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- DirectorGarson KaninStarsLucille BallJames EllisonLee BowmanIn order to become the richest girl in America, a heiress must marry in haste.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsDane ClarkBelinda LeeBetty Ann DaviesA broke American in London meets a woman who offers to pay him for a marriage of convenience. He agrees, but awakes bloodied in a strange place, having unknowingly become entangled in her father's murder.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPaul HenreidLizabeth ScottAndré MorellA doctor repairs a female inmate's disfigured face to match the lovely woman who left him, and marries her, only to find out how abusive she is.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliFred ZinnemannStarsJudy GarlandRobert WalkerJames GleasonIn 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsAllan JonesEvelyn AnkersBillie BurkeA young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to stay married to him.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharles LaughtonMary BolandCharles RugglesAn English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsLily PonsJack OakieGene RaymondNikki Martin (Lily Pons), a Parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love, leaving her arranged husband to be at the altar. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome American musician, Windy McLean (Gene Raymond) and his band, the 'McLean Wildcats.' Windy immediately spites her, but Nikki falls in love with him and follows him to New York by stowing away on the ship his on. The ship's purser (Edgar Dearing) finds her hiding in Windy and the Wildcats room. She is locked up by authorities, and Windy and the band are fired. When the ship reaches New York, Nikki escapes off the ship and finds out the Wildcats apartment. They demand her to leave, fearing being implicated but she refuses. Claire (Lucille Ball), Windy's girlfriend shows up with Hammacher (Herman Bing), and offers the band a low-paying job at a roadhouse in another city. Anxious to depart, they accept. Nikki becomes the band's singer. Claire becomes jealous and reports her to the authorities, causing the band to flee again.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsLoretta YoungWilliam HoldenRobert MitchumA widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of his old friend threatens their burgeoning relationship.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsRobert TaylorDenise DarcelHope EmersonA trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsKay JohnsonIan HunterC. Aubrey Smith
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsJames StewartHedy LamarrIan HunterSeeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsBarbara StanwyckGeorge BrentGeraldine FitzgeraldThree wealthy orphans attempt to defend their ownership of their family's property, but financial and romantic problems set in.
- DirectorE. Mason HopperElliott NugentStarsElliott NugentNorma LeeRoland YoungThe father of three grown daughters tries to keep his sanity, even after his free-spirited middle daughter rebelliously marries a poor plumber.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierClaudette ColbertMiriam HopkinsAn amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierJeanette MacDonaldEdward Everett HortonWhen a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
- DirectorBobby ConnollyStarsPatric KnowlesBeverly RobertsAllyn JoslynThe career of Hollywood actress Laurine Lynne is on the decline. In negotiation with her press agent Joe Craig, Associated, her studio, is contemplating not executing her contract extension option as she is losing roles once that naturally would have gone to her to her contemporaries. Taking the play from one of those contemporaries who won a role solely on her notoriety of marrying someone with a title, Laurine, already in a public relationship with polo player Ricky Preston, places a discreet ad looking to pay to enter into a marriage of convenience with someone of royalty. She is surprised that the person answering the ad is the not very adept and very forthright hotel waiter she met earlier on a trip to Vienna. He, really Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau, is equally as surprised by the identity of the ad placer. She eventually learns the Prince has had a number of odd jobs like that of waiter since the war, presumably the reason he lost his money, and is working all these odd jobs solely for money, why he has answered the ad for this lucrative paying "job". Even Joseph, the Prince's still faithful servant, doesn't know why the Prince wants only to earn 200 shillings before moving on from each job. While their marriage does have the intended effect of boosting her career, it also adds some complications to her life, one being his extravagant spending which may ruin her financially. Another issue is that both, while entering into that marriage as a platonic relationship and even on the premise that it may be a long distance one in he needing to "maintain his royal duties" in Europe, have actually fallen in love with the other, misadventures which ensue in both taking actions so as to hide his/her feelings.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsNorma ShearerMelvyn DouglasGail PatrickTwo titled aristocrats support themselves by being professional house guests in the homes of star-struck American nouveau riche.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsStewart GrangerDeborah KerrJames MasonAn Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king, after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
- DirectorRichard WhorfStarsRobert WalkerJune AllysonHume CronynWhile waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each other and get married that night. However, when the sailor is notified that he has been reclassified as 4-F (unfit for service) by the Navy and then discharged, he and his new wife realize that, having to set up house before they expected to, they actually know very little about each other. Complications ensue.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsMarsha HuntRichard CarlsonMarjorie MainMembers of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsNancy KellyRichard CarlsonAlbert BassermannAfter being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsGinger RogersJames StewartJames EllisonA professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsMarlene DietrichFred MacMurrayAline MacMahonIn order to adopt an abandoned baby, an actress arranges a marriage of convenience with a doctor.
