Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adrienne D'Ambricourt (born Adrienne DuNontier; 2 June 1878 – 6 December 1957) was a French actress of the silent and sound film eras. She was born in Paris, and emigrated to the United States after the end of World War I. She began acting in the 1922 Gershwin Broadway musical comedy, The French Doll, in which she had one of the main roles, "Baroness Mazulier". She made her film debut in the 1924 silent film, The Humming Bird, where she was one of Gloria Swanson's gang of thieves who turned into resistance fighters in World War I. With the advent of talking pictures, and before dubbing came into general use, D'Ambricourt was used in several films which were the French version of English language ones, such as Quand on est belle (The Easiest Way — 1931), L'énigmatique Mr. Parkes (Slightly Scarlet — 1930), and Nuit d'Espagne (Transgression — 1931). She appeared in over 70 films, including such classics as Casablanca, San Francisco, and To Have And Have Not, until about 1947, after which her film career began to decline. Her final role was in George Cukor's Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor, in which she played the wardrobe woman. With the advent of television, she appeared in several series during the 1950s, working right up to her death, which was caused by a heart attack during or following a car accident in Los Angeles.

  • Title: Adrienne D'Ambricourt
  • Popularity: 0.1007
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1878-06-02
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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  • Also Known As: Adrienne d'Ambricourt , Adrienne DuNontier
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  • 1937
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    History Is Made at Night

    History Is Made at Night

    6.6 1937 HD

    An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.

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  • 1939
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    City in Darkness

    City in Darkness

    6.4 1939 HD

    Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..

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  • 1955
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    The Purple Mask

    The Purple Mask

    5 1955 HD

    France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...

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  • 1944
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    Experiment Perilous

    Experiment Perilous

    5.6 1944 HD

    In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.

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  • 1926
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    God Gave Me Twenty Cents

    God Gave Me Twenty Cents

    1 1926 HD

    The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren, who tries his best to support his wife Mary on his piddling income. But like seafaring men everywhere, Steve is constitutionally unreliable, especially when hip-swinging temptress Cassie Lang sashays into view.

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  • 1924
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    Wages of Virtue

    Wages of Virtue

    1 1924 HD

    A carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are caught again in a web of jealousy, deceit and murder.

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  • 1935
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    Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson

    6.924 1935 HD

    When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.

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  • 1931
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    The Trial of Mary Dugan

    The Trial of Mary Dugan

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1934
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    Stingaree

    Stingaree

    5.9 1934 HD

    A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.

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  • 1951
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    Beautiful Love

    Beautiful Love

    3.5 1951 HD

    Dr. Claude Moulin leaves his wife and child for a younger woman but the child needs attention and the wife falls very ill.

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  • 1945
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    Saratoga Trunk

    Saratoga Trunk

    5.7 1945 HD

    An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.

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  • 1937
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    Mama Steps Out

    Mama Steps Out

    6 1937 HD

    A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.

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  • 1931
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    This Modern Age

    This Modern Age

    5.8 1931 HD

    A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.

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  • 1938
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    Artists and Models Abroad

    Artists and Models Abroad

    4.2 1938 HD

    Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.

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  • 1931
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    Men in Her Life

    Men in Her Life

    5.25 1931 HD

    A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".

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  • 1930
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    Scotland Yard

    Scotland Yard

    5 1930 HD

    A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance of the wife's stunning beauty. After enlisting for WWI to escape prosecution, his face is disfigured in combat, and plastic surgeons mistakenly give him the banker's face. As the banker is conveniently MIA, it gives the criminal the opportunity to plan a bank heist from the inside and also to get closer to the banker's wife.

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  • 1943
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    Casablanca

    Casablanca

    8.157 1943 HD

    In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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  • 1931
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    Transgression

    Transgression

    3.4 1931 HD

    When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.

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  • 1929
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    The Trial of Mary Dugan

    The Trial of Mary Dugan

    6 1929 HD

    A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.

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  • 1939
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    Bulldog Drummond's Bride

    Bulldog Drummond's Bride

    6.143 1939 HD

    Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.

