Paulette Goddard
22) Modern times
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Criterion collection volume 543
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English
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When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
23) Pot o' gold
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A musical comedy about an out of work music lover. While working for his uncle, he becomes involved in a feud between his uncle and a group of noisy musicians who happen to live next door. He goes through an amusing chain of events as he falls in love with the girl next door.
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English
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Larry Lawrence, sought in connection with a murder he did not commit, eludes New York police by hiding in a steamer trunk. Soon the trunk are aboard a ship bound for Cuba, where the trunk's owner, pretty Mary Carter, is sailing to take possession of a recent inheritance: a 'haunted' castle. Sensing that Mary is in danger, Larry and his valet Alex precede her to the island, which is inhabited by a ghost, a zombie, and perhaps even a flesh-and-blood...
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Español
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Estados Unidos no había entrado todavía en la II Guerra Mundial, cuando Chaplin dirigió "El gran dictador", interpretando un doble papel como el dictador Hynkel y un humilde barbero judío que ignora que otra persona físicamente igual se ha eregido dictador del país.
Series
Criterion collection volume 565
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English
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In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie ... and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
28) The women
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Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
29) Sherlock Holmes
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English
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Three episodes of the series The new adventures of Sherlock Holmes from 1954-1955.
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English
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Made for each other: Newlyweds in Hollywood's Golden Age must overcome poverty, career pressures, and illness. The power of their love sees them through. Pot o' gold: An idle young rich man signs on with a struggling swing band, and convinces his uncle to put the band on the air.
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"Stockbroker Steve Bennett is being pressured to lie to his clients, but his better moral judgement just won't let him. So, when his boss and his partner bet him that no one can go without a falsehood in a 24-hour period, Steve takes on the challenge. He soon finds himself in the company of his boss's attractive niece as well as a conniving showgirl and some other interesting guests"--Container.
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"A decade after the death of an eccentric millionaire, his remaining relatives gather for the reading of the will at his abandoned mansion set deep in the Louisiana bayous. Tension builds after his niece Joyce is named the sole inheritor and it is revealed that one the other relatives will get everything if the heiress goes insane within the next thirty days. The timid Wally vows to protect Joyce who must spend the night in the haunted mansion along...
33) Second chorus
Series
Classic musicals volume 5
Language
English
Description
Second chorus: Two trumpeters compete for the same girl and a job with the Artie Shaw Orchestra.
Trocadero: Two young people a nightclub that's on the brink of bankruptcy in this musical from the 1940's. Resolved to bring the nightclub back as a success, the duo instill some of their youthful energy into the place. They start signing a variety of entertaining acts and some exciting jazz performers. Through their efforts, the young couple makes a...