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- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGloria SwansonRobert AmesPurnell PrattThe trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMarjorie WhiteMolly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJohn BreedenLola LaneDeWitt JenningsLila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry. George buys a majority interest in the show, planning to fire Lila after she refuses to quit the show. But when Lila goes on in place of the temperamental star, she is a great success and George is able to sell the show back to the original investors at a profit.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardArch HeathStarsLaura La PlanteJoseph SchildkrautEmily FitzroyA mostly silent version of Edna Ferber's original novel, with some songs from the musical as a last-minute addition
- DirectorRay NazarroStarsKen CurtisJoan BartonGuy KibbeeReturning G.I. Curt Norton (Ken Curtis), owner of a radio station, finds his father Amos (Guy Kibbee) has allowed the station to run down and has squandered Curt's money in bad investments in war-surplus material. Eddie Jackson (Robert Kellard), who owns the rival station, is also attracted to Curt's sweetheart Jean White (Joan Barton). When Curt and the Hoosier Hotshots successfully stage an auction to raise money, Eddie hires Mimi Carston (Claudia Drake) to claim that Curt married her in France.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsGene AutrySmiley BurnetteJune StoreyFederal Agent Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog are sent to Mexico to prevent foreign powers from gaining control of Mexican oil refineries and fomenting revolution among the Mexican people. Gene falls in love with Senorita Dolores but finds he must leave for the island of Palermo, where her uncle, Don Diego, is being prevented from transporting his cattle to market by the foreign agents, who have co-opted Dolores' brother Andreo into joining them. While trying to load cattle by sea into a waiting cargo ship Gene and his men are attacked by Andreo and his revolutionaries, with fatal results.
- DirectorJoshua LoganStarsRossano BrazziMitzi GaynorJohn KerrOn a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
- DirectorSammy LeeStarsRaymond HackettMary DoranBrox Sisters
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsMae MurrayOrville CaldwellRod La RocqueGeorgine Mazulier, the daughter of a French furniture dealer, is exploited by her father and Snyder, an American hustler, to sell fake antiques to millionaires. Concerned by Georgine's fascination with Pedro Carrova, a gigolo, the Mazuliers take Georgine to the U.S., where they target "Kippered Kod" tycoon Wellington Wick as her prospective husband. Wellington falls in love with Georgine, but she remains loyal to Pedro. While visiting Palm Beach, Florida, she is outraged at the sight of Pedro with his lover, the wife of an elderly millionaire. The millionaire is equally outraged and attempts to shoot his faithless wife, but accidentally wounds Georgine. She then realizes that Wellington is a worthy suitor and consents to marry him.
- StarsFrancelia BillingtonAnne DrewThe president of the fraternity in the girls' college was very pretty, and her family was rich, but the reason why she was the most popular girl in college was not the possession of wealth or good looks, but because she was instinctively the protector of the friendless. There was one shy little country girl who regarded the college idol with mingled awe and admiration. She was timid and retiring, and her lot in college would have been a very lonely one if the fraternity's president had not taken pity on her. A firm friendship sprang up between the two. The college leader helped her protégé with her studies and even was instrumental in securing the girl's election to the fraternity. The country girl left college and married a rich man, who died a few years later, leaving her independently wealthy. The widow had many handsome jewels, but the one she prized most was a little gold pin, the emblem of her membership in the college fraternity. The pin was missing one day and the widow, thinking that she might have lost it in the street, telephoned to the police. Soon word came that the pin had been found and she hastened to the police station to claim it. The lost pin was not hers, but it was the emblem of the same college fraternity. The woman who had been arrested when she attempted to pawn it, stood nearby in the custody of a policeman, her face averted. The widow, anxious to know who the owner of the pin could be, stepped forward and gazed into the prisoner's face. Their eyes met and the wealthy woman recognized in the unfortunate the college favorite of years gone by, the fraternity president who had been her friend. Misfortune had come upon her. Her parents and fortune had been swept away, and she had failed in the battle of life. The ragged woman and the lady of fashion left the station together, and the "most popular girl in college" found a home and loving care with her former protégé. She was proud and did not want to accept any favors, but her protests were silenced by a loving kiss from her benefactress and a reminder that they were both sisters of the same fraternity and sworn to aid one another. And so the friendship which had begun in college ripened in after years into lasting love.
