Screenplay: Walter Bullock

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Plot This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop...

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Louis Hayward · Joan Leslie · Virginia Field · Tom Conway

Plot Sheila kills her husband at the start of the film with a smoking gun. We don't know how or why. All we know is men are banging on her door...

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Alice Faye · Carmen Miranda · Phil Baker · Benny Goodman

Plot Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific....

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Mitzi Gaynor · David Wayne · Oscar Levant · Craig Hill

Plot This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference...

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Arturo de Córdova · Lucille Bremer · Turhan Bey · John Sutton

Plot Palmero, Sicilia, 1793. The Austrian emperor’s powerful army has nearly defeated the local rebellion. The head of the rebels admits that a younger man is needed to continue the fight...

Direction Ray McCarey

Cast George Montgomery · Mary Beth Hughes · Alan Mowbray · Robert Conway

Plot Rodeo rider Lank tries his hand at movie making. Spoiled established star Crystal throws tantrums, but after the rodeo she's easy for Lank to handle. It's the "Taming of the...

Direction Otto Brower

Cast Cesar Romero · Sheila Ryan · Robert Sterling · Chris-Pin Martin

Plot The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to...

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Lynn Bari · John Sutton · Dan Dailey · Alan Mowbray

Plot Marriage counselor (Sutton) advises his bored wife (Bari) to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman (Dailey).

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Mitzi Gaynor · Dale Robertson · Dennis Day · James Barton

Plot Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Carmen Miranda · Don Ameche · William Bendix · Vivian Blaine

Plot In 1922, novice composer Kenneth Harvey arrives in New York from Kansas, hoping to publish his concerto; he meets speakeasy owner Danny O'Mara, who hopes to put on a broadway...

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Betty Grable · Dale Robertson · Thelma Ritter · John Carroll

Plot Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable...

Direction Larry Elikann

Cast Connie Sellecca · David Dukes · Wendy Kilbourne · Jere Burns

Plot After a woman fervently wishes for another chance after a terrible tragedy, she is mysteriously granted one year of her life to be lived over.

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Betty Grable · Carmen Miranda · John Payne · Cesar Romero

Plot Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career...

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast George Brent · Virginia Mayo · Turhan Bey · Ann Dvorak

Plot Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah...