Cast: Jean Dixon

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast William Powell · Carole Lombard · Gail Patrick · Alice Brady

Synopsis Director Gregory La Cava deftly balances satire, romance, and social comment in this 1936 classic, which echoes Frank Capra in its Depression-era subtext. The Bullocks are a well-heeled, harebrained Manhattan family genetically engineered for screwball collisions: father Alexander (Eugene Pallette,...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Henry Fonda · Barton MacLane · Jean Dixon

Synopsis Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once. Fonda plays an ex-convict who can't get a break on the "outside". He marries Sidney, who like her husband is one of...

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Claudette Colbert · Melvyn Douglas · Michael Bartlett · Raymond Walburn

Synopsis A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.

Direction James Whale

Cast Nancy Carroll · Frank Morgan · Paul Lukas · Gloria Stuart

Synopsis When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney--who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Dorothy Lamour · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to...

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Irene Dunne · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Alice Brady · Guy Kibbee

Synopsis A young stage star is at the prime of her career. She lives an intensely hectic life, chock full of promotional appearances and shallow, greedy family members. But all this begins to change when a young millionaire rescues her from...

Direction Hobart Henley

Cast Walter Huston · Claudette Colbert · Charles Ruggles · Patricia Deering

Synopsis Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Victor McLaglen · Binnie Barnes · Jean Dixon · William Hall

Synopsis The foreman of a blast furnace gets involved in a romantic triangle and stolen money.

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Edmund Lowe · Jean Dixon · Victor Varconi · Esther Ralston

Synopsis San Francisco private-eye T. N. Thompson (aka T.N.T., aka Mr. Dynamite), a reckless black-balled investigator who is given a police escort out of most towns, is hired by the owner of a casino to investigate the murder of a young...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Warner Baxter · Myrna Loy · Ian Hunter · Claire Trevor

Synopsis Ten years of married life beginning in 1925. Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.