Soundtrack: Ray Heindorf

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Garland · James Mason · Jack Carson · Charles Bickford

Plot Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Lauren Bacall · Doris Day · Mary Beth Hughes

Plot As a boy, orphan and dropout Rick Martin finds his only outlet in music. Through chance-met black jazzman Art Hazzard, he develops into a great trumpeter...too great for jazz-hating Jack...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast John Garfield · Patricia Neal · Phyllis Thaxter · Juano Hernández

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Bette Davis · Franchot Tone · Margaret Lindsay · Alison Skipworth

Plot Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. Unaware that she is married to Gordon, he asks his...

Direction Ray Enright · Busby Berkeley

Cast Joan Blondell · Dick Powell · Ruby Keeler · ZaSu Pitts

Plot Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campaign against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. He comes to his relatives families and makes them members of his morale-boosting campaign. But...

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Donald Woods

Plot Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in...

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Robert Alda · Joan Leslie · Alexis Smith · Charles Coburn

Plot Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic relationships with singer Julie Adams, who is desperately in love with him, and aloof...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Priscilla Lane · Betty Field · Richard Whorf · Lloyd Nolan

Plot "Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powelll, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Al Jolson · Kay Francis · Dolores del Rio · Ricardo Cortez

Plot Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder...

Direction George Abbott · Stanley Donen

Cast Doris Day · John Raitt · Carol Haney · Eddie Foy Jr.

Plot Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Danny Thomas · Peggy Lee · Eduard Franz · Mildred Dunnock

Plot As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who had hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor David Golding...

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast James Garner · Edmond O'Brien · Andra Martin · Alan Hale Jr.

Plot Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his...

Direction Jack Webb

Cast Jack Webb · Janet Leigh · Edmond O'Brien · Peggy Lee

Plot Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a brilliantly evocative pre-credits prologue, wherein we see how WWI vet Pete Kelly (Webb)...

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Joan Crawford · Robert Young · Frank Lovejoy · Eve Arden

Plot Journalist Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for homecoming, although she's more interested in renewing her romance with an old flame who's now the college president. Their attempts at...

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Doris Day · Frank Sinatra · Gig Young · Ethel Barrymore

Plot When Alex enters the lives of the musical Tuttle family, each of the three daughters falls for him. He is charming, good looking and personable. Laurie and Alex seem made...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Joan Blondell · Eric Linden · Jobyna Howland · Ned Sparks

Plot Seventy-two hours in the life of Indiana man Bud who inherits money and heads for New York City where his cousin Gibbony introduces him to chorus girl Vida for whom...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Jack Carson · Janis Paige · Don DeFore · Doris Day

Plot A wife suspects her husband of having a roving eye. Her husband suspects the same about her. His business deals mean he has to cancel their anniversary vacation every year....

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Kirk Douglas · Eve Miller · Patrice Wymore · Edgar Buchanan

Plot In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Mario Lanza · Joan Fontaine · Vincent Price · Sara Montiel

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Doris Day · Danny Thomas · Frank Lovejoy · Patrice Wymore

Plot Danny Thomas and Doris Day star in this delightful musical portrait of the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. This film focuses on the enduring relationship between the composer...