An unusually long pre-credits sequence establishes the roots of faded Southern belle Charlotte's (Bette Davis) insanity;...
|
|
1965
|
Youngblood Hawke (James Franciscus) is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to make it as a writer. He meets...
|
Irene Perry
|
1964
|
If anything, this star-studded sequel is even sillier than the original, adding to its problems by completely recasting all...
|
Roberta Carter
|
1961
|
Though billed fifth, Mary Astor is the one to watch in the Ross Hunter-produced soapera Stranger in My Arms. Astor portrays a...
|
Mrs. Beasley
|
1959
|
Washed-up actor Oliver Mathews (Franchot Tone) would rather dally with a pretty wardrobe girl than spend time with his...
|
|
1959
|
Mrs. Herman (Doro Merande) is the landlady of actress Mrs. Fenimore (Mary Astor). Both ladies are in dire need of quick money...
|
|
1958
|
This Happy Feeling is based on the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money. Debbie Reynolds plays impulsive Janet Blake, who...
|
Mrs. Tremaine
|
1958
|
A dramatization of the Philip Barry play about a rich society divorcee who is looking for a real romance and meets a...
|
|
1958
|
Actor Cornel Wilde branched out into directing with The Devil's Hairpin--reserving the starring role for himself. Wilde plays...
|
Mrs. Jargin
|
1957
|
|
|
|
1957
|
Budd Corliss (Robert Wagner) is an ambitious, poor boy from the wrong-side-of-the-tracks who murders his girlfriend Dorothy...
|
Mrs. Corliss
|
1956
|
Based on a novel by Howard Swiggert, The Power and the Prize sets up a premise that had far more relevance in 1956 than it...
|
|
1956
|
Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954-1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color, 90-minute specials,...
|
Nancy Blake
|
1955
|
Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New...
|
|
1949
|
An unusually disturbing noir from a director better known for more mainstream fare like High Noon and From Here to Eternity,...
|
Pat
|
1949
|
In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King...
|
Ada
|
1949
|
|
|
Senora Morales
|
1947
|
Desert Fury is a rarety for the 1940s, a Technicolor "film noir." Set in a Nevada gambling town, the story concerns the...
|
Fritzie Haller
|
1947
|
|
Queenie Havock
|
1947
|
Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in the innocuous MGM confection Cynthia. Taylor plays the...
|
Louise Bishop
|
1947
|
|
Elizabeth Van Doren
|
1946
|
MGM's notion of a "B" picture would be an "A" production at any other studio, and Blonde Fever is no exception. Philip Dorn...
|
Delilah Donay
|
1944
|
Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM...
|
Mrs. Anne Smith
|
1944
|
|
|
|
1943
|
Young Ideas is a deliberately "small" MGM feature designed as a trial balloon for up-and-coming director Jules Dassin. Hardly...
|
Jo Evans
|
1943
|
Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
|
Hyllary Jones
|
1943
|
In This Our Life is not a "for the ages" classic of the Golden Age of Cinema, but as a highly effective and entertaining...
|
|
1942
|
As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
|
Princess Centimillia
|
1942
|
A lively espionage drama that reunited the stars and director of the previous year's The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific...
|
Alberta Marlow
|
1942
|
The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
|
Sandra Kovac
|
1941
|
After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it...
|
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
|
1941
|
Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
|
|
1940
|
One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
|
|
1940
|
Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo...
|
Helen Flammarion
|
1939
|
|
|
Mrs. Mallebre
|
1938
|
|
Dottie Wingate
|
1938
|
|
|
Cynthia Holland
|
1938
|
A female reporter is faced with a tough decision in this romantic comedy. She is engaged to another reporter. Though they...
|
Kay McGowan
|
1938
|
Capitalizing on the success of MGM's Thin Man series, virtually every major studio of the 1930s came up with its own...
|
Lola Fraser
|
1938
|
|
|
Antoinette de Mauban
|
1937
|
Framed in a flashback related by doctor Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is in essence the story of a struggle between...
|
Madame Germaine De Laage
|
1937
|
Back in 1936 it was assumed that, once perfected, television would be a two-way device, enabling viewers to transmit as well...
|
Bobby Blake
|
1936
|
When widower Stephen Blake (Melvyn Douglas) and divorcee Edith Farnham (Mary Astor) are the only guests at a snowed-in...
|
Edith Farnham
|
1936
|
In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged...
|
Edith Cortright
|
1936
|
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan is based on a "Nurse Sarah Keats" mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt. The middle-aged protagonist...
|
Lillian Ash
|
1936
|
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the...
