Adrian

Biography

Adrian Adolph Greenberg, most widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other MGM films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career he designed costumes for over 250 films, and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian". On occasion he was credited as Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own.

Birthday

Mar 3, 1903

Place of birth

Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA

Deathday

Sep 13, 1959

Also known as

Adrian Adolph Greenberg
Gilbert Adrian

Credited in

As cast

Hollywood: Style Center of the World
As Self
That's Entertainment! III
As (archive footage)
The Romance of Celluloid
As Self
Hollywood Goes to Town
As Self

As crew

The Philadelphia Story
Role: Costume Design
The Mortal Storm
Role: Costume Design
Rope
Role: Costume Design
The Wizard of Oz
Role: Costume Design
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Role: Costume Design
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Role: Costume Design
Pride and Prejudice
Role: Costume Design
Gallant Sons
Role: Costume Design
Lady Be Good
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The Feminine Touch
Role: Costume Design
Dulcy
Role: Costume Design
Dramatic School
Role: Costume Design
Vacation from Love
Role: Costume Design
Naughty Marietta
Role: Costume Designer
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Role: Costume Design
The Cuban Love Song
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The Bride Wore Red
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Fig Leaves
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When Ladies Meet
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The Crystal Ball
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Come Live with Me
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Balalaika
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The Masks of the Devil
Role: Costume Design
Faithless
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Role: Costume Design
Three Loves Has Nancy
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Conquest
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Ninotchka
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Rage in Heaven
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What Price Beauty?
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The Eagle
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The Road to Yesterday
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Her Sister from Paris
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Cobra
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The Volga Boatman
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The King of Kings
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Gigolo
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The Fighting Eagle
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Vanity
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The Angel of Broadway
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The Country Doctor
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The Wise Wife
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Dress Parade
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The Main Event
Role: Costume Design
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Role: Costume Design
Almost Human
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My Friend from India
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Chicago
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Let 'Er Go Gallegher
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A Ship Comes In
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Stand and Deliver
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The Blue Danube
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Midnight Madness
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Skyscraper
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Walking Back
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The Godless Girl
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For Alimony Only
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A Lady of Chance
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Dream of Love
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
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Wild Orchids
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Passion Flower
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Role: Costume Design
The Trial of Mary Dugan
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The Single Standard
Role: Costume Design
Our Modern Maidens
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The Thirteenth Chair
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Dynamite
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The Unholy Night
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Their Own Desire
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Marianne
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Anna Christie
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Montana Moon
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Redemption
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The Florodora Girl
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The Lady of Scandal
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This Mad World
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Our Blushing Brides
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Let Us Be Gay
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In Gay Madrid
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A Lady's Morals
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The Little Adventuress
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New Moon
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Dance, Fools, Dance
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Paid
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Strangers May Kiss
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The Bachelor Father
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Inspiration
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A Free Soul
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Laughing Sinners
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Role: Costume Design
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Role: Costume Design
The Man in Possession
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This Modern Age
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Five and Ten
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The Squaw Man
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The Guardsman
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Lovers Courageous
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Private Lives
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Anna Christie
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Emma
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Possessed
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Mata Hari
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Flying High
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Romeo and Juliet
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Arsène Lupin
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Grand Hotel
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But the Flesh Is Weak
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The Great Waltz
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The Wet Parade
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Letty Lynton
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Huddle
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The Washington Masquerade
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Unashamed
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As You Desire Me
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Red-Headed Woman
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Strange Interlude
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Red Dust
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Smilin' Through
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Blondie of the Follies
Role: Costume Design
The Son-Daughter
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Men Must Fight
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Today We Live
Role: Costume Design
Payment Deferred
Role: Costume Design
Rasputin and the Empress
Role: Costume Design
The White Sister
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Gabriel Over the White House
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The Forbidden Woman
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The Rogue Song
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Reunion in Vienna
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Looking Forward
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Hold Your Man
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A Lady to Love
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Midnight Mary
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Not So Dumb
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Devil-May-Care
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The Kiss
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Peg o' My Heart
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When Ladies Meet
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The Barbarian
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Made on Broadway
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The Stranger's Return
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Storm at Daybreak
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Another Language
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Dinner at Eight
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Turn Back the Clock
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Penthouse
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Beauty for Sale
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Dancing Lady
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The Women in His Life
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Should Ladies Behave
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Bombshell
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The Solitaire Man
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Stage Mother
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Going Hollywood
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Queen Christina
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Nana
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Sadie McKee
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The Cat and the Fiddle
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Men in White
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Riptide
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The Mystery of Mr. X
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Hollywood Party
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Hollywood Party
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Paris Interlude
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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Chained
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The Girl from Missouri
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Love on the Run
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They Got Me Covered
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The Bishop's Wife
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The Last Gangster
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Woman of the Year
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Camille
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Keeper of the Flame
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Comrade X
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Waterloo Bridge
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Sweethearts
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Broadway Melody of 1940
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The Toy Wife
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New Moon
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Broadway Melody of 1936
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
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Honolulu
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San Francisco
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The Great Ziegfeld
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The Gorgeous Hussy
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Reckless
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The Shopworn Angel
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Every Woman's Longing
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Mannequin
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Mark of the Vampire
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China Seas
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Hi Diddle Diddle
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Broadway Serenade
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Rose Marie
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Wife vs. Secretary
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Shadow of a Doubt
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A Woman's Face
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
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The Women
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Escape
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What Every Woman Knows
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Florian
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Outcast Lady
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Polly of the Circus
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Young April
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A Single Man
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Strange Cargo
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Lovely to Look At
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The Divorcee
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Blossoms in the Dust
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Smilin' Through
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Madam Satan
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The Shining Hour
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I Take This Woman
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Maytime
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Bitter Sweet
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The Firefly
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Double Wedding
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Broadway Melody of 1938
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After Office Hours
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Marie Antoinette
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Love Is a Headache
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A Woman of Affairs
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Romance
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Secrets
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Boom Town
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Untamed
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Born to Dance
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Operator 13
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No More Ladies
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Two-Faced Woman
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I Live My Life
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The Ice Follies of 1939
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Forsaking All Others
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Ziegfeld Girl
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Susan and God
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The Beast of the City
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Possessed
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Humoresque
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Man-Made Women
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Parnell
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Idiot's Delight
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Smart Woman
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