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Edwin Maxwell (actor)

Index Edwin Maxwell (actor)

Edwin Maxwell (9 February 1886 – 13 August 1948) was an Irish character actor in Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, frequently cast as shady businessmen and shysters, though often ones with a dignified bearing. [1]

92 relations: A Man Betrayed (1936 film), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film), Ambassador Bill, Big Time or Bust, Blessed Event, Burn 'Em Up Barnes, Buy Me That Town, Campus Honeymoon, Cleopatra (1934 film), Cultural depictions of King Edward VII, Daddy Long Legs (1931 film), Dangerous Waters (film), Daybreak (1931 film), Dinner at Eight (film), Du Barry, Woman of Passion, Duck Soup (1933 film), Edwin Maxwell, Emergency Call (1933 film), Fog (1933 film), Frisco Jenny, Fury (1936 film), G Men, Gambling Ship, Grand Hotel (1932 film), Happiness C.O.D., Heaven Can Wait (1943 film), His Girl Friday, Holy Matrimony (1943 film), I Live on Danger, Inspiration (1931 film), John Sutter, Kiki (1931 film), Kit Carson (film), List of American films of 1935, List of American films of 1936, List of American films of 1937, Live Read, Love Is News, Mama Loves Papa (1945 film), Men of the Sky (1931 film), Motive for Revenge, Mystery Liner, Mystery of the Wax Museum, Night Key, Night of Terror, Ninotchka, Pacific Blackout, Panic on the Air, Ride on Vaquero, Romance on the Run, ..., Scarface (1932 film), Second Chance (1947 film), Six Hours to Live, Slave Ship (1937 film), State Trooper (film), Street of Chance (1942 film), Swamp Fire, Thanks a Million, The Blue Bird (1940 film), The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Girl from Calgary, The Gorilla (1930 film), The Great Moment (1944 film), The Jolson Story, The Mayor of Hell, The Ninth Guest, The Road Back (film), The Shop Around the Corner, The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film), The Vicious Circle (1948 film), The Woman I Stole, The Yellow Ticket, This Side of Heaven, Those We Love, Tiger Shark (film), To Mary - with Love, Tonight Is Ours, Top Speed (film), Torture Money, Universal monsters, Waterfront (1944 film), Way Down South (film), Wicked (1931 film), Wilson (1944 film), You Can't Take It with You (film), You Said a Mouthful, Young Bride, 1886 in Ireland, 1948, 1948 in film, 1948 in Ireland. Expand index (42 more) »

A Man Betrayed (1936 film)

A Man Betrayed is a 1936 American comedy crime drama film directed by John H. Auer.

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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American epic pre-Code war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name.

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Ambassador Bill

Ambassador Bill is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Will Rogers and Marguerite Churchill.

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Big Time or Bust

Big Time or Bust is a 1933 American comedy-drama directed by Sam Newfield, which stars Regis Toomey, Gloria Shea, and Walter Byron.

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Blessed Event

Blessed Event is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama film starring Lee Tracy as a newspaper gossip columnist who becomes entangled with a gangster.

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Burn 'Em Up Barnes

Burn 'Em Up Barnes is a 1934 American Pre-Code movie serial produced and distributed by Mascot Pictures, along with a feature version of the serial bearing the same title.

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Buy Me That Town

Buy Me That Town is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Eugene Forde and written by Murray Boltinoff, Harry A. Gourfair, Gordon Kahn and Martin Rackin.

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Campus Honeymoon

Campus Honeymoon is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Richard Sale and written by Jerome Gruskin and Richard Sale.

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Cleopatra (1934 film)

Cleopatra is a 1934 epic film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by Paramount Pictures, which retells the story of Cleopatra VII of Egypt.

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Cultural depictions of King Edward VII

King Edward VII of the United Kingdom has been depicted a number of times in different media and popular culture.

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Daddy Long Legs (1931 film)

Daddy Long Legs (1931) is an American pre-Code film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter.

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Dangerous Waters (film)

Dangerous Waters is a 1936 American adventure film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Richard Schayer, Hazel Jamieson and Malcolm Stuart Boylan.

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Daybreak (1931 film)

Daybreak is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Jacques Feyder and written by Cyril Hume and Ruth Cummings.

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Dinner at Eight (film)

Dinner at Eight is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor.

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Du Barry, Woman of Passion

Du Barry, Woman of Passion is a 1930 American Pre-Code dramatic film starring Norma Talmadge, produced by her husband Joseph Schenck, released through United Artists, and based on a 1901 stage play Du Barry written and produced by David Belasco and starring Mrs. Leslie Carter.

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Duck Soup (1933 film)

Duck Soup is a 1933 pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey.

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Edwin Maxwell

Edwin Maxwell may refer to.

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Emergency Call (1933 film)

Emergency Call is a 1933 American Pre-Code action film directed by Edward L. Cahn and written by Houston Branch and Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

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Fog (1933 film)

Fog is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by Al Rogell and produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures.

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Frisco Jenny

Frisco Jenny is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Ruth Chatterton and Louis Calhern, and directed by William A. Wellman.

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Fury (1936 film)

Fury is a 1936 American drama film directed by Fritz Lang which tells the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who narrowly escapes being lynched and the revenge he seeks.

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G Men

G Men is a 1935 Warner Bros. crime film starring James Cagney, Ann Dvorak, and Margaret Lindsay, and presenting Lloyd Nolan's film debut.

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Gambling Ship

Gambling Ship is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film starring Cary Grant and Benita Hume.

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Grand Hotel (1932 film)

Grand Hotel is a 1932 American pre-code drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Happiness C.O.D.

Happiness C.O.D. is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Maude Eburne, Donald Meek and Irene Ware.

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Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 Technicolor American comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

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His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, from an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of the play The Front Page by Hecht and MacArthur.

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Holy Matrimony (1943 film)

Holy Matrimony is a 1943 comedy film directed by John M. Stahl and released by 20th Century Fox.

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I Live on Danger

I Live on Danger is a 1942 film noir thriller film directed by Sam White and starring Chester Morris and Jean Parker.

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Inspiration (1931 film)

Inspiration is a 1931 American Pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adapted from the Alphonse Daudet short novel Sappho (1884).

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John Sutter

John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Suter, was a German-born Swiss pioneer of California known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital.

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Kiki (1931 film)

Kiki is a 1931 American Pre-Code romantic comedy, starring Mary Pickford and Reginald Denny, which was directed by Sam Taylor.

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Kit Carson (film)

Kit Carson is a 1940 Western film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Jon Hall as Kit Carson, Lynn Bari as Delores Murphy, and Dana Andrews as Captain John C. Fremont.

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List of American films of 1935

This List of American films of 1935 indexes American feature-length motion pictures that were released in 1935.

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List of American films of 1936

This list of American films of 1936 compiles American feature-length motion pictures that were released in 1936.

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List of American films of 1937

This list of American films of 1937 compiles American feature-length motion pictures that were released in 1937.

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Live Read

Live Read was a monthly live staged reading of a film script and a part of the Film Independent at LACMA film series at the Bing Theater directed by Jason Reitman and hosted by Elvis Mitchell from 2011 to 2016.

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Love Is News

Love Is News is a 1937 romantic comedy film starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, and Don Ameche.

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Mama Loves Papa (1945 film)

Mama Loves Papa is a 1945 American black-and-white comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer, and written by Monte Brice, with a story by Keene Thompson and a screenplay by Charles E. Roberts, as a loose remake of the 1933 film of the ''Mama Loves Papa'' written by Douglas MacLean.

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Men of the Sky (1931 film)

Men of the Sky (aka Call of the East and Stolen Dreams) is a 1931 all-talking American pre-Code musical drama film, directed by Albert E. Green which was produced by Warner Bros. in 1930 and released in 1931.

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Motive for Revenge

Motive for Revenge is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Burt P. Lynwood and starring Donald Cook, Irene Hervey and Doris Lloyd.

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Mystery Liner

Mystery Liner is a 1934 American Pre-Code film directed by William Nigh,, starring Noah Beery, Sr., and based on an Edgar Wallace story originally published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1924.

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Mystery of the Wax Museum

Mystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery-horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and released by Warner Bros. in two-color Technicolor.

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Night Key

Night Key is a science fiction crime film starring Boris Karloff and released by Universal Pictures in 1937.

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Night of Terror

Night of Terror is a 1933 American Pre-Code horror film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, and starring Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, and Tully Marshall.

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Ninotchka

Ninotchka is a 1939 American film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.

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Pacific Blackout

Pacific Blackout is a 1941 American film about a man who is unjustly convicted of murder.

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Panic on the Air

Panic on the Air is a 1936 American drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman and starring Lew Ayres.

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Ride on Vaquero

Ride on Vaquero is a 1941 American Western film directed by Herbert I. Leeds and written by Samuel G. Engel.

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Romance on the Run

Romance on the Run is a 1938 American comedy crime film directed by Gus Meins and starring Donald Woods and Patricia Ellis.

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Scarface (1932 film)

Scarface (also known as Scarface: The Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film starring Paul Muni as Antonio "Tony" Camonte.

