The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the...
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1955
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Lloyd Bacon wrapped up his lengthy directorial career with the innocuous comedy She Couldn't Say No. "She" is a young heiress...
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1952
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Excuse My Dust is one of the few Red Skelton musicals in which Skelton is not obliged to share screen space with the likes of...
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1951
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In this entry in the "Henry Latham" series, set during WW II, an independent young woman takes control of a flying school...
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Henry Latham
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1951
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Golden Girl is the life story (sort of) of legendary 19th-century American entertainer Lotta Crabtree. The daughter of a...
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1951
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Western aficionados tend to regard Short Grass as the best-ever directorial effort by Lesley Selander. Considerably longer...
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McKenna
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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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In this comedy, a local citizen, miffed by the mayor's new milk tax, buys his own cow. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1950
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In this entry in the "Henry Latham" comedy series, the parsimonious Henry protests the rising cost of meat and decides to...
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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Prof. Pettigrew
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1950
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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1949
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The second entry in Monogram's "Father" series was 1949's Leave It to Henry. Raymond Walburn returns as small-town blowhard...
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Henry Latham
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1949
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The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Raymond Walburn stars as...
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Henry Latham
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1949
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1948
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Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite...
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E.J. Waggleberry
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1947
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Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing...
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1946
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The 87-minute running time of Plainsman and the Lady was evidence aplenty that this was no mere Republic B western....
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1946
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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1946
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Breakfast in Hollywood was loosely based on the ABC radio program of the same name. Tom Breneman, the series' host, appears...
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1946
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1946
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In this musical, a chorus of convicts conspires to get a paroled crooner chucked back in the clink. Songs include: "Time...
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1945
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A snooty blue-blooded English family learns a bitter lesson about the realities of lower class living in this British comedy....
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Willie
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1945
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In this comedy, a PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin. Songs include: "Slap Polka", "Walk A Little Faster",...
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1945
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And The Angels Sing is an odd smorgasbord of musical-comedy and romance -- part screwball comedy, part backstage musical,...
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1944
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It took nerve for writer/director Preston Sturges to lampoon the whole concept of hero worship in the middle of World War...
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Mr. Noble
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1944
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Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and...
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Mr. Popham
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a pair of small-potatoes performers try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent...
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Professor
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1944
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Let's Face It is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the old Norma Mitchell/...
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1943
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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Mr. Cook
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1943
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In this Western drama, Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne...
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1943
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Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation...
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1943
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Man in the Trunk is a variation on the "Topper" theme, with Raymond Walburn carrying the weight of the film as a restless...
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Jim Cheevers
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1942
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The Lady Bodyguard of the title is pretty but somewhat physically frail A. C. Baker (Anne Shirley). An advertising...
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Avery Jamieson
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1942
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1941
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Top Rumson
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1941
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Universal's "Baby Sandy" series officially ended with Sandy Gets Her Man, but the infant star still had one picture left on...
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George Smith
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1941
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In this crime drama set on the seedy waterfront of San Francisco, a longshoreman studies in his spare time to become an...
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Admiral Andy Tracy
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1941
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Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his...
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H. Cyrus Sturtevant
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1941
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Jack Oakie is near the top of his form as Boley Bolenciecwcz, the best college football player to come down the pike in a...
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1941
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In this cornball musical comedy, a hillbilly gal and her uncle struggle to keep sly city slickers from getting their land. It...
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H.L. Montgomery, Sr.
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1941
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A tough, bitter fugitive's travels lead him to a grungy rundown oil town. There the transient is taken in by an oil-rigger...
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Wildcat Chalmers
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1940
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Mr. Maxford
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1940
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The title of Millionaires in Prison (which begs for the rejoinder "about time!") pertains to four individuals. Two of the...
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Bruce Vander
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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Mark Sherwood
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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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In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't...
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J. Hadden Quigley
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1939
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In his feature film debut, Glenn Ford plays a department-store clerk who saves up enough money to buy a small patch of land...
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Professor
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1939
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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1939
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The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean....
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1939
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1939
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The titular battle is the one that noisily rages between American legionnaires Big Ben Wheeler (Victor McLaglen) and Chesty...
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Homer C. Bundy
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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Start Cheering is Columbia Pictures' idea of a college musical: Practically everyone in the cast is past the age of 30....
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1938
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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Judge James G. Parkhouse Marshall
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1938
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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Doc Watterson
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1937
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Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie reached an early pinnacle with this romantic comedy co-starring Tyrone Power as a...
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Uncle Dornic
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1937
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Dr. Fothergill
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1937
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It Could Happen to You is one of those captivating "little" pictures whose reputation is built up via word of mouth....
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1937
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Harrington
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1937
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This third entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series may not have been the biggest or best, but thanks to a masterpiece of...
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1937
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Framed by the fast-paced world of horse racing, this romance centers upon the wealthy young owner of a racing stable who...
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Clint Evans
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1937
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In this romantic mystery, a defense attorney attempts to get his lovely client acquitted of murder charges. As he and the...
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The Senator
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1937
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Josef Von Sternberg, past directorial master of movie exotica, came down to earth with The King Steps Out, a major studio...
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Von Kempen
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1936
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Despite its title, things get pretty noisy in MGM's Absolute Quiet. Lionel Atwill heads the cast as reclusive financier G. A....
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Governor Pruden
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1936
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Hotel barber Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley), who's obsessed with newspaper stories about high-society celebrities, is dragooned...
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Peter Randolph
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1936
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After several light comedy roles, Rosalind Russell proved her salt as a dramatic film actress in this 1936 adaptation of...
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1936
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1936
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In this comedy, a model finds herself inadvertently embroiled in the theft of a society woman's valuable pearl necklace...
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Mr. Clifton
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1936
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Doc Brown
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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1936
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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1936
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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After her success in Lady for a Day, elderly character actress May Robson was starred in a number of features. She's...
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Willard
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1935
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One of the last Fox releases before the studio's merger with 20th Century, Redheads on Parade stars John Boles and Dixie Lee...
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Augustus Twill
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1935
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The marital strife of a newlywed couple is chronicled in this drama. The couple, and engineer and a former actress, have...
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Charlie
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1935
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Franklyn
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1935
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Judge Julius B. Clummerhorn
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1935
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Two of Hollywood's duller actors, Conrad Nagel and Florence Rice, star in this overly complicated melodrama from Columbia...
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Evans
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1935
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A crusading physician supervises his own life-threatening operation in this farfetched potboiler from MGM, which marked...
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Dr. Waverly
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1935
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In this comedy, a con artist gets elected to the chamber of commerce in his home town. He then goes there with three fellow...
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Giltedge
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1935
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A sharp satire of small-town politics, Thanks a Million stars Dick Powell as the leading man of a travelling musical show....
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Judge Culliman
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1935
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In this melodrama, set backstage at the theater, a fading, but still egotistical Hungarian star and his actress wife who has...
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Henry Morgan
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1934
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In this drama, a fighter's fiancee refuses to marry him until he can overcome his insane jealousy. He does and they marry....
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Phil
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1934
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1934
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Danglars
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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A sleazy lawyer is the focus of this courtroom drama. His favorite technique is to teach his female clients how to use their...
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Austin
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1934
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In this drama, a prominent society woman causes a scandal when she begins a torrid affair with the dashing lifeguard who...
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Hector Lee
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1930
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