Mervyn LeRoy
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Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler play two young hopefuls struggling to make it on Broadway. Even falling in love has its hardships, as Powell's high-brow Eastern family is determined to break them (and the show) up. More complications set in when his brother falls for Keeler's wise-cracking roommate.
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It doesn't take Boston physician Julia Garth long to experience the genuine west after she arrives in dusty Santa Fe to set up practice. Her first patient is brought in by a youth folks call Billy the kid. How Julia wins acceptance in what most people then considered man's work shapes the in-color sagebrush tale Strange lady in town.
4) Gypsy
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Mama Rose lives to see her younger daughter, June, succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. But, June runs away and gets married. Rose then turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind. Louise changes her name to Gypsy Rose Lee. She has a volatile relationship with her overly ambitious mother.
5) The bad seed
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A single mother discovers that within her seemingly angelic daughter beats the heart of a cold-blooded serial murderer. One woman must make a terrible decision about the daughter she loves and desperately wants to protect in this classic thriller.
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Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride because he's been drafted. Wearing a friendly, wide grin, he ambles into the U.S. Air Force, and most folk will never be the same, including pint-sized Ben, big-city bruiser Irvin and a jittery aptitude tester. Then there is Sgt. Orville King who is an old-timer driven crazy by Will's gee-whiz efforts at friendship.
10) Little women
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The story of the March family of four daughters and a strong mother who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own: spirited Jo who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg; fragile Beth; and the romantic Amy. Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their most cherished and painful moments of self-discovery as their mother's pride...
11) Hard to handle
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After the dawn of sound and before the Production Code, Hollywood ran wild and free. Fearlessly and frankly tackling subjects and scenes that would quickly become forbidden to a generation of filmmakers, these seldom-seen pre-Code wonders are both revelatory and sin-sational. This fifth volume takes a walk on the wild side. This collection includes: Hard to Handle (1933), Ladies They Talk About (1933), The Mind Reader (1933), Miss Pinkerton (1932)....
12) Mary, Mary
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Bob (Barry Nelson) is a divorced book publisher who wants to reduce his alimony payments to ex-wife Mary (Debbie Reynolds) so he can afford to marry his high-living fiancee Tiffany (Diane McBain). When a snowstorm traps Bob and Mary in his apartment, their all night discussions lead to an eventual reconciliation in this amusing comedy.
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"Tortured into making a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed base commander, prejudiced officers and his own insecurities in hopes of landing the most coveted, and dangerous, test project of all: the Bell X-2 rocket plane"--Container.
18) Madame Curie
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"In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and, with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science"--Container.