Rosie! is directly based upon Ruth Gordon's play A Very Rich Woman, which was itself based upon a French play by Philippe...
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1967
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1965
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One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family...
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1965
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Long resistant to film adaptations of her Mary Poppins books, P.L. Travers finally succumbed to the entreaties of...
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1964
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Sentenced to 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Howard Clements (Bradford Dillman) is released after serving...
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Martha
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1964
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While on a drinking binge, Dianne Castillejo (Lois Nettleton) accidentally caused the drowning death of her adopted son, but...
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Mrs. Gibbs
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1963
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This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley...
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1962
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In a variation on the classic Guy de Maupassant short story "Boule de Suif", gambler Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) is ostracized...
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1962
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Seeking emotional and financial security, young Elisa Minden (Antoinette Bower) marries the wealthy, and considerably older,...
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1961
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In George Pal's version of the H.G. Wells classic, Rod Taylor stars as George, a young scientist fascinated with the concept...
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1960
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This episode is based on a short story by H.H. Munro (aka Saki) who specialized in offbeat character studies with surprise...
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1960
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The Swiss Alps are the backdrop for a deadly romantic triangle involving Colin Chandler (Ronald Howard), his fiancee Nancy...
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1960
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Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim...
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1960
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Art Carney guest stars as Cyril T. Jones, a timid gunsmith who is caught in the crossfire of a gangland killing. Though his...
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1958
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The year is 1916; the place, a small English town. During the dedication ceremony for a new bridge, the townsfolk are shocked...
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1958
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Roald Dahl's classic short story A Dip in the Pool has been dramatized numerous times on both radio and TV, though never more...
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1958
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Kim Novak is clearly out of her depth as legendary Broadway actress Jeanne Eagels, but one can't fault her for trying very...
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1957
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1956
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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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A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played...
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1955
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Tony Curtis always seemed a little uncomfortable in costume epics, but this trait serves him well in Black Shield of...
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1954
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This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of...
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1953
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Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel....
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1952
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This Disney feature-length cartoon combines the most entertaining elements of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through...
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1951
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This remake of the 1935 version is considered far superior to the original. It is the harrowing story of a kindly old...
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1951
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll is Edward Jekyll, played by Louis Hayward. The film's events take place long after the unpleasantness...
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1951
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Rhys Williams is afforded the leading role in Columbia's Tyrant of the Sea. The film borrows a few pages from Jack London's...
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Elizabeth Blake
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1950
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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1949
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Susan Peters, a fine actress of the 1940s whose career was curtailed by an accident which left her wheelchair-bound, utilizes...
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1948
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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1947
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In this improbable romantic drama set in Gay Nineties London, a member of Parliament jeopardizes his career when he falls in...
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1947
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Based on a play and novel by Margaret Kennedy, Escape Me Never is a remake of the same-named 1935 British film. Largely set...
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1947
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1946
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1946
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Republic Pictures certainly didn't believe in obscure or misleading film titles, as G.I. War Brides amply proves. Ann Lee...
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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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1946
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1946
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The...
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1946
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1946
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Cult figure and B-movie auteur Joseph H. Lewis directed this taut exercise in film noir. Julia Ross (Nina Foch), an American...
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1945
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A servant with no experience ends up teaching the master of the house a thing or two in this comedy. Molly Barry...
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1945
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This Republic programmer is based on a true story, though its plot complications are anything but founded in reality. Set in...
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Ma Todworthy
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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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Roundly blasted upon its release because of the extreme liberties it takes with the truth, Devotion is better as cinema than...
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1945
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1945
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Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening, drowning his sorrows over a...
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1944
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This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive...
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1944
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The fifth in the Invisible Man series stars Jon Hall as Robert Griffin, a convict who takes the invisibility serum and then...
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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1944
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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1943
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In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen...
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1943
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In her final film appearance, Kay Francis plays Sheila, the slinky, seductive mastermind of a marriage racket preying on...
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1943
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Too expensive for a "B"-picture, yet not quite an A, Two Tickets to London is an acceptable vehicle for French leading lady...
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1943
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William Gargan and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, were reunited for the like-minded...
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in...
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1943
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though...
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1942
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Reclusive Kurt Ingston (Ralph Morgan) finds himself playing host to an extraordinary array of guests at his decaying old...
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1942
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The fifth film in Universal's "Frankenstein" series goes for the box-office gold by combining two--count 'em, two!--of the...
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of...
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1942
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In this remake of the 1930 film of the same name, a bank robber suffers a war wound and undergoes plastic surgery. Upon his...
