Cast: Billie Burke

Direction John Ford

Cast Woody Strode · Jeffrey Hunter · Constance Towers · Billie Burke

Synopsis Sergeant Rutledge (1960) follows Braxton Rutledge, a respected Black cavalry sergeant accused of assaulting and murdering a white officer's daughter in 1880s Arizona. As his court-martial unfolds, flashbacks reveal Rutledge's loyalty and heroism within the 9th Cavalry, an all-Black regiment....

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Judy Garland · Frank Morgan · Ray Bolger · Bert Lahr

Synopsis In The Wizard of Oz (1939), young Dorothy Gale is swept away from her Kansas farm by a tornado to the magical Land of Oz. Desperate to return home, she follows the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, where...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marie Dressler · John Barrymore · Wallace Beery · Jean Harlow

Synopsis Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. Her husband Oliver is in failing health, and he is also worried because someone is trying to buy up the stock in his shipping business...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Margaret Sullavan · John Boles · Edna May Oliver · Billie Burke

Synopsis A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.

Direction William Keighley

Cast Bette Davis · Ann Sheridan · Monty Woolley · Elisabeth Fraser

Synopsis A pompous writer and critic forced to stay with a midwestern family during the winter thoroughly disrupts their well-ordered lives. Original play (1939) by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Paul Newman · Barbara Rush · Alexis Smith · Robert Vaughn

Synopsis Up and coming, young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations...

Direction John Huston

Cast Bette Davis · Olivia de Havilland · George Brent · Charles Coburn

Synopsis Selfish Stanley Timberlake abruptly breaks up with her fiancé and seduces her sister's husband, who runs away with her. After the wayward spouse gets divorced, he marries the wicked woman, but her lying, cheating ways soon drive him to suicide....

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Spencer Tracy · Elizabeth Taylor · Joan Bennett · Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis The comic trials and tribulations that beset a family, mostly the father, prior to their daughter's wedding day. Taylor and Tracy give wonderful performances and it's easy to understand why this was remade in 1991. The colorized version doesn't add...

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Oscar Levant · Jacques François

Synopsis The MGM reunion of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 10 years after their last RKO picture, happened by accident. The Barkleys of Broadway was meant to pair Astaire with Judy Garland as a follow-up to their 1948 hit Easter Parade....

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Janet Gaynor · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Paulette Goddard · Roland Young

Synopsis The Carletons make a living as card sharps and finding new suckers to mooch off of. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet a kind old woman named Miss...

Direction George Nichols Jr. · Wanda Tuchock

Cast Frances Dee · Billie Burke · Ginger Rogers · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis Virginia Radcliff, a remarkably unspoiled but naive rich-kid, finds herself at a swank girls' school where everything appears prim and proper, but the motto is essentially "Don't Get Caught." On a surreptitious field trip to the city (engineered by "Pony"),...

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Joan Crawford · Franchot Tone · Robert Young · Billie Burke

Synopsis Count Armalia believes that the luck of birth is all that separates the rich from the poor. To test his theory, he sends Anni, a singer in a dive, to a ritzy resort for two weeks. With fancy new clothes...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Spencer Tracy · Joan Bennett · Elizabeth Taylor · Don Taylor

Synopsis This sequel to the hugely popular FATHER OF THE BRIDE reunited the entire cast for another charming turn. Although Stanley Banks's (Spencer Tracy) is hoping for some peace and quiet now that his daughter, Kitten's (Elizabeth Taylor) been married off,...

Direction George Cukor

Cast John Barrymore · Katharine Hepburn · Billie Burke · David Manners

Synopsis After spending fifteen years in an asylum, Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. He finds that things at home are different than when he left them. His wife has divorced him and is already planning her...

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Rosalind Russell · John Boles · Billie Burke · Jane Darwell

Synopsis A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Colin Clive · Billie Burke · Helen Chandler

Synopsis At a party for Bright Young Things, a "treasure hunt" for attractive yet virtuous people nets Sir Christopher Strong, M.P., and Lady Cynthia Darrington, dashing aviatrix. Their acquaintance is innocent at first; but after he sees her in a spectacular...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

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

Synopsis 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), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Joan sets out to...

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Constance Bennett · Brian Aherne · Alan Mowbray · Billie Burke

Synopsis A cynical writer (Brian Aherne), unwittingly infiltrates a loony house of philanthropists. Mrs. Emily Kilbourne (Billie Burke) runs a household that, due to her charitable nature, is as much a loony-bin as happy home. When he joins the menage, Aherne...

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Constance Bennett · Cary Grant · Roland Young · Billie Burke

Synopsis Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend, bank president Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Frances Dee · Cedric Hardwicke · Billie Burke

Synopsis Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this...