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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Pat Buttram (he was Mr. Haney on Green Acres) brings a macabre twist to his standard country-bumpkin characterization in this...
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1964
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A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney (Dennis Holmes)...
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1959
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Flamboyant character actor Hans Conried delivers a surprisingly low-key performance as Homer Eakins, the black sheep of a...
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1958
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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Future Tonight Show host Johnny Carson made one of his rare acting appearances in this 1957 Playhouse 90 adaptation of George...
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1957
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There's Always Tomorrow is a remake of a 1934 film of the same name. Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife...
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1956
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Girls in Prison is a typical babes-behind-bars affair, elevated by a better than usual cast. Richard Denning stars as a...
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1956
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Hit the Deck is the second film version of the same-named 1927 hit Broadway musical. Though updated for the 1950s, the basic...
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1955
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In this romantic drama, a secret love affair becomes the cause of a series of mysterious mishaps involving a philandering...
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1954
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Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of...
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1953
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Director John Ford, notoriously difficult to please, regarded The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite film. Laurence...
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1953
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Told in flashback, Affair with a Stranger recounts the deteriorating marriage of playwright Victor Mature and model...
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Ma Stanton
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1953
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The title character is Edmond O'Brien, a lonely travelling salesman who ends up married to two women, Eve (Joan...
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Mrs. Connelly
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1953
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Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star...
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1952
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Minister Sterling Hayden is able to tend to the needs of his flock, but can do nothing for his alcoholic wife. She kills...
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1951
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Henry Hathaway directed this high-tension drama about a man teetering on the verge of self-destruction and how his dilemma...
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1951
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Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with...
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Nellie Thursday
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1951
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Excuse My Dust is one of the few Red Skelton musicals in which Skelton is not obliged to share screen space with the likes of...
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1951
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1950
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Caged, considered the best woman's prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and...
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1950
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Phyllis Holmes (Ella Raines) has resigned herself to being too plain-looking to attract men. All this changes when Phyllis is...
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1950
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Singing cowboy Rex Allen continued currying favor with audiences and exhibitors alike with Redwood Forest Trail. The story...
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Hattie Hickory
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1950
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Inspired by the 1949 hit A Letter to Three Wives, this takes the other side of the coin with a deceased playboy leaving...
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1950
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In this entry in the "Henry Latham" comedy series, the parsimonious Henry protests the rising cost of meat and decides to...
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1950
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Wagon Master, splendidly directed by John Ford, is a superlative western. The film is the outwardly simple tale of a Mormon...
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1950
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This Gay-90s musical interweaves a number of fictional characters with real-life theatrical impresario Tony Pastor (played by...
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1950
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Red Canyon was one of several medium-budget, Technicolor westerns turned out by Universal-International between 1949 and...
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1949
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John Ford had already directed one of the three previous film versions of Peter Kyne's novel under the title Marked Men...
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1948
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This prison drama is told via flashback and follows a group of prisoners bound for Alcatraz. En route, the group plans their...
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1948
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1947
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Under the aegis of veteran program-feature producer Bryan Foy, the fledgling Eagle-Lion company made great strides during its...
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1947
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Universal's 1946 The Dark Horse is not a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. film of the same name, though both deal with a long...
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Aunt Hattie
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1946
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One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt...
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Kate Nelson
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1946
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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1946
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I Live in Grosvenor Square is better known by its American release title, A Yank in London. Anna Neagle, whose husband...
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1945
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This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract....
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Tugboat Annie
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1945
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Reckless Age is a by-the-numbers Universal musical, elevated by the presence of perky songstress Gloria Jean. The star plays...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a pair of small-potatoes performers try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent...
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Mrs. Pearson
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1944
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Charles Winninger plays an old seaman who rules the roost in his family, which resides on a Florida houseboat. His oldest...
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1944
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In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room,...
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Mom
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1944
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In this domestic comedy, a housewife nervously awaits the return of her husband from military service. They married after a...
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1944
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Olivia De Havilland hadn't wanted to star in RKO's Government Girl, but was forced to do so by her home studio Warner Bros....
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1943
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A bit treacly at times, Tender Comrade is nonetheless a fascinating distillation of the American mindset during WW2. Ginger...
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1943
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Ma Grier
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1943
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In this comedy, Gildersleeve is assigned to be a contentious jury foreman who refuses, despite the opinions of all the other...
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Aunt Emma
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1943
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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 this drama, a wealthy playboy decides to "slum it" for a while to see how regular people live. Trouble ensues when he...
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Grandma
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1942
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Young America is not so much a Jane Withers vehicle as a 73-minute advertisement for the 4-H clubs of America. Cast against...
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1942
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Highlights from World War II are documented in this award-winning film. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Mrs. Clemm
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1942
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Surprisingly little known, Universal's Men of Texas boasts an impressive cast and a fairly exciting and complex storyline....
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1942
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Roddy McDowall stars Hugh Aylesworth, as a well-bred English youth who is evacuated to America during the London blitz. Hugh...
