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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Robert E. Sherwood, MacKinlay Kantor
Cast Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March
Plot Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
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Inherit the Wind (1960)
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Director Stanley Kramer
Writer Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith, Jerome Lawrence
Cast Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly
Plot Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
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Director Rouben Mamoulian
Writer Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath, Robert Louis Stevenson
Cast Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Plot Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
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Seven Days in May (1964)
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Director John Frankenheimer
Writer Fletcher Knebel, Charles W. Bailey II, Rod Serling
Cast Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Plot United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
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A Star Is Born (1937)
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Director William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming
Writer Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson
Cast Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
Plot Young Esther Victoria Blodgett comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and achieves them only with the help of alcoholic leading man Norman Maine, whose best days are behind him.
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Hombre (1967)
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Director Martin Ritt
Writer Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr., Elmore Leonard
Cast Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone
Plot John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Apaches becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
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Design for Living (1933)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Noel Coward, Ben Hecht, Samuel Hoffenstein
Cast Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins
Plot A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
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The Desperate Hours (1955)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Joseph Hayes, Jay Dratler, Marcel Lebreton
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy
Plot Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
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I Married a Witch (1942)
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Director Rene Clair
Writer Robert Pirosh, Marc Connelly, Thorne Smith
Cast Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley
Plot A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
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Nothing Sacred (1937)
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Director William A. Wellman
Writer Ben Hecht, James Street, David O. Selznick
Cast Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger
Plot An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
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Les Miserables aka Les Mis rables (1935)
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Director Richard Boleslawski
Writer Victor Hugo, W.P. Lipscomb
Cast Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke
Plot In early-19th-century France, an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20-year period by an obsessive policeman.
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Anna Karenina (1935)
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Director Clarence Brown
Writer Lev Tolstoy, Clemence Dane, Salka Viertel
Cast Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew
Plot The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
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Director Mark Robson
Writer Valentine Davies, James A. Michener, Marcel Lebreton
Cast William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March
Plot Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
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Director Nunnally Johnson
Writer Nunnally Johnson, Sloan Wilson
Cast Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March
Plot An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.
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Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
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Director Mitchell Leisen
Writer Maxwell Anderson, Gladys Lehman, Alberto Casella
Cast Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing
Plot The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
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Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
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Director Dorothy Arzner
Writer Edwin Justus Mayer, Cleo Lucas
Cast Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen
Plot A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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The Sign of the Cross (1932)
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Director Cecil B. DeMille
Writer Waldemar Young, Sidney Buchman, Wilson Barrett
Cast Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi
Plot A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
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Director Sidney Franklin
Writer Rudolph Besier, Ernest Vajda, Claudine West
Cast Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Plot Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
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Mary of Scotland (1936)
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Director John Ford, Leslie Goodwins
Writer Dudley Nichols, Maxwell Anderson, Mortimer Offner
Cast Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge
Plot The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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Man on a Tightrope (1953)
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Director Elia Kazan
Writer Robert E. Sherwood, Neil Paterson
Cast Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame
Plot A Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
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Smilin' Through (1932)
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Director Sidney Franklin
Writer Jane Cowl, Jane Murfin, Ernest Vajda
Cast Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard
Plot The adoptive father of a young woman is horrified to learn she plans to marry the son of the man who accidentally killed her aunt years before.
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Middle of the Night (1959)
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Director Delbert Mann
Writer Paddy Chayefsky
Cast Kim Novak, Fredric March, Glenda Farrell
Plot A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
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Anthony Adverse (1936)
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Director Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Writer Hervey Allen, Sheridan Gibney, Milton Krims
Cast Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods
Plot In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.
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The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
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Director Irving Rapper
Writer Alan Le May, Harold M. Sherman, Harry Chandlee
Cast Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp
Plot The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley's Comet returned.
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The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
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Director Stuart Walker, Mitchell Leisen
Writer Seton I. Miller, Bogart Rogers, John Monk Saunders
Cast Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie
Plot 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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One Foot in Heaven (1941)
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Director Irving Rapper
Writer Casey Robinson, Hartzell Spence
Cast Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi
Plot Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Death of a Salesman (1951)
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Director Laslo Benedek
Writer Arthur Miller, Stanley Roberts
Cast Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy
Plot An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
