Cast: Florence Bates

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Ann Sothern · Linda Darnell · Paul Douglas

Synopsis Three wives in spats with their husbands receive a note from a former friend that she has run off with one of their spouses. Trapped on a boat for a day trip, the ladies recall the faults in their marriages...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Ethel Barrymore · Lillian Gish

Synopsis Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a young girl named Jennie...

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 Stanley Donen · Gene Kelly

Cast Gene Kelly · Frank Sinatra · Betty Garrett · Ann Miller

Synopsis Three sailors -Gabey, Chip, and Ozzie- are very excited about getting a 24-hour leave and spending it in New York, New York - a wonderful town! They are especially concerned with the female inhabitants of the city, and each finds...

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Sydney Greenstreet · Zachary Scott · Faye Emerson · Peter Lorre

Synopsis A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, to learn more about...

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 Anthony Mann

Cast Dick Powell · Paula Raymond · Adolphe Menjou · Marshall Thompson

Synopsis A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Michael Rennie · Debra Paget · Robert Newton · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced to ten years as a galley slave. There he meets Javert, an obsessive policeman who was himself born to convict parents. After his release, Valjean...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Paulette Goddard · Hurd Hatfield · Francis Lederer · Burgess Meredith

Synopsis Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame...

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 H.C. Potter

Cast Cary Grant · Laraine Day · Charles Bickford · Gladys Cooper

Synopsis Joe Adams takes on the identity of a dead gangster in order to avoid the draft. Adams plans to use a war relief charity to get his gambling operation up and running, until he falls in love with Dorothy Bryant...

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Charles Laughton · Jon Hall · Peggy Drake · Victor Francen

Synopsis After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family...

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Boris Karloff · Fay Bainter

Synopsis Walter Mitty, a daydreaming pulp-fiction writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes true when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book....

Direction John Brahm

Cast George Montgomery · Nancy Guild · Conrad Janis · Roy Roberts

Synopsis Philip Marlowe gets involved when limp-wristed and snidely Leslie Murdock steals a rare doubloon from his mother to give to a newsreel photographer in exchange for film that is being used for blackmail purposes. Marlowe's involvement has him encounter a...

Direction James V. Kern

Cast Robert Young · Betsy Drake · John Sutton · Florence Bates

Synopsis In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad...

Direction Albert Lewin

Cast George Sanders · Herbert Marshall · Doris Dudley · Eric Blore

Synopsis Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human...

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 Sam Wood

Cast Gary Cooper · Ingrid Bergman · Flora Robson · Jerry Austin

Synopsis On the death of her mother, the vivacious Clio Dulaine returns from Paris to her childhood home in New Orleans to seek revenge for the humiliation her mother suffered there from her father's wife's family. She also plans to marry...

Direction David Butler

Cast Doris Day · Gene Nelson · S.Z. Sakall · Billy De Wolfe

Synopsis Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is...

Direction Charles Martin

Cast Laraine Day · Kirk Douglas · Keenan Wynn · Helen Walker

Synopsis A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract,...