Guest star Joan Collins plays the title character in this offbeat Mission: Impossible episode. While on a particularly...
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1969
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The British title of Billy Wilder's classic comedy was Meet Whiplash Willie -- for, despite Jack Lemmon's star billing, the...
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1966
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One of only two theatrical features by television director Vincent J. Donahue, Sunrise at Campobello is a biography of...
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Sara Roosevelt
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1960
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Fritz Lang was the guiding hand of this laudable Republic Studios melodrama. Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy wastrel who...
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Mrs. Ambrose
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1950
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1949
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Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a...
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1949
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A blend of melodrama and film noir, The Reckless Moment stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, a suburban housewife whose...
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1949
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Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the...
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1948
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In this comedy, two stepsisters fight for the love of the same man. One of the sisters is good-looking and vivacious. She is...
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1948
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This final entry in Columbia's "Whistler" series is also the first to dispense with the services of star Richard Dix. This...
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1948
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1947
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What a Blonde gets under way when wealthy lingerie manufacturer Fowler (Leon Errol) runs out of valuable gas-ration coupons....
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1945
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Filmed some 18 months before its release, Conflict is one of two melodramas in which Humphrey Bogart self-consciously...
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1945
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This 91-minute Republic "special" stars Michael O'Shea as Matt Braddock, an aggressive Henry Kaiser-like shipbuilder...
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1944
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The year is 1942: Mr. Winkle (Edward G. Robinson), a mild-mannered bank clerk, decides to quit his job and open a fix-it shop...
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1944
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Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...
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1944
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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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1943
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You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired...
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1941
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings was the second in a series of B pictures based on the long-running radio series...
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1941
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A Broadway producer and a director conspire to destroy the career of an aging star so they can tear up her contract and use...
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1940
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An Angel from Texas was the fourth of five film versions of the venerable George S. Kaufman stage farce The Butter and Egg...
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1940
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In this comedy drama based on Shaw's play Pygmalion, and set in the 1800s, a wealthy playwright rescues a beautiful street...
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1940
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1916 with Mary Pickford's brother Jack in the lead, Booth Tarkington's irresistable coming-of-age novel...
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Mrs. Mary Baxter
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1940
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Set in the Central American jungle, Lucille Ball plays plantation owner Joan Grant in The Marines Fly High. When a platoon of...
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1940
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Ralph Bellamy made the first of four appearances as fictional sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's...
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1940
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Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and direct My Favorite Wife, but an illness forced him to relinquish the director's...
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Ma
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1940
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Hey, gang! Let's put on a swell show and call it Strike Up the Band! Yes, it's the irrepressible Mickey Rooney, teamed up...
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1940
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Set in a northern California logging community the trouble in this western begins when a lumberjack is killed while sawing...
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Mother
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1939
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Famous filmmaker Jacques Tourneur (known for his compelling film noir and scary horror movies) makes his directorial debut in...
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1939
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1939
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Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately,...
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1937
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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1937
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This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is...
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1937
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Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined...
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1937
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A bell ringer's wife dies while giving birth to his second son who turns out to be deaf. His oldest son moves to America...
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Anna Engel
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1936
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Dog of Flanders, the durable novel written in 1872 by the author who signed herself Ouida, was filmed three times, first in...
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1935
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In this romantic drama, a horsewoman is forced to work in a society dame's stable. There she meets and falls in love with a...
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1935
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1935
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1919 and 1927, Max Marcin's stage success Cheating Cheaters made its talking-picture bow courtesy of...
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1934
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The second of three Kay Francis films in which the star was cast as a dedicated lady physician, Doctor Monica was adapted...
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1934
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A spoiled rich girl marries a gas station owner in this dated romance starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon....
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1933
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