My Favorite Films

My Favorite Films

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Welcome to My Favorite Movies, a space dedicated to the timeless charm and artistry of classic cinema. I have a deep love for films from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s—a golden age when storytelling, character, and style came together in unforgettable ways. These decades gave us some of the most enduring performances and iconic stars in film history, and I find myself returning to them time and time again for their elegance, wit, and emotional depth.

Artists:

Among the actors and actresses who have captured my admiration are Dana Andrews, George Arliss, Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Freddie Bartholomew, Anne Baxter, Jack Benny, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Clive Brook, Joe E. Brown, Joseph Calleia, Ian Carmichael, Charlie Chaplin, Ronald Colman, Betty Davis, Brenda de Banzie, William Demarest, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Brian Donlevy, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Irene Dunne, Clint Eastwood, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Barry Fitzgerald, Errol Flynn, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Gretta Garbo, Greer Garson, James Gleason, Paulette Goddard, Carry Grant, Alec Guinness, Edmund Gwenn, Rex Harrison, William Hartnell, Jack Hawkins, Sterling Hayden, James Hayter, Louis Hayward, Van Heflin, Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Valerie Hobson, William Holden, Leslie Howard, Walter Huston, Mervyn Johns, Jennifer Jones, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway, Guy Kibbee, Otto Kruger, Burt Lancaster, Lassie, Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, Edmund Lowe, Frederick March, Lee Marvin, Marx Brothers, Raymond Massey, Joel McCrea, Steve McQueen, John Mills, Ray Milland, Robert Montgomery, Victor Moore, Frank Morgan, Paul Muni, Audie Murphy, David Niven, Edmond O'Brien, Pat O'Brien, Donald O'Connor, Maureen O'Hara, Warner Oland, John Payne, Gregory Peck, Eric Portman, William Powell, Tyrone Power, Vincent Price, George Raft, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone, Michael Redgrave, Ronald Reagan, Edward Rigby, Edward G. Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Charlie Ruggles, Margaret Rutherford, Alastair Sim, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Francis L. Sullivan, Robert Taylor, Shirley Temple, Gene Tierney, Franchot Tone, Spencer Tracey, Henry Travers, Tom Walls, Jack Warner, Wylie Watson, John Wayne, Clifton Webb, Orson Welles, Warren William, Loretta Young, and Roland Young.

Their work continues to inspire and entertain, proving that great cinema truly stands the test of time. Below, you’ll find links to some of my favorite films. I hope you discover—or rediscover—something special among them.

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Artist & Movie Favorites:

Dana Andrews:

Carver Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American film actor who became a major star in what is now known as film noir and later in Western films. A leading man during the 1940s, he continued acting in less prestigious roles and character parts into the 1980s. He is best known for his portrayal of obsessed police detective Mark McPherson in the noir mystery Laura (1944) and his critically acclaimed performance as World War II veteran Fred Derry returning home in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

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George Arliss:

George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor of any category to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).

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Edward Arnold:

Günther Edward Arnold Schneider (February 18, 1890 – April 26, 1956) was an American actor of the stage and screen.

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Jean Arthur:

Jean Arthur was an American film and theater actress whose career began in silent films in the early 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s.

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Freddie Bartholomew:

Frederick Cecil Bartholomew, known for his acting work as Freddie Bartholomew, was an English-American child actor who was very popular in 1930s Hollywood films. His most famous starring roles are in Captains Courageous and Little Lord Fauntleroy. Bartholomew was born in London in 1924.

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Anne Baxter:

Anne Baxter was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and two Laurel Awards, and was nominated for an Emmy

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Jack Benny:

Jack Benny was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success playing the violin on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with a highly popular comedic career in radio, television, and film.

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Ingrid Bergman:

Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in American, Swedish, French, German, Italian, and British films. Bergman's career spanned five decades and earned her three Academy Awards, two Emmys, and a Tony. She's best known for her role as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca, but also starred in Gaslight, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Murder on the Orient Express. 

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Joan Blondell:

Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years. Blondell began her career in vaudeville. After winning a beauty pageant, she embarked on a film career, establishing herself as a Pre-Code staple of Warner Bros.

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Humphrey Bogart:

Humphrey DeForest Bogart, nicknamed "Bogie", was an American actor who became a cultural icon through his roles in classic Hollywood films. Though popular in the 1940s and 50s, Bogart's legendary status grew after his death. In 1999, the American Film Institute named him the greatest male star of classic American cinema. Bogart started his career on Broadway after World War I, often playing young, romantic roles.

