Cast: Alla Nazimova

Direction Kent Jones

Cast Martin Scorsese · Elias Koteas · Roger Corman · Glen Gabbard

Synopsis Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios. Raised by his mother and his aunt, his films often included strong female characters who find themselves in difficult...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Claudette Colbert · Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Shirley Temple

Synopsis While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Norma Shearer · Robert Taylor · Conrad Veidt · Alla Nazimova

Synopsis An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape.

Direction Charles Bryant

Cast Mitchell Lewis · Alla Nazimova · Rose Dione · Earl Schenck

Synopsis Salome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. In return, he promises her the head of the prophet John the Baptist.

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Rita Hayworth · Alla Nazimova

Synopsis Tyrone Power stars as a famous bullfighter torn between the love of a noble woman, his wife (Linda Darnell), and the tempestuous "other woman" (Rita Hayworth). A technicolor remake of the 1922 classic with Valentino.

Direction Ray C. Smallwood

Cast Rudolph Valentino · Alla Nazimova · Rex Cherryman · Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis Unsophisticated law student forsakes his family and career when he falls passionately in love with a notorious Parisian courtesan. Screenwriter June Mathis updated the classic novel by Alexander Dumas.

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Lynn Bari · Akim Tamiroff · Francis Lederer · Alla Nazimova

Synopsis An ancient Inca rope bridge spanning a chasm in the Peruvian Andes collapses, sending five travelers to their deaths in the gorge below. A monk who was nearby, Father Juniper, decides to investigate the lives of those who died in...

Direction Douglas Shearer

Cast Clark Gable · Hedy Lamarr · Spencer Tracy · Norma Shearer

Synopsis MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer takes us for a behind the scenes look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. Uses Bitter Sweet (1940) (a Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy picture) and Comrade X (1940) to...

Direction Charles Bryant

Cast Alan Hale · Alla Nazimova · Nigel de Brulier · Elinor Oliver

Synopsis Based on the Henrik Ibsen play. Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and she lives in fear of her husband's finding out...

Direction Graeme Ferguson · Saul J. Turell

Cast Jean Acker · Bronco Billy Anderson · Agnes Ayres · John Barrymore

Synopsis A documentary of Hollywood’s first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

Direction Albert Capellani

Cast Alla Nazimova · Noah Beery · Charles Bryant · Reginald Denny

Synopsis Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, Mahlee of the Englishman and his Chinese mistress. Mahlee rejects her people and attempts to find a life for herself among the Europeans. But she...

Direction Ray C. Smallwood

Cast Alla Nazimova · Charles Bryant · William Irving · Victor Potel

Synopsis Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses of impoverished poet Owen Carey and becomes his anonymous benefactor. When Owen inherits a fortune...

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Ida Lupino · Paul Henreid · Nancy Coleman · Mary Boland

Synopsis It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry,...