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Old Acquaintance (1943), Lady for a Day (1933), Primrose Path (1940), Exclusive (1937), The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947), Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941), That Forsyte Woman (1950) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Old Acquaintance (1943)
Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
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Lady for a Day (1933)
A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
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Primrose Path (1940)
A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.
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Exclusive (1937)
Two newspapers are pitted against each other. One owned by gangster Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan), the other by Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray).
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The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947)
On Romney Marsh at the turn of the century, a woman farmer has three suitors.
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Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
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That Forsyte Woman (1950)
Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.
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Thirst (1957)
Vijay (Guru Dutt) writes unpopular poems about the destitute and poor. Ridiculed by his brothers and scorned by publishers, Vijay finds encouragement in a sweet prostitute, Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman). When a homeless man wearing a coat Vijay gave him is killed, Gulabo convinces a publisher to print his poems, believing Vijay to be dead. The poems are wildly popular, thanks to the myth conjured around Vijay's supposed death. When he reappears, he finds that few friends can be trusted.
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The Impatient Years (1944)
To rekindle their love, a divorce judge orders a couple whose marriage is on the rocks to re-enact their four-day breakneck courtship.
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Saratoga Trunk (1945)
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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Kathleen (1941)
Kathleen is a 12 year old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true. Kathleen and her nanny, Mrs. Farrel...Read all
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Man-Proof (1937)
Mimi has tried everything to become the bride to Alan, but he chooses Elizabeth instead. The ironic part is that Mimi's mother writes romance novels and neither one has had any luck with men. So Mimi decides to get a job as an illustrator at the New York Chronicle where her friend Jimmy works. When Alan and Liz return from their honeymoon, Alan wants to keep Mimi at h...Read all
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The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
A woman (Irene Dunne) from Oklahoma marries an English aristocrat (Alan Marshal) and raises a son between World War I and World War II.
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Dodsworth (1936)
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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The Quiet Man (1952)
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love.
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Born Yesterday (1950)
A tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results.
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Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
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