Cast: Gail Patrick

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 Gregory La Cava

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Ginger Rogers · Adolphe Menjou · Andrea Leeds

Synopsis Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. She goes to live in a theatrical boarding house and finds her life caught up with those of...

Direction Julien Duvivier

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

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

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast Irene Dunne · Cary Grant · Randolph Scott · Gail Patrick

Synopsis Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca. The overjoyed Nick awkwardly tries to break the news gently to Bianca. But before he can do...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Marsha Hunt · William Lundigan · Charles Winninger · Gail Patrick

Synopsis A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Fredric March · Evelyn Venable · Guy Standing · Katharine Alexander

Synopsis Death (March) is bored and wonders why humans fear him so much. He takes on human form, pretending to be the handsome Prince Sirki, and becomes a guest of Italian nobleman, Duke Lambert (Standing). He bewilders most, except the lovely...

Direction Jack Conway

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Gail Patrick · Jack Carson

Synopsis Steve and Susan Ireland find nothing but trouble as they get ready to celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary. Susan catches Steve with his old girlfriend and mistakenly believes he is having an affair. So the shocked wife decides to get...

Direction Robert Youngson

Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant

Synopsis A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the Opera," "Dinner at Eight" and "Bonnie Scotland."

Direction Allan Dwan

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

Synopsis 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 catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in...

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Loretta Young · Ray Milland · Reginald Gardiner · Gail Patrick

Synopsis June Cameron has written a best seller about spinsters: women are men's equals and don't need them for fulfillment. Through a series of errors and misunderstandings, the press believes she's married Tim Sterling, a university instructor she's just met. Her...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Jack Benny · Ida Lupino · Richard Arlen · Gail Patrick

Synopsis Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an advertising man trying to hold on to his biggest client, a silver company run by Alan Townshend...

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Deanna Durbin · Herbert Marshall · Gail Patrick · Arthur Treacher

Synopsis A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she...

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Charles Ruggles · Lionel Atwill · Gail Patrick · Randolph Scott

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Randolph Scott · Esther Ralston · Jack La Rue · Buster Crabbe

Synopsis In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking...

Direction James Whale

Cast Warren William · Gail Patrick · Constance Moore · William Lundigan

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Joan Bennett · Claudette Colbert · Bing Crosby · Carole Lombard

Synopsis Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's The Devil Is a Woman (1935).

Direction Wilhelm Thiele

Cast Francis Lederer · Gail Patrick · Ann Rutherford · Edward Ashley

Synopsis The sister of a murdered model poses for the same artist to try to catch her killer.

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Jack Oakie · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Lyda Roberti

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · George Barbier · Gail Patrick

Synopsis Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does...

Direction George Nichols Jr.

Cast Richard Dix · Gail Patrick · Edward Ellis · Joan Fontaine

Synopsis The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.