|
Marian Henshaw
|
1935
|
William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
|
Gladys Russell
|
1935
|
Cast in the title role Dinky is Jackie Cooper, who wasn't all that dinky by 1935. Mary Astor co-stars as Mrs. Daniels,...
|
Mrs. Daniels
|
1935
|
The Istanbul Express provides the setting for this crime drama that centers around a courier carrying the priceless Karenina...
|
Odette Mauclair
|
1935
|
Though usually a supporting player in Warner Bros' A pictures, Barton MacLane was permitted an occasional leading role in the...
|
Vida
|
1935
|
In this action film, Wallace Storm, ace race car driver, gets into real trouble when he is accused of killing his partner...
|
Patricia Sanford
|
1935
|
An Edgar Wallace yarn was the basis for the uncharacteristic Warner Bros. melodrama Return of the Terror. Hoping to escape...
|
Olga Morgan
|
1934
|
Two wealthy neighbors, who make no secret of despising one another, both claim that they're married to Bessie Foley...
|
Bessie Foley
|
1934
|
|
Jessica Wells
|
1934
|
Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
|
Mrs. Hettie Stream
|
1934
|
In this family drama, a happy marriage is threatened by suspicion and jealousy, and illicit affairs. The trouble begins when...
|
Charlotte
|
1934
|
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses. ~...
|
Letty Pace
|
1933
|
The Lady from Nowhere is manicurist Polly (Mary Astor) who is the wrong girl at the wrong place when a gangland murder...
|
Polly
|
1933
|
Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
|
Hilda Lake
|
1933
|
This well-wrought drama chronicles the rise and fall of a midwestern family dynasty from the mid 1800s through the Great...
|
Virginia
|
1933
|
The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this...
|
Ruth Wayburn
|
1933
|
Practically every member of the Warner Bros. stock company except Glenda Farrell shows up in the rowdy, raunchy pre-Code...
|
Arlene Dale
|
1933
|
Veteran stage and screen star George Arliss forsakes his biographical roles for domestic comedy in A Successful Calamity....
|
Emmie Wilton
|
1932
|
Red Dust was lensed almost entirely on MGM's back lot; even so, we are utterly convinced that the film takes place in...
|
Barbara Willis
|
1932
|
A remarkably ambitious endeavor from low-budget World Wide Studios, Those We Love was adapted by F. Hugh Herbert from a play...
|
May Ballard
|
1932
|
|
|
Follette Marsh
|
1932
|
Men of Chance refers to those well-dressed gentlemen who stake their fortunes upon the outcome of horse races....
|
Marthe Silk
|
1932
|
A pompous executive has a hard time admitting that his hard-working, devoted secretary is really the one pulling the strings...
|
Mary Linden
|
1931
|
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her...
|
Norma Selbee
|
1931
|
Talking pictures made a star out of veteran movie villain Louis Wolheim, perhaps because his voice revealed a heart and soul...
|
Kitty Marsden
|
1931
|
In this comedy drama, a young wife returns from a vacation abroad and learns that her sleazy husband is playing around with...
|
Nancy Gibson
|
1931
|
William A. Wellman's triangle melodrama "The Steel Highway" -- a title referring to the film's railroad setting -- was...
|
Lily
|
1931
|
A wimpy king is forced to take responsibility for his little North Sea island kingdom after his iron-fisted wife goes on a...
|
Princess Anne
|
1931
|
|
|
Julia Seton
|
1930
|
|
|
Mary Gray
|
1930
|
In this western adventure, set in California just after the Spanish-American War, a Mexican rancher becomes a populist...
|
Rosita Garcia
|
1930
|
Though he plays an Italian-American character in Ladies Love Brutes, George Bancroft refreshingly avoids the ethnic...
|
Mimi Howell
|
1930
|
Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
|
|
1929
|
Filmed silent, but outfitted with a Movietone musical score and sound effects, Woman From Hell was inspired by From Hell Came...
|
Dee Renaud
|
1929
|
Romance of the Underworld was adapted from a barnstorming stage piece by Paul Armstrong. Forced by circumstance into a life...
|
Judith Andrews
|
1929
|
In this drama, an unemployed young woman who must support her younger brother pays a visit to a gambler who wants her body....
|
Marjorie Ware
|
1929
|
|
|
Anna
|
1928
|
|
|
Princess Delatorre/Ellen Guthrie
|
1928
|
Dry Martini was wittily adapted from the droll novel by John Thomas. Wealthy American Willoughby Quimby (Albert Gran)...
|
Elizabeth Quimby
|
1928
|
Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Mary Astor tearfully breaks off her engagement with Lloyd Hughes, hoping to...