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Annie
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1942
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This was the first of five profitable RKO Radio quickies based on the popular radio series The Great Gildersleeve. Harold...
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Aunt Emma
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1942
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It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers' pennant win. Lloyd Nolan portrays...
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1942
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Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving...
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Ma Donahue
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1941
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In this comedy, a grandmother decides to help her naive grandson get the money he needs to marry his girl by allowing him to...
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Grandma Allen
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1941
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Katie
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1941
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Ma Stone
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1941
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Jane Darwell is the whole show in the 61-minute 20th Century-Fox programmer Private Nurse. The formidable Ms. Darwell is...
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Miss Adams
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1941
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In this musical comedy, a young woman is sent to a National Youth Administration camp after her father is arrested for...
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Supervisor Stormer
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1940
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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Mrs. Huguenine
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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Ma Joad
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1940
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In this touching holiday drama, a sad carnival dancer happens upon an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. She takes the infant...
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1940
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A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic....
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Mrs. Maggie Moriarty
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1940
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Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
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Eliza Kent
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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In this heartwarming drama, a good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an...
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1939
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Hankies are not optional for this grim melodrama that tells the story of a kindly producer who mentors a beautiful young...
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Sophie
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1939
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1939
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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1939
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In this drama, an ingenious journalist finds himself at odds with his brother the district attorney over his unconventional...
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Mrs. Keefe
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1939
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A transport pilot is ordered to fly a risky mission. The pilot, Scott, refuses the dangerous mission and is fired from his...
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1939
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Unexpected Father was designed as a showcase for Universal's infant "star" Baby Sandy (Sandy was a girl, but she played a boy...
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1939
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The financial exploitation of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets rolled ever forward with 20th Century-Fox's Five of a Kind, the...
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1938
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Mrs. Thompson
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1938
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The titular battle is the one that noisily rages between American legionnaires Big Ben Wheeler (Victor McLaglen) and Chesty...
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1938
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1938
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In this witty comedy mystery, a dim-bulbed news photographer and an equally dull-witted reporter try their hand at sleuthing...
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1938
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Two imprisoned con men become ace football players on the prison team in this comedy. They get into real trouble when the...
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1938
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Whenever things got slow at 20th Century-Fox, the studio revved up its old reliable "three girls looking for millionaires"...
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1938
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Universal ran into censorship problems with this farfetched but well-acted courtroom drama directed by silent screen veteran...
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Mrs. Sheldon
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1938
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Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the...
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1937
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Don Ameche is called upon to testify in his married friends' divorce case. Unwilling to take sides, he skips town and hides...
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Mrs. Henry
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1937
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Mrs. Krueger
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1937
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The Great Hospital Mystery is based on one of Mignon Eberhardt's "Nurse Sarah Keate" whodunits. Physically and...
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Miss Keats
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1937
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The film is called Laughing at Trouble, but feisty female newspaper publisher Glory Bradford (Jane Darwell) doesn't waste...
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Glory Bradford
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1937
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1937
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In this romance, a detective goes undercover as a jewel thief and boards a trans-atlantic cruise ship. There he joins a ring...
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Aunt Cynthia
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1937
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1937
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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Ma Marine
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1937
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In this action film, a rebellious cop doesn't hesitate to bend the rules when it comes to roughing up prisoners and bringing...
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1936
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1936
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Young married couple Johnny and Trudy Ellis (Johnny Downs and Shirley Deane) are thrilled when their first baby is born. They...
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Mrs. Ellis
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1936
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In this children's movie, a feisty little orphan with high moral standards is literally imprisoned in a terrible orphanage....
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Martha Bradley
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1936
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The well-publicized (and overexploited) birth of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 formed the basis of The Country Doctor....
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1936
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Based on Jack London's famous story of the same name, White Fang was first filmed in 1925. It is set in the Gold Rush era in...
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Maud Mahoney
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1936
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Previously filmed as a vehicle for Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1922, Laura E. Richard's Captain January was warmed up as a...
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1936
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After several light comedy roles, Rosalind Russell proved her salt as a dramatic film actress in this 1936 adaptation of...
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Mrs. Harold
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1936
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Mrs. Lind
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1936
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Private Number is the old saw about the wealthy young man who marries his family's serving girl. This time Richard Winfield...
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1936
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A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden...
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Mrs. Keats
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1936
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First filmed in 1910, the venerable Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona was remade in 1936 in full Technicolor (20th...
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1936
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In her much vaunted screen debut, Metropolitan Opera star Gladys Swarthout takes on David Belasco's 30-year-old operetta...
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1936
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One More Spring is a laundered version of Robert Nathan's whimsical Depression-era novel. Left destitute by the Wall Street...
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Mrs. Sweeney
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1935
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Metropolitan was the first release from the newly merged 20th Century-Fox corporation. Famed operatic baritone...
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1935
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A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town...
