Edith Head

Biography

Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, starting with The Heiress (1949) and ending with The Sting (1973).

Birthday

Oct 28, 1897

Place of birth

San Bernadino, California, USA

Deathday

Oct 24, 1981

Also known as

Edith Claire Posener

Credited in

As cast

The Oscar
As Edith Head
Edith Head
As Self
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
As Self (archive footage)
Lucy Gallant
As Edith Head
The Pleasure of His Company
As Dress Designer (uncredited)
The Costume Designer
As Self (uncredited)
Hollywood Extra Girl
As Edith Head (uncredited)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
As Self (archive footage)
The Art of Exaggeration: Designs for Sweet Charity by Edith Head
As Host

As crew

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Role: Costume Supervisor
Notorious
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To Catch a Thief
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Double Indemnity
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Vertigo
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Houseboat
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Rear Window
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The Birds
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Sunset Boulevard
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All About Eve
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Roman Holiday
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Arrowhead
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The Lady Eve
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Ministry of Fear
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Family Plot
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Hear Me Good
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I'll Be Seeing You
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
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Sabrina
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Road to Morocco
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Road to Zanzibar
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Love Me Tonight
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Road to Rio
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The Sting
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I Married a Witch
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No Time for Love
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The Great Race
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The Bells of St. Mary's
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A Hole in the Head
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Saigon
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Road to Bali
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Christmas in Connecticut
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Funny Face
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Holiday Inn
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The Heiress
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The Lost Weekend
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Road to Singapore
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Story of a Woman
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Poppy
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The Mad Doctor
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Road to Utopia
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The Great McGinty
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Remember the Night
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The Great Moment
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Hail the Conquering Hero
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Ball of Fire
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The Ghost Breakers
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Sweet Charity
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The Big Broadcast of 1938
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Beau Geste
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Death Takes a Holiday
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Five Graves to Cairo
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
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Souls at Sea
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Here Come the Waves
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This Gun for Hire
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She Done Him Wrong
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
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Mad About Music
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Sullivan's Travels
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The Glass Key
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St. Louis Blues
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The Uninvited
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The Major and the Minor
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Going My Way
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Lady of Burlesque
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The Fleet's In
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The Texas Rangers
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Rhythm on the Range
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Invitation to Happiness
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Hold Back the Dawn
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Waikiki Wedding
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
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Double or Nothing
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Mantrap
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The Pleasure of His Company
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My Own True Love
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The Gay Sisters
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New York Town
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Birth of the Blues
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Bahama Passage
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Buck Benny Rides Again
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You Belong to Me
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This Way Please
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Spawn of the North
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The Lady Has Plans
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Tender Comrade
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The Remarkable Andrew
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My Favorite Blonde
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The Great Man's Lady
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
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Peter Pan
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Are Parents People?
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Lady in the Dark
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Skylark
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Honeymoon in Bali
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Nothing But the Truth
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Young and Willing
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Caught in the Draft
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The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour
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Star Spangled Rhythm
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She Loves Me Not
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Love Letters
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The Texans
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Wells Fargo
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And Now Tomorrow
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College Swing
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If I Were King
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Rhythm on the River
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The Stork Club
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Dream Girl
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Never Say Die
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Incendiary Blonde
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A Medal for Benny
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Flesh and Fantasy
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Lucky Jordan
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The Cat and the Canary
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
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The Farmer's Daughter
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The Emperor Waltz
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes
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Manhandled
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Caribbean
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Just for You
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The War of the Worlds
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Knock on Wood
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The Far Horizons
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The Trouble with Harry
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The Court Jester
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Alias Jesse James
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Marnie
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What a Way to Go!
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
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Inside Daisy Clover
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House of Cards
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Topaz
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What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
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The Saturday Night Kid
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Sophie Lang Goes West
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Adventure in Diamonds
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Give Me a Sailor
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China
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Casanova's Big Night
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The Seven Little Foys
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Beau James
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Roustabout
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Easy Come, Easy Go
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Cradle Song
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Love Thy Neighbor
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Murder with Pictures
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The Magnificent Fraud
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Mr. Music
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Aloma of the South Seas
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The Screaming Woman
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The Affairs of Susan
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Man of Conquest
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The Lost Man
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The Party Crashers
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Typhoon
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They Got Me Covered
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Let's Face It
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Warning Shot
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The Crystal Ball
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Blossoms On Broadway
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A Doll's House
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Myra Breckinridge
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A House Is Not a Home
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Career
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College Holiday
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Standing Room Only
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The Return of Sophie Lang
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Ebb Tide
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Thrill of a Lifetime
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The Legion of the Condemned
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Ladies of the Mob
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The Lawyer's Secret
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Till We Meet Again
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Early to Bed
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Exclusive
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Turn Off the Moon
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Her Husband Lies
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John Meade's Woman
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Dangerous to Know
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Her Jungle Love
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Cocoanut Grove
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Artists and Models Abroad
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Men with Wings
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Disbarred
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Man About Town
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Riding High
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King of Chinatown
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Paris Honeymoon
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The Star Maker
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Sudden Money
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
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Moon Over Burma
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Safari
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Kiss the Boys Goodbye
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Life with Henry
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The Great Victor Herbert
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Are Husbands Necessary?
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Dancing on a Dime
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Hotel Imperial
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Tropic Holiday
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True to Life
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Rainbow Island
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
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I Love a Soldier
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And the Angels Sing
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The Sainted Sisters
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Zaza
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In Enemy Country
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Blue
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Isn't It Romantic?
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Hell's Island
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The Virginian
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You Came Along
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Submarine Command
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Desert Fury
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Ace in the Hole
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The Rainmaker
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Disputed Passage
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The Last of the Secret Agents?
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The Swinger
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Amelia Earhart
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Let's Dance
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Riding High
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Sex and the Married Woman
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My Foolish Heart
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Last Train from Gun Hill
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Samson and Delilah
