Auteur theorists who've charted the career of "cult" director Edgar G. Ulmer have seldom mentioned Carnegie Hall, simply...
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Ruth Haines
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1947
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Elevating Criminal Court above the B-picture norm is the inventive direction by Robert Wise and the better-than-usual...
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Georgia Gale
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1946
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A Hollywood movie company descends on the Ozarks in this pleasant, if low-budget, musical from PRC undoubtedly inspired by...
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Jane Colwell
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1946
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Martha O'Driscoll fills the title role quite nicely in Blonde Alibi. The plot of this rapid-fire programmer involves a...
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Marian Gale
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1946
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One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief...
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Katie
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1945
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In this crime drama, a former card shark finally gets paroled and decides to take his singing niece to Chicago to make a new...
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Gloria
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1945
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This Universal "monster rally", an immediate sequel to House of Frankenstein, would seem to have been deliberately designed...
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Miliza Morell
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures. ~...
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1945
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At 88 minutes, Here Come the Co-Eds is one of the longest of Abbott & Costello's Universal starring vehicles, and though not...
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Molly
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1945
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In this action western, the notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave,...
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Mary
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1945
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Although coming in at an odd running time -- 40 minutes -- this interesting, low-budget drama looks at the adventures, or...
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Barbara
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away...
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Susanna
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1944
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Patty Callahan
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1944
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Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she...
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Pat
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1943
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In this musical, a gang of college students decide to play a little trick by creating the perfect student. The fictional gal...
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Sally Carlyle
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1943
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John Garfield was borrowed from Warner Bros. by RKO Radio for the tense espionage melodrama The Fallen Sparrow. Garfield is...
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Whitney Parker
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1943
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Margie
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1943
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This patriotic WW II-era bit of anti-Japanese propaganda centers on a white Texas college student who becomes such good...
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Deedee Dunham
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1943
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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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Dottie Coburn
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1942
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Andrew Jackson is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is...
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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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Joyce
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1942
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1942
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Henry Aldrich for President was the second of Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series to star Jimmy Lydon in the teenaged title...
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Mary Aldrich
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1941
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Midnight Angel was the title of this Paramount actioner when it was first released in December of 1941. But by the time the...
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1941
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In this drama, two childhood sweethearts endure the first pains of adult love. The young lady is beginning to feel...
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1941
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1941
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This is the first of two filmed adaptations of Al Capp's classic comic strip, in which the title hillbilly (Granville Owen)...
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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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1940
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In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down...
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1940
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In this drama, a former big-man-on-campus, finds himself almost destitute twenty years later because he cannot find a job....
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1940
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In this third installment of MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, Dr. James Kildare (Lew Ayres) comes to the rescue when his...
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1939
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If Judge Hardy and Son had been filmed in the 1990s, it would have been titled Andy Hardy VII. In this latest edition of...
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1939
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In this musical comedy, a girl with a lively imagination gets in hot water when she tries to make her tall tales real. Gloria...
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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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1938
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Tala Birell, one of the more talented of the Garbo wannabes of the 1930s, stars in the Universal quickie She's Dangerous. The...
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1937
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