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsMagda SchneiderWolf Albach-RettyLeo SlezakA mistaken identity musical in which an American heiress and a Viennese journalist switch places so they can live different lives. Two men get connected with the supposed rich woman.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerMaureen O'HaraLaird CregarAn ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love/hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsBing CrosbyIngrid BergmanHenry TraversAt a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloGigi PerreauTwo goofballs try to run a beaten-down old amusement park.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJoe E. BrownWinnie LightnerGeorges CarpentierA man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
- StarsEddie LyonsBeth DarlingtonA young man wants to elope with his pretty girlfriend, but her father--the local police chief--won't let them leave town.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsGregory PeckVirginia MayoRobert BeattyDuring the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters.
- DirectorHugh FayStarsLloyd HamiltonDorothy SeastromWilliam DwyerA mother has high hopes of her son, who is born on a Southern farm, becoming a cotton king. He grows up to be a handy man on the plantation.
- DirectorLouis Feuillade
- DirectorGuy NewallStarsMargot GrahameElizabeth AllanWalter Piers
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloLee BowmanTwo sidewalk salesman enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsJane FrazeeFrank AlbertsonBarbara Jo AllenIn wartime 1944 in California, defense plant workers Rosalind "Rosie" Warren and her friend Vera Watson must share, on a rotating schedule, the town's last available rental room with Charlie Doran and Kelly Kennedy, who work the other shift at the plant. The landlady, Grandma Quill, also has her grandchildren, Buzz Prouty and Mabel Prouty, and her daughter Stella Prouty --- who is on the outs with her husband Clem --- living with her. Rosie doesn't tell her fiancé, Wayne Calhoun, about the living arrangements and is also plotting with Vera to re-unite the Proutys. Rosie pawns the engagement ring Wayne gave her for money for Clem and Stella. Rosie and Charlie fall in love and get their picture in the paper. Wayne huffily breaks the engagement and wants his ring returned.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsDorothy LamourJon HallMary AstorA Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallH.C. PotterStarsAdolphe MenjouAndrea LeedsThe Ritz BrothersMovie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. Hit song: "Love Walked In.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeDorothy LamourTwo vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
- DirectorWalter ReischStarsYvonne De CarloBrian DonlevyJean-Pierre AumontIn 1865, Russian Navy midshipman Rimsky-Korsakov is inspired by a romantic interlude with a cabaret dancer while on shore leave in Spanish Morocco and writes the symphonic suite Scheherazade.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- DirectorAkhtar HusseinStarsAnwar HussainNazir KashmiriNargisTwo teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsLarry ParksEvelyn KeyesWilliam DemarestThis movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a non-Jewish dancer, and marries her. In the end he chooses success on the stage.
- DirectorJohn EnglishStarsGene AutryChampionSheila RyanLoosely based on Frankie Laine's popular record with the same title, Gene protects his friend's claim from badguy Sam Brady.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsDick HaymesAudrey TotterBilly DanielsBeauregard Clemment, a New York nightclub crooner, inherits a broken-down Georgia showboat and decides to turn it into a nightclub. He falls in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of Thadeus Jackson, arch-enemy of Beau's late grandfather. Contains many, many songs and a parody of "Ten Nights in a Barroom" (a Blake Edwards touch), with music featuring the Bell Sisters.
- DirectorCarlo Ludovico BragagliaStarsGino BechiAdriana BenettiAroldo TieriThe traveling salesman, Mario Bianchi, casually reads a letter addressed to his namesake, in which a girl declares she wants to move away from her family, to Rome.