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Clive Brook:

Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook was an English stage and film actor. After making his first screen appearance in 1920, Brook emerged as a leading British actor in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States in 1924, Brook became one of the major stars for Paramount Pictures in the late silent era. 

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Joe E. Brown:

Joseph Evans Brown was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his friendly screen persona, comic timing, and enormous, elastic-mouth smile. He was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s, and enjoyed lengthy careers in both motion pictures and radio.

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Joseph Calleia:

Joseph Alexander Caesar Herstall Vincent Calleja, August 4, 1897 – October 31, 1975) was a Maltese-born American actor and singer on the stage and in films.

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Ian Carmichael:

Ian Gillett Carmichael OBE was an English actor who worked prolifically on stage, screen and radio in a career that spanned seventy years.

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Charlie Chaplin:

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was an English actor, composer, and filmmaker who became a worldwide icon through his silent film persona, the Tramp. Chaplin is considered a crucial figure in the film industry. In 1913, he moved to America to pursue a career in film. Chaplin was a talented composer and improviser, and his family archives contain many audio recordings of him working on the piano. 

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Ronald Colman:

Ronald Charles Colman was an English and American actor who started his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrated to the United States where he had a highly successful Hollywood film career.

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Betty Davis:

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was known for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations (and one write-in) for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. In 1999, Davis was placed second on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.

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Brenda de Banzie:

Brenda Doreen Mignon de Banzie was a British actress of stage and screen.

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William Demarest:

Carl William Demarest was an American actor, known especially for his supporting roles in screwball comedies by Preston Sturges and as Uncle Charley in the sitcom My Three Sons from 1965-72.

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Marlene Dietrich:

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades.

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Robert Donat:

Friedrich Robert Donat was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII, today he is best remembered for his roles in The Count of Monte Cristo, 

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Brian Donlevy:

Waldo Brian Donlevy was an American actor, who was noted for playing dangerous and tough characters. Usually appearing in supporting roles, among his best-known films are Beau Geste, The Great McGinty and Wake Island.

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Kirk Douglas:

Kirk Douglas was an American actor, producer, and director known for his complex characters in serious dramas like westerns and war films. He was a leading box office star in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in popular films such as Lust for Life (1956), Spartacus (1960), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). Douglas won a Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of Vincent Van Gogh in Lust for Life. 

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Paul Douglas:

Paul Douglas Fleischer, (April 11, 1907 − September 11, 1959) known professionally as Paul Douglas, was an American actor.

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Irene Dunne:

Irene Dunne DHS was an American actress who appeared in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is best known for her comedic roles, though she performed in films of other genres. After her father died when she was 14, Dunne's family relocated from Kentucky to Indiana.

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr:

Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda, Gunga Din, and The Corsican Brothers.

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Barry Fitzgerald:

William Joseph Shields (10 March 1888 – 4 January 1961), known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Sea Wolf (1941), Going My Way (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944) and The Quiet Man (1952). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same performance. In 2020, he was listed at number 11 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

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Errol Flynn:

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was a charismatic, athletic, and handsome Australian-American actor who became Hollywood's top swashbuckler in the 1930s. He was known for his romantic adventurer roles in films like Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, and Dodge City. Flynn often co-starred with Olivia de Havilland and was also an action star in westerns and war movies.

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Henry Fonda:

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American actor known for his five-decade career on stage and in Hollywood. He appeared in over 100 films, TV shows, and shorts, including classics like 12 Angry Men and The Ox-Bow Incident. Fonda was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and won the award in 1981 for On Golden Pond. He also portrayed historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Wyatt Earp.

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Clark Gable:

William Clark Gable was an American film star and Hollywood leading man for 30 years. Nicknamed "The King of Hollywood", he was known for his charm and portrayal of carefree, bravado characters. Gable appeared in over 60 films across genres, including Boomtown, San Francisco, Hell Divers, and Strange Interlude. The American Film Institute ranked him the seventh greatest male star of classic American cinema. 

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Gretta Garbo:

Greta Garbo, born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish-American actress and a major star in Hollywood's silent and early golden eras. She became an international star in silent films, and with the advent of sound, became the world's most popular star. Garbo was one of the most popular and glamorous movie stars of the 1920s and 1930s. Although some thought she became reclusive, she actually traveled with high society friends and lived a quiet, cultured life. 

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Greer Garson:

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was a British-American actress and singer. She was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who became popular during the Second World War for her portrayal of strong women on the homefront and was listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top-10 box office draws from 1942 to 1946.

