Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she’s too young. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Alfred Hitchcock, Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) visits his relatives in Santa Rosa. Read More »
My Gal Sal (1942) Irving Cummings, Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, John Sutton
Chronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer Read More »
Warn That Man (1943) Lawrence Huntington, Gordon Harker, Raymond Lovell, Finlay Currie
During the war, Nazi agents devise a plan to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Read More »
Nobodys Darling (1943) Anthony Mann, Mary Lee, Louis Calhern, Gladys George
Teens of Hollywood parents board at an exclusive school and grapple with the usual teen issues while preparing to put on a show. Read More »
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) St. John Legh Clowes, Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers
John Blandish is worth $100 million. His heiress daughter is soon to be wed to Foster Harvey, who believes she’s a cold, unfeeling woman, despite loving her. Read More »
Main Street After Dark (1945) Edward L. Cahn, Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout
Ma Dibson, her son, daughter and daughter-in-law happily greet son Lefty as he is released from prison. Read More »
Gilda (1946) Charles Vidor, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. Read More »
Cry of the Werewolf (1944) Henry Levin, Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen
A young woman raised by gypsies hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to protect. Read More »
All the Kings Men (1949) Robert Rossen, Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to Kanoma County to cover the man. Read More »
Cluny Brown (1946) Ernst Lubitsch, Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. Read More »
See Here, Private Hargrove (1944) Wesley Ruggles, Robert Walker, Donna Reed, Keenan Wynn
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. Read More »
Congo Maisie (1940) H.C. Potter, Ann Sothern, John Carroll, Rita Johnson
In this adaptation of the novel “Congo Landing,” showgirl Maisie Ravier is left stranded in an African village. Read More »
Gentlemans Agreement (1947) Elia Kazan, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
Philip Green is a highly respected writer who is recruited by a national magazine to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. Read More »
The Eternal Return (1943) Jean Delannoy, Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat
Eternal Return (L’Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. Read More »