (1947), And Be My Love (1944), and Another Language (1932). Dale's first film was Crime Without Passion (1934) in an uncredited role. She was a familiar face in films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, frequently playing stern, authoritarian characters such as prison matrons and head nurses, although she was equally adept at playing grande dames and ladies of the aristocracy. Dale played many roles in television over the years. In the 1958-1959 season of The Donna Reed Show, Dale played a job-seeking housekeeper who is frightened from the Stone home by Jeff Stone's pet mouse, and she appeared in the 1957 Maverick episode "According to Hoyle" opposite James Garner.

  • Title: Esther Dale
  • Popularity: 8.159
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1885-11-10
  • Place of Birth: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
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  • Also Known As: Ester Dale
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Esther Dale Movies

  • 1940
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    The Mortal Storm

    The Mortal Storm

    7.2 1940 HD

    The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...

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  • 1940
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    Blondie Has Servant Trouble

    Blondie Has Servant Trouble

    7.2 1940 HD

    Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid....

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  • 1952
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    Monkey Business

    Monkey Business

    6.7 1952 HD

    Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and...

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  • 1941
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    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    6.2 1941 HD

    Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her?...

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  • 1949
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    Holiday Affair

    Holiday Affair

    6.782 1949 HD

    Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by...

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  • 1937
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    Dead End

    Dead End

    6.952 1937 HD

    Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of...

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  • 1950
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    No Man of Her Own

    No Man of Her Own

    6.909 1950 HD

    A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

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  • 1935
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    Curly Top

    Curly Top

    6.4 1935 HD

    Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr....

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  • 1937
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    The Awful Truth

    The Awful Truth

    7.2 1937 HD

    Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

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  • 1945
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    Her Favorite Patient

    Her Favorite Patient

    5.8 1945 HD

    A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and...

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  • 1946
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    A Stolen Life

    A Stolen Life

    6.4 1946 HD

    A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.

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  • 1943
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    The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

    The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

    6.4 1943 HD

    A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

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  • 1941
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    Dangerously They Live

    Dangerously They Live

    5.9 1941 HD

    A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

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  • 1939
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    Bad Little Angel

    Bad Little Angel

    4.9 1939 HD

    A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

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  • 1941
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    All-American Co-Ed

    All-American Co-Ed

    4.2 1941 HD

    Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for...

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  • 1935
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    I Dream Too Much

    I Dream Too Much

    4.9 1935 HD

    Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love,...

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  • 1950
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    Walk Softly, Stranger

    Walk Softly, Stranger

    5 1950 HD

    A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.

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  • 1942
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    Maisie Gets Her Man

    Maisie Gets Her Man

    6.5 1942 HD

    Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

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  • 1947
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    The Unfinished Dance

    The Unfinished Dance

    6 1947 HD

    A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn't like.

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  • 1935
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    Private Worlds

    Private Worlds

    5.857 1935 HD

    At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr....

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  • 1946
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    My Reputation

    My Reputation

    7.1 1946 HD

    Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her...

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  • 1957
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    The Oklahoman

    The Oklahoman

    5.6 1957 HD

    After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately,...

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  • 1939
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    Blackmail

    Blackmail

    6.4 1939 HD

    A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

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  • 1943
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    Murder in Times Square

    Murder in Times Square

    4.6 1943 HD

    An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.

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  • 1941
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    Back Street

    Back Street

    7.2 1941 HD

    Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion...

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  • 1946
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    Margie

    Margie

    6.9 1946 HD

    A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

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  • 1939
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    Broadway Serenade

    Broadway Serenade

    6.2 1939 HD

    A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

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  • 1940
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    Convicted Woman

    Convicted Woman

    3.7 1940 HD

    A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

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  • 1940
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    And One Was Beautiful

    And One Was Beautiful

    6.2 1940 HD

    A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

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  • 1941
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    Aloma of the South Seas

    Aloma of the South Seas

    5.7 1941 HD

    A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

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  • 1938
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    Stolen Heaven

    Stolen Heaven

    1 1938 HD

    Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape together after their latest escapade and hide out in the...