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James Gleason:

James Austin Gleason was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter born in New York City. Gleason often portrayed "tough-talking, world-weary guys with a secret heart-of-gold.

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Paulette Goddard:

Paulette Goddard was an American actress and socialite. Her career spanned six decades, from the 1920s to the early 1970s. She was a prominent leading actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Alec Guinness:

Sir Alec Guinness was a distinguished English actor known for his subtle facial expressions and nuanced performances. He transitioned from stage to film in the late 1940s, earning acclaim for his eight roles in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. 

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Edmund Gwenn:

Edmund Gwenn was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award.

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Rex Harrison:

Sir Reginald Carey Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, in what was his breakthrough role.

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William Hartnell:

William Henry Hartnell was an English actor, who is best known for portraying the first incarnation of the Doctor, in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966; he reprised the role in 1972–1973.

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Jack Hawkins:

John Edward Hawkins, CBE was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he was known for his portrayal of military men.Jack Hawkins

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Sterling Hayden:

Sterling Walter Hayden was an American actor, author, sailor, and Marine. A leading man for most of his career, he specialized in Westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar, and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing

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James Hayter:

Henry James Hayter was a British actor of television and film. He is best remembered for his roles as Friar Tuck in the film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men and as Samuel Pickwick in the film The Pickwick Papers, the latter earning him a BAFTA Award for Best British Actor nomination.

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Louis Hayward:

Louis Charles Hayward was a South African-born, British-American actor.

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Van Heflin:

Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. was an American theatre, radio, and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. Heflin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager.

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Audrey Hepburn:

Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian who won an Oscar, Tony, Golden Globe, and BAFTA awards. Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston, she was a fashion icon and film legend known for her roles in Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and My Fair Lady. Hepburn was also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador from 1988–1993, advocating for children in Africa and Latin America. 

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Katherine Hepburn:

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was a celebrated American actress known for her strong-willed characters, unconventional roles, and outspoken nature. Her career spanned six decades and included 44 films, 8 TV movies, and 33 stage plays. Hepburn's distinctive speech pattern, tomboyish beauty, and quirky mannerisms made her a notable figure in Hollywood. 

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Charlton Heston:

Charlton Heston was an Oscar-winning American actor and activist known for his roles in historical epics and his support for civil rights. Acting career: Heston became a star for his commanding roles in biblical epics like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1959. He also appeared in science fiction and action films. 

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Alfred Hitchcock:

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, also known as the “master of suspense”, was an English film director and pioneer of camera and editing techniques. His career spanned six decades and encompassed over 50 films, many of which remain studied and watched today. Hitchcock was renowned for his suspense thrillers, including Psycho, Rear Window, and Strangers on a Train, and for his ability to craft suspense and evoke emotions in his audience.

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Valerie Hobson:

Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson was a British actress whose film career spanned the 1930s to the early 1950s. Her second husband was John Profumo, a British government minister who became the subject of the Profumo affair in 1963.

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William Holden:

William Franklin Holden was an American actor and a major box office draw in the 1950s. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Stalag 17 (1953) and a Primetime Emmy for his role in the 1973 TV film The Blue Knight. Holden starred in several critically acclaimed and popular films, including Sunset Boulevard, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, The Towering Inferno, and Network. 

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Leslie Howard:

Leslie Howard Steiner was an English actor, director, producer and writer. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s.

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Walter Huston:

Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston. 

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Mervyn Johns:

David Mervyn Johns was a Welsh stage, film and television actor who became a fixture of British films during the Second World War. Johns appeared extensively on screen and stage with over 100 credits between 1923 and 1979. He made his theatrical debut while on tour of the British dominions in 1923.

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Jennifer Jones:

Jennifer Jones, also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental-health advocate. Over the course of her career that spanned more than five decades, she was nominated for an Academy Award five times, including one win for Best Actress, and a Golden Globe Award win for Best Actress in a Drama.

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Boris Karloff:

William Henry Pratt, known professionally as Boris Karloff and occasionally billed as Karloff the Uncanny, was a British actor.

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Cecil Kellaway:

Cecil Lauriston Kellaway was a South African character actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, for The Luck of the Irish and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

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Guy Kibbee:

Guy Bridges Kibbee (March 6, 1882 – May 24, 1956) was an American stage and film actor.

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Otto Kruger:

Otto Kruger was an American actor. Originally a Broadway matinée idol, he established a niche as a charming villain in films, such as in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur and Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession. He appeared in more than 120 film, television and stage roles between 1915 and 1965.

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Lassie:

Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a 1940 full-length novel, Lassie Come-Home.

