Cast: Ernest Cossart

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Melvyn Douglas · Herbert Marshall · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Bored and neglected by her husband, the British nobleman Sir Frederick Barker, Maria angrily sets off to Paris without telling her husband. There she meets Anthony Halton, an American with whom she dines and visits the Parisian sights. But when...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Charles Boyer · Jennifer Jones · Peter Lawford · Helen Walker

Synopsis Czech author Adam Belinski has escaped from the Nazis, taking refuge at the country home of the rich, snobbish English Carmel family. The maid is Cluny Brown, who is also a bit of a plumber. Adam and Cluny become friends....

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Ann Richards · Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis During WWII, a British soldier has been writing love letters for a friend, but finds himself falling in love with the woman from afar. When his friend is killed, the letter writer tries to find out more about the woman,...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ronald Colman · Walter Huston · Muriel Angelus · Ida Lupino

Synopsis Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him.

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Luise Rainer · Frank Morgan

Synopsis At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Ginger Rogers · Dennis Morgan · James Craig · Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers), a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her. In 1940 "Kitty Foyle" won one Academy Award: best...

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Rita Hayworth · Lee Bowman · Janet Blair · Marc Platt

Synopsis A photographer for Life magazine comes to London to do a story on a local theater troupe which never missed a performance during World War II. Flashbacks also reveal the backstage love affair between star Rosalind Bruce and a British...

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Basil Rathbone · Boris Karloff · Barbara O'Neil · Ian Hunter

Synopsis In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he...

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Fredric March · Martha Scott · Beulah Bondi · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

Direction John Farrow

Cast Maureen O'Hara · Adolphe Menjou · Fay Bainter · Herbert Marshall

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Barbara Read · Nan Grey · Ray Milland

Synopsis The three Craig sisters, in Switzerland with their ten-years-divorced mother, run away to New York to prevent their father from marrying calculating socialite Donna Lyons. The overpowering vivacity of the Smart Girls (nominal ages 14-20) sweeps all before it, but...

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Freddie Bartholomew · Jimmy Lydon · Josephine Hutchinson

Synopsis A conservative English boarding school is the setting for this glimpse into a boy's life during the Victorian era. Based on Thomas Hughes' novel of 1857, this moving film adaptation features one of child actor Freddie Bartholomew's finest performances. As...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Andrea Leeds · George Murphy · Edgar Bergen

Synopsis An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship...

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Robert Taylor · Hedy Lamarr · Joseph Schildkraut · Gloria Franklin

Synopsis A party of yachting jet-setters visit French Saigon, where they meet lovely Manon deVargnes, a second-class citizen not allowed to leave the country due to her part-Oriental ancestry. When the others leave, playboy Bill Carey stays behind to woo Manon;...

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Akim Tamiroff · Lloyd Nolan · Mary Boland · Patricia Morison

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Bing Crosby · Joan Bennett · Lynne Overman · Mary Boland

Synopsis After a stunt where a plane hits the tree the singing son was sitting in, a hard-luck family of aspiring song writers gets to stay in a producer's house, trying to write a play for his haughty movie star mistress....

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Martha Raye · Bob Hope · Andy Devine · Alan Mowbray

Synopsis Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she...

Direction Ben Hecht · Charles MacArthur

Cast Noël Coward · Julie Haydon · Stanley Ridges · Martha Sleeper

Synopsis A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, and his ghost must wander restlessly unless someone sheds a tear for him.

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Herbert Marshall · Phillip Reed · Holmes Herbert

Synopsis Steven Gaye, a successful New York playwright has passed forty and thinks he has bid farewell to the world of romance. But he falls in love with his secretary, Linda Brown, and suddenly finds himself more madly in love than...

Direction Richard Whorf

Cast John Hodiak · Sylvia Sidney · Ann Richards · John Howard

Synopsis Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiancé Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with...