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A Farewell to Arms (1932) Frank Borzage, Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou
A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. Read More »
The White Sister (1933) Victor Fleming, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lewis Stone
Angela, the daughter of Prince Chiaromonte, is set to marry dull banker Ernesto Traversi Read More »
The Son-Daughter (1932) Clarence Brown, Helen Hayes, Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone
A large group of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco is clandestinely donating whatever money Read More »
Herbie Rides Again (1974) Robert Stevenson, Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers
Alonzo Hawk is a mean-spirited property developer who has bought several blocks Read More »
Night Flight (1933) Clarence Brown, John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable
Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there’s only one way to get the medicine Read More »
Anastasia (1956) Anatole Litvak, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute Read More »
Murder with Mirrors (1985) Dick Lowry, Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills
Christian Gilbranson, Miss Marple’s lawyer, persuades her to visit the baronial estate of his step-mother Read More »
Arrowsmith (1931) John Ford, Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett
Based on a Sinclair Lewis novel “Martin Arrowsmith”. A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine. Read More »
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975) Robert Stevenson, Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Derek Nimmo, Family, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Lord Southmere escapes from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious “Lotus X”, and is captured by Chinese spies who have been instructed to retrieve the microfilm from him. Read More »
Another Language (1933) Edward H. Griffith, Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery, Louise Closser Hale, Drama
Given the usual pedestal upon which mothers were placed by MGM head Louis Mayer, it’s all the more amazing that Mayer gave the go-ahead for Another Language. Louise Closser Hale plays a domineering matriarch who controls the lives of her grown, married sons, using a fabricated heart condition to keep them in line. Helen Hayes marries youngest son Robert Montgomery, only to sit by in mute horror as Mother exerts her authority over her timorous offspring at a weekly family get-together. At the end, only Hayes and Montgomery’s nephew John Beal have the courage to break the apron strings, but not without the formidable opposition of Monster Mom. Based on the Broadway play by Rose Franken, Another Language represented the screen debut of Margaret Hamilton, recreating the supporting role she’d played on stage.
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