Screenplay: Fannie Hurst

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Lana Turner · John Gavin · Susan Kohner · Sandra Dee

Synopsis Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · John Boles · June Clyde · George Meeker

Synopsis A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Charles Boyer · Margaret Sullavan · Richard Carlson · Frank McHugh

Synopsis Pretty Rae Smith and handsome Walter Saxel meet, fall in love and make plans to marry. Unfortunately, their marriage plans get sabotaged when a jealous beau makes Rae miss the ceremony. The two meet many years later in New York,...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Claudette Colbert · Warren William · Rochelle Hudson · Ned Sparks

Synopsis Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea's husband died. Help comes in the form of Delilah Johnson, who agrees to work as Bea's housekeeper in exchange for a room for herself...

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 Gregory La Cava

Cast Ricardo Cortez · Irene Dunne · Anna Appel · Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis A brilliant young doctor (Cortez) grows away from his family and his community in his drive to succeed. When tragedy strikes his family, he sees where his obligations lie, but will it be too late?

Direction Joselito Rodríguez

Cast Pedro Infante · Emilia Guiú · Rita Montaner · Titina Romay

Synopsis Starring popular Mexican actor Pedro Infante, the drama Angelitos Negros concerns a racist Caucasian woman who learns, after giving birth to a baby that is not white, that the woman who she thought was her black nanny when she was...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Priscilla Lane · Rosemary Lane · Lola Lane · Gale Page

Synopsis Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Gaston Glass · Vera Gordon · Alma Rubens · Dore Davidson

Synopsis Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player. But as an adult, Leon finds that people want more...

Direction David Miller

Cast Susan Hayward · John Gavin · Vera Miles · Charles Drake

Synopsis Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Seena Owen · Matt Moore · J. Barney Sherry · Ethel Duray

Synopsis Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life. There...

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Kate Smith · Randolph Scott · Sally Blane · Charley Grapewin

Synopsis The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build...

Direction Joselito Rodríguez

Cast Manuel López Ochoa · Martha Rangel · Titina Romay · Juanita Moore

Direction Frances Marion

Cast Margaret Seddon · Lewis Sargent · Sigrid Holmquist · Eddie Phillips

Synopsis The widow Ma Birdsong is devoted to her two teenage children, Jimmy and Essie. They live on New York's Lower East Side, and against her mother's wishes, Essie gets a job as a theater usher. The girl becomes involved with...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Jean Hersholt · Lina Basquette · Ricardo Cortez · Rex Lease

Synopsis Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them.

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Marion Davies · Leslie Howard · Richard Bennett · Irene Rich

Synopsis John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Gloria Swanson · Lawrence Gray · Joseph W. Smiley · Charles Graham

Synopsis A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.

Direction William Keighley

Cast Claude Rains · Jeffrey Lynn · Eddie Albert · May Robson

Synopsis Adam Lemp and his four daughters (Ann, Thea, Kay, and Emma) find themselves in financial and emotional crises. Thea's husband Ben has promoted a Florida housing development to everyone in town, and when a hurricane wipes out the investments of...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Priscilla Lane · Rosemary Lane · Lola Lane · Gale Page

Synopsis In this sequel to Four Daughters, Adam Lemp and his daughters have gone on with life after the death of Mickey Borden...

Direction James Cruze

Cast Alice Joyce · Dolores Costello · Warner Baxter · ZaSu Pitts