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsMargaret O'BrienAllen Martin Jr.Jimmy HuntBetty Foster (Margaret O'Brien), a high school student, has a crush on Bobby Evans (Allen Martin Jr.), who is more interested in sports than girls. Betty and her kid brother,Herbie (Jimmy Hunt), follow Bobby and Lucille Stewart (Elinor Donahue), Betty's competitor in the pursuit of Bobby. Betty's efforts to have Bobby crowned King of the Camp, and win his lover, almost ruin her father, Joe Foster (Arthur Space), financially.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBing CrosbyJane WymanAlexis SmithForeign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsJudy GarlandFred AstairePeter LawfordA nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsBetty GrableDan DaileyDavid WayneBetty Grable and Dan Dailey are a married song and dance team who cannot have children. The movie follows the travails as they try and adopt and keep the kids they adopt while performing on their TV show.
- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsRichard EganJan SterlingDan DuryeaA brave longshoreman lingers on after being gunned down by 3 racketeers, as a determined assistant D.A. searches hard for fearful witnesses against the men.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsKathryn GraysonMario LanzaDavid NivenA snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing. Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him how to sing opera, but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.
- StarsThe MGM Symphony OrchestraJohnny GreenJohn DehnerThis 1954 short film celebrates Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 30th anniversary with Johnny Green conducting The M-G-M Symphony Orchestra performing a medley of tunes from some of the studio's best-known musicals.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsMarlon BrandoJean SimmonsFrank SinatraIn New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodHugh HarmanRudolf IsingStarsRichard ArlenRoscoe AtesWilliam AustinIn Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsKathryn GraysonAva GardnerHoward KeelThe daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsHedy LamarrRobert WalkerJune AllysonA bellboy at a swanky New York hotel starts to ignore his girlfriend after meeting a beautiful European princess.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsRichard DixJean ArthurClaude KingBert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run hitter. In addition, he falls for the team owner's daughter, who McRae has designs on.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceFrank LloydStarsColleen MooreGary CooperEugenie BessererAll of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot's farmhouse in France. Her daughter Jeannine is curious about the young men fighting for England in World War I and their airplanes. Then one of the aviators is killed. His replacement is Captain Philip Blythe, who can't help but notice Jeannine: when he lands the first time, she is standing in the middle of his "runway." She makes a more favorable impression when he sees her later by the lilacs. When all of the young men depart on a mission, Blythe promises to return.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardW.S. Van DykeStarsJeanette MacDonaldNelson EddyFrank MorganIn order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerMax tries to scare a fortune teller while she gives Ko-Ko a card reading. Ko-Ko is haunted by evil spirits in the cartoon world and escapes to cause some mischief in Max's house, but faces the fortune teller's curse.
- DirectorWilliam C. McGannStarsEnrico Caruso Jr.Anita CampilloLuis AlberniIn France, opera star Enrico Baroni has tired of his mistress Pompom. After a performance, Enrico goes to a cabaret with his manager, Muldoni, and some friends. When Pompom arrives, Enrico leaves the cabaret with his servant, Fresco. Hearing music nearby, Enrico and Fresco discover a band of gypsies. Enrico is fascinated by what seems to be a carefree life and by Irma, a gypsy, who returns his interest. Sofía, Irma's mother, warns her to be careful of Enrico, but when Boris, to whom Irma has been promised since she was young, becomes jealous of Enrico's attentions, Irma insists that she will never marry Boris because she does not love him. Enrico decides to remain with the gypsies, but Fresco summons the police, claiming that Enrico has been kidnapped. Enrico returns to his old life, breaking Irma's heart. Then Sofía tells Irma that she is really the granddaughter of Count Molnar and was kidnapped by Sandor, Sofía's husband, when she was a child. With Sofía's help, Irma is reunited with the count and once again is called by her real name, Elvira. At first Irma rebels against the count's efforts to make her into a lady, but when she sees a picture of Enrico, she decides to make herself worthy of him. A few years later, some friends take Irma to hear Enrico sing. When they visit his dressing room, Enrico finds Irma familiar, but does not really recognize her. He is smitten, however, and visits the count's castle the next day. When Enrico flirts with Irma, telling her she is the only woman he has ever loved, Irma feels betrayed. Unexpectedly the gypsies camp near the castle and, at the same time, Pompom appears, begging Enrico to return to her. Wishing for revenge, Irma dresses as a gypsy again and tells Enrico's fortune. She tells him that once he abandoned a poor girl because he did not love her. Finally, Enrico realizes that Irma and Elvira are the same woman and announces that she will be at his side forever.
