Tenen Holtz

Tenen Holtz

Elihu "Elye" Tenenholtz was born in the Russian hamlet of Azran, near the city of Rovne, in 1887 and came to the US at the age of ten. His first appearance in amateur Yiddish theatricals occurred in 1903, in staged readings of the works of Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem, the first person to do that. He augmented his theater appearances by writing for and editing a Yiddish satirical magazine under the pen-name "Moishe McCarthy". In 1916 he made the leap to the professional Yiddish stage and, befriended by the great doyenne Bessie Thomashevsky, helped her pen her memoirs, the first publication documenting a Yiddish actor's life. By 1920 he was appearing on both the Yiddish art stage with Maurice Schwartz and on Broadway, quickly rising to the top leadership of the Hebrew Actors' Union, the first arts union in America. In 1925 he co-founded a theater company with Celia Adler, half-sister of Luther Adler and "Method" teacher Stella Adler. In 1926 he was summoned to Hollywood and given a five-year contract at MGM. Like most Jewish actors, when he arrived in Hollywood he changed his name (choosing to bifurcate it into "Tenen Holtz"). During that time he regularly appeared in films alongside such stars as Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Marion Davies and under directors like King Vidor and Victor Fleming. This period would prove to be Tenenholtz's most prolific and would account for the majority of the 50+ films in which he would appear. While in Hollywood he helped jump start its fledgling Yiddish theater, founding a popular Yiddish theater company that included other transplanted Yiddish actors including Muni Weisenfreund (aka Paul Muni, father and son Rudolph Schildkraut and Joseph Schildkraut. When his contract at MGM ended, he moved over to Warner Brothers where he made films with Leslie Howard under the direction of Michael Curtiz. By the late 1930s the only calls he got were from Poverty Row studios, so Tenenholtz moved to nearby Monrovia and opened a chicken ranch. Though he would occasionally go back in front of the camera, he retired from film. By the time TV emerged, he landed a few roles on shows such as Perry Mason (1957) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). He died in 1971.

  • Title: Tenen Holtz
  • Popularity: 0.8911
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1887-02-17
  • Place of Birth: Volin - Russia
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  • Also Known As: Alexander Elihu Tenenholtz
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Tenen Holtz Movies

  • 1933
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    Bombshell

    Bombshell

    6.472 1933 HD

    A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

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  • 1927
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    The Demi-Bride

    The Demi-Bride

    1 1927 HD

    Trouble begins when Madame Girard steps out on her husband, Criquette's father, to fool around with rakish Phillippe Levaux. When Monsieur Girard finds out, Criquette saves her stepmother from scandal by tricking Levaux into a hasty marriage.

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  • 1927
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    Frisco Sally Levy

    Frisco Sally Levy

    1 1927 HD

    Sally Lapidowitz is the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother and the girlfriend of motorcycle cop Patrick Sweeney. Sally finds herself attracted to the fancy Stuart Gold, a young Jewish boy who charms her father but raises Patrick's suspicions, which are soon justified.

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  • 1933
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    Dinner at Eight

    Dinner at Eight

    6.7 1933 HD

    An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

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  • 1931
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    Sporting Blood

    Sporting Blood

    5.1 1931 HD

    A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.

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  • 1933
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    Hard to Handle

    Hard to Handle

    6.9 1933 HD

    A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

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  • 1928
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    The Ol' Gray Hoss

    The Ol' Gray Hoss

    6 1928 HD

    This story revolves around an old man who feels alone in the world aside from the gang who keeps him company and his old horse. He runs a horse and buggy business, but he has new competition: an auto taxi. The gang helps him to maintain his job by sabotaging the other man's.

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  • 1938
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    International Crime

    International Crime

    5.4 1938 HD

    The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.

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  • 1926
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    Upstage

    Upstage

    6 1926 HD

    Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, thinking she is the reason, meets a handsome leading man and joins up with him but, before long, he discovers 'she ain't a trouper' and she is soon performing with 4th-class acts in Tank Town America

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  • 1931
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    Devotion

    Devotion

    6.8 1931 HD

    A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.

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  • 1931
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    Laughing Sinners

    Laughing Sinners

    5.1 1931 HD

    Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.

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  • 1934
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    British Agent

    British Agent

    5.6 1934 HD

    In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

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  • 1931
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    Gentleman's Fate

    Gentleman's Fate

    6 1931 HD

    A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.

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  • 1932
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    Cock of the Air

    Cock of the Air

    6.5 1932 HD

    An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.

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  • 1928
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    The Cardboard Lover

    The Cardboard Lover

    5.4 1928 HD

    A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancé a lesson and win her back. What he doesn't realize is that the girl isn't pretending --she actually is in love with him, and she sets out to win him for herself.

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  • 1934
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    Money Means Nothing

    Money Means Nothing

    4 1934 HD

    At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.

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  • 1928
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    The Garden of Eden

    The Garden of Eden

    5.6 1928 HD

    Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.

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  • 1934
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    Hollywood Mystery

    Hollywood Mystery

    3.5 1934 HD

    A PR man for a low-budget movie studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick--to make a gangster picture with a real mobster in the lead role.

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  • 1928
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    The Law of the Range

    The Law of the Range

    2.5 1928 HD

    Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering "Solitaire Kid".

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  • 1930
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    The Kibitzer

    The Kibitzer

    4.7 1930 HD

    In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.

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  • 1928
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    Detectives

    Detectives

    1 1928 HD

    Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the bellhop--who has always dreamed of being a detective--sees his chance to both solve the jewel robbery and impress the woman he loves. The house detective, however, has other ideas.

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  • 1926
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    Exit Smiling

    Exit Smiling

    7.9 1926 HD

    The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.

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  • 1933
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    Whistling in the Dark

    Whistling in the Dark

    5.6 1933 HD

    A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

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  • 1933
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    Broadway to Hollywood

    Broadway to Hollywood

    4.6 1933 HD

    In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

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  • 1939
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    Let Freedom Ring

    Let Freedom Ring

    6 1939 HD

    A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

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  • 1939
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    Mutiny on the Blackhawk

    Mutiny on the Blackhawk

    1 1939 HD

    Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.

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  • 1939
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    Henry Goes Arizona

    Henry Goes Arizona

    6 1939 HD

    A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

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  • 1928
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    The Trail of '98

    The Trail of '98

    5.9 1928 HD

    Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

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  • 1928
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    Bringing Up Father

    Bringing Up Father

    4.333 1928 HD

    The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.

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  • 1939
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    Bridal Suite

    Bridal Suite

    5.1 1939 HD

    A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.

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  • 1938
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    Cipher Bureau

    Cipher Bureau

    4.4 1938 HD

    The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.

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  • 1930
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    All Teed Up

    All Teed Up

    4.2 1930 HD

    Thelma invites Charley to play golf at her father's exclusive country club.

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  • 1928
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    Show People

    Show People

    7.1 1928 HD

    Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.

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  • 1937
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    Nothing Sacred

    Nothing Sacred

    6.3 1937 HD

    When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

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  • 1929
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    The Duke Steps Out

    The Duke Steps Out

    5 1929 HD

    Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. Susie likes him but, to get rid of her, his manager tells her Duke already has a New York chorus girl. As the students listen to a radio broadcast of his victorious fight from San Francisco, she learns that the student Duke is the boxer Duke and that there is no chorus girl.

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  • 1933
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    The Chief

    The Chief

    3 1933 HD

    The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

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  • 1929
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    House of Horror

    House of Horror

    1 1929 HD

    House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The film stars Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin and was released in both a silent and sound version which featured a Vitaphone soundtrack with talking sequences, music and sound effects. Both the silent and sound versions of House of Horror are now presumed lost.

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  • 1928
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    The Latest from Paris

    The Latest from Paris

    1 1928 HD

    The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, heroine Ann Dolan works for Blogg, while her sweetheart Joe Adams is employed by Littauer.

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  • 1925
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    Salome of the Tenements

    Salome of the Tenements

    1 1925 HD

    A young East Side Jewish reporter gets into a sticky situation when she finds that her new beau is indicting a banker she owes money to.

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  • 1930
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    Whispering Whoopee

    Whispering Whoopee

    5.9 1930 HD

    Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.

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  • 1932
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    Faithless

    Faithless

    6.6 1932 HD

    Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

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  • 1933
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    Big Executive

    Big Executive

    1 1933 HD

    Big Executive

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  • 1930
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    Lilies of the Field

    Lilies of the Field

    2.667 1930 HD

    Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.

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  • 1934
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    The Notorious Sophie Lang

    The Notorious Sophie Lang

    6 1934 HD

    After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off guard by having her fall for a handsome and suave jewel thief who happens to be in the U.S. traveling under an assumed name.

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  • 1927
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    Long Pants

    Long Pants

    5.5 1927 HD

    Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.708 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.764 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1958
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    Peter Gunn

    Peter Gunn

    6.4 1958 HD

    Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.

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  • 1960
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    The Barbara Stanwyck Show

    The Barbara Stanwyck Show

    6.2 1960 HD

    An American anthology drama television series hosted by Barbara Stanwyck served.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.708 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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