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A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.

An insurance clerk lends his flat to his bosses for their affairs; Wilder at his most bitter and warm.

The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.

The Tramp and the blind flower girl; the last close-up is the one critics call the greatest in cinema.

Scarlett O'Hara, the burning of Atlanta and the biggest box office in inflation-adjusted history.

Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.

Gene Kelly dances a seventeen-minute Gershwin ballet through painted Paris.

Soldiers in Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor, and the kiss in the surf.