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Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a shot at stardom, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamour machine . She and her idol Norman marry; but as her star rises, his comes crashing down.
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Certain she was dying, Hazel (Carole Lombard) is happy to learn it was a false alarm. But when New York City reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) shows up looking for a story about a young girl braving terminal illness, Hazel decides that she's sick again. Wally whisks her off to Manhattan, where her "courage" wins her many admirers and he falls in love with Wally and dreads being discovered.
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"Cyrano de Bergerac is a 17th century French soldier-poet and swordsman who loves his cousin Roxane, but believes she will never love him because of his enormous nose. He courts and wins her, not for himself, but for his inexperienced and prosaic friend, Christian, who dies in battle. Years later, as Cyrano himself is dying, he confesses his love to Roxane, who suddenly realizes that it was Cyrano's words she had heard from Christian, and Cyrano that...
7) Love affair
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Michel Marnet and Terry McKay meet on a ship on which he is sailing to marry a rich heiress. When they fall in love, they agree to meet six months later at the top of the Empire State Building if they are both still free. On the way to their rendezvous, Terry meets with a crippling accident leaving Michel to wait in vain. Fate will eventually bring the two of them back together.
8) The big lift
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"In 1948, the Soviet Union blockades the Allied sectors of Berlin in order to bring the city completely under their dominance. Sgt. Hank Kowalski and Sgt. Danny McCullough are part of the American force sent to help the war-torn German civilians. Still struggling with misguided loathing of Germans, their experience and relationships with the men and women of Berlin help them overcome these prejudices. [F]ilmed on location in bombed-out Berlin, [it]...
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"A mysterious young girl name Lela is found electrocuted in the abandoned Morgan mansion. At the request of Police Captain Ryan, private investigator (and suave playboy) Phil Winston takes time out from his carefree social life to help ferret out the murderer."--Container.
10) Ella Cinders
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Ella is a slave to the demands of her stepmother and stepsisters until she wins a beauty contest with a movie contract as the prize. Arriving in Hollywood she discovers it was a hoax but refuses to abandon her dreams of an acting career.
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"[A] campy cult favorite first released in 1938 as a propaganda film meant to scare America's youth away from drugs. In this quintessential classic, innocent teens partake of the 'demon weed, ' only to find that one puff plunges them into a hilarious web of murder, sex, lunacy, and jazz music."--Container.
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