As appealing as ever in 1946, Deanna Durbin was admittedly getting a bit long in tooth for her ingenue-like role in Because...
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Nora
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1946
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The trouble begins when glamorous Broadway actress Roberta Baxter (Virginia Bruce) signs for her latest play. She proceeds to...
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Mary Riley
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1945
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Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Three Is a Family is a 1940s farce that frequently substitutes noise for humor....
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Irma Dalrymple
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1944
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A musical comedy star whose career is just starting to take off returns home from military school. En route, he meets a...
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Glory Marlow, Sr.
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1944
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In this crazy comedy, a casino worker writes a book about headhunters and finds himself the target of the leader of an...
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Mrs. Winthrop
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1944
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?"...
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1942
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If Selznick could make a Gone With the Wind, reasoned Paramount Pictures in 1941, anyone can. Paramount's own spin on Scarlet...
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Theo Clairmont
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1941
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Nice Girl? answers its own question by casting the relentlessy nice Deanna Durbin in the title role. In her first truly adult...
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1941
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Silent screen queen Gloria Swanson returned to films after a seven-year absence in RKO Radio's Father Takes a Wife. Adolphe...
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Aunt Julie
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1941
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This touching romance is based on a play by Rachel Crothers. An aging sea captain squanders his fortune on a bad business...
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Nanay Crocker
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1940
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No, No, Nanette was the second film version of the popular Otto Harbach-Vincent Youmans Broadway musical. Though slightly...
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Mrs. Smith
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1940
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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Amanda Griffith
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1939
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It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory...
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Aunt Martha Hogan
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1939
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Miss Lorna Smith
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1939
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In this comedy, a woman is left destitute after her father dies. To make ends meet, she begins working as a secretary to a...
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Aunt Jane
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1938
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In this frothy comedy-drama, a businesswoman owns a successful service bureau for the filthy rich. Her service does...
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Pearl
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1938
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This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She...
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Gloria Patterson
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1938
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Set in New York City's famed music hall and featuring an all-star cast, this musical chronicles the desperate search of two...
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1938
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In this lively musical western, a cowboy's wife heads for Reno for a quickie divorce. Meanwhile her husband finds himself in...
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Aunt Minerva
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1938
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In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately,...
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1937
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Emma Foster
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1937
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In this comedy drama (a remake of 1932's Ladies of the Jury), an apparently bubble-headed but mule-stubborn jurist is...
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Mrs. Jonathan Ashley Dean
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1937
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When Edna May Oliver decided to leave RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, the studio came up with an unorthodox...
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Hildegarde Withers
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1936
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Love on a Bet is a lightweight programmer from the "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" school of comedy. Gene Raymond stars as...
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Aunt Charlotte
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1936
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Newlywed Carolyn Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) has been raised to expect the finer things in life, but these are things that...
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Mattie Dodson
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1936
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The sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting...
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Mabel Anderson
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1936
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Ann Sothern is a magazine model looking for a rich husband. Wealthy Gene Raymond attends a photo shoot; Sothern mistakes him...
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Gwen
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1936
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Madge Hardwick
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1935
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Hugh Herbert plays a middle-aged bumbler who is about to inherit a multimillion dollar estate. But there's a catch: Herbert...
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Freeda McCreery
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1935
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Cole Porter's Broadway musical 50 Million Frenchmen was brought to the screen in 1931 with one minor alteration -- all of the...
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Violet
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1931
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The publicity packet for The Mystery Club boasted an "all-star cast" -- which, by 1926 standards, it was. Nat Carr,...
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1926
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