This documentary takes an in-depth look at the cultural phenomenon of The Wizard of Oz, following the original L. Frank Baum...
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2008
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When her Mother breaks her hip and needs full-time care, a married woman is forced to a new understanding of the process of...
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1991
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Filmed independently by Michael Roemer in 1969, The Plot Against Harry didn't earn a mainstream release until 1989. What was...
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1990
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1989
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In this droll derivation of "Arsenic and Old Lace", former 1940s film ingénues Teresa Wright and Joan Leslie are cast as the...
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1988
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In this drama a veteran cop takes in a problematic adolescent who might have seen several policemen murdered. The old cop...
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1986
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The Keegans was a TV pilot film for a projected serialized weekly about an extended Irish-American family. Tim Keegan...
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1975
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Film favorite Joan Leslie appears in this episode as Mrs. Cooper, a Quaker widow who hires Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) as a...
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1965
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Smoke Jumpers stars Dan Duryea as the head man of a group of death-defying firefighters. Duryea and his crew are called upon...
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1958
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Set in the early '40s and directed by Raoul Walsh, The Revolt of Mamie Stover stars Jane Russell as Mamie, a San Francisco...
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Annalea
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1956
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This "modern" western stars Rod Cameron as opportunistic Korean war veteran Tully Gibbs. Posing as a friend of the late son...
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Sarah Moffit
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1955
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Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is...
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Garnet Hale
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1954
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In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines. ~...
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Lt. Polly Davis
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1953
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All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers...
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Sally Maris
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1953
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In his second and last Western for Republic Pictures, former bandleader Vaughn Monroe plays a marshal returning to Tombstone...
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Mary Kimber
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1952
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This western stars Sterling Hayden as a man who innocently tends to the needs of a mysterious stranger. When it turns out...
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Ellen Hanley
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1952
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Can it be that June Allyson is Too Young to Kiss in this bit of MGM fluff? Well, not really. Pianist Cynthia Potter (Allyson)...
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1951
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Filmed in color, the 60-minute Hill Number One was an episode of the TV religious anthology Family Theatre. Father Patrick...
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1951
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Rancher Randolph Scott rides right into a romantic triangle in this moody western. He is forced to stand by as his mercenary...
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Laure Bidwell
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1951
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One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of...
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Donna
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1950
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Daphne Lattimer
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1950
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In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo...
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Chris Johnson
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1948
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On New Year's Eve, Joan Leslie runs desperately out of a penthouse apartment and into the Times Square crowd. She has reason...
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Sheila Page
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1947
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Judy Jones
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1946
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Janie Conway
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1946
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If Paramount could rake in the bucks by teaming singer Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope in a series of Road pictures, then...
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Connie Reed
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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Julie Adams
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1945
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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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Sally
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1945
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In this wartime romance, two young newlyweds must reluctantly part when the young man is called to war. He spends the next...
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Sally Sawyer
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1945
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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Herself
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1944
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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Pat Dixon
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1943
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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Eileen Dibble
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1943
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Joan Manion
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1943
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Mary Cohan
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1942
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In this screen version of the James Thurber-Elliot Nugent Broadway play of the same name, Henry Fonda stars as bespectacled,...
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Patricia Stanley
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1942
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In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway...
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Katherine Chernen
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1942
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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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Mary Mathews
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1941
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In the 1930s and 1940s, Warner Bros. developed a positive genius for remaking earlier films in new, disguised fashion,...
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Mary Coster
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1941
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Velma
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1941
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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Gracie Williams
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1941
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The Great Mr. Nobody is an easygoing classified ad salesman, appropriately nicknamed Dreamy (Eddie Albert). All Dreamy wants...
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Mary
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1941
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Military Academy would seem to have been an attempt by Columbia Pictures to match the success of the "Dead End Kids"...
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1940
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This domestic comedy is the final episode of the 17-film "Jones Family" series. The story begins as restless Father decides...
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1940
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Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars...
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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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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1940's Laddie was the third cinemadaptation of the heartwarming story by Gene Stratton-Porter (the second version, filmed in...
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Shelley
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1940
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The second entry in Warner Bros.' popular detective series, Nancy Drew, Reporter presented young sleuth Bonita Granville at...
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1939
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1939
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This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from...
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1939
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The thoroughbreds invoked by the title are a stray colt and the teenaged boy (Jimmy Lydon) who raises the animal. Despite the...
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Wendy Conway
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1939
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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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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1936
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