Cinematography: Ernest Haller

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Bette Davis · Joan Crawford · Victor Buono · Wesley Addy

Synopsis What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) follows the chilling tale of two aging sisters, former Hollywood stars, living in isolation. Jane, a once-famous child performer, cares for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche, a former movie star whose career eclipsed Jane's....

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Priscilla Lane · Humphrey Bogart · Gladys George

Synopsis The Roaring Twenties (1939) follows three World War I veterans—Eddie, George, and Lloyd—who return to America with dreams of prosperity. As Prohibition begins, their paths diverge: Eddie becomes a bootlegger, George a nightclub owner, and Lloyd a district attorney. Their...

Direction Victor Fleming · George Cukor · Sam Wood

Cast Vivien Leigh · Clark Gable · Olivia de Havilland · Leslie Howard

Synopsis Gone With the Wind (1939) is an epic historical romance set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, a strong-willed Southern belle, as she navigates love, loss, and survival....

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Henry Fonda · George Brent · Margaret Lindsay

Synopsis Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free spirited, rapacious Southern belle who is sure of herself and...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Crawford · Jack Carson · Ann Blyth · Zachary Scott

Synopsis A ditched wife and mother (Joan Crawford) is forced to become a waitress. She constructs an empire of eateries, only to be disappointed by her rotten daughter (Ann Blyth) and a ferret-faced new husband (Zachary Scott).

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Burt Lancaster · Virginia Mayo · Nick Cravat · Robert Douglas

Synopsis Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich 'The Hawk', but in the mountains, guerillas yet resist. Five years before our story, Ulrich stole away the pretty wife of young archer Dardo who, cynical rather than...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Lionel Atwill · Basil Rathbone

Synopsis The quintessential swashbuckler. Irsih doctor Peter Blood is wrongly sentenced to deportation and slavery to the Caribbean. There he amuses himself with insults at DE Havilland. He plans an escape and now seeking vengeance forms an alliance with the French...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Humphrey Bogart · Geraldine Fitzgerald

Synopsis The twenty-three years old wealthy sportswoman Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) has painful headaches and double-vision, and the family doctor, Dr. Parsons (Henry Travers), convinces her to go with her best friend Ann King (Geraldine Fitzgerald) to a consultation with a...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Gary Cooper · Julie London · Lee J. Cobb · Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get...

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Bette Davis · Claude Rains · Walter Abel · Richard Waring

Synopsis Whose face ravaged, grotesque is in the mirror? Surely it's not that of Fanny Skeffington, the prettiest woman in New York. Fanny always used her beauty to manipulate her way through life. She's encouraged dozens of suitors, even after her...

Direction Paul Henreid

Cast Bette Davis · Karl Malden · Peter Lawford · Phil Carey

Synopsis The twin sister of a callous wealthy woman murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman.

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Robert Ryan · Aldo Ray · Robert Keith · Vic Morrow

Synopsis In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each...

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Joan Crawford · Oscar Levant · John Garfield · Joan Chandler

Synopsis Helen Wright, a neurotic society woman, sets her sights on ambitious young violinist Paul Boray, who returns her love, but is undeterred from his music. She becomes his patroness, helping him to great success, but cannot abide being of secondary...

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast James Dean · Natalie Wood · Sal Mineo · Jim Backus

Synopsis Rebel Without a Cause (1955) follows Jim Stark, a troubled teenager, as he navigates the challenges of adolescence in a new town. Struggling with family dysfunction and societal pressures, Jim seeks connection and identity. He befriends Judy and Plato, two...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marlene Dietrich · George Raft · Alan Hale

Synopsis Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One night Hank and Johnny meet Fay Duval in a clip...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Bette Davis · Charles Boyer · Jeffrey Lynn · Barbara O'Neil

Synopsis Bette Davis stars as the lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy in the film version of Rachel Field's epic historical romance novel ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO. Charles Boyer is charming and ultimately heartbreaking as the debonair Duc de Praslin,...

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Ann Sheridan · Lew Ayres · Zachary Scott · Eve Arden

Synopsis Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Bette Davis · Glenn Ford · Dane Clark · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Kate Bosworth and her twin sister Patricia fall in love with Martha's Vineyard lighthouse inspector Bill Emerson. Patricia and Bill are married. To forget, Kate returns to painting. Bill goes to Chile; Kate and Patricia go sailing; Patricia is washed...

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre · Joan Lorring · George Coulouris

Synopsis Mr. Grodman was a respected superintendent at Scotland Yard until a mistake in an investigation caused the execution of an innocent man...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Louis Calhern · Noel Francis

Synopsis At a midwestern hotel, conniving bellhop Bert Harris has a finger in every pie. He promotes a job for glamorous Ann Roberts, but she does not immediately succumb to his charms. However, Bert soon enlists Ann as partner in his...