Screenplay: Preston Sturges

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Joel McCrea · Veronica Lake · Robert Warwick · William Demarest

Plot Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. Much...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Henry Fonda · Charles Coburn · Eugene Pallette

Plot Barbara Stanwyck stars as Jean Herrington, a sly con artist aboard a transatlantic ocean liner who happens to run across Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), a snake expert returning from a...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Fred MacMurray · Beulah Bondi · Elizabeth Patterson

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Jean Arthur · Edward Arnold · Ray Milland · Luis Alberni

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Claudette Colbert · Joel McCrea · Mary Astor · Rudy Vallee

Plot Penniless Geraldine "Gerry" Jeffers (Claudette Colbert), knows how far her good looks can take her in the world. She loves her husband, Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) but doesn't like being...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Dick Powell · Ellen Drew · Raymond Walburn · Alexander Carr

Plot An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest....

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Eddie Bracken · Ella Raines · Raymond Walburn · William Demarest

Plot Discharged from the Marines for a hay fever condition, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) is too embarrassed to return home. Encouraged by some fellow soldiers to fabricate a story...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Eddie Bracken · Betty Hutton · Diana Lynn · William Demarest

Plot Preston Sturges directs THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, about Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) a party girl who wakes up one morning to find she's married and pregnant, but she cannot...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Brian Donlevy · Muriel Angelus · Akim Tamiroff · Allyn Joslyn

Plot Writer-director Preston Sturges first film tells of the rise and fall of Dan McGinty which begins when he endears himself to the political machine by voting 37 times in a...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Rex Harrison · Linda Darnell · Kurt Kreuger · Barbara Lawrence

Plot Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of infidelity. While conducting a symphony orchestra, he imagines three different ways of dealing with the situation. When the concert ends, he tries...

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Margaret Sullavan · James Stewart · Ray Milland · Grant Mitchell

Plot A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

Direction William Wyler

Cast Margaret Sullavan · Herbert Marshall · Frank Morgan · Reginald Owen

Plot A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated.

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

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

Plot 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...

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Ronald Colman · Basil Rathbone · Frances Dee · Ellen Drew

Plot In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. But there are traitors in Paris,...

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Spencer Tracy · Colleen Moore · Ralph Morgan · Helen Vinson

Plot A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Joel McCrea · Betty Field · Harry Carey · William Demarest

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Harold Lloyd · Jimmy Conlin · Raymond Walburn · Rudy Vallee

Plot Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But...

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Edward Arnold · Jean Arthur · Binnie Barnes · Cesar Romero

Plot The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Martha Raye · Bob Hope · Andy Devine · Alan Mowbray

Plot Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Betty Grable · Emory Parnell · Porter Hall · Rudy Vallee

Plot Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be...