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Christine Penmark (Nancy Kelly), herself adopted as a small child, comes to the horrifying realization that her seemingly angelic young daughter Rhoda (Patty McCormack) is a cold-blooded killer — and that the trait may run in her blood: her own biological mother murdered the rest of her family. As more people die, Christine must make a terrible decision about the daughter she loves and desperately wants to protect.

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A single mother discovers that within her seemingly angelic daughter beats the heart of a cold-blooded serial murderer. One woman must make a terrible decision about the daughter she loves and desperately wants to protect in this classic thriller.

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MGM's sleek proto-noir pairs the studio's leading-man heartthrob with its top glamour icon for a walk down a very dark street. Robert Taylor is Johnny Eager, a cold-blooded racketeer fresh out of the state penitentiary who poses as a reformed cab driver for his gullible parole officer while secretly running a massive illicit gambling syndicate and scheming to open a dog-racing track. When innocent high-society sociology student Lisbeth Bard (Lana Turner) falls under Johnny's spell, he sees his ultimate leverage: she is the cherished stepdaughter of District Attorney John Benson Farrell (Edward Arnold), Johnny's longtime nemesis and the man who put him behind bars. Johnny plans to blackmail Farrell using Lisbeth as a pawn — but as real romantic sparks ignite between the underworld king and the debutante, his frozen heart threatens to bring down his entire empire.

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Three Broadway producers are frantically searching for financial backers. Al Marsh, one of them, has inherited a share of a Parisian dress salon that is nearly bankrupt, and he and his partners persuade the shop's creditors to back a fashion show in Paris.

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A brilliant scientist, a pioneering woman in a field closed to her gender, a woman who shares a passion for discovery with her husband--a passion that will cause the death of the love of her life--Academy Award winner Greer Garson stars as Madame Curie. Behind the discovery of radioactivity lies the story of Marie (Garson--Mrs. Miniver, Sunrise at Campobello) and Pierre Curie (Walter Pidgeon--Mrs. Miniver, Executive Suite)--a moving, human story of two people who love each other as much as their great work. Their meeting as scientist and student, their hesitant courtship and ultimate marriage joins the two in both heart and mind as they work together on what seems a hopeless task. Success comes at last, but there is little time to savor their triumph--for although their work has opened a new field of science to the world, it has cost Pierre his life.

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James Sullivan works the carny circuit, promoting the likes of a boxing kangaroo or grappling bear. Then the wheeler-dealer meets a million-dollar idea: beautiful swimming champ Annette Kellerman. She'll churn through a River Thames PR stunt. Cause a bathing-suit scandal among Boston bluebloods. Headline New York's Hippodrome. And become a Hollywood swimsation as cameras roll and Rin Tin Tin looks on. Glamorous, amphibious Esther Williams portrays the real-life aquatic star in a splashy biopic costarring Victor Mature and loaded with stunning spectacle (including a must-see Busby Berkeley masterwork). Is this lovely Esther's signature film? Well, she called her 1999 autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid.

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The USS Reluctant carries cargo along World War II's forgotten Pacific seaways. Beyond the horizon, the real war passes its stir-crazy crew by. Mister Roberts, directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy, is the classic story of men fighting to survive -- not war's dangers, but its indignities. Henry Fonda's reprise of his Tony -winning Broadway role returned him to movies after seven years away. Jack Lemmon won his first Academy Award * as hapless, lecherous Ensign Pulver. James Cagney's petty, scrappy Captain makes a fierce adversary. In his final film, William Powell makes world-weary Doc a sage for the ages. Mister Roberts has moments of unforgettable humor. But sadness tempers the comedy. No shot is fired. No blood is spilled. Yet Mister Roberts endures as one of our most truthful war sagas.

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Robert Taylor plays Marcus Vinicius, commander of Rome's 14th Legion and in love with Lygia (Deborah Kerr), a member of the Christian sect accused of undermining Roman values. Peter Ustinov, wrapped in purple-robed petulance, is the all-powerful Nero. The destinies of these three and of the Empire play out in a tale whose visual highlights include the parade of triumphant legions, the burning of Rome and the martyrdom of Christmas before cheering, bread-and-circus throngs

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Paula Smith (Greer Garson) is the secretary of industrialist Charles Rainier (Ronald Colman). She is also his wife — which Charles does not know. Shell-shocked during World War I, he cannot recall his days as her husband, John Smith. Advised not to endanger his fragile mental state, Paula cannot openly reveal who she is and must find other ways to help him remember their life together. From the novel by James Hilton (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) comes one of the great sentimental romance movies; Garson's Paula, alongside her same-year triumph in Mrs. Miniver, established her persona as the strong, self-sacrificing wife, and the film gathered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Colman as Best Actor.

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In this true story of courage and ingenuity, American pilots under the command of Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) make a seemingly impossible one-way flight, launching fully loaded bombers from the deck of an aircraft carrier for the first time ever and landing in China. The cost in pilots and aircraft may be staggering, but the raid shatters the Japanese people's belief that the vast Pacific Ocean protects them from American counterattack.

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Gloria Swanson plays Nella Vago, a prima donna touring Budapest whose manager insists her singing lacks passion because she has never truly been in love. She falls for a penniless young admirer (Melvyn Douglas) whom gossip paints as a kept man, in this pre-Code romantic comedy adapted from the stage play.

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Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the war's unspoken casualties. Heartbroken after Roy is reportedly killed in action, Myra turns to prostitution to make her way. The report, however, is false. Roy later returns from a POW camp, eager to begin life anew with his beloved. But Myra's shattered spirit may no longer hold any room for happiness. Vivien Leigh plays Myra, at once winning and breaking viewers' hearts in this exquisite melodrama. In a compassionate performance that was his all-time favorite, Robert Taylor is gallant Roy. Under Mervyn LeRoy's astute direction, they make Waterloo Bridge a meeting place for lovers.