E. E. Clive

E. E. Clive

Edward Erskholme Clive was a Welsh stage actor and director who had a prolific acting career in Britain and America. He also played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood movies between 1933 and his death. E. E. Clive was born on 28 August 1879 in Blaenavon in Monmouthshire. Clive studied for a medical career, and had completed four years of medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital before switching his focus to acting at age 22. Touring the provinces for a decade, Clive became an expert at virtually every sort of regional dialect in the British Isles. He moved to the US in 1912, where after working in the Orpheum vaudeville circuit he set up his own stock company in Boston. By the 1920s, his company was operating in Hollywood; among his repertory players were such up-and-comers as Rosalind Russell. He also worked at the Broadway in several plays. E. E. Clive made his film debut as a village police constable in 1933's The Invisible Man with Claude Rains, then spent the next seven years showing up in wry supporting and bit parts, where he often portrayed comical versions of English stereotypes. He often played butlers, reporters, aristocrats, shopkeepers and cabbies during his short film career. Though his roles were often small, Clive was a well-known and prolific character actor of his time. Among his best-known roles was the incompetent Burgomaster in James Whale's horror classic Bride of Frankenstein (1935). He was a semi-regular as Tenny the Butler in Paramount Pictures' Bulldog Drummond B series, starring John Howard; he also played butlers in other movies like Bachelor Mother with David Niven and Ginger Rogers. In 1939, Clive appeared in The Little Princess as the lawyer Mr. Barrows, and the first two entries of the classic Sherlock Holmes series starring Basil Rathbone. One of Clive's last roles was Sir William Lucas in the 1940 literature adaption Pride and Prejudice (1940) with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. E. E. Clive died on 6 June 1940, of a heart ailment, in his Hollywood home. He was survived by his wife Eleanor and their child. Clive was a member of the Euclid lodge of Freemasons in Boston.

  • Popularity : 3.872
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1879-08-26
  • Place of Birth : Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
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E. E. Clive Movies

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    Bride of Frankenstein

    Bride of Frankenstein

    7.5 1935 HD

    Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil...

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    The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man

    7.5 1933 HD

    Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden...

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    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    6.8 1936 HD

    An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his...

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    Dracula's Daughter

    Dracula's Daughter

    5.9 1936 HD

    A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

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    Libeled Lady

    Libeled Lady

    7.3 1936 HD

    When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...

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    The Little Princess

    The Little Princess

    6.696 1939 HD

    A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

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    Charlie Chan in London

    Charlie Chan in London

    6.9 1934 HD

    Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor....

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    The Gay Divorcee

    The Gay Divorcee

    6.8 1934 HD

    Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom...

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    Arrest Bulldog Drummond

    Arrest Bulldog Drummond

    6.7 1938 HD

    The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

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    Pride and Prejudice

    Pride and Prejudice

    6.9 1940 HD

    Mrs. Bennet wishes to wed her five unmarried daughters and is overjoyed when a wealthy bachelor begins living nearby, but misunderstandings make...

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    Rose of Washington Square

    Rose of Washington Square

    5.7 1939 HD

    Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

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    Personal Property

    Personal Property

    6.9 1937 HD

    Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow...

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    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    6.4 1936 HD

    In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances...

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    The Little Minister

    The Little Minister

    5.9 1934 HD

    The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one...

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    Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

    Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

    6.1 1937 HD

    Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to...

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    Bulldog Drummond Escapes

    Bulldog Drummond Escapes

    5.9 1937 HD

    Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a...

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    Tarzan Escapes

    Tarzan Escapes

    6.286 1936 HD

    White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and...

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    Captain Blood

    Captain Blood

    7.2 1935 HD

    Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    6.844 1939 HD

    Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis,...

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    Show Boat

    Show Boat

    6.7 1936 HD

    Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

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  • 1940
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    Congo Maisie

    Congo Maisie

    4.2 1940 HD

    Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle...

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    Lloyd's of London

    Lloyd's of London

    7.2 1936 HD

    Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure,...

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    The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    5.5 1935 HD

    A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.

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    It's Love I'm After

    It's Love I'm After

    7 1937 HD

    An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.

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    Isle of Fury

    Isle of Fury

    5.3 1936 HD

    An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.

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    Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

    Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

    5.8 1937 HD

    Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its...

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    Bulldog Drummond's Bride

    Bulldog Drummond's Bride

    6.308 1939 HD

    Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get...

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    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    The Emperor's Candlesticks

    5.2 1937 HD

    Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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    Love Before Breakfast

    Love Before Breakfast

    5.8 1936 HD

    Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues...

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    Bulldog Drummond in Africa

    Bulldog Drummond in Africa

    5.5 1938 HD

    Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an...

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    Arsène Lupin Returns

    Arsène Lupin Returns

    5.8 1938 HD

    A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...

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    The Earl of Chicago

    The Earl of Chicago

    5.6 1940 HD

    A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

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    Bulldog Drummond's Peril

    Bulldog Drummond's Peril

    5.7 1938 HD

    Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the...

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    Danger – Love at Work

    Danger – Love at Work

    7.3 1937 HD

    A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

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    Piccadilly Jim

    Piccadilly Jim

    6.5 1936 HD

    Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...

