My Favorite Movies
I have always loved (from a child watching on TV) films of the 30's, 40's, and 50's primarily. My favorite actor is James Mason and favorite actress Bette Davis.
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- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsBette DavisCharles BoyerJeffrey LynnA duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsMyrna LoyTyrone PowerGeorge BrentIn India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsTyrone PowerGene TierneyJohn PayneAn adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsRonald ColmanGreer GarsonPhilip DornAn amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantJoan FontaineCedric HardwickeA shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsMichèle MorganPaul HenreidThomas MitchellAn RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers reach Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest is injured; his wounds need treating and he must stay hidden. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsEric PortmanEdana RomneyBarbara MullenA man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.A wealthy young woman dates a mysterious man who is obsessed with the past. He begins to believe that she is the reincarnation of Lucrezia Borgia and holds a fancy dress ball in her honor. When murder takes place during the occasion, he is the suspect but does not care if he dies when she marries another man.
- DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJames MasonRobert NewtonCyril CusackA wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonEdward ArnoldA widowed matriarch reminisces about her family fortunes, including her romance with a financier/mine owner.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsVan HeflinLana TurnerDonna ReedA young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtBusby BerkeleyStarsJane WymanCharles LaughtonJoan BlondellLouise Mason is a young widow who fills her empty life with the task of becoming a children's nurse. As the years pass, and the widow tries to find her own place in life, her young charges, the children of various employers, grow and soon find themselves ready to face the world. When it seems that she will be alone, the nurse finds that her 'children' have ideas of their own in regards to helping their beloved mentor.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsAnne BaxterRichard ConteAnn SothernA telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may have committed murder.
- DirectorHenry HathawayHoward HawksHenry KingStarsFred AllenAnne BaxterJeanne CrainJohn Steinbeck introduces a quintet of five of O. Henry's most celebrated stories from his New York Period (1902-1910) in this anthology film.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsJoan FontaineLouis JourdanMady ChristiansA pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsOrson WellesJoan FontaineMargaret O'BrienAfter a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsPriscilla LaneRobert CummingsOtto KrugerA young man accused of sabotage goes on the run to prove his innocence.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsTyrone PowerGene TierneyGeorge SandersCheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsLoretta YoungDon AmecheKent TaylorHalf-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
- DirectorKenneth MacKennaStarsSally EilersNorman FosterRalph MorganBarnes Ritchie, a businessman for his uncle's steel firm, prides himself on being a sworn bachelor, but in reality desires to marry someone with traditional values. Barnes and Jeanie Satterlee, a sophisticated businesswoman who runs an employment agency, meet in the lobby of a New York office building when Barnes accidentally steps on her lipstick, and they soon begin dating. As Barnes makes plans to attend a New Year's Eve party at his uncle Gordon's house with Jeanie and her younger naive sister Honey, Gordon, a philanderer, warns him about Jeanie, whom he believes to be a manipulative and materialistic girl. During the party, Gordon is attracted to Jeanie. Later, as she waits for Barnes before going to dinner, Gordon shows up in his stead and makes excuses for Barnes's absence. She at first refuses an expensive chinchilla coat that he offers her, but weakens when she tries it on and finally accepts it. When Barnes arrives at his uncle's home that night, he is angered upon learning that Jeanie accepted the coat, as she had earlier refused his attempt to replace her broken lipstick, and he now thinks she has proven his uncle's low opinion of her. Later, Barnes arrives drunk at the Satterlees' home in search of Jeanie and finds Honey, instead. Jeanie, who has decided to return the coat, learns that the two have married, and she begins to date Gordon, but admits that she does not love him. They marry when Gordon convinces her that mutual fondness is the sanest justification for marriage, and that she was made for the kind of luxury that he can offer her. At a Paris racetrack on their honeymoon, Gordon shows himself to be an unfaithful husband by pursuing other women. When they return to New York, Jeanie learns that Honey is pregnant and that Barnes has left Gordon's steel firm for a job in the jungles of South America. Jeanie herself would like to have a child, but Gordon is adamantly opposed to the idea. Jeanie gets a phone call from Honey's doctor and rushes to the hospital where Honey is dying after having given birth to a son. Honey admits to Jeanie that she seduced Barnes when he was looking for sympathy, and Jeanie promises to care for Honey's child. Barnes returns from South America to visit his son Bill, but seeing how attached Jeanie has become to the baby, he lets her keep him. Realizing that Gordon is unfaithful, Jeanie ignores his escapades, but when exotic dancer Carla Monterez, one of his mistresses, insists on performing at a party they give, Jeanie is humiliated. After handling the situation diplomatically, Jeanie asks Gordon for a divorce. Suspecting that she loves Barnes, Gordon vows to ruin him should she insist on the divorce. Gordon's other mistress, Joan Street, the Ritchies' young maid, is also greatly upset by Gordon's affair with Carla, and when he refuses to go away with her, she pulls a gun on him as they argue. Gordon dies from a heart attack before she fires, however, and Jeanie has Barnes sneak Joan out of the house. Sometime later, a reunited Jeanie and Barnes drive with Bill and their new baby.A poor secretary marries a wealthy man to have all the lovely clothes and servants she desires as his wife. In so doing, she abandons her fiancee who marries her sister. Soon the marriage is a disaster. She finds her husband is openly cheating on her with a dancer and an actress. She is deeply humiliated and cannot avoid the scandal. When he commits the ultimate shocking sin by an intimate relationship with his niece, she plans to divorce him. Her fiancee Barnes, comes back into her life when her sister dies in childbirth, and a shocking murder ensues. An interesting melodrama with many facets. Sally Eilers is great as the star, and Ralph Morgan, the decadent husband.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsTroy DonahueSuzanne PleshetteRossano BrazziUnder fire for giving a student her copy of a romance novel, Prudence resigns from her teaching position and sails for Italy.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsJennifer JonesCharles BickfordWilliam Eythe14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.