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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Small World
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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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The Snake Pit
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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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The Lighthouse by the Sea
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Find Your Man
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Jaws of Steel
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Moulin Rouge
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So This Is Paris
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Lady Windermere's Fan
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Old San Francisco
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The Desired Woman
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Noah's Ark
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Tenderloin
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Noah's Ark
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Old San Francisco
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Little Caesar
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Parachute Jumper
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The First Auto
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On With the Show!
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The Rich Are Always with Us
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Three Faces East
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The Dark Horse
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The Dark Horse
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Life Begins
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The Working Man
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The Doorway to Hell
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Ex-Lady
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Illicit
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The Man Who Played God
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Gallant Lady
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The Last Gentleman
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Looking for Trouble
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Les Misérables
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It Had to Happen
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Call of the Wild
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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
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Thanks a Million
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The Mighty Barnum
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Folies Bergère
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The Country Beyond
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Professional Soldier
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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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Poor Little Rich Girl
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The Road to Glory
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Sing, Baby, Sing
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Pigskin Parade
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White Fang
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To Mary - with Love
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Ramona
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On the Avenue
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Seventh Heaven
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Slave Ship
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Wee Willie Winkie
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White Hunter
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Banjo on My Knee
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
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Angel's Holiday
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Lancer Spy
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Wake Up and Live
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Thin Ice
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
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A Ticket to Tomahawk
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In Old Chicago
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Maybe It's Love
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Sally, Irene and Mary
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
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David and Bathsheba
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Happy Landing
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Kentucky Moonshine
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The Egyptian
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Gateway
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Josette
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Seven Cities of Gold
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My Lucky Star
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Kentucky
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Three Blind Mice
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Broken Lance
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Little Miss Broadway
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Good Morning, Miss Dove
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Jesse James
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The View from Pompey's Head
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Wife, Husband and Friend
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Tail Spin
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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The King and I
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Second Fiddle
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Rose of Washington Square
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Susannah of the Mounties
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On the Threshold of Space
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Island in the Sun
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Sanctuary
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Stanley and Livingstone
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The Barbarian and the Geisha
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Crack in the Mirror
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The Roots of Heaven
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Crack in the Mirror
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Too Busy to Work
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Hotel for Women
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Swanee River
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The Rains Came
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Hung Up
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Star Dust
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The Visit
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The Man I Married
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Four Sons
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The Great Profile
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Down Argentine Way
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Public Deb No. 1
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The Return of Frank James
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Western Union
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The Mark of Zorro
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Tobacco Road
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That Night in Rio
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Lillian Russell
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The Great American Broadcast
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Blood and Sand
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Wild Geese Calling
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Man Hunt
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Moon Over Miami
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Red Hot Tires
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Sun Valley Serenade
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
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Sex Hygiene
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To the Shores of Tripoli
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Song of the Islands
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This Above All
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Thunder Birds
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The Black Swan
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China Girl
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Crash Dive
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Wintertime
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Buffalo Bill
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Wilson
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Claudia and David
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Winged Victory
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Dragonwyck
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Somewhere in the Night
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Strange Triangle
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Centennial Summer
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
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The Razor's Edge
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The Foxes of Harrow
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Carnival in Costa Rica
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Moss Rose
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The Homestretch
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Nightmare Alley
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Forever Amber
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Captain from Castile
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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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Cry of the City
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Give My Regards to Broadway
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Road House
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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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Sand
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The Fan
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It Happens Every Spring
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Father Was a Fullback
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Slattery's Hurricane
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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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Pay as You Enter
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Ham and Eggs at the Front
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Simple Sis
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Money to Burns
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Fighting Blood
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Fighting Blood
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Fighting Blood
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Eve's Lover
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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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Wolf's Clothing
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
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On Thin Ice
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