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsDon 'Red' BarryAlan CurtisFay McKenzieOn 16 November, 1941 at the La Dessa U. S. army post in the Philippines, a Japanese carrier ship off the coast transmits a coded message to the contraband radio of Nazi spies. The spies then stick the message, which states that a Tokyo battleship is approaching Pearl Harbor, to a bottle of German liquor called Kümmel. Just then, the womanizing private Steve "Lucky" Smith meets his fellow soldiers Bruce Gordon and "Portly" Porter in the Casa Marina bar, and Lucky and Steve both try to attract a beautiful woman, who soon informs them she is Portly's sister Marcia. Portly arranges a job for Marcia as the secretary to Andy L. Anderson, the owner of the bar. When a businessman named Littlefield slips into Marcia's booth and bothers her while reading the message on the bottle of Kümmel, Lucky defends her by attacking Littlefield, and Bruce and Portly join the fight. Captain Hudson disciplines the three by assigning them to find the spy's radio. Though Lucky is in charge of the mission, he soon returns to the bar to find Marcia. Bruce and Portly, meanwhile, pick up a coded radio transmission from a Japanese boat and follow the beam to the hideout of Littlefield and his two henchmen. A gunfight erupts during which Portly is killed and Littlefield escapes, and when Lucky later admits to the captain that he was not there, the captain court-martials him and promotes Bruce to corporal. Lucky quickly escapes from jail and soon after, Anderson, who is one of the spies, meets with Van Hoorten, another Nazi who is posing as a Dutch Indian. They discuss the success of their plan to stockpile ammunition and gas for the Japanese troops who plan to invade. Anderson agrees to kill Littlefield and arrange for the gas to be transported to their warehouse, and when Lucky turns to Anderson for help, believing the bar owner to be a friend, Anderson slyly tips him off to Littlefield's whereabouts. That night, Lucky attacks Littlefield and Anderson shoots him, then offers Lucky the job of transporting some "crude oil" to his warehouse. On the way, Bruce stops Lucky's truck and asks him to turn himself in that evening. At the warehouse, Lucky realizes that the cargo is not crude oil but gasoline, and when he and Marcia sneak into Van Hoorten's office that night, they find ammunition and a Nazi flag. Just then, Van Hoorten bursts in and attacks them, forcing Lucky to shoot him. Then Bruce, who has tracked Lucky to the warehouse, runs in just as the radio announces that Pearl Harbor has been bombed. Before the three can leave, Japanese planes land in the nearby field and the soldiers enter the office with Anderson. The three Americans run into the hills, where they find a radio and wire Captain Hudson for help. When the American troops arrive, Hudson spots another Japanese aircraft carrier in the bay. Understanding that the Japanese will soon outnumber them, Lucky courageously saves the Americans by flying the armed Japanese plane into the carrier in a suicide mission. Bruce receives a Distinguished Service Cross while Marcia collects the award on Lucky's behalf.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsBetty GrableVictor MatureJack OakieWith his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his father can't break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsBetty GrableCarmen MirandaJohn PayneBroadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
- DirectorHall BartlettStarsElroy 'Crazylegs' HirschBarbara HaleChester MorrisA convict in a medium-security prison is torn between his need to finish his sentence and get back to his wife and family, and his desire to escape the confines of prison.
- DirectorTom TerrissStarsCatherine CalvertCrane WilburFelix KrembsWhen the Civil War breaks out, Alan Kendrick, an army officer born in the South, stays in the army to fight for the Union, but his sweetheart Maryland sides with the South. She soon discovers that Alan was captured by Confederates in a battle near her home and is to be executed. Although he's fighting for her enemy, she can't bring herself to let him be killed and devises a plan to help him escape.
