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1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
directed by Victor Fleming
featuring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack HaleyThe third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine family classic that made ... More
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2. Naughty Marietta (1935)
directed by W.S. Van Dyke
featuring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester, Douglas DumbrilleThe first of MGM's phenomenally profitable Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy musicals, Naughty Marietta takes several beneficial liberties with the ... More
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3. Dimples (1936)
directed by William Seiter
featuring Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Helen Westley, Robert Kent, Delma ByronThis lavish Shirley Temple starrer is set in New York, sometime in the 1850s. While lovable pickpocket "Professor" Eustace Appleby works the crowd, ... More
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4. Balalaika (1939)
directed by Reinhold Schünzel
featuring Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charlie Ruggles, Frank Morgan, Lionel AtwillIn this romantic musical, a Russian prince sees a lovely singer in a town cafe and falls head-over-heels. Realizing that he cannot be seen with her ... More
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5. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny BriceIn MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he ... More
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6. Sweethearts (1938)
directed by W.S. Van Dyke
featuring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Florence RiceContrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta of ... More
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7. Boom Town (1940)
directed by Jack Conway
featuring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank MorganClark Gable is "Big John" and Spencer Tracy is "Square John"; both "Johns" seek their fortunes in the Texas oil fields. They simultaneously fall in ... More
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8. The Stratton Story (1949)
directed by Sam Wood
featuring James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill WilliamsBoth Van Johnson and Gregory Peck were considered for the role of baseball star Monty Stratton in the 1949 biopic The Stratton Story before settling ... More
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9. Courage of Lassie (1946)
directed by Fred Wilcox
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Tom Drake, Selena Royle, Harry DavenportThis is the one where Lassie plays a war veteran with amnesia. Actually Lassie isn't even Lassie, but a male collie named Bill (at least he isn't ... More
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10. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
directed by Ernst Lubitsch
featuring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara HadenThe Shop Around the Corner is adapted from the Hungarian play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and ... More
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11. Casanova Brown (1944)
directed by Sam Wood
featuring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Anita Louise, Patricia CollingeList of all editionsWhen he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes to the child's rescue ... More
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12. The Mortal Storm (1940)
directed by Frank Borzage
featuring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert StackList of all editionsThe Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a college professor ... More
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13. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick, Mary NashList of all editionsYolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at the time of its release ... More
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14. Tortilla Flat (1942)
directed by Victor Fleming
featuring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim TamiroffList of all editionsLike the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted anecdotes, all linked to a small ... More
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15. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan, Ian HunterList of all editionsMGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a clothesline upon which to hang ... More
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16. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
directed by Lewis Milestone
featuring Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon, Chester ConklinList of all editionsAl Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and S.N. Behrmann and music and ... More
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17. The Good Fairy (1935)
directed by William Wyler
featuring Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Alan HaleList of all editionsMargaret Sullavan graduates from a girl's orphanage to an usherette's job at a Budapest movie theatre. Bibulous millionaire Frank Morgan makes a play ... More
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18. Dancing Pirate (1936)
directed by Lloyd Corrigan
featuring Charles Collins, Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna, Luis Alberni, Victor VarconiList of all editionsDancing Pirate was the second feature-length production by Pioneer Pictures, whose earlier effort Becky Sharp was the first three-strip Technicolor ... More
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19. Broadway Serenade (1939)
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, Ian Hunter, Frank Morgan, Wally VernonList of all editionsJeanette MacDonald and Lew Ayres make strange bedfellows in the overproduced MGM musical Broadway Serenade. She plays aspiring singer Mary Hale, and ... More
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20. Hullabaloo (1940)
directed by Edwin L. Marin
featuring Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey, Billie Burke, Nydia WestmanList of all editionsIt is perhaps unnecessary to point out that the MGM programmer Hullabaloo bears no relation to the 1960s rock-and-roll series of the same name. Frank ... More
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21. The Vanishing Virginian (1941)
directed by Frank Borzage
featuring Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington, Natalie Thompson, Douglass NewlandList of all editionsThe Vanishing Virginian was adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Rebecca Yancey Williams. Newcomer Kathryn Grayson stars as Ms. Williams, ... More
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22. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Frank Morgan, Ralph Morgan, Roddy McDowall, Van JohnsonList of all editionsThe White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one can remember the film as ... More
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23. Rosalie (1938)
directed by W.S. Van Dyke
featuring Nelson Eddy, Eleanor Powell, Frank Morgan, Edna May Oliver, Ray BolgerList of all editionsMore burdened with leaden production numbers than plot, Rosalie took Sigmund Romberg and George Gershwin's 1928 Broadway hit, threw out most of the ... More
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24. The Human Comedy (1943)
directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, Fay Bainter, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Ray Collins, Van JohnsonList of all editionsAuthor William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator Ray Collins is dead ... More
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25. Honky Tonk (1941)
directed by Jack Conway
featuring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor, Albert Dekker, Marjorie MainList of all editionsThe marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it really is. About to be ... More







