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Gay Night
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1953
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Though no longer employed by Universal in 1949, pert Peggy Ryan continued to show up in movie musicals for a variety of...
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Eileen Rogan
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1949
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Whenever Monogram wanted to get prestige bookings, the studio released its product through its "class" subsidiary Allied...
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Sally Mullin
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1949
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Sheila
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1945
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Judy Watkin
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1945
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In 1912, John Bunny and Flora Finch starred in the one-reel farce The New Secretary, wherein Bunny's wife hires a homely...
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Doris Mann
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1945
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Jack Oakie and Peggy Ryan head the cast of the Universal "B plus" musical On Stage Everybody. As indicated by the title, this...
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Molly Sullivan
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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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Patty
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1945
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In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more...
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Sally McGuire
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1944
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A musical comedy star whose career is just starting to take off returns home from military school. En route, he meets a...
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Peggy
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1944
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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1944
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The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly...
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Patsy Monahan
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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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At MGM, the studio's youth musicals were more rural than urban -- find a barn, get some friends together, and hey kids, let's...
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Trudy Costello
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1944
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Drama students rebel in this musical set in a tiny drama school. The trouble begins when the students begin complaining to...
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Peggy
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1943
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In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help...
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Jan Warren
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1943
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In this WW II-era drama, an over-ambitious beauty contestant's single-minded pursuit of movie stardom causes her to step...
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1942
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There's plenty cookin' in this brisk, breezy Andrews Sisters vehicle. The plot, such as it is, concerns the efforts by a...
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1942
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A bit higher-budgeted than most of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Get Hep to Love runs a full 79 mintues rather than the...
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Betty Blake
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1942
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By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home....
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Dusty
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1942
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The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a...
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1942
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1942
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14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular...
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Myrtle
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1942
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he...
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1939
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It matters not at all that the famed "wrong way" flight of aviator Douglas Corrigan, who in 1938 tried to fly from New York...
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1939
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1938
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In this comedy drama, a newspaper report discovers that a popular religious cult is really a scam. Unbeknownst to him, his...
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1937
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In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story...
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1937
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