- DirectorLuther ReedStarsBebe DanielsJohn BolesBert WheelerCapt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
- DirectorJan FethkeKonrad TomStarsHelena GrossównaAleksander ZabczynskiAntoni FertnerA love story between Stefan, the nephew of a music teacher, and Helenka, the daughter of a wealthy cosmetics industry entrepreneur. Her father remembers the recipe for a new soap thanks to a catchy tune composed by Stefan.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsNino MartiniIda LupinoLeo CarrilloChivo, a singer who works in a movie theater providing live entertainment, is invited by music-loving Mexican bandit Braganza to join his band. Braganza also kidnaps people to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
- DirectorAubrey ScottoStarsMarion TalleyMichael BartlettNigel BruceAn eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsCarmencita JohnsonFreddie Burke FrederickEthel WalesDorothy enters the picture.
- DirectorFord BeebeRay TaylorStarsBuster CrabbeCarol HughesCharles MiddletonA ravaging plague has struck the Earth threatening no less than global extinction. This alien disease is believed to be the evil spawn of Ming, the merciless Emperor of Planet Mongo. The world's only hope now rests with Flash Gordon.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsJeanette MacDonaldAllan JonesWarren WilliamNina Maria Azara is the beautiful, alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers so they will reveal Napolean's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity--after she has fallen in love with him. Nina outwits her potential captors and returns to Spain, and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the two nations are now at war.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGordon MacRaeGloria GrahameGene NelsonIn Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
- DirectorWalt DisneyStarsWalt DisneyCarl W. StallingThe clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsDorothea WieckEvelyn VenableGuy StandingThe only filmed English version of Gregorio Martinez Sierra's classic Spanish play.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsRuth ChattertonFredric MarchFuller Mellish Jr.After years of abusing his wife, a ne'er-do-well husband disappears with their son--and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDoris DayDanny ThomasFrank LovejoyThe success and decline of songwriter Gus Kahn is portrayed, with his wife, Grace Kahn, sticking by him the whole time.
- DirectorFrederick De CordovaStarsRobert HuttonJoyce ReynoldsJanis PaigeJoy (Janis Paige) is used to getting male attention, while her step-sister, Jackie (Joyce Reynolds), stands on the sidelines. The pair, who have a strong bond, come home from college and meet the handsome Warren (Robert Hutton) at a dance. Despite initially being attracted to Jackie, those feelings are instantly forgotten when he meets Joy. The two sisters vie for his attention, and Jackie decides to undergo a makeover in order to gain his affections. Her makeover has surprising consequences.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsEleanor PowellJames StewartVirginia BruceOn leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerFilm shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.
- DirectorFrank ZamaconaStarsRamón VargasInva MulaAlessandro CorbelliDonizetti's charming comedy is a celebration of innocence, so what setting could be better than a small Italian-American community in the Napa Valley, circa 1915? In this ingenious update, the naive Nemorino believes that a love potion will win him Adina's heart. Blossoming from a shy Italian immigrant to a plucky entrepreneur, he captures both his sweetheart and the American dream over the course of this delightful opera buffa. Tenor Ramon Vargas superbly embodies the role of the lovesick Nemorino. The beautiful but aloof Adina is sung by soprano Inva Mula. Recorded Fall 2008, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco.
- DirectorHugo BallinFrank Hall CraneStarsMary GardenHamilton RevelleCrauford KentPaphnutius, a wealthy Alexandrian, is about to embrace the new faith of Christianity, but is persuaded by a friend to first see Thais, the most notable courtesan of her time. He falls in love with her, but is forced to kill a rival and conscience again urges him toward the new faith. He becomes a monk, but leaves the cloister to return to Alexandria to seek to convert Thais. In this he succeeds and she joins a nunnery. He saves her soul but loses his own peace of mind.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsAnton WalbrookSally GrayDerrick De MarneyDuring World War II, an American newswoman falls for a Polish piano virtuoso...who wants to go back and fight.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsKathryn GraysonHoward KeelAnn MillerAn ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.
