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1953
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A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953...
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1953
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Joel McCrea plays 19th-century miner Rick Nelson in The San Francisco Story. The year is 1856, and Frisco is a wide-open...
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Sadie
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1952
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Mrs. Pettibone
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1952
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Not up to the classic 1935 presentation, this is still an excellent adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel. The familiar...
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1952
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In this entry in the "Henry Latham" series, set during WW II, an independent young woman takes control of a flying school...
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Minerva Bobbin
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1951
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The Tall Target is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was...
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1951
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Amelia Foster
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1951
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Mrs. Fillmore
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1951
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Warner Bros. made good use of its backlog of Harry Warren/Al Dubin tunes in its 1951 Doris Day musical Lullaby of Broadway....
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1951
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After several supporting and guest appearances, Latino singer-actress Estelita Rodriguez was given her own Republic starring...
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Nellie Chatfield
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1950
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County Fair is an amiable racetrack drama starring Rory Calhoun. A veteran horse trainer, Calhoun has developed a somewhat...
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Ma Ryan
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1950
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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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The never-solved disappearance of Judge Crater in 1930 was the inspiration for RKO's The Judge Steps Out. Alexander Knox (who...
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Chita
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1949
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1949
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Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of...
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1949
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Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen,...
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1948
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1948
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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While...
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Mrs. Jekes the Landlady
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1948
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George Stevens's charming film version of Kathryn Forbes' collection of short stories entitled Mama's Bank Account features...
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1948
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Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven deserves a historical footnote as director William Castle's only comedy western. Future...
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Mandy
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1948
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Few major directors made "small" films with such frequency and expertise than the ubiquitous Allan Dwan. Set in 1933, Dwan's...
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Geraldine Atherton
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1948
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The most memorable aspect of Winter Meeting, and the one that stirred up the most publicity, was its teaming of two Davises:...
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Mrs. Castle
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1948
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Marise Aubert (Greer Garson) has begun seeing a psychiatrist to treat her overwhelming guilt. It seems that Marise was...
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1947
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Jack Carson and Robert Hutton make a curious but copacetic comedy duo in the Warner Bros. musical Love and Learn. The stars...
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1947
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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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1947
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1946
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Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's...
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1946
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In this drama, Mary (Ava Gardner) returns to her small town after she becomes a success in the city. Meeting up with her old...
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1946
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Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of Burbank, star in the Warner Bros. musical The Time, the Place...
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1946
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1946
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The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle...
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Dowager
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1946
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Sam White, brother of Columbia Pictures' 2-reel-comedy maven Jules White, served as producer of the quickie Columbia musical...
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Queen Liliha
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1945
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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Henrietta
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1945
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In this musical, a messenger boy does a remarkable imitation of Bing Crosby and finds himself surrounded by luscious little...
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1945
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Based on a play by Leslie Storm, Tonight and Every Night is a musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is...
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May Tolliver
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1945
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1945
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1945
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Belle Of The Yukon is standard backstage musical fare, featuring Randolph Scott as a reformed con man who has fled north from...
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1944
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1944
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An ex-racketeer becomes an undercover for the military in this drama. He keeps his work so secret that his friends become...
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1944
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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Karsha
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1944
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Zachary Scott made his screen debut in this clever bit of film noir that has gained a cult reputation in recent years. Dutch...
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1944
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1943
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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1943
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One of Cary Grant's most financially successful 1940s vehicles, Mr. Lucky finds Grant atypically cast as a shifty,...
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1943
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Drama students rebel in this musical set in a tiny drama school. The trouble begins when the students begin complaining to...
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1943
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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1943
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On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many...
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1943
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When two young island-dwelling people fall for each other, their rival parents do not embrace the romance with welcomed arms...
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1942
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A most uncharacteristic assignment for director Robert Siodmak, My Heart Belongs to Daddy was scripted by F. Hugh Herbert, of...
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Mrs. Saunders, "Mummy"
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1942
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Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered...
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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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The first "Mexican Spitfire" entry of 1942, Mexican Spitfire at Sea is set mainly on a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Combining...
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1942
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1941
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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Countess Mathilde
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1941
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Mme. Helene
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1941
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Strange Alibi offered young Warner Bros. contractee Arthur Kennedy to carry a picture all by himself. The star is cast as...
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Katie
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1941
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The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest...
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1941
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Having tried to wrest Shirley Temple away from 20th Century-Fox for nearly seven years, MGM was finally able to put the...
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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Mrs. Cooper
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1941
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1940
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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1940
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Poor Mr. Trippe, a spineless spouse, finds himself brow-beaten by his overbearing nag of a wife who constantly reminds him...
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Mrs. Emmie Trippe
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1940
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This sweeping drama chronicles the foundation a Canadian institution: the Hudson's Bay Trading Company. Set in the 17th...
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1940
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Robert Wilcox stars in Man in Blue as Frankie, a gangster's son. Frankie has been raised since childhood by Officer Martin...
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1937
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