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Charles Laughton:

Charles Laughton was a British and American actor. He was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death.

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Peter Lorre:

Peter Lorre was a Hungarian and American actor, active first in Europe and later in the United States. Known for his timidly devious characters, his appearance, and accented voice, he was frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.

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Edmund Lowe:

Edmund Sherbourne Lowe was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film.

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Frederick March:

Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. As a performer he was known for his versatility. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and three Emmy Awards.

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Lee Marvin:

Lee Marvin was a Hollywood actor known for his tough-guy roles and bass voice. He was a prominent figure in film and television from the 1950s–1960s, often playing villains in westerns and action movies. Marvin was a US Marine in World War II, participating in many Pacific Theater assaults. He was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and related to George Washington through other branches of his family.

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Marx Brothers:

The Marx Brothers were an American comedy team known for their anarchic humor, rapid-fire wordplay, and visual gags. They achieved success in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in 14 motion pictures.

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Raymond Massey:

Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian actor known for his commanding stage-trained voice. For his lead role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised his role as Lincoln on television and in How the West Was Won.

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Joel McCrea:

Joel Albert McCrea was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known.

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Steve McQueen:

Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of 1960s counterculture, made him a top box office draw for his films of the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. He was nicknamed the "King of Cool" and used the alias "Harvey Mushman" when participating in motor races.

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John Mills:

Sir John Mills was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. He excelled on camera as an appealing British everyman who often portrayed guileless, wounded war heroes. In 1971, he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Ryan's Daughter

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Ray Milland:

Ray Milland was a Welsh-American actor and film director. He is often remembered for his portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, which won him Best Actor at Cannes, a Golden Globe Award, and ultimately an Academy Award—the first such accolades for any Welsh actor.

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Robert Montgomery:

Robert Montgomery was an American actor, director, and producer. He began his acting career on the stage, but was soon hired by MGM. Initially assigned roles in comedies, he soon proved he was able to handle dramatic ones, as well.

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Victor Moore:

Victor Fred Moore was an American actor of stage and screen, a major Broadway star from the late 1920s through the 1930s. He was also a writer and director, but is best remembered today as a comedian, playing timid, mild-mannered roles.

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Frank Morgan:

Francis Phillip Wuppermann (June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949), known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916, and then numerous sound films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, with a career spanning 35 years mostly as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is best-known for his multiple roles, including the title role of Oscar Diggs/The Wizard in the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz. He was also briefly billed early in his career as Frank Wupperman and Francis Morgan.

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Paul Muni:

Paul Muni was an American stage and film actor from Chicago. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Bros. studio and was given the rare privilege of choosing his own parts.

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Audie Murphy:

Audie Leon Murphy was a celebrated American soldier, actor, songwriter, and poet. He became a national hero after World War II as the most decorated American combat soldier, receiving every U.S. medal for valor, plus French and Belgian medals. Murphy's wartime courage included single-handedly fighting off German tanks and infantry for over an hour, earning him the Medal of Honor. 

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David Niven:

James David Graham Niven was an English actor, soldier, raconteur, memoirist and novelist. Niven was known as a handsome and debonair leading man in Classic Hollywood films. His accolades include an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards in addition to nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Emmy Awards.

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Edmond O'Brien:

Eamon Joseph O'Brien was an American actor of stage, screen, and television, and film director. His career spanned almost 40 years, and he won one Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Pat O'Brien:

William Joseph Patrick O'Brien was an American film actor with more than 100 screen credits. Of Irish descent, he often played Irish and Irish-American characters and was referred to as "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence" in the press. 

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Donald O'Connor:

Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor was an American dancer, singer and actor. He came to fame in a series of films in which he co-starred, in succession, with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. 

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Maureen O'Hara:

Maureen O'Hara was an Irish-born naturalized American actress who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in Westerns and adventure films.

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Warner Oland:

Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor. His career included time on Broadway and numerous film appearances.

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John Payne:

John Payne is the name of several notable individuals. Two prominent figures are actor John Howard Payne (1912-1989), known for his roles in Miracle on 34th Street.

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Eric Portman:

Eric Harold Portman was an English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in three films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940s.

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William Powell:

William Horatio Powell was an American actor, known primarily for his film career. Under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the Thin Man series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters created by Dashiell Hammett.

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Tyrone Power:

Tyrone Edmund Power III was an American actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads.

