Direction: Rouben Mamoulian

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Greta Garbo · John Gilbert · Ian Keith · Lewis Stone

Synopsis Young Christina ascends to the Swedish throne at age 5. While she is queen, Sweden becomes a dominant European power at the end of the Thirty Years War. Like England's Elizabeth I, Christina (Greta Garbo) is pressured into a politically...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Fredric March · Miriam Hopkins · Rose Hobart · Holmes Herbert

Synopsis Henry "Harry" Jekyll is a well respected member of London society. In his personal life, he is pre-engaged to Muriel Carew, the daughter of a brigadier general. In his professional life, he is a medical doctor, scientist and academician. He...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Gary Cooper · Sylvia Sidney · Paul Lukas · Wynne Gibson

Synopsis Nan, a racketeer's stepdaughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Despite Nan's prodding, The Kid has no ambitions about joining the rackets and making enough money to support Nan in the lifestyle she's accustomed to. Her...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Myrna Loy · Charles Ruggles

Synopsis Maurice Courtelin, a Parisian tailor (Maurice Chevalier), is owed a great sum of money by a viscount (Charles Ruggles). Stalling for time, the titled but penniless nobleman moves Maurice into the family chateau and passes him off as a baron....

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Basil Rathbone · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis In Madrid, the talented aristocratic military swordsman and rider Diego Vega returns to the Mexican California to reunite with his father, the Alcalde Don Alejandro Vega, and his mother. When he arrives in Los Angeles, he finds that his father...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Fred Astaire · Cyd Charisse · Janis Paige · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Fred Astaire took one of his final musical turns in this delightful 1957 comedy, a cold war update of the classic Ninotchka. Cyd Charisse, having previously wrapped her endless legs around Fred in The Band Wagon, plays the Greta Garbo...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · William Holden · Adolphe Menjou · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis Joe Bonaparte's father wants him to pursue his musical talent; but Joe wants to be a boxer. Persuading near-bankrupt manager Tom Moody to give him a chance, Joe quickly rises in his new profession. When he has second thoughts Moody's...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Anna Sten · Fredric March · Jane Baxter · C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Helen Morgan · Joan Peers · Fuller Mellish Jr. · Jack Cameron

Synopsis This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's footsteps.

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Brian Aherne · Lionel Atwill · Alison Skipworth

Synopsis Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. Persuaded half-reluctantly to pose for Richard, her physical charms (shown as fully as 1933 mores permitted) soon melt away...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Henry Fonda · Gene Tierney · Laird Cregar · Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Rita Hayworth · Alla Nazimova

Synopsis Tyrone Power stars as a famous bullfighter torn between the love of a noble woman, his wife (Linda Darnell), and the tempestuous "other woman" (Rita Hayworth). A technicolor remake of the 1922 classic with Valentino.

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger · Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Jennifer Jones · David Farrar · Cyril Cusack · Sybil Thorndike

Synopsis A re-editing of Gone to Earth (1950) after a disagreement and court case between director Michael Powell and producer David O. Selznick. Selznick's changes are mainly:- (1) Adding a prologue. (2) Adding scenes explaining things, often by putting labels or...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Mickey Rooney · Gloria DeHaven · Walter Huston · Frank Morgan

Synopsis This version of Eugene O’Neill’s beloved coming-of-age play Ah, Wilderness! boasts Harry Warren/Ralph Blane tunes as spirited as the 4th of July. The cast is headed by Mickey Rooney (who played the youngest brother in 1935’s Ah, Wilderness!) as a...

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...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Nino Martini · Ida Lupino · Leo Carrillo · Harold Huber

Synopsis Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires. Lots of songs including "Cielito lindo",...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Irene Dunne · Randolph Scott · Dorothy Lamour · Elizabeth Patterson

Synopsis The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Thelma Biracree · Constance Finkel · Betty MacDonald · Robert Ross

Synopsis Early Colour Film made by Eastman Kodak itself. Martha Graham's dance "The Flute of Krishna" is performed in front of the camera by students from the Eastman School of Music.