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Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge (1937)

Cast: Gene Autry Art Mix Charles B. Middleton Jack Kirk Betty Bronson   

Tags: Musical Western Western Traditional Western 

Length: 59min

The prolific Jack Natteford wrote this unusual Gene Autry Western -- or, to be accurate, "Eastern" -- which reportedly suffered cuts after censors found it too violent. Gene, as usual, plays Gene Autry, this time the son of a Georgian cattleman...

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Lover Come Back (1931)

Cast: Erle C. Kenton Betty Bronson Constance Cummings Jack Mulhall Jameson Thomas   

Tags: Comedy Romance 

Length: 73min

This first of three talkies bearing the title Lover Come Back stars Constance Cummings as Connie, a super-efficient stenographer. Connie would willingly forsake her career if office manager Tom Evans (Jack Mulhall) would propose, but he barely knows...

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The Medicine Man (1930)

Cast: Jack Benny Betty Bronson Russell Schoengarth George E. Stone Tom Dugan   

Tags: Melodrama Drama 

Length: 57min

Jack Benny wasn't even 39 yet when he starred in the maudlin backstage drama The Medicine Man. Benny plays Dr. John Harvey, the worldly and none-too-honest title character, who while passing through a small town falls in love with winsome Mamie Goltz...

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Sonny Boy (1929)

Cast: Al Jolson Edward Everett Horton Archie Mayo Betty Bronson Buddy G. DeSylva   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 70min

A custody battle for a little boy forms the basis of this domestic comedy, a talkie that is so early that title cards are interspersed amongst the dialog. The parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into...

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One Stolen Night (1929)

Cast: Scott R. Dunlap Betty Bronson Mitchell Lewis Angelo Rossitto William Collier, Jr.   

Tags: Adventure Crime 

Length: 58min

In this adventure, a remake of 1923's The Arab, a British cavalry soldier stationed in the Sudan takes the rap for his brother, who had been accused of stealing; the soldier subsequently joins a vaudeville troupe. There he falls in love with a lovely...

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Bellamy Trial (1929)

Cast: Leatrice Joy Monta Bell Betty Bronson Ken Thomson Charles B. Middleton   

Tags: Courtroom Drama Crime Thriller Mystery Crime 

Length: 95min

Popular silent-screen star Leatrice Joy made an adequate talking-picture debut in MGM's The Bellamy Trial. The film was based on a novel by Frances Noyes Hart, which in turn was allegedly inspired by a true story. Told in flashback form (a la Elmer...

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The Singing Fool (1928)

Cast: Al Jolson Lloyd Bacon Betty Bronson Reed Howes Ralph Dawson   

Tags: Melodrama Musical Drama Drama 

Length: 105min

Popular film lore has it that The Jazz Singer was the film that established the talkie as the pre-eminent film medium in 1927. But it was Al Jolson's follow-up film, The Singing Fool that actually introduced the sound film to the general film-going...

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Open Range (1927)

Cast: Betty Bronson Fred Kohler Lane Chandler J. Walter Ruben John Stone   

Tags: Western 

Length: 60min

Paramount Pictures used the Zane Grey adaptation Open Range as a showcase for its newest western star (and potential Gary Cooper replacement) Lane Chandler. Teamed with winsome Betty Bronson, who three years earlier had starred in Paramount's Peter...

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The Locked Door (1929)

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck Rod La Rocque William Cameron Menzies Betty Bronson ZaSu Pitts   

Tags: Drama Crime 

Length: 70min

In this drama, which marks Barbara Stawyck's Hollywood film debut, a woman is taken to an illegal cabaret set aboard a wealthy man's yacht. Her captor, the owner, then locks her in a stateroom. When the cops raid the joint, she is photographed with...

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