Screenplay: Frank Cavett

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast James Stewart · Charlton Heston · Betty Hutton · Cornel Wilde

Plot To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Bing Crosby · Barry Fitzgerald · Rise Stevens · Gene Lockhart

Plot A new priest shows up at the parish of a crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon. The new man, Father O'Malley, must ingratiate himself with both the old man and...

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Bette Davis · Nigel Bruce · Rhys Williams · Rosalind Ivan

Plot Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the...

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Susan Hayward · Lee Bowman · Marsha Hunt · Eddie Albert

Plot Angie Evans, fast-rising nightclub singer, interrupts her career to marry struggling songwriter Ken Conway. When Ken lucks into a career as chart-topping radio crooner, Angie is forced into idle luxury...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Robert Montgomery · Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Charles Butterworth

Plot Dyl leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dyl, Jeff keeps quiet about his own...

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Freddie Bartholomew · Jimmy Lydon · Josephine Hutchinson

Plot A conservative English boarding school is the setting for this glimpse into a boy's life during the Victorian era. Based on Thomas Hughes' novel of 1857, this moving film adaptation...

Direction Busby Berkeley · John Farrow

Cast Kay Francis · Ian Hunter · John Litel · Donald Crisp

Plot Eve Appleton, wife of small-town garage owner Bill Appleton, has theatrical ambitions. Bill gets into an argument with a visiting actor over her, kills him accidentally and is sent to...

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Margaret Lockwood · Will Fyffe · George Bancroft

Plot Story of the beginnings of the steam-powered engine and its use in the first steamship voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Bonita Granville · Jackie Cooper · George Bancroft

Plot Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance...