The World of Abbott and Costello is a dismal attempt by Universal Pictures to cash in on the popularity of Robert Youngson's...
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1965
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The 8-year-old "Ma and Pa Kettle Series" came to an end with The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm. In her last screen...
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Ma Kettle
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1957
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The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left...
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Ma Kettle
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1956
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Widow Hudspeth
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1956
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The title tells all in this seventh entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series. This time around, Ma (Marjorie Main) and...
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Ma Kettle
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1955
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At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films. The first of...
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Mrs. Hittaway
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1954
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Lady Jane Dunstock
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1954
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Ma Kettle
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1954
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Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown...
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Pansy Jones
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1954
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In this musical comedy, a young woman inherits a race horse. She wants to race it but encounters difficulty with its trainer...
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Ma Parkson
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1953
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This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the...
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Ma Kettle
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1953
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A lesser Fred Astaire effort, Belle of New York is set during the turn of the century. Astaire plays a footloose and...
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Mrs. Phineas Hill
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1952
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away...
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Ma Kettle
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1952
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Ma Kettle
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1951
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Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet...
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Mrs. Cabot
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1951
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Two real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of...
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1951
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Mrs. Wortin
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1951
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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1950
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The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and...
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Ma Kettle
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1950
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Summer Stock represented Judy Garland's swan song at MGM. Garland plays the owner of a New England farm which entrepreneur...
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Esme
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1950
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In their never-ending efforts to create a movie series to match the success of "The Thin Man," MGM came up with the...
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Hattie O'Malley
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1950
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The title couple and their enormous brood of bumpkins made their movie debut in the film version of Betty McDonald's humorous...
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Ma Kettle
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1949
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Wallace Beery's final film was the curiously endearing "black comedy" Big Jack. Set in 1820, a time when "science was a crime...
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Flapjack Kate
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1949
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' starts off on a tense note as a struggling man is led through the streets of a western town,...
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Maribel Matthews
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1948
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Ma Kettle
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1947
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The Abbott & Costello western spoof The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is predicated on an actual Montana law of the 19th...
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1947
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Bad Bascomb is an expensive MGM western, tailor-made for the blubbery talents of Wallace Beery. Beery plays the badman of the...
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Abbey Hanks
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1946
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Previously filmed in 1926 and 1934, George Kelly's venerable stage comedy The Show-Off was dusted off as a Red Skelton...
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Mrs. Fisher
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1946
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This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride....
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Sonora Cassidy
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1946
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A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann...
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Lucy
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1946
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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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Mamie Johnson
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1945
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Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM...
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Katie the Maid
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1944
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MGM intended Rationing to be an object lesson as well as a comedy, to teach the moviegoers the importance of rationing...
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Iris Tuttle
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1944
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Marjorie Main's first solo starring vehicle for MGM finds the formidable character actress cast as a tough-but-tender female...
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Annie Goss
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1944
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For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney...
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Gashouse Mary
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1943
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On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many...
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Mrs. Strabel
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1943
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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Mrs. Fisher
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1942
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Once Upon a Thursday was the original released title of The Affairs of Martha, a 1942 Marsha Hunt vehicle from the MGM...
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Mrs. McKissick
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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Judge Sidney Hawkes
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1942
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In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker. When she...
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Letitia Carberry
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1942
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Clementine "Tiny" Tucker
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1942
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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Susie
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1941
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Harold Bell Wright's bestselling novel The Shepherd of the Hills had been previously filmed in 1919 and 1928 before Paramount...
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1941
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Marge Cavendish
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1941
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In this comedy drama, a medicine show con-man pretends to be a wealthy man to impress his long-lost daughter who is slated...
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Irma
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1941
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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Rev. Mrs. Varner
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1941
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MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer...
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1941
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In addition to being a fine Western in its own right, this film served to introduce perhaps Hollywood's oddest romantic...
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1940
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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1940
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This touching romance is based on a play by Rachel Crothers. An aging sea captain squanders his fortune on a bad business...
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1940
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One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
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1940
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Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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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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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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1939
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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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An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Calvin Jordan (Henry...
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1939
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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1939
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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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1939
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In this drama, a young man aspires to a life of wealth and power in the newspaper business. Unfortunately, it takes time and...
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1938
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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1938
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Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's...
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Sara
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1938
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Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The...
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1938
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In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she...
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1938
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1938
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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1938
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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1938
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In this comedy, wealthy girls attend boarding school to learn proper etiquette. The well-mannered character of the class is...
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Miss Armstrong
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1938
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1938
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The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran...
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Mrs. Boylan
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1938
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In this romance, a girl from the bayou falls in love with an aspiring lawyer who lives on the nicer side of the tracks. It...
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Nora
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1938
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1937
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In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and...
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1937
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An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been...
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1937
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In this urban drama, a teenage street punk learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of crime. Jackie Cooper is the tough...
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1937
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No relation to the radio program of the same name, The Shadow is a lightning-paced murder mystery with a Big Top background....
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1937
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Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined...
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1937
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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1937
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1935
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Crime Without Passion is an odd, almost existential murder yarn. Famed attorney Claude Rains, incensed that his mistress...
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1934
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John Barrymore is the Long Lost Father in this lightweight seriocomedy. Barrymore is felicitously cast as Carl Bellairs, who...
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1934
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1934
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Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a...
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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This comedy/drama (which is really more drama) tells the tale of Ruth Brock (Nancy Carroll), a young woman who is at odds...
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1932
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand" declared Abraham Lincoln; proof that a house divided can be repaired is...
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1931
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