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American stage and screen actress.

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5.8

1933

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Grea...

She Had to Say Yes

1933 Romance Drama

7

1929

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands....

Gold Diggers of Broadway

1929 Comedy Music

5.5

1931

Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Brown i...

Sit Tight

1931 Romance Comedy

0

1930

A night club singer falls for a gangster....

She Couldn't Say No

1930 Drama Romance

2

1931

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the o...

Manhattan Parade

1931 Comedy

6.3

1930

Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results....

The Life of the Party

1930 Comedy Romance

5

1931

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps....

Side Show

1931 Comedy Music

3

1931

Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony....

Gold Dust Gertie

1931 Comedy

5.2

1932

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler....

Play Girl

1932 Drama

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

3.4

1930

Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a din...

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

1930 History Music

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

9

2011

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (192...

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

2011 Documentary TV Movie

5.6

1931

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...

The Stolen Jools

1931 Comedy

5.5

1929

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and ...

Show of Shows

1929 Music

6

1930

A man is mistaken for a champion fighter....

Hold Everything

1930 Music Comedy

7

1933

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the r...

Dancing Lady

1933 Comedy Romance

0

1934

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no p...

I'll Fix It

1934 Comedy Romance

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1933

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1931

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1930

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1932

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1930

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1931

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1929

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