Veteran film and Broadway star Miriam Hopkins appears as Gloria Davenport, a former movie queen who has taken her vows and...
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1969
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Faded Hollywood star Katharine Packard (Miriam Hopkins) lives a lonely, secluded life in a sprawling mansion, battling the...
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1968
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All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama....
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1966
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In Volume 21 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, the alien patriarch of a...
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1964
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On the night of his wedding in 1929, Harvey Kry (David Frankham) is surprised by an anonymous gift, a box with a single hole...
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1964
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Mrs. Lily Mortar
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1961
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Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat...
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Julia Hurstwood
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1952
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This last of several movie adaptations of Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat stars Cameron Mitchell as a murderous...
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Duchess
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1952
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A pair of top 20th Century Fox contractees were loaned to Paramount as stars of The Mating Season. Gene Tierney plays...
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Fran Carleton
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1951
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Henry James based his 1881 novella Washington Square on a real-life incident, wherein a young actor of his acquaintance...
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Lavinia Penniman
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1949
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Millie Drake
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1943
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In this crime drama, a remake of Forgotten Faces (1936), a convict busts out of prison to protect his daughter from her...
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Flo Melton
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1942
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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Julia Hayne
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1940
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The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna...
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Mrs. Leslie Carter
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1940
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When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was...
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Delia Lovell Ralston
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1939
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Wise Girl is a medium-level screwball comedy with faintly serious undertones. Miriam Hopkins plays an heiress whose millions...
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Susan Fletcher
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1937
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Director Anatole Litvak's first Hollywood film was a remake of his French success L'Equipage, itself based on a novel by...
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Mme. Helene Maury
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1937
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This early feminist tale was a box-office flop that was released after years of script doctoring. Producer Samuel Goldwyn...
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Virginia Travis
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1937
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Something of a precursor to 1947's A Double Life, Men Are Not Gods takes its title from a line in Othello -- aptly so, as...
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Ann Williams
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1936
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Martha Dobie
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1936
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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Mary Rutledge
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1935
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Now famous as the first feature film produced in the three-strip Technicolor process, Becky Sharp is also an enjoyable effort...
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Becky Sharp
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1935
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This romantic comedy-drama is set -- typical for producer Samuel Goldwyn at the time -- among the upper class. Joel McCrea...
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Phyllis Manning Lorrimore
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1935
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Dorothy Hunter
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1934
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Curly Flagg
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1934
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In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking...
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Lydia Darrow
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1934
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Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen....
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Gilda Farrell
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1933
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William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary was a notorious bestseller upon its publication in 1931, and while it was successful...
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Temple Drake
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1933
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Based on a novel by Phil (State Fair) Stong, The Stranger's Return is one of the most accomplished projects of director...
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Louise Storr
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1933
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Lily Vautier
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop for Paramount's The World and the Flesh. Marked for death by the Bolsheviks, a...
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Maria Yaskaya
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1932
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Emma Krull
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1932
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In this drama, a bandleader thinks that his young friend will be corrupted by his budding relationship with a taxi dancer....
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Gloria Bishop
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1932
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Princess Anna
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1931
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24 Hours is all it takes for tippling married man Jim Towner (Clive Brook) to go from social respectability to convict...
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Rosie Dugan
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1931
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This first sound version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic morality tale starred Fredric March as the kindly, philanthropic...
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Ivy Parsons
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1931
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Marion Lenox
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1930
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