In this satirical comedy, Fred Amidon (Dick Van Dyke) is a Fifth Avenue bank teller waiting for his divorce to be finalized...
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1969
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Rebelling against his old-world father Stefan (Will Kuluva), young Gus Kolner (played by future teen idol Bobby Sherman) runs...
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1968
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When hitchhiker Frank Schroeder (a pre-Hawaii 5-0 Jack Lord) gallantly saves a young Mexican girl named Teresa (Pilar Seurat)...
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1966
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Elaine Bayler (Mala Powers), the wife of small-town big shot Richard Bayler (Lloyd Gough), is being blackmailed by an unknown...
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1966
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When the wife of Chaplain Craig Fletcher (Leslie Nielsen) is killed on an Army base, suspicion immediately falls upon PFC...
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1965
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1965
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The original king of rock-n-roll (Elvis Presley) stars in this light comedy musical as a singing buck who finds employment at...
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1965
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1965
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A scary old haunted house provides the setting of this spooky thriller that centers on a psycho-magician who cut off his...
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1965
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Fluffy the lion is featured in this comedy. He plays the subject of an ambitious experiment done by Daniel Potter...
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1965
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Hudson Bradshaw (Bartlett Robinson) is willing to use any means, fair or foul, to claim the rights to a revolutionary new...
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1964
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In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the...
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1964
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After a dangerous tiger turns on its trainer and escapes from the circus, a small town in Texas finds itself in an uproar...
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1964
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This drama tells the true story of one of Broadway's most successful madams in the 1920s. It is loosely based on the...
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1964
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Using the alias "Jerry Shelton", Kimble (David Janssen) goes to work as lifeguard at the Nevada gambling resort run by a...
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1963
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Emma
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1963
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After a brief flirtation with the 60-minute form, Twilight Zone wisely returned to its original half-hour format with the...
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Mrs. Feeny
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1963
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1963
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Using a technique that involves the kind of ensemble acting seen in later long-running, large-cast television programs,...
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1962
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Working the late shift at the neighborhood cop shop, beleaguered Captain Shaw (John Larch) finds himself saddled with a pair...
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1962
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Bungling courier Freddie Merkel (Tommy Noonan) dreams of creative success but always manages to botch things up at crucial...
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Aunt Sophie
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1962
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This musical comedy takes an off-beat religious turn as it tells the tale of a show-biz priest (Bing Crosby) who runs a...
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1959
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1958
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After the success of From Here to Eternity, pairing Frank Sinatra with another James Jones novel made perfect sense. Set in...
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1958
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The real-life "Machine Gun" Kelly was a clumsy, two-bit petty thief, goaded into bigger and badder things by a...
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Ma
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1958
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Boy, are Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) in for it! Answering a mail-order ad, the boys have purchased a baby...
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Minerva
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1957
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This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit...
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1956
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Robert Newton stars as Robert Louis Stevenson's legendary pirate. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi...
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Purity Pinker
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1955
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One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take...
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1955
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Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a...
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1954
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MGM was never quite sure what to do with their resident funster Red Skelton, and The Great Diamond Robbery betrays this...
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1953
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Robert Newton repeats his Treasure Island role as Long John Silver in this Australian adventure film--and if anything, Newton...
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Purity Pinker
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1953
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This highly fanciful but immensely entertaining biopic stars Tony Curtis as legendary magician/escape-artist Harry Houdini....
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1953
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In this boxing drama, a deaf-mute prizefighter whose career is on the rise falls in love with a gold digging singer who only...
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Mrs. Richardson
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1952
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Filmed on location in Mexico (one of several Hollywood-financed films of the 1950s to take advantage of the lower production...
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Miss Marple
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1952
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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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1951
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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1951
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1951
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The fabled 19th-century clashes between U.S. Marines and the pirates of Tripoli have provided story material for dozens of...
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1950
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1950
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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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1950
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Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a...
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1950
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1950
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A Ticket to Tomahawk has sometimes been described as a musical western satire, but in fact is more "straight" western than...
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1950
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The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While...
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1950
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Singer Sheila Bennet (Evelyn Keyes) arrives in New York City by train after a trip to Cuba, carrying a small cache of...
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1950
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Dawn
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1949
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Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a...
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1949
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Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New...
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1949
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An unusually disturbing noir from a director better known for more mainstream fare like High Noon and From Here to Eternity,...
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1949
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MGM's all-purpose title The Big City was deployed once more for this treacly 1948 drama. To prevent orphaned Midge...
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1948
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George Seaton's 1948 comedy Chicken Every Sunday was based on the play by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein as well as...
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1948
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Filmed in 1946, Tenth Avenue Angel is yet another treacly vehicle for little Margaret O'Brien. The juvenile star is cast as...
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1948
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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1948
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Cora the Cook
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1947
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1947
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When he was first offered the film version of the best-selling Frederick Wakeman novel The Hucksters, Clark Gable turned it...
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1947
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In this romantic comedy, a soldier is granted a two-week furlough and returns home to discover that his girlfriend is...
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1946
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With The Outlaw still being withheld from general release, Young Widow represented the first time that most filmgoers ever...
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1946
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Bad Bascomb is an expensive MGM western, tailor-made for the blubbery talents of Wallace Beery. Beery plays the badman of the...
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1946
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1945
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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1945
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The second of Laurel & Hardy's two MGM starring films, Nothing But Trouble casts Stan and Ollie as, respectively, an...
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1944
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Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...
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1944
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Musical producer Joe Pasternak moved from Universal to MGM in the early 1940s, taking his pet director Henry Koster (the two...
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1944
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This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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1944
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MGM intended Rationing to be an object lesson as well as a comedy, to teach the moviegoers the importance of rationing...
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1944
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In this light romantic comedy, William B. Whitley (William Powell) is an astronomer who is very excited about his latest...
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1943
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In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the...
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Maw Lustvogel
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1943
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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1943
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Allen R. Kerward's flagwaving stage play Proof thro' the Night was vastly improved in its screen adaptation, which was...
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1943
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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1943
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Another graduate of MGM's short-subject department, director David Miller proved he had what it took to helm a feature film...
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1942
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This happy musical chronicles the exploits of a suicidal composer who is desolate after someone swiped his newest musical...
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1942
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1942
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In this WW II propaganda piece a wealthy American society matron refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war...
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1942
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When MGM made a program western, it generally looked more expensive than an entire years' sagebrusher output at Monogram or...
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Senora Martinez
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1942
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Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted...
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1942
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Grand Central Murder was intended as a followup to the MGM "sleeper" Kid Glove Killer, with the earlier film's star, Van...
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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1942
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When MGM decided to move up-and-coming star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a startlingly...
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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1941
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MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the...
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1941
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1941
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Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills....
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1941
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Down in San Diego was previewed as Young Americans, which is why prints still exist bearing both titles. The film is...
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1941
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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1941
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In this comedy drama, a medicine show con-man pretends to be a wealthy man to impress his long-lost daughter who is slated...
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1941
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Attempting to Americanize Greta Garbo to appeal to American audiences (since most of the foreign markets for Hollywood...
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1941
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It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that the MGM programmer Hullabaloo bears no relation to the 1960s rock-and-roll series...
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1940
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