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The screen's foremost "Mad Russian" (though he was more dour than demented in most of his movie appearances), Mischa Auer was the son of a Russian navy officer who died in the Russo-Japanese war. Auer's family scattered during the Bolshevik... more
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You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Cast: James Stewart Lionel Barrymore Frank Capra Jean Arthur
Tags: Comedy Screwball Comedy
Length: 126min
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play +You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism by director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin. This is the story of the zany Sycamore...
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 73min
Unexpected Father was designed as a showcase for Universal's infant "star" Baby Sandy (Sandy was a girl, but she played a boy here). Dancer Dennis O'Keefe resigns himself to being stuck with his late partner's baby, but when trying to adopt a child he...
Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
Cast: Mary Boland
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency Film Crime Comedy Crime Comedy
Length: 76min
In this socially conscious drama a sextet of juvenile delinquents flee a crime screen in their seedy ghetto and wind up getting invited to a posh mansion by a wealthy criminal. Their attempts to accustom themselves to the opulent surroundings nearly...
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Louis Hayward Danielle Darrieux
Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 78min
This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She appears as a French model who's come to New York to find a job. Things go a little awry in her first interview when she applies...
Cast: Vincent Price
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 85min
In this frothy comedy-drama, a businesswoman owns a successful service bureau for the filthy rich. Her service does everything from handling mundane finances to putting on weddings. Her most recent client wants her to prevent his rube of a nephew from...
Tags: Musical Drama Musical
Length: 110min
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast....
Length: 87min
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 was the first (and last) of a proposed series of films spotlighting top Broadway talent. Three headliners from the Great White Way--comedian Bert Lahr, pantomime artist Jimmy Savo and monologist Billy House--team with veteran...
One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
Cast: Deanna Durbin
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Musical Backstage Musical
Length: 84min
The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little miss fix-it" stage, Durbin connives to help the musicians crack the big time. The person Durbin is most concerned with is her...
Cast: Oliver Hardy
Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 70min
Film collectors take note: Hal Roach's Pick a Star is not a Laurel and Hardy picture, though the popular comic duo does make a brace of amusing cameo appearances halfway through the film. A remake of Buster Keaton's Free and Easy, this is the story of...
Cast: Mischa Auer Madeleine Carroll
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 80min
In this romance, a secretary is awarded a legacy. Later she meets a male secretary who begins protecting her from an avaricious baron endeavoring to steal her money. The two rivals engage in fisticuffs, and the secretary loses. Fortunately, he wins...
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