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1972
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A seven year old and his mother cope with his father's death in an auto accident. His grieving mother is in denial, and the...
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Aunt Hannah
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1963
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This is a standard yet uneven drama featuring Judy Garland as Jenny Bowman, a powerful singer who obviously has a passion for...
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Ida
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1963
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Charlton Heston, portraying swaggering bigot land-baron Richard "King" Howland on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, does a spit...
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1962
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This slick hospital soap opera features Ben Gazzara as Dr. David Coleman, a young physician hired into the pathology...
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1961
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The Oklahoma land rush of 1889 provides the starting point for this western drama, based on a novel by Edna Ferber. Yancey...
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1960
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1955
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Eddie Cantor, beloved "banjo eyed" entertainer who conquered stage, films, radio and television, is given the Hollywood...
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Grandma Esther
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1953
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Nonna Bartoli
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1950
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The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the...
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1949
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Although Montgomery Clift shot this film following Red River (1948), it was released six months earlier and the combined...
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Mrs. Murray
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1948
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Mamie Steeple
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1946
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A Guest in the House is an involving psychological melodrama, well directed and acted, concerning a young woman's obsessive...
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Aunt Martha
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1945
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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Mrs. Ling Tan
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1944
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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This unique wartime propaganda drama is a film within a film; one of those films is Russian-director Sergei Eisenstein's...
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Narrator
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1943
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In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker. When she...
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Lizzie Wilkins
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1942
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Buddy
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1942
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Out of the Fog is the film version of the Irwin Shaw play The Gentle People, refashioned to mollify the Hollywood censors by...
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1941
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William K. Howard, a once-prestigious director fallen on hard times in 1939, proved that he still had the "right stuff" with...
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Miss Williams
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1939
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In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot...
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Marianne Woods
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1937
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad...
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Lily Davis
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1935
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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Betty
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1935
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Though habitually unlucky in love, wealthy London recluse Mary Herries (Aline MacMahon) succumbs to the charms of handsome...
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Mary Herries
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1935
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In this drama, a hard working printer gets wanderlust, leaves his wife and family, and hits the road. Ten years pass. His...
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Ellen Preston
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1935
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When MGM remade its 1935 film Kind Lady in 1951, the earlier picture was retitled House of Menace to avoid confusion. The...
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1935
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Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt, While the Patient Slept stars Aline MacMahon as Eberhardt's middle-aged amateur...
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Sarah Keate
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1935
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Warner Bros. grabbed up the rights to Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel of middle America, soon after publication in...
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Myra Babbitt
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1934
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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Mom Frink
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1934
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In this melodrama set in San Francisco, a businesswoman gives a job to an unemployed, homeless sailor. Later she becomes his...
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Bertha Krasnoff
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1934
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Guy Kibbee trots out his small-town blowhard routine in the title role of Big Hearted Herbert. He plays a former plumber who...
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1934
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Olga
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1934
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The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was...
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Trixie Lorraine
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1933
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Jimmy Dolan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is a light heavyweight champion, with the world at his feet. Then he gets into a fight...
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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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Mary Dennis
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1933
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This well-wrought drama chronicles the rise and fall of a midwestern family dynasty from the mid 1800s through the Great...
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Anna Nordholm
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1933
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In this crime drama, an assistant DA must scramble to save the life of an innocent man he mistakenly sent to the chair....
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Miss Hickey
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1932
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In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner. The husband feels demeaned by...
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Agnes
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1932
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Joe Smith and Charlie Dale, the Jewish-dialect comedy team famous for their "Dr. Kronkheit" sketch, provide comic relief in...
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1932
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William Powell plays a condemned murderer who is being transported from Hong Kong to San Quentin by way of a luxury liner....
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Countess Barilhaus/Barrel House Betty
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1932
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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1932
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Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the...
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Miss Bowers
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1932
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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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Sarah Martin
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1932
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May Daniels
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1932
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Adapted from the stage play by former newspaperman Louis Weitzenkorn, Five Star Final is an uncompromising look at the...
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1931
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