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Ida Harris
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1935
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Eight year old Paddy O'Day (Jane Withers) arrives at Ellis Island after a long sea voyage from Ireland, to be with her...
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Dora
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1935
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1935
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Mrs. Denham
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1935
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Based on a barnstorming stage play by Gus Hill, McFadden's Flat seemed charmingly anachronistic in the mid-1935s....
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Nora McFadden
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1935
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In this melodrama, a devoted father begins feeling unappreciated at home and so embarks upon a clandestine friendship with a...
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1934
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Columbia's Once to Every Woman was the first of A. J. Cronin's medical novels to be adapted for the screen. The drama of the...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Now known simply as Fashions, the lavish Warner Bros. musical Fashions of 1934 stars the unlikely but copacetic team of...
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1934
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Ray Walker plays Jimmy Case, a combustible young man who loses one job after another because he can't keep his fists to...
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1934
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An impoverished waitress marries a rich college boy against the wishes of his parents. Shortly after bearing his son, the...
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1934
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Josephine Hutchinson is a beautiful heiress bored by her stifling lifestyle. She bolts her family mansion on New Years' Eve...
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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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Dedicated to "the memory of Florence Nightingale," White Parade might have been better dedicated to the cliche experts at Fox...
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1934
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1934
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All but forgotten today, Warner Bros.' The Firebird was based on a once-popular stage mystery by Lajos Zilhany. Prohibited...
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1934
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This drama examines the rivalry between a mother and the daughter she is too vain to acknowledge. The mother is a famous...
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1934
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Of the two 1934 film versions of the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress was the...
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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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Mrs. Higgins
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1915, David Harum is the story of an upstate New York rancher devoted to trotting races. Will Rogers...
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1934
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The all-purpose title Blind Date was trotted out in 1934 for this romantic trifle. Poor Kitty Taylor (Ann Sothern) just can't...
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1934
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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1934
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In this romance, a bootlegger finds himself unemployed when he is finally released from prison and discovers that...
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1934
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In this comedy, a wealthy socialite pursues a carefree playboy who isn't at all interested in her. After all her regular...
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1934
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A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars Ruth Chatterton as Françoise...
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1934
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Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas,...
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1934
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A former opera star loses her voice, her career evaporates, and she takes to drinking heavily and blaming her son for her...
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1933
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This 1933 movie version of Sinclair Lewis's novel Ann Vickers stars Irene Dunne in the title role. Left alone and pregnant by...
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1933
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On the outs at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll was "punished" by being sent to Columbia for the lachrymose Child...
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Mrs. McGonegal
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Insanely jealous of his wife, wealthy zoologist Lionel Atwill uses his knowledge of animals to dispose of any would-be...
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1933
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Quite a bit of stock footage accompany this aerial melodrama from Columbia, which was directed by low-budget action...
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Ma Kearns
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1933
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Gary Cooper is a small town dentist dissatisfied with his lot. Though married to the lovely and affectionate Frances Fuller,...
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen....
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1933
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The scandalous doings behind the high-toned exterior of a private school for rich young women provides the framework for...
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1933
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This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses. ~...
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1933
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1933
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In this sassy dramatic comedy, two reform-school girls finally graduate and as soon as they get out decide to board a New...
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1933
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In this drama a store clerk gets involved with a radio singer and ends up in a home for unwed mothers. The home is run by a...
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Mrs. Wharton
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1933
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This suspenseful, exciting mystery is based upon an Edgar Wallace story and centers upon the search for $1 million in buried...
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1933
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1933
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In this drama, a young surgeon and his driver must combat the racketeers who have taken over the hospital where he works. ~...
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1933
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This comedy/drama (which is really more drama) tells the tale of Ruth Brock (Nancy Carroll), a young woman who is at odds...
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1932
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Beautiful but impractical socialite Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard) has convinced herself that "the perfect marriage" is an...
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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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Sylvia Sidney is again in her "victim" mode in Paramount's Ladies of the Big House. Shortly after their wedding, young...
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1932
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In this political melodrama, an idealistic freshman congressman swears to do his best to get relief for his impoverished...
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1932
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1931
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1931
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Tom Sawyer, Paramount's 1930 Christmas release, was the first talkie version of Mark Twain's beloved novel. A rapidly...
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1930
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While critiquing this fairy tale-like romance, Motion Picture News noted the "youthful personality and girlish portrayal" of...
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1915
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It was probably pretty simple for William C. DeMille to adapt this comedy stage hit to the screen -- he and his brother,...
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1915
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Producer Jesse Lasky and stage impresario David Belasco teamed up for several films in the mid-teens and this tale of...
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1914
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Oscar Apfel, the man who collaborated with Cecil B. DeMille on the direction of the pioneering feature film The Squaw Man,...
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1914
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1914
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Credit is due to director Lois Weber for establishing (or, at least, popularizing) the concept of "artistically justifiable...
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1914
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Produced by Famous Players, The Only Son was one of several efforts to bestow movie stardom upon Broadway comic actor...
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1914
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