Franklyn Farnum films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 22 films on Boxlist

Known for All About Eve, Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot.

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Starring Franklyn Farnum

Sunset Boulevard
1950 · Film
8.4/10 · TMDB
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of...
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Some Like It Hot
1959 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise...
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All About Eve
1950 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even...
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Monsieur Verdoux
1947 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy...
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The Killing
1956 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife...
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Stagecoach
1939 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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The Lost Weekend
1945 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender...
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The Heiress
1949 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty -- filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the...
East of Eden
1955 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in...
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Gun Crazy
1950 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon...
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An Affair to Remember
1957 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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The Lady Eve
1941 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean...
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a...
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Meet John Doe
1941 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her...
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White Christmas
1954 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
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Gentleman's Agreement
1947 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
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Funny Face
1957 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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High Society
1956 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1956 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
1952 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring...
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