|
|
1928
|
Most of Dressed to Kill takes place at a swank nightclub which serves as an Underworld rendezvous. Heroine Jean (Mary Astor)...
|
Jeanne
|
1928
|
|
|
Dolly
|
1927
|
This tale of California's Spanish days is gorgeous fiction, from the sumptuous settings to the stars -- the leads are lovely,...
|
Elena
|
1927
|
|
|
Amy
|
1927
|
Racehorse movies were a dime a dozen in 1927, meaning that the few good ones tended to be lumped together with the bad. One...
|
|
1927
|
|
|
Anis bin Adham
|
1927
|
|
|
Sally Montgomery
|
1927
|
This drama was a hint that perhaps the Jazz Age was beginning to wind down; its characters overcome their wild, wicked ways...
|
|
1926
|
George Marion Sr. plays a carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a...
|
Mary
|
1926
|
Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
|
Adriona Della Varnese
|
1926
|
This sentimental romance was based on the stage play by Owen Davis. Ted Wayne (Lloyd Hughes) and Jennie Clayton (Mary Astor)...
|
Jennie Clayton
|
1926
|
The Scarlet Sinner was based on The Mand Who Played Fidele by Gerald Beaumont. Heroine Fidele Tridon (Mary Astor) has grown...
|
Fidele Ridon
|
1925
|
Douglas Fairbanks returns as the great Spanish swashbuckler in this sequel to The Mark of Zorro. Don Cesar de Vega...
|
Dolores de Muro
|
1925
|
While it seems extremely tame now, Clive Arden's novel was considered quite racy in its day. While doing relief work in...
|
Leonore Bewlay
|
1925
|
Paula (Fritzi Brunette), a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he...
|
Doris
|
1925
|
This silent drama, based on the novel by the Countess de Chambrun, had quite a few unusual twists. Amy and Matthew Dale...
|
Margo
|
1925
|
Grace Barrow (Hope Hampton) has become a cabaret dancer in New York, and when she hears her ailing mother needs money, she...
|
Alice Barrows
|
1924
|
John Barrymore is virtually the entire show as 18th-century British fashion plate Beau Brummel. Thanks to his sartorial...
|
Margery Avonley
|
1924
|
This Paramount drama was based on the novel Face, by Lucy Stone Terrill. It was a change of pace for light comedienne...
|
Helen Castle
|
1924
|
This comedy--based on Booth Tarkington's play, Magnolia--sports a wonderful cast. Southerner Tom Rumford (Cullen Landis) was...
|
Lucy
|
1924
|
Inez Laranotta (Anna Q. Nilsson) is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But...
|
Fay Bartholdi
|
1924
|
The story to this romantic satire was penned by William Elwell Oliver, the winner of a writing contest that Universal Studios...
|
Mary O'Mallory
|
1924
|
Reginald Denny seems to be doing a Harold Lloyd impersonation in this comedy, right down to the glasses, and maybe he was --...
|
Dolores Hicks
|
1924
|
This drama about Cuba's unsuccessful 1850 revolution was based on the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer. Andres Escobar...
|
Narcissa Escobar
|
1923
|
This well-cast light comedy was based on the stage play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Three clerks for the Kincaid...
|
|
1923
|
This fantasy tale was based on the stage play The Faun by Edward Knoblock, which starred William Faversham on Broadway....
|
Vivian Hope-Clarke
|
1923
|
When wealthy Rockwood dies, he wills his fortune to his four grown children, providing they're all married by a certain date....
|
|
1923
|
The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
|
|
1923
|
Glenn Hunter, who, with his shy, bashful persona would take off where Charles Ray left off, was the perfect starring choice...
|
Polly Crawford
|
1923
|
Moving Picture World sung the praises of this drama, adapted from the stage play by Adeline Leitzbach and Theodore Leibler...
|
Rose Randolph
|
1923
|
This fantasy tale uses the Salem witch hunts as its backdrop and was based on the play The Scarecrow by Percy Mackaye. Goody...
|
|
1923
|
Eugene O'Brien -- who was a better co-star for the likes of Norma Talmadge than he was a star in his own right -- has the...
|
|
1922
|
This tale of the Canadian logging industry is compromised by a confusing plot, a lack of action -- and a scene that shows a...
|
|
1922
|
|
|
|
1922
|
Harold, Lord Ingestre (Jack Mulhall) goes to India with his regiment. He is engaged to Lady Brenda Carlyon (Marguertie de la...
|
His daughter, Joan
|
1922
|
Esteemed stage actor George Arliss became the screen's unlikeliest star at the ripe age of 53 in 1921. But the odd-looking,...
|
|
1922
|
|
|
|
1921
|
|
|
|
1921
|