The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma...
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1956
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Miz Tilbee
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1956
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which...
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Aunt Eller
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1955
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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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Ma Higgins
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1953
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Peggy Brookfield (Diana Lynn) is one of many aspirants for the position of Queen of the annual Tournament of Roses in...
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Mrs. Emelia Fielding
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1950
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Though occasionally hampered by its tiny budget, The Great Dan Patch is a reasonably satisfying horse story. The title...
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Aunt Neddy
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1949
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Another of 20th Century-Fox's Technicolor musical biopics, Oh You Beautiful Doll is allegedly the life story of popular...
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Anna Breitenbach
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1949
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Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth...
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1947
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In this adventure, a young woman travels across Europe in search of her brother who was listed as missing in action during WW...
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Sara March
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1946
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In this touching drama, city-slicker Sparke Thorton goes to live on his aunt and uncle's horse farm in the country. The...
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Penny
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1944
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Up in Mabel's Room was one of a mid-1940s series of profitable film revivals of venerable theatrical comedies, all produced...
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Martha
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1944
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Sgt. Andy Mason Jr. (James Ellison) is on the eve of shipping out from New York with his unit -- he's the son of Andrew Mason...
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Mrs. Peyton Potter
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1943
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Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation...
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Mrs. Dugan
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1943
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A musical remake of the 1936 comedy Second Honeymoon and the starring debut of Betty Grable, Springtime in the Rockies tells...
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Phoebe Gray
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1942
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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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Aunt Susie Latimer
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1941
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Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough prohibition-era gangster who in reality wouldn't hurt a fly. He maintains his "killer"...
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Winnie
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1941
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Ubiquitous 20th Century-Fox contractee Lynn Bari is the heroine of The Perfect Snob. Carefully raised by her social-climbing...
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Martha Mason
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1941
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Hollywood's handful of Technicolor cameras got a real workout on 20th Century-Fox's Down Argentine Way. Don Ameche stars as...
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Binnie Crawford
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1940
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"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy...
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Kit Ballantine
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1940
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Seventeen-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century Fox production Star...
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Lola Langdon
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1940
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1938
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Hollywood movie-making is satirized in this comedy. The trouble begins when an American filmmaker decides to us a British...
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Wanda
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1934
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This crime drama chronicles the relationship between a jewel thief who has gone straight and his estranged son who is...
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Mrs. Crozier
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1932
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Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious...
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Polly Hathaway
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1931
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Eddie Cantor plays Eddie Simpson, a shy and jumpy young fellow who spontaneously bursts into song whenever he gets nervous....
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Helen Martin
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1931
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Robert Montgomery plays an aimless young man who secures a job as a bailiff's deputy. Montgomery is assigned to guard a house...
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Clara
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1931
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Flying High was a nonsensical Broadway musical hit of 1930 starring Bert Lahr. The film version, made one year later by MGM,...
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Pansy
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1931
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Two wives catch their husbands with other women and decide to take a vacation of their own in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1931
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In this musical comedy, an oddball wife fears that her husband's rich uncle will not like her and therefore disinherit her...
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Letty Robbins
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1929
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Emma
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1928
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Lily Becker (Hope Hampton) is the musically talented daughter whose mother forces her into a marriage to the son of a wealthy...
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1922
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