Cole Porter's Gay Paree musical about the introduction in Montmartre in 1896 of the notorious Can-Can dance, is brought to...
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1960
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In one of the series' eeriest episodes, American photographer Rita Wallace (Cloris Leachman) sets up shop in Paris, hoping to...
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Mme. Morel
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1959
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Though several concessions to the censors and the box-office were made in adapting Irwin Shaw's bestseller The Young Lions to...
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1958
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1958
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This episode is based on a famous urban legend, previously filmed as the 1949 theatrical feature. Patricia Hitchcock...
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1955
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This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of...
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1955
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Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence....
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1955
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Tony Curtis makes his musical-comedy debut in the frolicsome Universal production So This is Paris. Curtis, Gene Nelson and...
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1954
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1954
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H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds had been on the Paramount Pictures docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a...
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1953
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Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate is a musical within a musical -- altogether appropriate, since its source material, Shakespeare's...
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1953
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Esther Williams stars in this button-cute musical about a health-conscious family of swimmers who fall in with con man Windy...
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1953
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James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after...
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1952
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Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet...
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1951
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Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police...
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1951
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Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving...
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1951
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Luba
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1951
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1951
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The Secret Fury works best if one is willing to suspend one's disbelief from the outset. Claudette Colbert stars as Ellen, a...
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1950
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Set in Paris, Under My Skin stars John Garfield as a washed-up jockey who has stolen money from a crooked gambler...
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1950
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A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published...
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1950
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That Midnight Kiss served to introduce the film-going public to MGM's newest singing sensation, Mario Lanza. Just as he did...
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1949
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Barbara Stanwyck headlines this romantic tearjerker as a free-spirited concert pianist dying of tuberculosis. She checks into...
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1947
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An aspiring ballerina begins following a prima ballerina hoping that she will become her replacement. Unfortunately, another...
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1947
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1947
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This well-plotted and executed film noir suffered from its lack of star power, but has become something of a cult classic....
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Mama Michaud
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1946
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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1946
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Too long by at least two reels, Holiday in Mexico is nevertheless one of the more enjoyable MGM Technicolor musicals of the...
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Margaret
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1946
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In this musical, a group of veterans and their gals put on an amateur show at the summer resort being visited by a Broadway...
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1946
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Based on the '30s comic-strip character, Secret Agent X-9 was a black-and-white adventure serial from Universal. This 1945...
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1945
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1945
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Set in turn-of-the century London, this period thriller stars Laird Cregar as George Harvey Bone, a composer who suffers from...
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1945
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This tender but fluffy romantic comedy centers on the romantic travails of a beautiful European princesss who goes to New...
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1945
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Based on a play by Leslie Storm, Tonight and Every Night is a musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is...
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1945
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1945
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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Ostensibly taking place twenty-five years after the events of The Mummy's Ghost, this sequel marks the last of Universal's...
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1944
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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1944
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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1944
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Robert Z. Leonard, who must have taken room and board at MGM, was the directorial hand behind this slight domestic drama....
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1944
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If you've never seen a '40s singing, swimming musical this may be the one to catch. Featuring a mammoth cast, including such...
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1944
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1943
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This French Underground melodrama stars George Sanders as a seemingly apolitical Parisian doctor who is actually a resistance...
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1943
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In this charming episodic comedy, a giddy group of adolescent girls form a movie-star fan club. Their favorite pastime is...
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1943
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A timely film when first released in 1943, Tonight We Raid Calais survives as an entertaining adventure some fifty years...
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1943
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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1942
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RKO Radio's Army Surgeon is something of a rarity: A WW2 drama set mostly in WW1. On board a transport ship bound for Europe,...
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1942
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James Stewart's last Hollywood film before entering military service, Come Live with Me teams Stewart with the hauntingly...
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1941
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Charlie Chan in Rio is a remake of 1931's Black Camel, one of the few pre-1934 "Charlie Chan" entries still in existence....
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1941
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Set during the war of 1812, Hal Roach's Captain Caution is an unusual swashbuckler in that the "hero" is actually the...
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1940
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A serious journalist is sent to France and forced to write fashion fluff pieces. Tiring of this, she decides to sneak off to...
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1940
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Twixt and tween his Dick Tracy movies, Ralph Byrd plays a Foreign Legionnaire in Drums of the Desert. Byrd and his pal...
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1940
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan attends a WW I reunion in Paris. While catching up with his buddies,...
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1939
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This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler)...
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1939
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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1938
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An American actress gets herself a titled husband in this routine comedy from Warner Bros. Unable to get work in her home...
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1937
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Novelist Ursula Parrott's biggest best-seller was 1928's Ex-Wife; less successful was her subsequent book Brilliant Marriage,...
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1936
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In this Argentine western, a South American gaucho saves a beautiful girl from a shady bandido who masquerades as the...
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1936
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John Carroll made his screen debut in the RKO Radio musical actioner Hi Gaucho. Set in 19th-century Argentina, the story...
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Dona Vincenta
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1936
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In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen...
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1935
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