- DirectorGregory RatoffStarsIngrid BergmanWarner BaxterSusan HaywardA governess becomes the center of a wealthy family after her employer's wife dies.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsGinger RogersJoel McCreaMarjorie RambeauA young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsWilliam HainesIrene PurcellC. Aubrey SmithHaines plays the role of a festive British nobleman whose relatives have arranged a marriage for him. He goes to a European summer resort and poses as a gigolo to meet the girl they have chosen, learn what she is like, and apply the "acid test."
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsShirley BoothRobert RyanMarjie MillarA rooming-house landlady recalls her past in flashbacks.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsGlenn FordDebbie ReynoldsEva GaborA U.S. sergeant serving in Spain creates envy among his Air Force superiors and the Spanish locals when his brand new futuristic sports car and pretty wife arrive at the base.
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsHelmut DantineAndrea KingWilliam PrinceA young bride's marital bliss is replaced by shades of suspicion when she suspects that her husband is trying to starve his young son to death in order to claim an inheritance the boy is entitled to.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsIda LupinoSydney GreenstreetWilliam PrinceA traveling saleswoman convinces an army lieutenant to pose as her husband so that she can rent an apartment during the World War II housing shortage.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsClark GableCarole LombardDorothy MackaillAn on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsLily PonsHenry FondaEric BloreJonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and does the cooking and cleaning. To get his music published, Annette takes it to Paul and he is won over - by her voice and not the music. So he manages her career and she becomes a star as an opera singer everywhere she goes. Since Jonathan cannot sell anything he writes, he leaves Annette and that makes Annette sad as she wants only to be his wife.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsRobert MitchumKim HunterDean JaggerA naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsCharlton HestonEleanor ParkerAbraham SofaerThe Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsDennis MorganJane WyattShirley RossRodney has just married the often engaged Juliette and they are both ready to leave on their honeymoon. However, Clara showed up and Rodney sneaks out to talk to her. Clara is blackmailing Rodney, as he knew her before Juliette. Clara's accomplice hits Rodney over the head when he refuses to pay. This causes amnesia and the only name Rodney can find in his pockets is Laura Anders - who is Juliette's cousin. Laura had never met "Rodney" so she does not know him. Laura and "Rodney", still not remembering who is really is, get married on their way to Juliette's house. When "Rodney" is recognized everyone tries to keep Laura and "Rodney" from starting their honeymoon. Mayhem ensues.
- DirectorJoel HopkinsStarsTunde AdebimpeHippolyte GirardotRaul A. ReyesA young Nigerian man on the verge of being in an arranged marriage, suddenly questions his situation after an encounter with a stunning Latin woman, who is also about to be married.
- CreatorJoseph WeisbergStarsKeri RussellMatthew RhysKeidrich SellatiAt the height of the Cold War, two Russian agents pose as the average American couple, complete with family.
- DirectorAndy TennantStarsMatthew PerrySalma HayekJon TenneyAfter a one-night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeSharmila TagoreAlok ChakravartyThis final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanRobert Z. LeonardStarsJanet GaynorRobert TaylorBinnie BarnesKay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk, then proceeds to take her out for a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when he decides--while drunk--that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The next morning, Bob, once he sobers up, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for six months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
- DirectorGeorge BloomfieldStarsMarlo ThomasAlan AldaMarian HaileyAn unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger who is avoiding the draft. She now has a father for her child, and he doesn't have to join the Army--but their marriage of convenience soon becomes true romance.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsMyrna LoyRobert TaylorJoseph AllenA wealthy woman meets a bum on a park bench and marries him the same evening.
- DirectorErnst LubitschRaoul WalshStarsMary PickfordHolbrook BlinnIrene RichRosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King.
- DirectorJames Wong HoweStarsDane ClarkPatricia BreslinSidney PoitierThe story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.