John Cromwell
1) The goddess
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Chronicles the life story of a Hollywood sex symbol and the price she pays for fame.
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The charming drama about a most unconventional Asian king and the British woman he hires to run a school for his wives and many children is based on the real-life memoirs of Anna Leonowens and her experiences in Siam. Novelized by Margaret Landon, this is the story of the "exasperating" Anna (Irene Dunne) caught in the excesses of the royal court of King Mongkut of Siam (Rex Harrison). His heart is torn between tradition and the wish to be scientifically...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy: Young Cedric, a poor nine-year-old Brooklyn boy, turns out to be the long-lost heir to a British fortune. His aristocratic grandfather summons him to move to England with his mother. Our Gang Follies: The Little Rascals are putting on a big musical show with Alfalfa billed as 'The King of the Crooner.' However, Alfalfa insists his crooning days are over and that opera is his true calling.
5) Spitfire
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"Mountain girl Trigger Hicks, a fierce loner equally handy with a rock or a prayer, is in danger of having her faith-healing mistaken for witchcraft by the neighbors. She shows a vulnerable side when John Stafford, a philandering engineer working on a new dam, is attracted to her. Matters come to a head when Trigger 'rescues' an abused baby from its parents, and seeks help from the engineers"--Imdb.com
6) The racket
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A straight-arrow cop and an old-school gangster find a common foe: big shots who run crime like a corporation.
8) Caged
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19 year-old Marie is sent to prison for being an accomplice in a robbery. When a prison head takes sympathy on her and tries to help, a cruel matron steps in and breaks her efforts.
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Set in the 19th century, the illegitimate son of a British aristocrat, Benjamin Blake, is forced into servitude by a wicked uncle. As a rebellious young man, Benjamin falls for a beautiful aristocrat and is beaten as punishment. Fleeing his tyrannical uncle, Benjamin stows away on a ship and lands on an idyllic South Pacific island. There he romances an exotic native beauty and earns a fortune diving for pearls with a fellow shipmate. But Benjamin's...
10) In name only
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Alec Walker's wife Maida is a beauty, but she's also a venomous, self-absorbed schemer. Then Alec falls for an open-hearted widow named Julie. And Maida turns wedding vows into a steel trap: If Alec files for divorce, she'll drag Julie into court as a homewrecker, and use Julie's little daughter as a witness.
12) 3 women
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Criterion collection volume 230
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In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies magazines.
14) Banjo on my knee
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When he thinks he has killed a wedding guest, the groom disappears on his wedding night. His bride and father trace him to New Orleans and try to persuade him to return home.