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  • 1936
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    The Case Against Mrs. Ames

    The Case Against Mrs. Ames

    1 1936 HD

    An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.

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  • 1938
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    Condemned Women

    Condemned Women

    6.3 1938 HD

    A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.

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  • 1940
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    Women Without Names

    Women Without Names

    4.8 1940 HD

    Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

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  • 1940
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    Arise, My Love

    Arise, My Love

    6.1 1940 HD

    A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

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  • 1946
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    Smoky

    Smoky

    5.2 1946 HD

    Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her...

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  • 1939
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    6,000 Enemies

    6,000 Enemies

    6 1939 HD

    A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

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  • 1939
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    The Great Man Votes

    The Great Man Votes

    6.1 1939 HD

    In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...

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  • 1935
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    The Wedding Night

    The Wedding Night

    6 1935 HD

    While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of...

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  • 1943
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    The North Star

    The North Star

    6.1 1943 HD

    A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."

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  • 1940
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    Laddie

    Laddie

    6 1940 HD

    Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.

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  • 1937
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    Easy Living

    Easy Living

    7 1937 HD

    J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

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  • 1939
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    Tell No Tales

    Tell No Tales

    5.3 1939 HD

    A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

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  • 1938
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    Prison Farm

    Prison Farm

    5.7 1938 HD

    Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence...

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  • 1938
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    Girls on Probation

    Girls on Probation

    5.9 1938 HD

    A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

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  • 1943
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    Old Acquaintance

    Old Acquaintance

    6.9 1943 HD

    Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

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  • 1937
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    Damaged Goods

    Damaged Goods

    3.4 1937 HD

    A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

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  • 1939
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    Made for Each Other

    Made for Each Other

    6.216 1939 HD

    A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

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  • 1942
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    A Letter From Bataan

    A Letter From Bataan

    4.5 1942 HD

    An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.

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  • 1939
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    A Child Is Born

    A Child Is Born

    6.5 1939 HD

    A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

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  • 1939
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    The Women

    The Women

    7.1 1939 HD

    A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

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  • 1935
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    In Old Kentucky

    In Old Kentucky

    1 1935 HD

    Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather...

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  • 1939
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    Swanee River

    Swanee River

    6.5 1939 HD

    Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

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  • 1939
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    Sergeant Madden

    Sergeant Madden

    6 1939 HD

    A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

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  • 1937
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    On Such a Night

    On Such a Night

    1 1937 HD

    When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.

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  • 1940
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    Village Barn Dance

    Village Barn Dance

    1 1940 HD

    Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by...

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  • 1936
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    Fury

    Fury

    7.477 1936 HD

    Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...

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  • 1936
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    Timothy's Quest

    Timothy's Quest

    3 1936 HD

    Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with...

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  • 1940
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    Untamed

    Untamed

    4.3 1940 HD

    A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit...

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  • 1936
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    Hollywood Boulevard

    Hollywood Boulevard

    2.5 1936 HD

    With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

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  • 1955
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    Betrayed Women

    Betrayed Women

    4.7 1955 HD

    Love-starved gun molls (Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels) escape from a prison farm where matrons make their lives miserable.

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  • 1940
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    Abe Lincoln in Illinois

    Abe Lincoln in Illinois

    7 1940 HD

    Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

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  • 1937
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    Wild Money

    Wild Money

    1 1937 HD

    A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping...

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  • 1942
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    What's Cookin'?

    What's Cookin'?

    5.5 1942 HD

    J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the...

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  • 1936
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    The Farmer in the Dell

    The Farmer in the Dell

    1 1936 HD

    An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.

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  • 1945
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    Behind City Lights

    Behind City Lights

    1 1945 HD

    This Republic programmer stars Lynne Roberts as a country gal who is slickered by a couple of city-fied jewel thieves, played by Peter Cookson and...

