Cast: Dorothy Dandridge

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Sidney Poitier · Dorothy Dandridge · Sammy Davis Jr. · Pearl Bailey

Synopsis In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Harry Belafonte · Pearl Bailey · Joe Adams

Synopsis On leave to see his fiancée, Cindy Lou, trooper Joe falls for Carmen, a worker in a Jacksonville parachute factory who is stringing along prizefighter, Husky Miller.

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Sonja Henie · John Payne · Glenn Miller · Milton Berle

Synopsis When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.

Direction Robert Rossen

Cast James Mason · Joan Fontaine · Dorothy Dandridge · Joan Collins

Direction Bernard Vorhaus

Cast John Wayne · Ona Munson · Ray Middleton · Henry Stephenson

Synopsis Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the...

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Lex Barker · Virginia Huston · George Macready · Douglas Fowley

Synopsis Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.

Direction Hamilton MacFadden

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Betty Furness · Robert Armstrong · Raymond Walburn

Synopsis Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's...

Direction Laslo Benedek

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Trevor Howard · Edmund Purdom · Michael Hordern

Synopsis A jewel thief pulls off a big heist, stabs his partner in crime in the back, dumps his girlfriend and goes on the run with the loot. The ex-partner and the girlfriend team up to go after him.

Direction Norman Taurog

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

Direction John Berry

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Curd Jürgens · Jean Servais · Alex Cressan

Synopsis John Reinke, the Dutch captain of a slave ship, is carrying a live cargo of slaves from Africa to Cuba in the 1800s. He has his mistress and servant-slave, Aiche, , on the ship, and the ships doctor, Corot, has...

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Mary Martin · Dick Powell · Betty Hutton · Eddie Bracken

Synopsis To land a rich husband, golddigger Marjory Stuart goes to Trinidad posing as a debutante. Beach boy Pete promptly unmasks her, but offers to help her catch his enemy, yachtsman Alfred Monroe. Marjory's pal Bubbles turns out to be the...

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Hoagy Carmichael · Dorothy Dandridge

Synopsis Hoagy Carmichael sings "Lazybones".

Direction Terry Lee Coker

Cast Noeleen Comiskey · Steven Bush · Hayley-Marie Axe · Grace Blackman

Synopsis This is a tale of how the angel of life was confronted by the angel of death. Set in Auschwitz Birkenau, 1944.

Direction Phil Brown · Will Jason

Cast Harlem Globetrotters · Thomas Gomez · Dorothy Dandridge · Bill Walker

Synopsis Abe Saperstein, owner/manager of the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional basketball team, signs Billy Townsend, an All-American, to play with the "Globetrotters." Saperstein want Billy to finish school first and get his degree but, despite the good advice, Billy...

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Madeleine Carroll · Sterling Hayden · Flora Robson · Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by Adrian Ainsworth, descendant of many ancestors who have handled it...

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast James Mason · Dorothy Dandridge · Broderick Crawford · Stuart Whitman

Synopsis Danger and suspense sail the high seas in this nautical thriller that some commentators call uncommonly fierce for its time. James Mason portrays Capt. Edwin Rummill, eager to prove himself after being made a ship’s captain for the first time...

Direction Gerald Mayer

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Philip Hepburn · Harry Belafonte · Barbara Randolph

Synopsis Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

Direction Don Weis

Cast June Allyson · Van Johnson · Louis Calhern · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis A girl vocalist and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.

Direction John Peyser

Cast Peter Mark Richman · Dorothy Dandridge · James Coburn · Joe Mantell

Direction William Clemens

Cast Preston Foster · Albert Dekker · Patricia Morison · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis The police lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel Abbott may be intimately involved in the murder. It even gets...