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Colossus: The Forbin Project
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Pony Express
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Rooster Cogburn
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Red, Hot and Blue
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Love Has Many Faces
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That Kind of Woman
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The Devil's Hairpin
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Sex and the Single Girl
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
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The Last Married Couple in America
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The Big Fix
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Olly Olly Oxen Free
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Airport '77
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The Disappearance of Aimee
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W.C. Fields and Me
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Gable and Lombard
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Hold That Blonde!
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Masquerade in Mexico
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Out of This World
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To Each His Own
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The Blue Dahlia
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Blue Skies
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The Bride Wore Boots
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Cross My Heart
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Skullduggery
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Cafe Society
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Lady in a Cage
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Sextette
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The Other Love
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Carrie
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Who's Got the Action?
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Pocketful of Miracles
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Where Love Has Gone
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The Girl Rush
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Sorry, Wrong Number
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Assault on a Queen
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Come Blow Your Horn
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Hellfighters
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The Hallelujah Trail
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The Birds and the Bees
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The Scarlet Hour
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This Property Is Condemned
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The Rose Tattoo
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Come Back, Little Sheba
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The Mountain
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Chuka
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Hammersmith Is Out
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Beyond the Forest
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Rachel and the Stranger
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So Evil My Love
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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Loving You
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Blue Hawaii
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G.I. Blues
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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The Furies
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Shane
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Witness for the Prosecution
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls
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A Place in the Sun
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The Blue Dahlia
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My Geisha
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Elephant Walk
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Teacher's Pet
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The Search for Bridey Murphy
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Alaska Seas
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Houdini
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Maracaibo
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The Counterfeit Traitor
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White Christmas
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About Mrs. Leslie
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Forever Female
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Dear Ruth
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The Perfect Marriage
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Ramrod
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My Favorite Brunette
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Blaze of Noon
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Welcome Stranger
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The Trouble with Women
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The Perils of Pauline
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Variety Girl
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Wild Harvest
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Where There's Life
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I Walk Alone
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Darling, How Could You!
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The Desperate Hours
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Ball of Fire
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Something to Live For
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El Dorado
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Detective Story
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Critic's Choice
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A Girl Named Tamiko
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Summer and Smoke
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The Matchmaker
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Wild Is the Wind
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
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Hotel
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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
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Peking Express
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Branded
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Copper Canyon
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September Affair
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The Great Lover
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A Foreign Affair
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Donovan's Reef
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Return Engagement
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36 Hours
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Sunshine Christmas
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The Jayhawkers!
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Johnny Reno
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Boeing, Boeing
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Airport
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The Rat Race
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Those Redheads from Seattle
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Jivaro
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The Sad Sack
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The Don Is Dead
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The Country Girl
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My Friend Irma
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My Friend Irma Goes West
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That's My Boy
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Sailor Beware
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Jumping Jacks
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The Turning Point
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Son of Paleface
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The Atomic City
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Thunder in the East
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Off Limits
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Denver and Rio Grande
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The Savage
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The Lemon Drop Kid
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Here Comes the Groom
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My Favorite Spy
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The Caddy
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Sangaree
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Here Come the Girls
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Dear Brat
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The Trap
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When Worlds Collide
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June Bride
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But Not for Me
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The Ten Commandments
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
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Somebody Loves Me
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A New Kind of Love
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Fun in Acapulco
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Fear Strikes Out
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The Leather Saint
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The Delicate Delinquent
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Cinderfella
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My Son John
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Penelope
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The Facts of Life
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My Reputation
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California
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls
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Cry Wolf
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No Man of Her Own
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The Great Gatsby
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Hud
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Run for Cover
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The Hangman
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Hot Spell
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The Buster Keaton Story
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Eye of the Cat
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Sometimes a Great Notion
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The Accused
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Hostages
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Only the Brave
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Miss Tatlock's Millions
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Untamed
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Heller in Pink Tights
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Pete 'n' Tillie
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Too Late Blues
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Sylvia
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The Naked Jungle
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Hatari!
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Man's Favorite Sport?
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Rope of Sand
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Strategic Air Command
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Artists and Models
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The Disorderly Orderly
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The Family Jewels
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The Ladies Man
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The Errand Boy
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The Tin Star
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The Nutty Professor
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
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West Point Widow
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Stolen Face
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Penelope
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The Slender Thread
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Separate Tables
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Barefoot in the Park
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Love with the Proper Stranger
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The Big Clock
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Airport 1975
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The Sons of Katie Elder
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My Six Loves
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King Creole
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Lucy Gallant
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The Five Pennies
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The File on Thelma Jordon
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Torn Curtain
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Escape from Zahrain
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Dark City
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The Patsy
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On the Double
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The Greatest Show on Earth
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Pepe
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All in a Night's Work
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Rock-a-Bye Baby
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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
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Who's Minding the Store?
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It's Only Money
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Visit to a Small Planet
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Don't Give Up the Ship
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The Geisha Boy
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Hollywood or Bust
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Pardners
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You're Never Too Young
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3 Ring Circus
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Living It Up
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Money from Home
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Scared Stiff
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The Stooge
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Showdown
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That Certain Feeling
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Winning
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The Black Orchid
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Harlow
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Secret of the Incas
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
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The Great Waldo Pepper
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Downhill Racer
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Red Line 7000
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style
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Thanks for the Memory
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Bring on the Girls
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The Man Who Would Be King
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The Farmer's Daughter
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