- DirectorLéo JoannonStarsPierre FresnayFranca BettoiaAnne DoatHere's a railway station.Next to it,there's generally a town;and in a town,there is love!The train arrives. Mr.Andrieu is expecting his sardines and both his daughters,back from winter sports.
- StarsJames A. FitzPatrickThis travelogue emphasizes Copenhagen's harmonious residents and tone. It's a city where many bicycle to work. We see well-known landmarks and get a quick history of some of them, then visit the fish market and note the women's traditional dress. We learn of the city's name (merchants' harbor) and the importance of Bishop Absalon and King Christian IV, and we celebrate the bravery of the palace guard during the Nazi invasion, and finally conclude with a day and night visit to Tivoli Gardens, where the reputedly dour Danes actually have fun.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJulie AndrewsChristopher PlummerEleanor ParkerA young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
- DirectorDel LordStarsCharley ChaseIris MeredithBud JamisonCharley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsHarry LangdonGeneva MitchellBilly GilbertHarry and his wife move into a "modern," gimmick-laden house.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAlfred AbelOlga TschechowaPaul GraetzA juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
- DirectorCharles-Félix TavanoStarsAndré Gaudin
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsPriscilla LaneBetty FieldRichard Whorf"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play blues music. The dedication isn't paying off financially and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend gangster Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former 'real good friend' of Davis. But when Powell learns that Character is about to have a baby, he returns to her. Jigger tries to make Kay the band's singer and, after this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing but a nervous breakdown. Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him, and plans to take back up with Jigger, who knows better but just can't help himself. While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in that condition, and he gets in and drives the car over a cliff, leaving no survivors in the two-passenger crash. The band is back together at the end, still using boxcars as their transportation, but happy playing the blues.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierVictor FlemingJosef von SternbergStarsLuise RainerFernand GraveyMiliza KorjusIn 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from his clerical bank job because of his preoccupation with composing, he decides to follow his passion and form an orchestra. After some famed opera singers, including Carla Donner (Miliza Korjus), hear his music, they expose Johani's music to the masses, to royalty and to music publisher Julius Hofbauer (Hugh Herbert). As such, Johani becomes the toast of Vienna. With his new found musical fame, Johani's life, which includes his work in the European Revolutions, changes. He becomes torn for his love for his loving and faithful wife Poldi Vogelhuber (Luise Rainer) and his more emotionally passionate but somewhat destructive love for Carla Donner, who herself is involved with Count Anton Hohenfried (Lionel Atwill).
- DirectorGregory RatoffStarsIngrid BergmanLeslie HowardEdna BestA violinist's piano accompanist retires. He hears his daughter's piano teacher (Ingrid Bergman) play, asks her to play on his next international tour, and they fall in love.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsFred MacMurrayLynn BariCharles BickfordWWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckEdward ArnoldA penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsRed SkeltonEsther WilliamsBasil RathboneA contrived misunderstanding leads to the breakup of a songwriter and his fiancée. She returns to work as a gym teacher at an all-girls school, but a legal loophole allows the man to enroll as one of her students.
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsLily PonsJack OakieGene RaymondNikki Martin (Lily Pons), a Parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love, leaving her arranged husband to be at the altar. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome American musician, Windy McLean (Gene Raymond) and his band, the 'McLean Wildcats.' Windy immediately spites her, but Nikki falls in love with him and follows him to New York by stowing away on the ship his on. The ship's purser (Edgar Dearing) finds her hiding in Windy and the Wildcats room. She is locked up by authorities, and Windy and the band are fired. When the ship reaches New York, Nikki escapes off the ship and finds out the Wildcats apartment. They demand her to leave, fearing being implicated but she refuses. Claire (Lucille Ball), Windy's girlfriend shows up with Hammacher (Herman Bing), and offers the band a low-paying job at a roadhouse in another city. Anxious to depart, they accept. Nikki becomes the band's singer. Claire becomes jealous and reports her to the authorities, causing the band to flee again.
- DirectorOlof MolanderStarsKarin EkelundLauritz FalkAllan BohlinMax Kvarne is an international adventurer who stolen 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsBette DavisJohn GarfieldThe Andrews SistersTwo soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.