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1. Big Red (1962)
directed by Norman Tokar
featuring Walter Pidgeon, Gilles Payant, Emile GenestBig Red is one of several Disney pictures filmed in Canada during the 1960s. Orphaned Gilles Payant goes to work for wealthy Walter Pidgeon, who ... More
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2. Forbidden Planet (1956)
directed by Fred Wilcox
featuring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack KellyMGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline based on Shakespeare's The ... More
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3. Funny Girl (1968)
directed by William Wyler
featuring Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon"Hello, gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first comment to the Oscar statuette which she won for her performance in this biopic of entertainer Fanny ... More
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4. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva GaborLoosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Paradise Revisited, MGM's The Last Time I Saw Paris is a star-studded soap opera, luxuriously lensed by ... More
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5. Too Hot to Handle (1938)
directed by Jack Conway
featuring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo CarrilloAlternating effortlessly between comedy and suspense and back again, Too Hot to Handle stars Myrna Loy as a famous aviatrix and Clark Gable as an ... More
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6. Cinderella (1964)
directed by Charles S. Dubin
featuring Ginger Rogers, Stuart Damon, Walter Pidgeon, Lesley Ann WarrenLesley Ann Warren plays the title role in this television production of the classic Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III musical. Cinderella ... More
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7. That Forsyte Woman (1949)
directed by Compton Bennett
featuring Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Janet LeighThough one might have expected friction between MGM's resident "nice lady" Greer Garson and Warner Bros. notorious "bad boy" Errol Flynn, the two got ... More
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8. Julia Misbehaves (1948)
directed by Jack Conway
featuring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Cesar RomeroAfter suffering nobly in several heavyweight MGM dramas, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon begged the studio to cast them together in a comedy. Though ... More
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9. Man Hunt (1941)
directed by Fritz Lang
featuring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowallA hunter finds himself in a world of danger when he decides to stalk Adolf Hitler in this taut WWII thriller. Capt. Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) is an ... More
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10. The Shopworn Angel (1938)
directed by H.C. Potter
featuring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel, Nat PendletonThe second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the second pairing of actors ... More
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11. Listen, Darling (1938)
directed by Edwin L. Marin
featuring Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, Mary Astor, Walter Pidgeon, Alan HaleList of all editionsTwo of MGM's top juvenile stars, Judy Garland and Freddie Bartholomew, team up for the otherwise unremarkable Listen, Darling. The story gets rolling ... More
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12. The Red Danube (1949)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Angela Lansbury, Janet LeighList of all editionsOne of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube. Janet Leigh plays Maria Buhlen ... More
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13. Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Edward ArnoldList of all editionsWeekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the story, the cast makes pointed ... More
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14. The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, Buddy EbsenList of all editionsMGM's leading musical team of the 30's, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are paired once again in this fourth film version of David Belasco's ... More
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15. Command Decision (1948)
directed by Sam Wood
featuring Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles BickfordList of all editionsCommand Decision is a stagebound but consummately acted adaptation of William Wister Haines' Broadway play. Clark Gable, starring in the role essayed ... More
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16. Flight Command (1940)
directed by Frank Borzage
featuring Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Kelly, Shepperd StrudwickList of all editionsMGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without adornments. Such was the case of ... More
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17. Harry in Your Pocket (1973)
directed by Bruce Geller
featuring James Coburn, Michael Sarrazin, Trish VanDevere, Walter Pidgeon, Michael GwynneList of all editionsIn this engaging crime drama with an undercurrent of subtle humor, James Coburn stars as Harry, a "cannon" (a top-flight pickpocket), who works in ... More
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18. Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt, Fay HoldenGreer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences which rival daytime drama ... More
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19. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry SullivanList of all editionsKirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the film's industry's most ... More
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20. Advise and Consent (1962)
directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Gene TierneyList of all editionsThe first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the screen by producer ... More
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21. Hit the Deck (1955)
directed by Roy Rowland
featuring Jane Powell, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon, Vic DamoneList of all editionsHit the Deck is the second film version of the same-named 1927 hit Broadway musical. Though updated for the 1950s, the basic plot remains the same. ... More
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22. Executive Suite (1954)
directed by Robert Wise
featuring William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter PidgeonList of all editionsCameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and director Robert Wise, ... More
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23. The Sellout (1951)
directed by Gerald Mayer
featuring Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Paula Raymond, Audrey Totter, Thomas GomezList of all editionsGerald Mayer proved once more that he had talent above and beyond being the nephew of MGM-head Louis B. Mayer with his direction of The Sellout. The ... More
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24. Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian, Donna CorcoranList of all editionsWho else but Esther Williams could star in a romantic drama (with musical numbers) bearing a title like this? In Million Dollar Mermaid, Williams ... More
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25. Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Claudia Dell, Ernest Torrence, Walter Pidgeon, June CollyerList of all editionsThis historical drama, set in 18th-century England, chronicles the romance between a free-spirited coquette and a highwayman. They meet when the lass ... More







