Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family’s new maid. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Grand Ole Opry (1940) Frank McDonald, Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver
Abner Weaver, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks, through the music of performers from ‘The Grand Ole Opry,” Read More »
Women Without Names (1940) Robert Florey, Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Judith Barrett
Construction engineer Fred MacNeil meets waitress Joyce King at a hamburger stand and she accepts his invitation to see her home. Read More »
This Man’s Navy (1945) William A. Wellman, Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason
Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. Read More »
A Guy Named Joe (1943) Victor Fleming
Maj. Pete Sandidge is a very able pilot who seems to have a streak of luck as far as flying goes. Read More »
Anna Lucasta (1949) Irving Rapper, Paulette Goddard, William Bishop, John Ireland
Anna Lucasta (Paulette Goddard)is disowned by her cruel father, Joe Lucasta (Oskar Homolka) Read More »
I Wanted Wings (1941) Mitchell Leisen, Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris
Story follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps — a wealthy playboy, a college jock and an auto mechanic. Read More »
Call Northside 777 (1948) Henry Hathaway, James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Read More »
Prisoner of Japan (1942) Arthur Ripley, Edgar G. Ulmer, Alan Baxter, Gertrude Michael, Ernst Deutsch
On a small tropical island in the South Pacific, David Bowman (Alan Baxter), a young American planter Read More »
The Materassi Sisters AKA Sorelle Materassi (1944) Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, Emma Gramatica, Irma Gramatica, Olga Solbelli
Teresa and Carolina are sisters, have a tailor shop and work well enough to be invited to Rome by the Pope. Read More »