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Twenty Years After (1944)
Character: (archive footage)
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
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Personalities (1942)
Character: Sheila Brooks (screen test footage) (uncredited)
In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included. The narrator says that moviegoers will have to decide whether these fledgling actors and actresses have that certain quality that made superstars out of MGM players Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Lana Turner.
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Moochie of Pop Warner Football (1960)
Character: Louise Morgan
Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the Disneyland Bowl, and get to enjoy a visit to the park.
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Moochie of the Little League (1959)
Character: Louise Morgan
A young newspaper boy who is on a Little League team works hard to persuade an elderly Englishman, with whom he had a previous run-in, to donate land for a baseball diamond.
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Rodeo (1952)
Character: Dixie Benson
Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association. Instead, she is talked into assuming management of the rodeo by Slim Martin and the other performers when they learn the promoter has run off with the cash receipts.
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Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Character: Showgirl
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Girl Crazy (1943)
Character: Marjorie Tait
Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...
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Swing Shift Maisie (1943)
Character: Worker (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
Character: Irene
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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Thousands Cheer (1943)
Character: Marie Corbino
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.
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Wings of Chance (1961)
Character: Arlene Baker
Red Kirby is a seasoned bush pilot. When he crash lands his plane near a remote lake in northern Alberta, he is initially optimistic that he will soon be rescued. However, as the months drag by, Kirby realizes that he must take his fate into his own hands. To combat the loneliness, he befriends a family of Canada geese.
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Money Madness (1948)
Character: Julie Saunders
A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town.
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Dragon Seed (1944)
Character: Orchid Tan - Lao Ta's Wife
Life in a small Chinese village is turned upside down when the Japanese invade it. A heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against the Japanese invaders.
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Young Ideas (1943)
Character: Co-ed
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
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Fingers at the Window (1942)
Character: Clinic Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
Character: Portia Adair
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Character: Girl getting off bus
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Mrs. Parkington (1944)
Character: Jane Stilham
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
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Curley (1947)
Character: Mildred Johnson
The students of Lakeview Elementary devise comedic ways to torment their new teacher.
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Hitler's Madman (1943)
Character: Annaliese Cermak (uncredited)
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
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An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949)
Character: Frances Shaw
A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.
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Lady at Midnight (1948)
Character: Ellen McPhail Wiggins
A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.
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The Hidden Eye (1945)
Character: Jean Hampton
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
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Lost Honeymoon (1947)
Character: Lois Evans
An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.
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Bad Bascomb (1946)
Character: Dora McCabe
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
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The Adventures of Don Coyote (1947)
Character: Maggie Riley
Near Border Flats, Don Coyote and his friend Sancho are interrupted on their way to the fiesta by a fight. A quick intervention on their part prompts ranch owner Maggie Riley to hire them. Coyote and Sancho meet her surly, younger brother Ted who is wanting Maggie to sell their cattle herd to pay off a bank loan before they lose the ranch. But when they try to drive a herd to market, a gang led by Big Foot Ferguson drives off their cowhands.
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
Character: Sally
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
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Seven Sweethearts (1942)
Character: George Van Maaster
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
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The Shanghai Story (1954)
Character: Mrs. Warren
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
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