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  • 1939
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    Raffles

    Raffles

    6.2 1939 HD

    Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in...

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  • 1934
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    Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

    Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

    5.3 1934 HD

    Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed....

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    Cain and Mabel

    Cain and Mabel

    6.2 1936 HD

    A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.

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    Live, Love and Learn

    Live, Love and Learn

    5.8 1937 HD

    A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...

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  • 1936
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    Trouble for Two

    Trouble for Two

    6 1936 HD

    A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called...

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  • 1934
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    The Poor Rich

    The Poor Rich

    1 1934 HD

    Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family...

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    The Unguarded Hour

    The Unguarded Hour

    6.2 1936 HD

    A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.

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    The Dark Hour

    The Dark Hour

    5.5 1936 HD

    A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no...

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    Ticket to Paradise

    Ticket to Paradise

    6 1936 HD

    A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.

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    Long Lost Father

    Long Lost Father

    5.7 1934 HD

    A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.

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    Atlantic Adventure

    Atlantic Adventure

    5.5 1935 HD

    When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him....

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  • 1939
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    Man About Town

    Man About Town

    4.5 1939 HD

    Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he...

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    Father Brown, Detective

    Father Brown, Detective

    6.5 1934 HD

    After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Later Flambeau sends notes to...

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    We're in the Money

    We're in the Money

    5.5 1935 HD

    Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve...

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    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    7.091 1939 HD

    On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds...

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    Palm Springs

    Palm Springs

    1 1936 HD

    A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.

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    The First Hundred Years

    The First Hundred Years

    6 1938 HD

    David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave...

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    David Copperfield

    David Copperfield

    6.5 1935 HD

    Charles Dickens' timeless tale of an ordinary young man who lives an extraordinary life, filled with people who help and hinder him.

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    They Wanted to Marry

    They Wanted to Marry

    5 1937 HD

    Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She...

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    Ready, Willing and Able

    Ready, Willing and Able

    5.167 1937 HD

    Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

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    Beg, Borrow or Steal

    Beg, Borrow or Steal

    4.5 1937 HD

    We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and...

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    Kind Lady

    Kind Lady

    6.6 1935 HD

    Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea...

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    Stars Over Broadway

    Stars Over Broadway

    5.2 1935 HD

    An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

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    Bachelor Mother

    Bachelor Mother

    7.1 1939 HD

    Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct,...

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    The White Angel

    The White Angel

    8 1936 HD

    In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...

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    On the Avenue

    On the Avenue

    6.7 1937 HD

    A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake,...

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    Page Miss Glory

    Page Miss Glory

    6.3 1935 HD

    A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

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    Mr. Moto's Last Warning

    Mr. Moto's Last Warning

    5.8 1939 HD

    A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in...

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    Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

    Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

    6.1 1939 HD

    Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating...

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  • 1932
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    Cheaters at Play

    Cheaters at Play

    1 1932 HD

    Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.

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  • 1938
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    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    6 1938 HD

    Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

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    Submarine Patrol

    Submarine Patrol

    6.6 1938 HD

    A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.

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    Maid of Salem

    Maid of Salem

    5.9 1937 HD

    When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem,...

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    The Golden Arrow

    The Golden Arrow

    6.1 1936 HD

    A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.

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    All American Chump

    All American Chump

    5.8 1936 HD

    A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.

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    All American Chump

    All American Chump

    5.8 1936 HD

    A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.

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    The Last Warning

    The Last Warning

    7 1938 HD

    In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'

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    I'm from Missouri

    I'm from Missouri

    1 1939 HD

    Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to...

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    Love Under Fire

    Love Under Fire

    5.5 1937 HD

    A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.

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  • 1940
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    Foreign Correspondent

    Foreign Correspondent

    7 1940 HD

    American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...

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  • 1938
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    Gateway

    Gateway

    6.5 1938 HD

    Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

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    Flowing Gold

    Flowing Gold

    7 1940 HD

    In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires...

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    Remember Last Night?

    Remember Last Night?

    4.6 1935 HD

    After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.

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    Camille

    Camille

    7 1936 HD

    Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert...

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    One More River

    One More River

    5.3 1934 HD

    A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.

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    Night Must Fall

    Night Must Fall

    7.1 1937 HD

    Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him...

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    The Widow from Monte Carlo

    The Widow from Monte Carlo

    5 1935 HD

    In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins...

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    Gold Diggers of 1935

    Gold Diggers of 1935

    6.4 1935 HD

    Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

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  • 1940
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    Adventure in Diamonds

    Adventure in Diamonds

    5.2 1940 HD

    A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

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    Riptide

    Riptide

    6.2 1934 HD

    Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow...

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    A Feather in Her Hat

    A Feather in Her Hat

    6.8 1935 HD

    After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph...

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    3 Kids and a Queen

    3 Kids and a Queen

    6 1935 HD

    An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in...

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    The Big Parade of Comedy

    The Big Parade of Comedy

    6.3 1964 HD

    Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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    Show Boat

    Show Boat

    6.7 1936 HD

    Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

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    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    6.73 1935 HD

    The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on...

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