Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. He played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career was rivaled only by that of Adolph Zukor). He produced three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture during his tenure. Zanuck was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the son of Sarah Louise (née Torpin), who later married Charles Norton, and Frank Harvey Zanuck, who owned and operated a hotel in Wahoo. He had an older brother, Donald (1893–1903), who died in an accident when he was only 9 years old. Zanuck was of partial Swiss descent, and raised a Protestant. At age six, Zanuck and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where the better climate could improve her poor health. At age eight, he found his first movie job as an extra, but his disapproving father recalled him to Nebraska. In 1917, despite being 15, he deceived a recruiter, joined the United States Army, and served in France with the Nebraska National Guard during World War I. Upon returning to the US, he worked in many part-time jobs while seeking work as a writer. He found work producing movie plots, and sold his first story in 1922 to William Russell and his second to Irving Thalberg. Screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas, story editor at Universal Pictures' New York office, stated that one of the stories Zanuck sent out to movie studios around this time was completely plagiarized from another author's work. Zanuck then worked for Mack Sennett and FBO (where he wrote the serials The Telephone Girl and The Leather Pushers) and took that experience to Warner Bros., where he wrote stories for Rin Tin Tin and under a number of pseudonyms wrote over 40 scripts from 1924 to 1929, including Red Hot Tires (1925) and Old San Francisco (1927). He moved into management in 1929, and became head of production in 1931. In 1933, Zanuck left Warner Bros. over a salary dispute with studio head Jack L. Warner. A few days later, he partnered with Joseph Schenck to form 20th Century Pictures, Inc. with financial help from Joseph's brother Nicholas Schenck and Louis B. Mayer, president and studio head of Loew's, Inc and its subsidiary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, along with William Goetz and Raymond Griffith. 20th Century released its material through United Artists. During that short time (1933–1935), 20th Century became the most successful independent movie studio of its time, breaking box-office records with 18 of its 19 films, all profitable, including Clive of India, Les Miserables, and The House of Rothschild. After a dispute with United Artists over stock ownership, Schenck and Zanuck negotiated and used their studio to bring the bankrupt Fox studios in 1935 to create Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. Zanuck was Vice President of Production of this new studio and took a hands-on approach, closely involving himself in scripts, film editing, and producing. ... Source: Article "Darryl F. Zanuck" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
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Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
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Show-Business at War
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42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
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Rat Pack
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The Screen Writer
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
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Frank Capra's American Dream
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
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Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
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Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
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The 42nd Street Special
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What's My Line?
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Cinépanorama
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The Dick Cavett Show
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The Grapes of Wrath
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All About Eve
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Viva Zapata!
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
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Doctor X
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People Will Talk
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The Longest Day
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The Sun Also Rises
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Baby Face
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The Black Diamond Express
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'G' Men
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Heidi
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The Purple Heart
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The Purple Heart
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Just Around the Corner
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How Green Was My Valley
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Pinky
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Lady Killer
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Young Mr. Lincoln
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Leave Her to Heaven
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Boomerang!
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Night and the City
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China Girl
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Brigham Young
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Clive of India
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Thunder Birds
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Hudson's Bay
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Know For Sure
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The Chapman Report
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Show Them No Mercy!
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Irish Hearts
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Blood Money
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International Settlement
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Little Old New York
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Metropolitan
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Maryland
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Here I Am a Stranger
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Private Number
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Always Goodbye
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I'll Give a Million
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Everybody Does It
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Find Your Man
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Jaws of Steel
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Moulin Rouge
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
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Lady Windermere's Fan
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The Desired Woman
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Old San Francisco
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Tenderloin
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Tenderloin
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Old San Francisco
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So This Is Paris
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Life Begins
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Three on a Match
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Ex-Lady
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Gallant Lady
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Three Faces East
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
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The Working Man
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Illicit
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The Rich Are Always with Us
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The Dark Horse
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On With the Show!
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Looking for Trouble
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The Last Gentleman
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Les Misérables
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Professional Soldier
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Thanks a Million
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It Had to Happen
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Folies Bergère
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Call of the Wild
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The Country Beyond
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A Message to Garcia
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Under Two Flags
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Half Angel
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The Road to Glory
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Poor Little Rich Girl
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Sing, Baby, Sing
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To Mary - with Love
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White Fang
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Ramona
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Pigskin Parade
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Banjo on My Knee
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White Hunter
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Seventh Heaven
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Slave Ship
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On the Avenue
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
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Angel's Holiday
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Wee Willie Winkie
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Thin Ice
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Lancer Spy
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Wake Up and Live
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
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A Ticket to Tomahawk
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David and Bathsheba
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Sally, Irene and Mary
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Happy Landing
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Maybe It's Love
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Three Blind Mice
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Broken Lance
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With a Song in My Heart
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In Old Chicago
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Kentucky Moonshine
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Josette
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My Lucky Star
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The Egyptian
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Gateway
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Kentucky
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Little Miss Broadway
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Tail Spin
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Wife, Husband and Friend
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The View from Pompey's Head
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Jesse James
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Good Morning, Miss Dove
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Seven Cities of Gold
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Second Fiddle
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Rose of Washington Square
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Sanctuary
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
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Susannah of the Mounties
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The King and I
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On the Threshold of Space
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The Roots of Heaven
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Hotel for Women
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Crack in the Mirror
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The Rains Came
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Too Busy to Work
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Swanee River
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The Visit
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Star Dust
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Hung Up
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Four Sons
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The Man I Married
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The Great Profile
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Western Union
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Public Deb No. 1
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Down Argentine Way
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Tobacco Road
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That Night in Rio
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Wild Geese Calling
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Red Hot Tires
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Blood and Sand
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
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Song of the Islands
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Sex Hygiene
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This Above All
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Thunder Birds
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China Girl
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The Black Swan
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Crash Dive
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Wintertime
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Buffalo Bill
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Winged Victory
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Wilson
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Somewhere in the Night
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Strange Triangle
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The Razor's Edge
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Centennial Summer
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
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The Foxes of Harrow
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Carnival in Costa Rica
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The Homestretch
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Moss Rose
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Captain from Castile
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Nightmare Alley
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Forever Amber
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Gentleman's Agreement
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Call Northside 777
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Fury at Furnace Creek
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Sitting Pretty
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Road House
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Cry of the City
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Give My Regards to Broadway
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That Wonderful Urge
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Apartment for Peggy
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The Forbidden Street
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The Fan
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It Happens Every Spring
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Sand
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Slattery's Hurricane
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Father Was a Fullback
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Under My Skin
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Twelve O'Clock High
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
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Lights of New York
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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No Way Out
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Tracked by the Police
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The Pied Piper
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Blonde Crazy
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Born to Be Bad
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You're My Everything
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The Gunfighter
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The Singing Fool
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The Better 'Ole
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This Is My Affair
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The Littlest Rebel
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Footloose Widows
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Lifeboat
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My Man
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Ladies In Love
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Love Is News
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Seven Sinners
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The Terror
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State Street Sadie
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The Midnight Taxi
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Hardboiled Rose
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Madonna of Avenue A
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Love and Hisses
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The House of Rothschild
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No Way Out
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Suez
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
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The Gorilla
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Across the Pacific
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Lloyd's of London
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The Cave Man
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A Broadway Butterfly
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Ham and Eggs at the Front
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Simple Sis
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Pay as You Enter
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Money to Burns
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Fighting Blood
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Fighting Blood
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Eve's Lover
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Oh! What a Nurse!
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Leave Her to Heaven
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The Iron Curtain
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Moontide
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Sherlock's Home
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