Bebe Daniels
1) 42nd street
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The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingenue, all set to a standout musical score.
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Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
3) Safety last!
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Criterion collection volume 662
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The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.
4) 42nd Street
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A Broadway musical producer desperate for success sends in an understudy when his star twists her ankle.
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42nd Street: A Broadway producer sends in an understudy when his star twists her ankle.
Gold diggers of 1937: Rosmer Peck is an insurance agent with musical ambitions who becomes romantically involved with Norma Perry, a showgirl who has given up spangles for a stenographer's pad. Her friends Genevieve Larkin and Sally LaVerne give up their tap shoes for gold digging and take up with executives in a theatrical production company that, unbeknowst...
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Classic musicals volume 9
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English
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Soundies festival: Three musical shorts, Mr. Atom's Bomb, Bubbling Over, Open the Door Richard.
Soundies cavalcade: Three musical shorts, Answer to open the door Richard, Murder in swing town, Boogie woogie dream.
Reaching for the moon: A businessman falls in love with a beautiful woman on an ocean liner.
Mr. Imperium: A beautiful singer/dancer turned actress and a playboy crown prince turned monarch secretly fall in love, only to face a succession...
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Classic musicals volume 2
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English
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Dixiana: The son of the owner of a cotton plantation and a singer fall in love, but a gambler interferes with their plans.
Palooka: Boxing manager Knobby Walsh cons Joe Palooka into a middleweight fight with champion Al McSwatt. After knocking the champ out with luck, Joe enjoys the perks of living as a prizefighter until his manager schedules another match with McSwatt.
Glorifying the American girl: A department store song-girl dances her way to...
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Rube & Mandy at Coney Island: Sweethearts head to Coney Island for a delightful day of diversions highlighted by trips to Luna Park, rides on the mechanical horses and a camel, a ropewalk, a splashdown boat ride all topped off by a Coney Island Hot Dog. The wonderful architecture and ambiance of this lost world at the turn of the century, is tenderly preserved in this rare short. Filmed in 1903 at Coney Island in New York, New York.
Coney Island:...