Once again dreaming of unlimited wealth, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) allow themselves to be bamboozled into...
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Mrs. Hansen
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1953
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This highly fanciful but immensely entertaining biopic stars Tony Curtis as legendary magician/escape-artist Harry Houdini....
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1953
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1952
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Back in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, artist George Petty was famous for his "Petty Girl" illustrations; lovingly detailed...
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1950
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1950
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The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the...
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1949
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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1948
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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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1948
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So often wasted in passive roles, Evelyn Keyes is virtually the whole show in The Mating of Millie. Keyes is cast as pretty...
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1948
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This suspenseful crime drama reenacts the famed 1947 prison break out of the Canon City, Colorado corrections facility and...
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1948
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John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst,...
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1948
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In this mystery, a detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is...
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1948
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The Broadway musical Beat the Band was boiled down to B-picture terms in this RKO Radio programmer. The plot concerns Damon...
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Mrs. Peters
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1947
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Three years after song-and-dance man Dick Powell reshaped his nice-guy image by playing hard-boiled gumshoe Phillip Marlowe...
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1947
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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1947
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The moody mystery melodrama Nocturne was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison. The film wastes no...
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1946
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In this police drama, a busy precinct is thrown into chaos when the murdered corpse of a local detective is found in an...
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1946
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In this a briefcase containing four wills is found next to the unconscious body of a man. He lies beside a plane crash. Each...
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Marie Drumman
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1945
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In this musical, a messenger boy does a remarkable imitation of Bing Crosby and finds himself surrounded by luscious little...
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1945
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Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees...
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1945
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Though it comes on much too strong at times, Murder, He Says fully justifies its present "cult" status. Professional pollster...
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1945
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This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began. A promoter has an...
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Mrs. Gates
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1944
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In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to...
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1944
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Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United...
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1943
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For reasons unknown, Paramount Pictures decided to dust off the 1926 George S. Kaufman-Herman Mankiewicz stage comedy The...
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Miss Kent
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1943
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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Mom Porter
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1943
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Mabel Paige, one of Hollywood's most beloved character actresses, was given her one-and-only starring role in this Republic...
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Mrs. Freeman
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1943
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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A most uncharacteristic assignment for director Robert Siodmak, My Heart Belongs to Daddy was scripted by F. Hugh Herbert, of...
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1942
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Out of the Frying Pan, Francis Swann's perennial community-theatre favorite, came to the screen under the title...
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1942
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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Annie
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1942
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In this lighthearted musical comedy, Marjory Stuart (Mary Martin) is a girl who works in the hatcheck room at a Manhattan...
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1942
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