Charles MacArthur
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Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy to an insurance salesman, but not without a fight. The crafty editor uses every trick in his fedora to get Hildy to write one last big story about murderer Earl Williams and the inept Sheriff Hartwell. The plot snowballs as Williams' friend Molly Malloy, the crooked mayor, and his mother get tied up in Walter's web.
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"Accident? Or murder? A love-nest death is the focus of a headline-grabbing trial. But the real story may be going on in the jury room, where a colorful cross-section of American citizens quip and quibble their way through deliberations -- and where a single woman (Ginger Rogers) and a married man (Dennis Morgan) begin to fall in love"--Container.
10) Barbary Coast
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Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s.
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A doctor marries a glamour girl after preventing her from committing suicide. He then abandons his clinic for the poor to treat wealthy hypochondriacs in order to support his wife in the style to which she was accustomed. Although Georgi is grateful, she still has feelings for the man who betrayed her and led her to considering flinging herself into the ocean.
12) The front page
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A newspaper editor and his ace reporter battle each other while fighting civic corruption in Chicago.
13) The front page
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Earl Williams, a convict about to be executed, escapes, throwing the Criminal Court Building into chaos. Newspaper reporters attempt to "scoop" the story by holding Williams in a roll top desk in the press room.