Direction: Walter Lang

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Deborah Kerr · Yul Brynner · Rita Moreno · Martin Benson

Synopsis Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Robert Young · Maureen O'Hara · Clifton Webb · Richard Haydn

Synopsis Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Gig Young · Joan Blondell

Synopsis The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner, who's been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing the office. Department head Bunny Watson, who knows everything, needs...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast William Powell · Annabella · Helen Westley · Henry Stephenson

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Jeanne Crain · Dana Andrews · Dick Haymes · Vivian Blaine

Synopsis Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father's prize hog, Blue Boy. As the fair proceeds, so do the...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Ethel Merman · Dan Dailey · Donald O´Connor · Marilyn Monroe

Synopsis Marilyn Monroe and an all-star cast are featured in Irving Berlin's tuneful depiction of the trials and triumphs of a veteran vaudeville family. The talented Donahue family has plenty of love to get them through the hard times - that...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Frank Sinatra · Shirley MacLaine · Maurice Chevalier · Louis Jourdan

Synopsis 1896, Montmartre: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female charm to let the representatives of law enforcement look...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Clifton Webb · Jeanne Crain · Myrna Loy · Betty Lynn

Synopsis "Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families. Frank Gilbreth, Sr., was a pioneer in the...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Shirley Temple · Richard Greene · Anita Louise · Ian Hunter

Synopsis Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s popular children’s book and stage play, THE LITTLE PRINCESS features one of Shirley Temple’s most memorable performances and her first Technicolor appearance. Temple stars as Sara Crewe, a little rich girl who is enrolled in...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Danny Kaye · Gene Tierney · Corinne Calvet · Marcel Dalio

Synopsis Jack Martin (Danny Kaye), an American entertainer working cabarets on the French Riviera, does an impersonation of philandering industrialist Henri Duran (Kaye, again) so convincingly that even Duran's beautiful wife (Gene Tierney) is fooled by it. When Duran's business interests...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Betty Grable · Dan Dailey · Mona Freeman · Connie Marshall

Synopsis In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Shirley Temple · Spring Byington · Nigel Bruce · Eddie Collins

Synopsis A poignant story of a selfish young German girl's search for happiness, Blue Bird is a classic Shirley Temple film with a storybook Hansel and Gretel feel. This restored and remastered 1940 film opens with a purposely grainy, black and...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast James Stewart · Barbara Hale · James Gleason · Fred Clark

Synopsis Bill Lawrence wins a slew of prizes on a radio quiz program. His happiness is short-lived when he discovers he'll have to sell the prizes in order to pay the taxes on them.

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Alice Faye · Carmen Miranda · John Payne · Cesar Romero

Synopsis A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer,...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Carole Lombard · Preston Foster · Cesar Romero · Janet Beecher

Synopsis Kay Colby (Carole Lombard) is a Park Avenue beauty with two suitors: Bill Wadsworth (Cesar Romero), who she's engaged to, and Scott Miller (Preston Foster). To clear his way, Scott buys the oil company Bill works for and sends him...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Ethel Merman · Donald O´Connor · Vera-Ellen · George Sanders

Synopsis Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Susan Hayward · Rory Calhoun · David Wayne · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes in Lisbon,...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Clark Gable · Carroll Baker · Lilli Palmer · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis Russ Ward, after 30 years of producing Broadway plays, is ready to quit. His secretary, Ellie Brown, on being given notice, tells him she loves him. Russ proceeds to turn this into a hit play starring Ellie and romance her...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Robert Agnew · Pauline Garon · Ben Turpin · Rex Lease

Synopsis Bob and Jim start out at college as rivals, but soon become great friends. When Bob takes pretty Vivian Saunders to the prom, Jim is disappointed--he wanted to take her--but decides to make the best of it. However, when Bob...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Dan Dailey · Anne Baxter · Anne Revere · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent...