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1. This 1928 silent film starred Joan Crawford as Diana, a girl who drinks and parties with her friends, but is really a decent girl. Her friend Ann, at the urging of her fortune-hunting mother, takes a liking to wealthy Ben, who is in love with Diana. When Diana seems disinterested, Ben marries Ann, much to his regret.
2. In this sequel to one of his most famous films, Rudolph Valentino plays the dual roles of a father and his son. Young Ahmed suspects Yasmin of betraying and deserting him after she disappears, and he won't listen to her explanations of what really happened once he finds her. It's up to his father to talk some sense into the boy.
3. Sally Field stars as an American woman married to an Iranian who convinces her to visit his relatives in Tehran for a couple of weeks. When the time comes to leave, she is horrified to realize that he has no intention of going back to America, nor letting her leave with their daughter.
4. Police Commissioner Dreyfus, in Lugash to investigate the kidnapping of Princess Yasmin, comes into contact with a young detective whose bumbling ways remind him of someone he used to know (and detest). It turns out the young man (played by Roberto Benigni) is the illegitimate son of Jacques Clouseau and Maria Gambrelli.
5. Sissy Spacek played Loretta Lynn in this 1980 biopic of the singer's life from a young teenager meeting her husband and starting her family, to the stresses and joys of stardom.
6. John Wayne portrays the eldest of four brothers who gather at the family ranch for their mother's funeral. After finding out that their parents had been swindled out of their property, the brothers strive to set matters straight so they can send the youngest brother back to college, as their mother had wanted.
7. A swimwear designer (Esther Williams) falls for the captain of the South American polo team, the dashing man that her sister meant to fall for, but missed.
8. Fred MacMurray once again plays the absent-minded Prof. Brainard, inventor of a fantastic goo which defies gravity. The government has taken control of this goo and not come through with funding for the Professor, placing he and his wife in financial straits and jeopardizing their marriage. Prof. Brainard experiments with a gaseous form of the goo which could help Medfield College win their big football game.
9. Katie (Loretta Young), the daughter of a Swedish farmer, leaves home to go to nursing school in the city, but is tricked out of her tuition money. To make ends meet, she becomes a domestic in the home of single Congressman Glenn Morley (Joseph Cotten). Sparks fly between them, both politically and romantically, as Katie pursues political aspirations of her own which threaten his position.
10. A country girl (Carla Gugino) going to college in L.A. asks a friend (Pauly Shore) to travel home for Thanksgiving with her and pose as her fiance in order to thwart the proposal of a hometown boy. The two find that they are actually attracted to each other and that sometimes two worlds colliding can be an eye-opening experience.
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