
06 Aug 1937

Stella Dallas
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
CECIL B DE MILLE'S SUBLIME MIRROR OF LIFE
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
William Crichton, the butler
Lady Mary Lasenby
Tweeny, the scullery maid
Lord Loam
Lord Brockelhurst
Honorable Ernest 'Ernie' Wolley
The King's favorite
Susan - Maid #2
Lady Agatha Lasenby
06 Aug 1937
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
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Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
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Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.
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A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?
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In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible scheme, but must outwit not only the cream of the German Navy, but the feared Kaiser Wilhelm himself.
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A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a physician. Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently through supernatural means. Göldi at first escaped arrest, but the authorities of the Canton of Glarus advertised a reward for her capture in the Zürcher Zeitung on February 9, 1782. Göldi was arrested and under torture, admitted to entering in a pact with the Devil, who had appeared to her as a black dog. She withdrew her confession after the torture ended, but was sentenced on June 18, 1782 to execution by decapitation. The charges were officially of "poisoning" rather than witchcraft, even though the law at the time did not impose the death penalty for non-lethal poisoning.
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An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
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A group of seven young people spend a weekend in the home of a wealthy yuppie on Long Island and live out their problems.