Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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"Peaches"
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1946
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Two secret agents must somehow prevent a group of post WW II Nazis hiding in the Hartz mountains from successfully making an...
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1946
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In this engagingly silly musical fantasy from the waning days of WW2, Fred MacMurray stars as Bill, who wants to serve his...
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1945
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1943
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1942
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The shortest of Disney's major animated features Dumbo involves a baby elephant with unusually large ears. Ostracized from...
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Ringmaster
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1941
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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1940
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Communism-the American variety-is given a hilarious going-over in 20th Century-Fox's Public Deb No. 1. Spoiled society girl...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a...
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1940
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1938
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The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann...
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1938
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Nobody really takes a Vacation from Love in this MGM programmer, though it's not from lack of trying. Dennis O'Keefe and...
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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1938
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A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars:...
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1938
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Another of Paramount's efforts to transform Metropolitan Opera diva Gladys Swarthout into a popular movie star, Champagne...
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1937
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In this entertaining comedy, an American expatriate lives in Paris and fancies himself a clever con artist. Getting cocky,...
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Von Giersdorff
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1937
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August Archipenko
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1937
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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1937
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Tailor-made for the talents of fast-talking James Dunn, Come Closer, Folks stars Dunn as sidewalk pitchman Jim Keene. Our...
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Herman
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1936
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1936
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Harry Richman was a major stage and radio star of the 1930s, but his overbearing personality never clicked in films. After...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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In this melodrama a chorine endeavors to become a star, but it isn't easy. Her wealthy boyfriend wants to marry her until...
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1936
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This light-hearted musical romance follows the exploits of Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star who stows...
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Hammacher
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1936
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Josef Von Sternberg, past directorial master of movie exotica, came down to earth with The King Steps Out, a major studio...
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1936
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This lavish Shirley Temple starrer is set in New York, sometime in the 1850s. While lovable pickpocket "Professor" Eustace...
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1936
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In this comedy drama, a worried Irish father, leaves his Erin pub and heads for middle America to find out why his son has...
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1936
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Based on a novel by Kathleen Shepard, Human Cargo is a lively, tongue-in-cheek melodrama purporting to expose the alien...
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1936
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Crime reporter George Melville (Joel McCrea) arrogantly repeated accurate predictions about jewel robberies. He befriends...
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Tim
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1936
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1935
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Per its title, this merry Warner Bros. musical was filmed on location in the resort community of Agua Caliente. Pat O'Brien...
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1935
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A famous movie actress takes a trip to New York City. While there, she gets involved with a wisecracking cab driver who is...
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1935
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Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Robert Pryor can't spend $720,000 in twelve...
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1935
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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1935
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Calm Yourself starts off as ace advertising man Pat (Robert Young) is fired from his job when he offends the highly...
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1935
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High-rolling gambler "Odds" Owen (Warren William) establishes an American insurance agency created along the lines of Lloyd's...
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1935
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Anxious to graduate from 2-reel comedies to feature films, producer Hal Roach began phasing out his short-subject manifest in...
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1935
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A descendant of the notorious Borgias begins to believe that he has inherited their murderous tendencies in this thriller....
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1935
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In this now-campy drama, a patriotic state college football team takes on a subversive radical group determined to undermine...
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1935
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1935
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A writer of mysteries helps a house detective solve a murder in this murder mystery. The murder occurs in the hotel in which...
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1935
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The third screen version of Jack London's classic adventure story was also the first with sound, and it toyed with the...
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1935
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One of the last Fox releases before the studio's merger with 20th Century, Redheads on Parade stars John Boles and Dixie Lee...
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1935
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with...
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1934
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Often written off as just another Poverty Row effort featuring a fallen-from-grace Erich Von Stroheim, Mascot Pictures'...
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1934
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The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie...
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1934
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Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered...
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1934
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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1934
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1934
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Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka...
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1934
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Looking for all the world like a 2-reel comedy bloated to 6-reel proportions, Embarrassing Moments was directed by...
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich, Manhattan Love Song charts the misadventures of the madcap Stewart sisters, Jerry...
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1934
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After several false starts, opera star Grace Moore became a motion picture success in the sublimely assembled One Night of...
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1934
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Radio tenor Lanny Ross made a game but unsuccessful bid for film stardom in Paramount's Melody in Spring. Though Ross, cast...
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1934
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Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is...
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1934
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Love Time is the story of the unhappy life of composer Franz Schubert, here played by Swedish actor Nils Asther. Too poor...
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1934
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Based on a story by Zona Gale, When Strangers Meet concentrates on a small, interrelated community separated down the middle...
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film,...
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1934
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1934
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Released in Great Britain as Sealed Lips, this WWI melodrama stars Constance Bennett as Carla, aka Russian spy "K-14." Though...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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1933
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A spoiled rich girl marries a gas station owner in this dated romance starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon....
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1933
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In this romantic drama, set at the turn of the century, a womanizing Irish motorman ignores his marital vows, but only to a...
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1933
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The Hollywood debut of German star Lillian Harvey, this film operetta was held back in favor of Harvey's second outing,...
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1933
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J. Phineas Stevens (Lee Tracy) is a personal injury lawyer whose practice has become a nightmare to any number of defendants,...
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1933
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Those who only know Pat O'Brien from his later, slightly more avuncular roles may be surprised to see him pumping out almost...
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1933
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We first lay eyes on Jimmy Cagney in Lady Killer while he's working as a movie theater usher. This job lasts just long enough...
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1933
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The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight...
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1933
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This imitation-Lubitsch romantic comedy stars William Powell as an elegant jewel thief plying his trade in Vienna. Powell's...
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1932
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Based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse, Mervyn LeRoy directs the black-and-white 1932 comedy drama Big City Blues....
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1932
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Blessed Event is one of several early-1930s films inspired by the meteoric rise to fame of gossip columnist Walter Winchell...
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1932
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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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1932
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1932
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Flesh was one of the few big-studio films to deal with the subject of professional wrestling--at least until Hulk Hogan came...
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1932
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A starry-eyed girl marries an impoverished but talented young writer. Though easily frustrated and given to temperamental...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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No relation to the 1949 Bob Hope comedy of the same name, The Great Lover stars that master of sartorial splendor,...
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1931
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The legendary theatrical team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne made their only starring screen appearance in this 1931...
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1931
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An aspiring artist leaves his wife and daughter when he gets a chance to spend a year studying in Paris in this melodrama....
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1931
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The 1929 all-talkie adaptation of Bayard Veiller's stage play The Trial of Mary Dugan proved a worthy showcase for MGM-diva...
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1931
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This wonderful Warner Bros. epic was one of the earliest talkie musicals with a Hollywood background -- and the last of its...
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1930
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This melodrama follows the lives of three sisters. One dies while giving birth, another gets married and goes to the US, and...
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1930
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Filmed simultaneously with the English version, this German-language film is considered by many to be technically superior....
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1930
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In this drama, an early talky, a horse race determines a woman's romantic fate. The trouble begins when she finds herself...
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1929
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In this musical romance, a showgirl tours Europe in a troupe. There she falls in love with a Balkan prince. Naturally, his...
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1929
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