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  • 1940
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    Cross-Country Romance

    Cross-Country Romance

    6.4 1940 HD

    A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

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  • 1935
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    I Live My Life

    I Live My Life

    6.4 1935 HD

    A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

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  • 1935
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    Mary Burns, Fugitive

    Mary Burns, Fugitive

    1 1935 HD

    A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

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  • 1942
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    Blondie Goes to College

    Blondie Goes to College

    6.4 1942 HD

    Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband,...

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  • 1950
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    Surrender

    Surrender

    4.8 1950 HD

    Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of...

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  • 1940
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    Forty Little Mothers

    Forty Little Mothers

    6.2 1940 HD

    An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

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  • 1942
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    Ten Gentlemen from West Point

    Ten Gentlemen from West Point

    5.8 1942 HD

    This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century,...

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  • 1939
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    How to Sub-Let

    How to Sub-Let

    3.5 1939 HD

    A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

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  • 1939
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    Big Town Czar

    Big Town Czar

    1 1939 HD

    When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his...

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  • 1937
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    Outcast

    Outcast

    1 1937 HD

    A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.

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  • 1960
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    North to Alaska

    North to Alaska

    6.544 1960 HD

    After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that...

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  • 1941
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    Unfinished Business

    Unfinished Business

    5.3 1941 HD

    Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment –...

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  • 1942
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    You're Telling Me

    You're Telling Me

    1 1942 HD

    Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

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  • 1948
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    A Song Is Born

    A Song Is Born

    6.439 1948 HD

    The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome...

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  • 1942
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    Wrecking Crew

    Wrecking Crew

    5.5 1942 HD

    Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew...

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  • 1959
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    The Sound and the Fury

    The Sound and the Fury

    6.6 1959 HD

    Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith,...

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  • 1947
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    The Egg and I

    The Egg and I

    7 1947 HD

    World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country....

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  • 1952
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    Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

    Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

    5.9 1952 HD

    Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter...

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  • 1955
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    Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

    Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

    6.8 1955 HD

    Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from...

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  • 1949
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    Ma and Pa Kettle

    Ma and Pa Kettle

    7.2 1949 HD

    The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new...

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  • 1943
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    Swing Your Partner

    Swing Your Partner

    1 1943 HD

    Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, the oldest plant in...

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  • 1935
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    The Great Impersonation

    The Great Impersonation

    1 1935 HD

    The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

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  • 1945
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    On Stage Everybody

    On Stage Everybody

    1 1945 HD

    Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

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  • 1951
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    Too Young to Kiss

    Too Young to Kiss

    5 1951 HD

    Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a...

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  • 1934
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    Crime Without Passion

    Crime Without Passion

    5.8 1934 HD

    Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance...

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  • 1953
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    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    1 1953 HD

    A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.

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  • 1936
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    Lady of Secrets

    Lady of Secrets

    6 1936 HD

    Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

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  • 1940
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    Opened by Mistake

    Opened by Mistake

    1 1940 HD

    A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

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  • 1951
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    On Moonlight Bay

    On Moonlight Bay

    6.4 1951 HD

    The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives...

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  • 1959
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    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

    5.9 1959 HD

    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a...

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  • 1954
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    December Bride

    December Bride

    5.5 1954 HD

    December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series...

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  • 1960
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.4 1960 HD

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host...

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  • 1957
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    M Squad

    M Squad

    5.2 1957 HD

    Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption...

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  • 1958
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    The Donna Reed Show

    The Donna Reed Show

    6.3 1958 HD

    Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time...

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  • 1959
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    Lock-Up

    Lock-Up

    6.2 1959 HD

    Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had...

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  • 1952
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    Cavalcade of America

    Cavalcade of America

    3.5 1952 HD

    Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an...

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  • 1952
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    Mr. & Mrs. North

    Mr. & Mrs. North

    4.8 1952 HD

    Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry...

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  • 1957
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    Maverick

    Maverick

    6.8 1957 HD

    The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than...

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  • 1952
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    Four Star Playhouse

    Four Star Playhouse

    6.125 1952 HD

    Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer...

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