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Vincent Price:

Vincent Leonard Price Jr., also known as the "King of Horror", was an American actor who appeared in over 100 films, on television, radio, and stage. He was best known for his horror roles, particularly in films like House of Wax (1953), The Fly (1958), and Dragonwyck (1946). In the 1960s, he collaborated with Roger Corman on low-budget horror adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe works, including The Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher. 

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George Raft:

George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Claude Rains:

William Claude Rains was a British and American actor whose career spanned almost seven decades. He was the recipient of numerous accolades, including four Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting.

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Michael Redgrave:

Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave was an English actor and filmmaker. Beginning his career in theatre, he first appeared in the West End in 1937. He made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes in 1938.

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Ronald Reagan:

Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement. His presidency is known as the Reagan era.

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Edward Rigby:

Edward Coke MC, known professionally as Edward Rigby, was a British character actor.

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Mickey Rooney:

Mickey Rooney was an American actor, singer, dancer, composer, writer, and director with a career spanning almost 90 years. He was a top box-office draw from 1939–1941 and one of the highest-paid actors of the time. Rooney was a child star known for his role as Andy Hardy and appeared in over 300 films and television shows. 

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Charlie Ruggles:

Charles Sherman Ruggles was an American comic character actor. In a career spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature films, often in mild-mannered and comic roles. He was also the elder brother of director, producer, and silent film actor Wesley Ruggles.

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Margaret Rutherford:

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford was an English actress of stage, film and television. Rutherford came to national attention following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

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Alastair Sim:

Alastair George Bell Sim (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish actor. He began his theatrical career at the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976. 

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Barbara Stanwyck:

Barbara Stanwyck (1907-?) was an American actress and dancer known for her versatility and realistic screen presence. Born Ruby Catherine Stevens, she overcame a difficult childhood to become a Ziegfeld Girl and make her stage debut in 1926. Her film career began in 1927 and lasted until 1964, with television appearances continuing until 1986. Stanwyck became the highest-paid actress of her time in the 1940s. 

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Francis L. Sullivan:

Francis Loftus Sullivan (6 January 1903 – 19 November 1956) was an English stage and film actor known for his commanding presence and deep, resonant voice. Born in London to Michael Sullivan and his wife, he grew up with two brothers and a sister. Educated at Stonyhurst, a Jesuit public school, and later in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Sullivan originally intended to pursue engineering before turning to acting, where he built a successful career in both theatre and cinema.

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Shirley Temple:

Shirley Temple Black was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.

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Gene Tierney:

Gene Eliza Tierney was an American stage and film actress. Acclaimed for her great beauty, Tierney was a prominent leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Franchot Tone:

Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s, and at the height of his career was known for his gentlemanly sophisticate roles, with supporting roles by the 1950s.

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Henry Travers:

Travers John Heagerty (5 March 1874 – 18 October 1965), known professionally as Henry Travers, was an English film and stage character actor who specialised in portraying slightly bumbling but amiable and likeable older men. His best known role was the guardian angel Clarence Odbody in the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He also received an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Mrs. Miniver (1942). Other notable films include The Invisible Man (1933), Dark Victory (1939), and High Sierra (1941).

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Tom Walls:

Thomas Kirby Walls was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s.

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Jack Warner:

Jack Warner was a British actor. He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp and later in the television series Dixon of Dock Green from 1955 until 1976, but he was also for some years one of Britain's most popular film stars.

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Wylie Watson:

Wylie Watson (6 February 1889 – 3 May 1966) (born John Wylie Robertson) was a Scottish actor. Among his best-known roles were those of "Mr Memory", an amazing man who commits "50 new facts to his memory every day" in Alfred Hitchcock's film The 39 Steps (1935), and wily storekeeper Joseph Macroon in the Ealing comedy Whisky Galore! (1949). He emigrated to Australia in 1952, and made his final film appearance there in The Sundowners (1960).

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Clifton Webb:

Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck, known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, singer, and dancer. He worked extensively and was known for his stage appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, including Blithe Spirit, as well as appearances on Broadway in a number of successful musical revues. 

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Orson Welles:

George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, producer, writer, and magician who left a lasting impact on film, radio, and theater. Welles is considered one of the most influential and celebrated filmmakers in history. His 1941 directorial debut, Citizen Kane, in which he also starred, won him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and nominations for Best Actor and Best Director. The film is often ranked as the greatest ever made. 

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Warren William:

Warren William was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s; he was later nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code". He was the first actor to play Perry Mason.

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Loretta Young:

Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1989.

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Roland Young:

Roland Young was an English-born actor. He began his acting career on the London stage, but later found success in America and received an Academy Award nomination for his role in the film Topper.

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