They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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Duchess of Beltravers
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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In this comedy drama based on Shaw's play Pygmalion, and set in the 1800s, a wealthy playwright rescues a beautiful street...
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1940
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W.C. Fields plays Egbert Souse, a bibulous denizen of Lompoc who supports his family by winning radio contests. When a...
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Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
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1940
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When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily...
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1940
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Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in...
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Grandma Brokaw
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1940
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Universal Studios had their "B" musicals down to a science in the 1940s. All that was needed was a cast of talented...
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1940
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Seventeen-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century Fox production Star...
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1940
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In this heartwarming drama, a crook endeavors to raise his son in the slums until he kills a teller during a bank robbery....
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Mrs. Hudson
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1939
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In this offbeat western, a cowboy heads into the genteel East to fulfill his dream of becoming a polo player. While there,...
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Aunt Minetta
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1939
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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and...
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1939
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Mrs. De Witt
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1939
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This hospital drama chronicles the exploits of four nursing students enrolled in a three-year training course. One of them...
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1939
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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Aunt Tibbie
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1939
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Hold That Kiss is a cute story cutely played by the irresistably cute Maureen O'Sullivan. She plays working girl June Evans,...
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Aunt Lucy
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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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Honorine
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1938
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Love may be a headache, but without it, how would MGM programmers like this one ever have been made? Franchot Tone is cast as...
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Sheriff
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1938
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1937
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Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
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Mrs. Kensington-Bly
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1937
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Dutchess
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1937
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Grandmother
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home...
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Evelyn Bennett
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1936
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David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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Mrs. Burley
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1936
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The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his...
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Lady Hathaway
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1936
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Edmund Lowe made his only screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Garden Murder Case. The...
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1936
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College mineralologist Bob (Richard Dix) decides to put his education to good use by prospecting for gold out West. Teaming...
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Mrs. Brian
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1936
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Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' oft-filmed romantic tragedy....
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Nanine
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1936
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1936
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Kay Francis stars as Stella Parish, a London stage favorite who suddenly disappears without a trace. British news...
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Nana
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1935
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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1935
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1935
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In this adaptation of author de la Roche's chronicle of the passionate lives of the strange Whiteoaks of Jalna, their...
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1935
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Enchanted April was adapted for the screen from the novel by "Elisabeth" and play by Kane Campbell. Neglected by her novelist...
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1935
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Grandma Leger
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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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1935
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1935
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David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer...
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
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1934
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We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the...
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1934
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The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery...
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1934
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In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young...
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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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Angelina, Housekeeper
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1934
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The Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer's popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life...
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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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Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because...
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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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1933
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In this melodrama a superb female lawyer finds that her success has emasculated her husband, a rather average architect, who...
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1933
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This melodrama, with a few comic overtones, was not the finest moment for either star Bebe Daniels or director...
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Princess
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1933
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Lily Becker (Hope Hampton) is the musically talented daughter whose mother forces her into a marriage to the son of a wealthy...
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1922
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One has to question the wisdom of remaking a comedy that starred Mary Pickford, even if it was made back in the early days of...
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1921
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One suspects that the cliches inherent in the Pathe five-reeler New York were already in place in the William Hurlbut stage...
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1916
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