This period melodrama stars Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a woman who inherits a substantial fortune from her...
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Aunt Eula
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1951
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Celia Fenwick
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1950
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Serena Everett
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1950
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Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New...
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1949
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1949
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That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the...
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Aunt Cornelia Farley
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1948
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1948
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Set in pre-World War I Austria, this relatively sweet and cheerful film marks writer/director Billy Wilder's first and last...
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Princess
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1948
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In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a...
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1947
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After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in...
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1946
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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Mrs. Kimball
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1946
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Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical...
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Aunt Jessie
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1946
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Song of the South is a blend of live action and animation, based on the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler...
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1946
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Romantic comedy was never Errol Flynn's forte, but he occasionally gave it the old college try in such films as...
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Mrs. Hamilton
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1946
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Mother Superior
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1944
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This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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Mrs. Charles
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1944
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Uncertain Glory finds Errol Flynn atypically cast as French criminal Jean Picard, a craven coward whose many misdeeds have...
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Mme. Maret
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1944
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An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas,...
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Fanny Farrelly
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1943
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The real-life marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was already on the rocks when they costarred in Model Wife. The...
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1941
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1941
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Mrs. Monrell
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1941
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Footsteps in the Dark is a comedy/mystery, starring Errol Flynn as a wealthy investment counselor who secretly doubles as a...
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1941
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The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
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Aunt Ada
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1941
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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1940
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Given the omnipresence of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1940, the second film version of Robert E. Sherwood's...
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Margaret Cronin
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1940
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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1939
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Mrs. Mason
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1939
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A comparatively little-known entry in the "screwball comedy" genre, David O. Selznick's The Young in Heart goes for quiet...
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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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1936
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Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in...
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1936
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1936
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Based on a novel by Netta Syrett, A Woman Rebels is the story of Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn), whose mission in...
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1936
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Although it was nominated for an Academy Award, the third Three Stooges comedy two-reeler for Columbia has not dated well. A...
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1934
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Legendary "improvisational" director Gregory La Cava elected to stick to the script for his film version of the James M....
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Comtesse
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1934
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Edmund Gwenn makes his American film debut in this lighthearted adaptation of Frederick Jackson's stage play The Bishop...
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Lady Emily Lyon
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1933
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