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Casablanca (1942)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Howard Koch
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Plot A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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Director Frank Capra
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Cast Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Plot Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Robert Buckner, Edmund Joseph, Julius J. Epstein
Cast James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Plot The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
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Director William Keighley
Writer Julius J. Epstein, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
Cast Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
Plot An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
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Mr. Skeffington (1944)
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Director Vincent Sherman
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Elizabeth von Arnim
Cast Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
Plot Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis enters into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.
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Cross of Iron (1977)
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Director Sam Peckinpah
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Walter Kelley, James Hamilton
Cast James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason
Plot German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.
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The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
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Director Raoul Walsh
Writer Julius J. Epstein, James Hagan
Cast James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
Plot Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.
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Send Me No Flowers (1964)
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Director Norman Jewison
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Norman Barasch, Carroll Moore
Cast Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
Plot When a hypochondriac believes he is dying, he makes plans for his wife--which she discovers and misunderstands.
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The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
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Director William Keighley
Writer Kenneth Earl, M.M. Musselman, Julius J. Epstein
Cast James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin
Plot A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
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Romance on the High Seas (1948)
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Director Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley
Writer Julius J. Epstein, I.A.L. Diamond, Sixto Pondal Raos
Cast Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day
Plot Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.
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Four Daughters (1938)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Lenore J. Coffee, Fannie Hurst
Cast Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn
Plot A musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his daughters.
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The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
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Director Leigh Jason
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Wilson Collison, Fred F. Finklehoffe
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
Plot After the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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Prelude to War aka Why We Fight (1942)
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Director Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Robert Heller, Williband Hentschel
Cast Walter Huston, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, Kai-Shek Chiang
Plot The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.
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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
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Director Richard Brooks
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Richard Brooks, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cast Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon
Plot An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.
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Young at Heart (1954)
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Director Gordon Douglas
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Lenore J. Coffee, Liam O'Brien
Cast Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young
Plot The life of the youngest of three sisters in a musical family is complicated by the separate arrivals of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
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The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
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Director Richard Brooks
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett
Cast Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom
Plot Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
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The Battle of Russia (1943)
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Director Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Rober Heller, Adolf Hitler
Cast Anthony Veiller, Ion Antonescu, Nikolay Cherkasov
Plot Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
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The Sisters (1938)
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Director Anatole Litvak
Writer Milton Krims, Myron Brinig, Julius J. Epstein
Cast Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise
Plot Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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Light in the Piazza (1962)
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Director Guy Green
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Elizabeth Spencer
Cast Olivia de Havilland, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux
Plot Clara Johnson, mentally disabled after childhood injury, meets Fabrizio in Florence. Her mother Meg sees their romance as hope for normalcy, hiding Clara's condition from his family, while father Noel opposes the match.
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The Tender Trap (1955)
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Director Charles Walters
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Max Shulman, Robert Paul Smith
Cast Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne
Plot Successful theater agent Charlie Reader lives a playboy's life in New York City. When his childhood friend shows up with a desire to leave his wife, the two are awestruck by each other's lifestyle.
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Confession (1937)
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Director Joe May
Writer Hans Rameau, Julius J. Epstein, Margaret P. Levino
Cast Kay Francis, Basil Rathbone, Ian Hunter
Plot Aging down on her luck cabaret singer murders a respectable composer. On trial she slowly gives in and explains her crime. They had a complicated history.
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The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
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Director Vincente Minnelli
Writer William Douglas-Home, Julius J. Epstein
Cast Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon
Plot While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its "Debutante Season."
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My Foolish Heart (1949)
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Director Mark Robson
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, J.D. Salinger
Cast Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Kent Smith
Plot After being visited by an old friend, a woman recalls her true love, the man she met and lost years ago.
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The Male Animal (1942)
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Director Elliott Nugent
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Stephen Morehouse Avery, James Thurber
Cast Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie
Plot A college English teacher suddenly finds himself the center of a free-speech debate on campus.
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Return from the Ashes (1965)
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Director J. Lee Thompson
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Hubert Monteilhet
Cast Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, Ingrid Thulin
Plot In Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.
