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Dinner At Eight (1989)

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The Royal Family (1977)

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Show Boat (1989)

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Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You Are An Odd One

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) So Fascinating And Uncouth

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Dinner At Eight (1989)

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The Royal Family (1977)

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The Royal Family (1977)

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Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You Are An Odd One Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor), new bride of Texas rancher Bick, in a forthright talk while on errands with hired hand Jett (James Dean), director George Stevens interjecting a scene with the sister-in-law (Mercedes McCambridge) teaching the downtrodden Angel (Victor Millan) a lesson, in Giant, 1956.

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) So Fascinating And Uncouth After maybe the biggest single leap in time, still before WWII, the Texan Benedict kids have grown up to be Carroll Baker as Luz II, and Dennis Hopper and Fran Bennett as twins Jordan and Judy (Earl Holliman her boyfriend), perplexing their parents Bick and Leslie (Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor), in Giant, 1956.

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Mr. JETEXAS Himself Christmas time in Texas, early 1940’s, now-patriarchal rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson), with bouncy daughter Luz II (Carroll Baker) receives ex-employee Jett Rink (James Dean), now oil-rich from land willed to him by Bick’s late sister Luz, and is finally willing to discuss drilling on his own land, in Giant, 1956.

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You're Gonna Meet Some Folks Newlywed Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor) on her first morning at Reata, with rugged sister-in-law Luz (Mercedes McCambridge) whom she’s just met, who sets up a social gauntlet, with husband Bick (Rock Hudson), featuring Monte Hale, Charles Watts and especially Jane Withers as Vashti, Jett (James Dean) brooding, in George Stevens’ Giant, 1956.

Stage Door (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Getting Over The DT's Jean (Ginger Rogers) and Annie (Ann Miller) at dance class, meet the producer Tony Powell (Adolphe Menjou), who has a reputation, early in Gregory LaCava's Stage Door, 1937.

Stage Door (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Nice Big Whale Caviar Eve (Arden) and Judy (Lucille Ball) waiting to see producer Powell (Adolphe Menjou), Kay (Andrea Leeds) getting stood-up, Terry (Katharine Hepburn) arriving to settle the score, in Stage Door, 1937, from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.

So Big (1953) -- (Movie Clip) They're Emeralds Early scenes with Dirk (Steve Forrest), Roelf (Walter Coy) and Dallas (Nancy Olson) introducing Selina (Jane Wyman) who appears 30-years earlier, in So Big, 1953, from the Edna Ferber novel.

Cimarron (1960) -- (Movie Clip) You're Gonna Get Buried Here Bustle on April 21, 1889, eve of the Oklahoma Land Rush, Yancey and Sabra (Glenn Ford, Maria Schell) meet his old friends the Peglers (Robert Keith, Aline MacMahon) and intervene as Yountis (Charles McGraw) and thugs hassle an Indian (Ben Red Feather) and family, also Harry Morgan as Jesse, in Cimarron, 1960.

Cimarron (1960) -- (Movie Clip) All Them Too-Sooners Rolling from Kansas for the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush, newlyweds Yancey and Sabra (Glenn Ford, Maria Schell) meet the Wyatt’s (Arthur O’Connell, Mercedes McCambridge) and brood, and John Pickard the cavalry captain organizing the event, in producer Edmund Grainger’s Cimarron, 1960.

Cimarron (1960) -- (Movie Clip) What Would We Want A Farm For? Tail end of the Land Rush of 1889, Dixie (Anne Baxter), whom we suppose to be an old girlfriend of settler Yancey “Cimarron” Cravat (Glenn Ford), beats him to his chosen spot, and he returns to tell wife Sabra (Maria Schell) he’s got a new idea for their Oklahoma livelihood, in Cimarron, 1960.

Cimarron (1960) -- (Movie Clip) They Called It Oklahoma Text opens the Edna Ferber novelization of the settlement of Oklahoma, introducing Kansas City immigrant Sabra Venable (Maria Schell) and parents (Ivan Triesault, Lili Darvas), who refer us to Glenn Ford, who is Yancey “Cimarron” Cravat, in Anthony Mann’s update of the 1930 Best Picture winner, Cimarron, 1960.

Show Boat (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man Hard to pick the best part as Helen Morgan ("Julie"), brings first Irene Dunne ("Magnolia") then Hattie McDaniel ("Queenie") and Paul Robeson ("Joe") into her performance of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, in Show Boat, 1936.

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