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Ninotchka (1939)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch
Cast Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
Plot A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Being There (1979)
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Director Hal Ashby
Writer Jerzy Kosinski, Robert C. Jones
Cast Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
Plot After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
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Le locataire aka The Tenant (1976)
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Director Roman Polanski
Writer Roland Topor, Gerard Brach, Roman Polanski
Cast Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas
Plot A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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Hud (1963)
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Director Martin Ritt
Writer Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr., Larry McMurtry
Cast Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal
Plot Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
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Director H.C. Potter
Writer Eric Hodgins, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Cast Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas
Plot A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.
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The Old Dark House (1932)
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Director James Whale
Writer J.B. Priestley, Benn W. Levy, R.C. Sherriff
Cast Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Plot Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
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The Changeling (1980)
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Director Peter Medak
Writer Russell Hunter, William Gray, Diana Maddox
Cast George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas
Plot After experiencing tragic personal losses, a music professor rents a Seattle mansion, haunted by a slain boy.
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The Americanization of Emily (1964)
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Director Arthur Hiller
Writer Paddy Chayefsky, William Bradford Huie
Cast James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas
Plot An American Naval Officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.
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A Woman's Face (1941)
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Director George Cukor
Writer Francis de Croisset, Donald Ogden Stewart, Elliot Paul
Cast Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt
Plot A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
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Angel (1937)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Melchior Lengyel, Guy Bolton, Russell G. Medcraft
Cast Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas
Plot A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
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The Candidate (1972)
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Director Michael Ritchie
Writer Jeremy Larner
Cast Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas
Plot Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
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Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
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Director Richard Boleslawski
Writer Sidney Buchman, Mary Eunice McCarthy
Cast Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell
Plot The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.
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That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Donald Ogden Stewart, Walter Reisch, Victorien Sardou
Cast Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith
Plot A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.
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I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
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Director Gilbert Cates
Writer Robert Anderson
Cast Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney
Plot A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
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Annie Oakley (1935)
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Director George Stevens
Writer Joel Sayre, John Twist, Joseph Fields
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas
Plot A romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter.
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Tonight or Never (1931)
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Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer Fanny Hatton, Frederic Hatton, Lily Hatvany
Cast Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth
Plot A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
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Two-Faced Woman (1941)
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Director George Cukor
Writer S.N. Behrman, Salka Viertel, George Oppenheimer
Cast Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett
Plot After a ski instructor catches her husband flirting with an old flame, she decides to pose as her (fictitious) twin sister in an attempt to keep him faithful.
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The Great Sinner (1949)
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Director Robert Siodmak, Mervyn LeRoy
Writer Ladislas Fodor, Christopher Isherwood, Rene Falaap-Miller
Cast Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
Plot In the 1860s, in the casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, a reformed gambling addict, Pauline Ostrovsky, tenderly nurses the talented Russian writer Fedja, who is a physical wreck.
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Too Many Husbands (1940)
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Director Wesley Ruggles
Writer Claude Binyon, W. Somerset Maugham
Cast Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas
Plot Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
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Rapture (1965)
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Director John Guillermin
Writer Ennio Flaiano, Phyllis Hastings, Stanley Mann
Cast Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell
Plot Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
