1920's to 1950's Films
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- DirectorRay EnrightStarsDick PowellAnn SheridanGale PageProfessor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt Martha, he is surrounded by swing and after a few drinks, he is photographed hanging on the chandelier. He finds that he can only sell his rhapsody to Eddie, and Linda McKay puts lyrics to it. It is a big swing sensation and the partnership of Hardwick and McKay crank out the hits until Zelda breaks up the team. Zelda wants to sing the hot songs and have Hudson, the home of the hits, publish the music.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJudy HollidayAldo RayMadge KennedyFlorence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing, the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had, hoping that the marriage can be saved. Starring Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray as Florence and Chet.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsBette DavisAnn SheridanMonty WoolleyAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsDeborah KerrJohn KerrLeif EricksonA new senior at a boy"s prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach"s wife.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsAnn SheridanKent SmithBruce BennettA doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.
- DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others" wishes.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMillie PerkinsShelley WintersJoseph SchildkrautDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsRichard BurtonJean SimmonsVictor MatureIn the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmHilda BorgströmTore SvennbergOn New Year"s Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDan DaileyCyd CharisseThree soldiers meet ten years after their last meeting in New York, and find out that they have little in common now.
- DirectorHoward W. KochStarsBroderick CrawfordRalph MeekerReed HadleyGerry Barker finds a lost boy whose rich father is extorted into paying a ransom for his return but the boy accidentally dies and Gerry goes to prison.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsEdward G. RobinsonNina FochHugh MarloweAfter an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsLon ChaneyLupe VelezEstelle TaylorWhen an animal trapper in Indo-China finds that his daughter"s fiancé is being successfully seduced by her estranged mother, he takes appropriate action.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsGlenn FordRuth RomanDenise DarcelA young lawyer encounters problems while relocating his family.
- Short social guidance film teaches children that anger is a natural emotion and shows some of the negative reactions to it. It then teaches how to work out anger in positive, active ways without hurting others or making them angry.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsMarjorie MainPercy KilbrideRichard LongOn the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but a jealous local woman accuses him of having plagiarized his winning slogan.
- DirectorJosé FerrerStarsJosé FerrerAnton WalbrookViveca LindforsIn 1894 France, a Jewish officer in the French Army is falsely accused of spying for Germany.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsVictor MooreBeulah BondiFay BainterAn elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
- DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian GishA self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he"d stolen in a robbery.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsJoan CrawfordVan HeflinRaymond MasseyAfter being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsJoan CrawfordDiane BakerLeif EricksonAfter a 20-year asylum stay for a double ax murder, suspicion arises about Lucy Harbin"s behavior as she returns to her daughter Carol, who is engaged to marry Michael Fields. Soon, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repeating her past?
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJane WymanLew AyresCharles BickfordA kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsAndy GriffithMyron McCormickNick AdamsWill Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he"s driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsLoretta YoungFranchot ToneRicardo CortezAn abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.