Cast: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Charles Boyer · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · Ginger Rogers

Plot A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters

Plot After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Plot Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Helen Walker · June Havoc · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Plot Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a...

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Busby Berkeley

Cast Ethel Waters · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Lena Horne · Louis Armstrong

Plot In this musical, Little Joe, an inveterate gambler, promises his wife Petunia he'll reform and confess his sins at church, but he slips out the side door to play craps...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Joan Blondell · Roland Young · Carole Landis · Billie Burke

Plot Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Joan Blondell, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis),...

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Jack Benny · Priscilla Lane · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Edmund Gwenn

Plot Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's...

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Jack Benny · Dorothy Lamour · Edward Arnold · Binnie Barnes

Plot Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger...

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast Bing Crosby · Mary Martin · Brian Donlevy · Carolyn Lee

Plot Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player,...

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Gene Raymond · Henry Hull · Frances Drake · June Clayworth

Plot A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Walter Winchell · Ben Bernie · Alice Faye · Patsy Kelly

Plot Built around the publicity "feud" between newspaper-radio-gossip spreader Walter Winchell and band leader Ben Bernie, a radio star, Alice Huntley (Alice Faye), who does an advice-and-inspiration program, helps a mike-shy...

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Jack Benny · Ellen Drew · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Andy Devine

Plot Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on...

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Eleanor Powell · Robert Young · George Burns · Gracie Allen

Plot Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason's fans for Mason and brought to...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Claire Trevor · Sally Blane · Douglas Fowley · Fredi Washington

Plot A newspaper woman believes she has a Scoop when she finds a 'Quadroon-Mulatto' woman who is thought by all to be the mother of a 'White' child.

Direction Fred Smith · Roy E. Larsen

Cast Fred Allen · Jackson Beck · Bob Hope · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Plot To answer the title question, eighty-two of every 100 Americans were in 1947, according to the C.E. Hooper survey (the forerunner of the Neilsens)...listening to network radio, that is. Performers,...

Direction Harold D. Schuster

Cast Glenda Farrell · Otto Kruger · Herbert Mundin · Charles D. Brown

Plot A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast George Murphy · Ginny Simms · Charles Winninger · Gloria DeHaven

Plot Broadway producer Jonnie Demming courts big-name talent for his upcoming musical show, oblivious to the talent all around him, in his family and friends. When Jonnie finally lands Hollywood star...

Direction William Keighley · Marc Connelly

Cast Rex Ingram · Oscar Polk · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Frank H. Wilson

Plot God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Bob Hope · Shirley Ross · Charles Butterworth · Otto Kruger

Plot Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is...

Direction Frederick de Cordova · Ralph Levy · Norman Abbott · Seymour Berns

Cast Jack Benny · Mary Livingstone · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Phil Harris

Plot The Jack Benny Program evolved from a variety show blending sketch comedy and musical interludes into the situation comedy form we know even now, crafting particular situations and scenarios from...