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1941
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In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He...
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1941
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Three different Universal pictures made between 1922 and 1941 bore the catchall title Don't Get Personal. The 1941 film stars...
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1941
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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1941
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1941
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"Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is...
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1941
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The box-office success of Paramount's What a Life (1939), coupled with the popularity of the spinoff Henry Aldrich radio...
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1941
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1941
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The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
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1941
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1940
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1940
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It's ironic that leading man Jack Holt, who in real life was deathly afraid of flying, should appear in so many...
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1940
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1940
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A dedicated nurse in a British hospital takes a nervous rookie under her wing. When the new nurse messes up and causes a...
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1940
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The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna...
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1940
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In this comedy, a Missouri mule breeder faces financial ruin after the market collapses. He takes his best mule to a Kansas...
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1939
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They Made Me a Criminal opens in New York, depicting the latest victory in the ring for Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield), a...
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1939
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Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized...
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1939
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The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of...
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1939
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The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean....
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1939
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It is no secret that Bette Davis and Errol Flynn were at each other's throats throughout the filming of The Private Lives of...
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1939
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Versatile character actor (and offscreen golf pro) John Gallaudet is afforded a leading role in the 1939 cheapie...
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1939
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When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was...
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1939
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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1938
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James Whale directed this screen adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's French classic Fanny. Madelon (Maureen O'Hara) is a lovely...
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1938
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The Black Doll is one of the better entries in Universal's "Crime Club" series. Most of the action takes place on a dark and...
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Mrs. Laura Leland
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1938
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Based on a story by Jules Verne and featuring battle footage from a French film version of the tale, this epic...
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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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Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the...
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1937
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Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series got off to a start with 1937's Bulldog Drummond Escapes. Up-and-coming Ray Milland...
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1937
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1936
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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1936
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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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Mrs. Allison
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, two college boys get expelled because they could not pay tuition. They decide to scare up some cash...
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Mrs. Van Ranesaleer
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1936
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John Ford, whose fierce pride in his Irish heritage often manifested itself in his work, directed this historical drama which...
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1936
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In this drama, a group of young cadets in a military academy struggle to overcome their personal problems and make it through...
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1936
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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Though habitually unlucky in love, wealthy London recluse Mary Herries (Aline MacMahon) succumbs to the charms of handsome...
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1935
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A popular title, a mystery death and college hi-jinks are the ingredients in this pleasant little whodunit from lower-rung...
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Mrs. Coates
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1935
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When MGM remade its 1935 film Kind Lady in 1951, the earlier picture was retitled House of Menace to avoid confusion. The...
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1935
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After a burst of creativity in 1933 and 1934, independent Majestic Pictures had settled into the usual "B"-picture rut by...
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Mrs. Fleming
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1935
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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Binnie Barnes stars as Rina Sorel, a glamorous kleptomaniac who steals for the thrill of it. Specializing in uncut diamonds,...
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1935
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Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright...
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1935
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Celebrated British musical comedy star Cicely Courtneige was given a chance at American movie stardom in Perfect Gentleman....
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1935
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Now famous as the first feature film produced in the three-strip Technicolor process, Becky Sharp is also an enjoyable effort...
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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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O.P. Heggie plays an ageing Parisian book collector who has spent four decades tracking down a rare volume. The trail leads...
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1935
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"I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of...
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1935
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Legendary stage actress Pauline Lord made but a few films, but was always worth watching whenever she took command of the...
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1935
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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's...
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1935
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Adapted from a typically tricky J. B. Priestley stage play, Dangerous Corner is a cautionary fable about the damage caused by...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a man marries his Russian lover and discovers that she has a large extended family. He is utterly...
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1935
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In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the...
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1935
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Another of director William Wyler's "apprenticeship" films, Glamour is based on a story by Edna Ferber. The original story...
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Nana
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1934
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John Barrymore is the Long Lost Father in this lightweight seriocomedy. Barrymore is felicitously cast as Carl Bellairs, who...
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1934
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British Agent starred the Hungarian/British actor Leslie Howard in the title role, was directed by full-fledged Hungarian...
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1934
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No boring historical pageant this, Warner Bros.' Madame DuBarry is a fast-paced, often hilarious romantic romp. Her Mexican...
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1934
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The relative importance of social class differences is examined in this drama that centers on the daughter of a disinherited...
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1934
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One of the least known of Cary Grant's starring vehicles, Kiss and Make Up was based on a European play by Stephen Bekeffi....
