In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. Read More »
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Man from Frisco (1944) Robert Florey, Michael O’Shea, Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Read More »
Girls School (1938) John Brahm, Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bellamy, Comedy
A student monitor at a girls’ school reports one of the popular girls for staying out late and faces the scorn of her fellow pupils. Read More »
Sorority House (1939) John Farrow, Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Barbara Read, Drama, Romance
Anne Shirley plays Alice Fisher-the daughter of a small grocer who at the last minute gets to go to little Talbot College. Read More »
Government Girl (1943) Dudley Nichols, Olivia de Havilland, Anne Shirley, Sonny Tufts, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Washington DC during World War II. The machinery of government is a hive of endless, if not seamless, activity. Read More »
Vigil in the Night (1940) George Stevens, Carole Lombard, Anne Shirley, Brian Aherne, Drama
Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly equipped country hospital. There she falls in love with Dr. Prescott, who is battling with Mr. Bowly, the chairman of the local hospital board, who also makes Anne’s life miserable. But then a virulent epidemic begins…
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Murder, My Sweet (1944) Edward Dmytryk, Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’, renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one’s motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe’s.
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