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Second Chance (1947 film)

Second Chance is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by James Tinling and written by Arnold Belgard.

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Six Hours to Live

Six Hours to Live is a 1932 American science fiction drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Warner Baxter, Miriam Jordan and John Boles.

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Slave Ship (1937 film)

Slave Ship is a 1937 film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery.

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State Trooper (film)

State Trooper is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman and starring Regis Toomey.

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Street of Chance (1942 film)

Street of Chance is a 1942 film noir directed by Jack Hively and starring Burgess Meredith as a man who finds he's been suffering from amnesia and Claire Trevor as a woman who protects him from the police, who suspect him of murder.

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Swamp Fire

Swamp Fire is a 1946 American adventure film directed by William H. Pine.

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Thanks a Million

Thanks a Million is a 1935 musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox and directed by Roy Del Ruth.

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The Blue Bird (1940 film)

The Blue Bird is a 1940 B&W and Technicolor American fantasy film directed by Walter Lang.

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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood is a 1932 American comedy film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by Howard J. Green.

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The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 comedy film starring Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn.

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The Girl from Calgary

The Girl from Calgary is a 1932 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Phil Whitman, and starring Fifi D'Orsay and Paul Kelly.

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The Gorilla (1930 film)

The Gorilla (1930) is an all-talking pre-Code murder mystery comedy film produced by First National Pictures, distributed by Warner Bros., and directed by Bryan Foy.

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The Great Moment (1944 film)

The Great Moment is a 1944 biographical film written and directed by Preston Sturges.

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The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story is a 1946 Technicolor musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson.

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The Mayor of Hell

The Mayor of Hell is a 1933 American pre-Code Warner Brothers film starring James Cagney.

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The Ninth Guest

The Ninth Guest is a 1934 pre-Code murder mystery film starring Donald Cook and Genevieve Tobin as two of the eight guests at a deadly party who are informed by the voice of their unknown host from the radio that they are his enemies - and will all meet his ninth guest: Death.

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The Road Back (film)

The Road Back is a 1937 American drama war film directed by James Whale starring John King, Richard Cromwell and Slim Summerville.

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The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Frank Morgan.

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The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film)

The Taming of the Shrew (1929) is an American pre-Code film.

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The Vicious Circle (1948 film)

The Vicious Circle is a 1948 American drama film directed by W. Lee Wilder and based on the play The Burning Bush by Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg.

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The Woman I Stole

The Woman I Stole is a 1933 American adventure film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Jack Holt, Fay Wray and Donald Cook.

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The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket is a 1931 pre-Code American drama film based on the 1914 play of the same name by Michael Morton, produced by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by Raoul Walsh.

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This Side of Heaven

This Side of Heaven is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by William K. Howard and written by Zelda Sears, Eve Greene, Edgar Allan Woolf and Florence Ryerson.

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Those We Love

Those We Love is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Robert Florey.

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Tiger Shark (film)

Tiger Shark is a 1932 American pre-Code melodrama romantic film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen and Zita Johann.

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To Mary - with Love

To Mary - with Love is a 1936 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and written by Richard Sherman and Howard Ellis Smith.

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Tonight Is Ours

Tonight Is Ours is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Stuart Walker, and starring Claudette Colbert, Fredric March and Alison Skipworth.

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Top Speed (film)

Top Speed is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers.

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Torture Money

Torture Money is a 1937 American short crime film directed by Harold S. Bucquet.

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Universal monsters

The Universal monsters are fictional monsters that figured in various horror, suspense and science fiction films made by Universal Studios during the decades of the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Waterfront (1944 film)

Waterfront is a 1944 American film from PRC Pictures directed by Steve Sekely.

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Way Down South (film)

Way Down South (1939) is an American musical film directed by Leslie Goodwins and Bernard Vorhaus, and produced by Sol Lesser.

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Wicked (1931 film)

Wicked (1931) is an American pre-Code prison melodrama about a woman who commits murder while trying to save her bandit husband and bears a child in prison.

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Wilson (1944 film)

Wilson is a 1944 American biographical film in Technicolor about the 28th American President Woodrow Wilson.

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You Can't Take It with You (film)

You Can't Take It with You is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart and Edward Arnold.

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You Said a Mouthful

You Said a Mouthful is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Robert Lord and Bolton Mallory.

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Young Bride

Young Bride is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by William A. Seiter and written by Garrett Fort, Ralph Murphy and Jane Murfin.

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1886 in Ireland

Events from the year 1886 in Ireland.

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1948

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1948 in film

The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.

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1948 in Ireland

Events from the year 1948 in Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Maxwell_(actor)

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