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1934
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The Sisters Under the Skin in this Columbia "continental" romantic seriocomedy are middle-aged Elinor Yates (Doris Lloyd) and...
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Elinor Yates
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1934
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The life and times of one of France's most influential authors and philosophers receives the romantic treatment from director...
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1933
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson solve a puzzling case in which a bloody foreign word is found beside a murder victim. The plot...
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1933
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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Susan Channing
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1933
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1933
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Based on Dicken's classic novel, this is the first sound version of the oft-filmed tale of a plucky orphan who struggles to...
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Nancy Sikes
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1933
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In this western, based on a Zane Grey novel, a cowboy is falsely accused of stealing cows. Fortunately, his gal stands by her...
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1933
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A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had...
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1933
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1932
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Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal...
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1932
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Tarzan, The Ape Man was not only MGM's inaugural "Tarzan" film, but also the first to star former Olympic swimming champ...
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Mrs. Cutten
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1932
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Based on a best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst, Back Street concerns an ill-starred couple, Rae (Irene Dunne) and Walter...
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1932
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In this drama, a Russian woman marries a British aristocrat, bears him a daughter, and is forced to abandon them by his...
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1931
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Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets....
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1931
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Constance Bennett, Hollywood's favorite "wronged" heroine, is the star of the misleadingly titled Bought. Thing of it is,...
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1931
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In this drama, a bored wife amuses herself with a lover from Spain. Later she writes a letter to her spouse explaining her...
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1931
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1931
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Mae Clarke had the best role of her career as the heroine of Waterloo Bridge, the first of three filmizations of...
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Kitty
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1931
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British actor George Arliss spent the bulk of his movie career in adaptations of his stage successes. Based on a play by...
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Mrs. Larne
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1930
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Donna D'Alvadores
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1930
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In this drama, a young wife is devastated to discover that her husband has sold their son to a wealthy couple and left her....
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Mrs. Ashmore
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1930
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Silent serial queen Ruth Roland made an unsuccessful bid at talking-picture stardom in the low-budget Reno. After six years...
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1930
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In his second talkie, former silent screen lover John Gilbert plays Jack, a sailor in the merchant marine who takes time out...
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1930
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The Careless Age was based on Diversion, a play by John Van Druten. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays Wyn, a headstrong young...
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1929
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In the early days of sound film, one of Warner Bros.' big box-office draws was the aging stage actor George Arliss and, in...
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1929
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An innocent maid stands accused of killing her employer in this courtroom melodrama from the silent era. During the trial it...
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Georgia
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1929
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The strange and terrible things that the lust for gold can do to the soul comprise the message of this innovative, epic...
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1928
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This flimsy but entertaining comedy-drama was based on a story by Arthur Somers Roche. It's a typical yarn of the era, about...
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1927
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Jewish comedian George Sidney stars as the title character in The Auctioneer. Sidney also doubles as a pawnbroker, which...
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Esther Levi
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1927
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Though Is Zat So? was playwright/actor James Gleason's Broadway breakthrough, Gleason himself did not appear in the first...
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Sue Parker
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1927
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Returning from the war, Tom Mason (Tom Mix) rides square into a raging feud between the his family and the neighboring Brady...
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1927
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A stage play by Gladys Ungar was the source for Fox's Two Girls Wanted. In her first above-the-title starring role,...
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1927
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The lonesomest of the titular lonesome ladies is Polly Fosdick (Anna Q. Nilsson), the wife of wealthy John Fosdick...
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Helen Wayne
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1927
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Olive Borden closed out her Fox Pictures contract with the mild murder thriller Come to My House. Though she's just become...
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Renee Parsons
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1927
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This early Janet Gaynor vehicle was based on Pigs, a play by John Golden. While vain Gladys O'Connell busies herself with her...
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Ellen Atkins
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1926
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Exit Smiling is perhaps the only film that ever fully utilized the comic genius of the incomparable Beatrice Lillie. The star...
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Olga
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1926
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Black Paradise begins as lifelong crook Jack Callahan (Leslie Fenton) promises that he'll reform for the sake of his...
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1926
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This characteristically grim Lon Chaney/Tod Browning collaboration stars "The Man of a Thousand Faces" in two distinct...
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Limehouse Polly
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1926
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Polly Pearl (Norma Talmadge) is a bar manager who doubles as a cabaret performer in this romantic melodrama taken from the...
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Fannie LeClair
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1925
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Pulp writer Bret Harte's The Idyll of Red Gulch was turned into a fine Harry Carey Western vehicle by producer...
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1925
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