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  • 1934
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    The Cat and the Fiddle

    The Cat and the Fiddle

    6.9 1934 HD

    A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

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  • 1933
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    Gallant Lady

    Gallant Lady

    6 1933 HD

    Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.

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  • 1933
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    Disgraced!

    Disgraced!

    6 1933 HD

    A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.

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  • 1946
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    Calcutta

    Calcutta

    6.3 1946 HD

    Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.

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  • 1931
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    War Mamas

    War Mamas

    1 1931 HD

    During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.

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  • 1937
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    We Have Our Moments

    We Have Our Moments

    5.8 1937 HD

    A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.

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  • 1930
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    The Bad One

    The Bad One

    6.3 1930 HD

    In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.

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  • 1937
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    Live, Love and Learn

    Live, Love and Learn

    5.143 1937 HD

    A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.

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  • 1938
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    I Met My Love Again

    I Met My Love Again

    5.4 1938 HD

    In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.

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  • 1938
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    I'll Give a Million

    I'll Give a Million

    5.7 1938 HD

    After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.

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  • 1936
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    Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

    Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

    6.4 1936 HD

    Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.

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  • 1931
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    Scandal Sheet

    Scandal Sheet

    1 1931 HD

    Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

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  • 1939
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    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

    6.9 1939 HD

    In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

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  • 1939
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    Nurse Edith Cavell

    Nurse Edith Cavell

    6.4 1939 HD

    British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans

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  • 1939
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    Pack Up Your Troubles

    Pack Up Your Troubles

    6.2 1939 HD

    Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

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  • 1937
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    Dangerously Yours

    Dangerously Yours

    3.5 1937 HD

    A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.

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  • 1945
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    To Have and Have Not

    To Have and Have Not

    7.459 1945 HD

    A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

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  • 1933
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    The Eagle and the Hawk

    The Eagle and the Hawk

    6.6 1933 HD

    The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

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  • 1933
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    Design for Living

    Design for Living

    7.101 1933 HD

    An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.

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  • 1940
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    Two Girls on Broadway

    Two Girls on Broadway

    6.6 1940 HD

    Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).

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  • 1934
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    Marie Galante

    Marie Galante

    4.6 1934 HD

    On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.

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  • 1929
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    Footlights and Fools

    Footlights and Fools

    1 1929 HD

    Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.

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  • 1940
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    Forty Little Mothers

    Forty Little Mothers

    6.2 1940 HD

    An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.

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  • 1933
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    The Song of Songs

    The Song of Songs

    5.9 1933 HD

    After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks across the street to model for Richard, a sculptor with whom she falls in love. A patron of Richard's, Baron von Merzbach, develops an interest in Lily that may not be with the best of intentions.

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  • 1930
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    What a Widow!

    What a Widow!

    6.5 1930 HD

    A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.

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  • 1952
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    Bal Tabarin

    Bal Tabarin

    1 1952 HD

    Story of a girl who witnesses murder of notorious international jewel thief. Afraid that the gang will attack her, she flees to Paris.

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  • 1932
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    What Price Hollywood?

    What Price Hollywood?

    6.75 1932 HD

    Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.

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  • 1944
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    The White Cliffs of Dover

    The White Cliffs of Dover

    6.7 1944 HD

    American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.

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  • 1937
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    Seventh Heaven

    Seventh Heaven

    6.313 1937 HD

    A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.

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  • 1924
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    The Humming Bird

    The Humming Bird

    6 1924 HD

    A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.

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  • 1933
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    The Secret of Madame Blanche

    The Secret of Madame Blanche

    3.4 1933 HD

    A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

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  • 1945
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    Paris Underground

    Paris Underground

    5.4 1945 HD

    Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.

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  • 1936
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    San Francisco

    San Francisco

    6.5 1936 HD

    A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

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  • 1931
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    Svengali

    Svengali

    6.06 1931 HD

    A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

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  • 1929
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    Our Modern Maidens

    Our Modern Maidens

    5.533 1929 HD

    Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile, Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.

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  • 1957
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    One Coat of White

    One Coat of White

    1 1957 HD

    A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

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