In postwar London, Chicago-raised fashion reporter Linda Medbury, working for a British newspaper, runs across a crime story...
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Linda Medbury
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1948
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Radio personality Levis manages to stop a Buddhist art connoisseur from collecting a rare artifact in this comic thriller. ~...
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1948
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If Eagle-Lion's Out of the Blue looks more like a slick Warner Bros. product at times, it's because the film was peopled by...
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1947
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In this police drama, a busy precinct is thrown into chaos when the murdered corpse of a local detective is found in an...
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Janet Bradley
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1946
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A Scandal in Paris is a liberal adaptation of the life story of Eugène François Vidocq, who was French prefect of police...
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Loretta
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1946
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Having Wonderful Crime spotlights Michael J. Malone, the murder-solving attorney created by author Craig Rice. The film is...
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Helene Justus
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1945
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Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed...
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Jill McCann
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1944
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Four Jills in a Jeep is the (mostly) true story of a four-girl USO team, entertaining American troops overseas. Kay Francis,...
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Screen Story, Herself
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1944
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In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly...
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Flossie Fouchere
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1943
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1943
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Those obviously hastily assembled to cash in on current headlines, Manila Calling shows no signs of this haste in its...
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Edna Fraser
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1942
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It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers' pennant win. Lloyd Nolan portrays...
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Kathryn Baker
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1942
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In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot...
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1942
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A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the...
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Mae Collins
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1942
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For the benefit of those who came in late, the John Robert Powers modelling agency was at one time the most famous and...
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Kay Evans
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1942
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This 20th Century-Fox cheapie stars Carole Landis as a pretty detective and Allyn Joslyn as a fast-talking reporter ever on...
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Julia Andrews
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1942
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Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough bookie with the proverbial golden heart. Romero falls in love with Carole Landis, an...
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Helen Mason
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1942
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Lily Brown
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1941
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Well-known New York sports promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) is the prime suspect in the murder of Vicky Lynn...
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Vicky Lynn
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1941
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The third of producer Hal Roach's Topper films, Topper Returns eschews the frothy "screwball" format of the first two in...
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Ann Carrington
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1941
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America had not officially gone to war in November of 1941, but try telling that to the producers of the "preparedness" drama...
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Gene Baxter
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1941
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Penguin Moore
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1941
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The first of several remakes of 1938's Three Blind Mice, the Technicolor musical Moon Over Miami stars Betty Grable and...
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1941
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One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
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Sally Willows
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1940
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Evidently Paramount had a great deal of faith in Mystery Sea Raider, else why would a mere B picture be permitted to run...
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June McCarthy
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1940
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Even taking into consideration Of Mice and Men, One Million BC was inarguably the most ambitious feature-film project ever...
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Loana
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1940
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Veteran character star Charles B. Middleton ("Ming the Merciless") escapes from a penitentiary after 15 years of imprisonment...
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Blanche
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1939
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Forever switching its time-frame from past to present, Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series returned to a contemporary...
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Nancy Evans
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1939
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The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and...
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1939
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In this episode of the Three Mesquiteers series of westerns the trio must help two rival sides involved in a range war settle...
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June
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1939
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A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars:...
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1938
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Blondes at Work is number four in Warner Bros.' lively "Torchy Blane" series. Glenda Farrell returns as girl reporter Torchy...
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1938
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The last and least of Warner Bros.' Gold Diggers musicals, Gold Diggers in Paris at least has the novelty of a Gallic...
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1938
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In this comedy, a milquetoast office clerk is forcibly betrothed to a woman by her overbearing mother. The trouble begins...
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1938
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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1938
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Slight Case of Murder is a breakneck-paced comedy starring Edward G. Robinson as a tough but good-hearted bootlegger. When...
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1938
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In this drama, an innocent man is framed for murder and sent to Sing Sing where he meets a kindly prison chaplain who helps...
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1938
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Astrology and murder meet head-on in the Warner Bros. programmer When Were You Born? When horoscope specialist Mary Lee Liang...
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1938
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The romantic hills and valleys of an advertising agency secretary provide the basis of this comedy drama. Unlike her...
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1938
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Warner Bros.' Girls on Probation was, and is, a potboiler, redeemed slightly by its cast. The fascinating, underused...
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1938
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1937
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Groucho Marx received co-writer credit (along with his old friend Norman Krasna) for King and the Chorus Girl, though very...
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1937
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1937
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If you're wondering which Warners musical featured the songs "Old King Cole" and "Have You Got Any Castles?," we refer you to...
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter...
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1937
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In their third crime-solving adventure, smart-aleck newspaper woman Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) and slightly dense homicide...
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1937
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Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As...
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1937
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This third entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series may not have been the biggest or best, but thanks to a masterpiece of...
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1937
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