Blonde good-time girl Vivian Heldon (Jan Sterling), who lives in a cheap rooming house in a working-class section of Boston,...
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1950
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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1948
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Lady and the Monster was the first film version of the classic Curt Siodmak sci-fi/horror tale Donovan's Brain. The plot...
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1944
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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1944
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In this taut crime thriller, a quiet bank clerk spends his little vacation in Indianapolis and then returns to his little...
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1943
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An Iowa drugstore owner (Don Ameche) becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that...
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1943
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MGM's A Yank at Eton follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A Yank at Oxford, with a wartime angle...
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1942
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A surprisingly good MGM Our Gang comedy, the one-reel Going to Press is an on-target spoof of a typical "adult" crime film....
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Sally
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1942
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Universal's "Baby Sandy" series officially ended with Sandy Gets Her Man, but the infant star still had one picture left on...
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1941
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The Vanishing Virginian was adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Rebecca Yancey Williams. Newcomer...
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1941
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The "new pupil" in this one-reel Our Gang entry is a pretty young lass named Sally, played by popular child actress Juanita...
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Sally
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads...
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Junior
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1940
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Hugh Herbert is the head of The Family Next Door; he's a plumber of modest means and questionable skills. The rest of...
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1939
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Universal's Code of the Streets stars the Little Tough Guys, an offshoot of Warner Bros.' Dead End Kids. This time...
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Cynthia
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1939
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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1938
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Though it may be difficult for modern audiences to understand or appreciate the appeal of canary-voiced boy soprano...
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1938
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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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1938
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This melodrama chronicles the enduring friendship between four boys in New York's Hell's Kitchen. As boys, the made a pact...
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1938
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In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone...
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1938
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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1938
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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1936
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Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist,...
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1936
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the...
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1935
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Riff-Raff begins riff-raffing when boastful fisherman Dutch (Spencer Tracy) marries down-to-earth cannery worker Hattie...
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1935
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1934
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