A young woman at a girl’s school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father Read More »
Musical
Rosalie (1937) W.S. Van Dyke, Nelson Eddy, Eleanor Powell, Frank Morgan, Drama, Musical
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom. Read More »
I Dood It (1943) Vincente Minnelli, Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Thriller
Constance Shaw is a dance star on Broadway, Joseph Rivington Renolds is a keen fan of her. Read More »
Porgy and Bess (1959) Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Drama, Musical, Romance
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina Read More »
Stage Mother (1933) Charles Brabin, Alice Brady, Maureen O’Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Drama, Musical, Romance
A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband’s stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. Read More »
Serenade (1956) Anthony Mann, Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Drama, Music, Romance
Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. Read More »
The Lady Objects (1938) Erle C. Kenton, Gloria Stuart, Lanny Ross, Joan Marsh, Drama, Music, Romance
Ann Adams and William Hayward get married and she has a secretary’s job in a law office, while finishing her schooling, and she soon makes junior partner and is just a brilliant lawyer. Read More »
Rise and Shine (1941) Allan Dwan, Jack Oakie, George Murphy, Linda Darnell, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance, Sport
Stupid football player is kidnapped by gangsters. Lunatics abound: former footballer now dancer, professor interested in magic, gangster who makes horse noises when excited. Read More »
Ghost Catchers (1944) Edward F. Cline, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Gloria Jean, Comedy, Horror, Music
Colonel Breckinridge Martshall (Walter Catlett), a self-appointed southern colonel, brings his two daughters,Melinda (Gloria Jean) and Susanna (Martha O’Driscoll) Read More »
Flirtation Walk (1934) Frank Borzage, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O’Brien, Musical, Romance
A Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general’s engaged daughter. Read More »