Ann Blyth guest stars as Franchesca Lodge, an old friend of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). Recently...
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1985
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Embarking upon their honeymoon, Quincy (Jack Klugman) and Emily (Anita Gillette) accept the invitation of an old friend,...
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1983
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Don Ameche guest stars as Harry Whitehead, a retired magician whose protégé Mark Santini drowns while performing Whitehead's...
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1979
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1969
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Clearly inspired by the then-current publicity blitz surrounding the Elizabeth Taylor film version of Cleopatra, this...
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Pamela Morris
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1964
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Ann Blyth plays famed "torch singer" Helen Morgan, from her humble beginnings as a carnival dancer to the height of her...
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Helen Morgan
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1957
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The Buster Keaton Story is the sublimely inaccurate life story of immortal film comedian Buster Keaton, played by...
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Gloria
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1957
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Anyone who thinks that tabloid journalism is an aberration of the 1980s should take a look at the 1956 release Slander. The...
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Connie Martin
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1956
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Director Robert Z. Leonard brought his 31-year association with MGM to a rousing close with The King's Thief. Set in England...
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Lady Mary
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1955
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This fourth film version of the warhorse Edward Knoblock theatrical piece Kismet was based on the Broadway musical version of...
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Marsinah
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1955
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Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the...
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Kathie
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1954
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Rose Marie Lemaitre
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1954
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Previously adapted to film in 1923, Ben Ames Williams' rousing sea adventure All the Brothers Were Valiant was given the...
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Priscilla Holt
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1953
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Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn play two seal-hunting rivals in this adventure film set in the days when Alaska was a Russian...
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Countess Marina Selanova
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1952
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Young Sally Moyne (Ann Blyth) seldom makes a move in life without first consulting Saint Anne, patron saint of all young...
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Sally O'Moyne
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1952
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This Korean War drama is essentially a vehicle for RKO's top male star Robert Mitchum. He plays war-weary "Colonel Steve,"...
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Linda Day
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1952
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The film traces Naples-born Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Caruso...
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Dorothy Benjamin
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1951
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I'll Never Forget You is an updated remake of 1933's Berkeley Square; both films used John L. Balderston's stage play as a...
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Helen Pettigrew
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1951
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There's stock footage galore in The Golden Horde, a second-feature recreation of the Arabian Nights era. Sir Guy...
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Princess Shalimar
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1951
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Katherine "Katie" Standish (Ann Blyth) has been raised in a restrictive small town by her prudish Aunt Priscilla...
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Katherine Standish
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1951
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Charlotte Hastings' West End stage hit Bonaventure was adroitly translated to the American screen as Thunder on the Hill. The...
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Valerie Carns
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1951
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Joyfully preparing for her high-school graduation, and her 18th birthday, Gail Macauley (Ann Blyth) stumbles across a family...
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Gail Macaulay
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1950
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Red Canyon was one of several medium-budget, Technicolor westerns turned out by Universal-International between 1949 and...
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Lucy Bostel
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1949
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Marita Connell
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1949
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Bejabbers! Sure an' some heathen has gone and stolen the Blarney Stone. Yes, Top O' the Morning is set in Ireland, or at...
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Conn McNaughton
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1949
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Ann Abbott
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1949
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Father Patrick Peyton, whose motto "The family that prays together stays together" was proffered weekly on his popular Family...
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1949
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Something seems fishy when a married man finds new adventure and romance in this comic fantasy. Arthur Peabody (William...
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Mermaid
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1948
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Regina Hubbard
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1948
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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Ruth
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1947
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A Woman's Vengeance concerns a "likely" murderer, Henry Maurier, played by Charles Boyer. It is no secret that Maurier is...
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Doris
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1947
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In one of his first "adult" roles (he made his last Andy Hardy vehicle only a year earlier), Mickey Rooney plays Tommy McCoy,...
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Sheila Carrson
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1947
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One of many films of the late 1940s examining the impact of WWII on post-war domestic life in the U.S., The Swell Guy is the...
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Marian Tyler
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1946
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Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M....
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Veda Pierce
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1945
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At MGM, the studio's youth musicals were more rural than urban -- find a barn, get some friends together, and hey kids, let's...
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Carol Curtis
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1944
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The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly...
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Sheila De Royce
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1944
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A musical comedy star whose career is just starting to take off returns home from military school. En route, he meets a...
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Glory Marlow III
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1944
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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Bessie Jo Kirby
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1944
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