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- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsMarie DresslerJohn BarrymoreWallace BeeryAffluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsWallace BeeryGeorge RaftJackie CooperIn New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry.
- DirectorJack ConwayHoward HawksWilliam A. WellmanStarsWallace BeeryFay WrayLeo CarrilloAfter enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsWallace BeeryJackie CooperLionel BarrymoreYoung Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsWallace BeeryAdolphe MenjouVirginia BruceThe comic exploits of confidence trickster and showman P.T. Barnum from his early days through to the creation of The Greatest Show on Earth.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsWallace BeeryLionel BarrymoreAline MacMahonStory of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.
- DirectorJ. Walter RubenStarsWallace BeeryEric LindenCecilia ParkerOld Hutch, a penniless ne'er-do-well who has not worked a single day since he married his wife 20 years ago, has a brood of children to support, but would rather while away the hours fishing at his favorite spot along a nearby creek. His nagging wife tries in vain to improve things for her family, suggesting that they take up an offer from the Gunnisons, local land owners, to work on their idle farm and earn a decent living, but lazy Hutch resists. Forced to support the family, eldest daughter Irene takes a job at Elliot's drugstore, where she notices that Dave Jolly, a well-to-do college student and son of a prominent banker, has taken an interest in her. While Hutch fishes at his usual spot along the stream, locals tease him about being the town loafer, but his luck changes when he comes across a tin box containing $100,000. Knowing that no one would believe that he earned the money, Hutch decides to bury the treasure and come back for it after getting a job, which would allow him to pass the money off as hard-earned wages. Hutch buys a new hat and then tells his wife that he will accept Gunnison's offer to farm his land. As soon as he establishes himself at his job, however, he discovers that a construction shanty, which is to be used during the building of a new bridge across the creek, has been erected directly over his buried treasure. One night, hoping to scare off the inhabitant of the shack and regain access to his cache, Hutch approaches it dressed as a ghost, but flees when he is fired upon. After extorting $1,000 from Dave's father, who is financing the building of the bridge onto Gunnison's property, Hutch has enough money to carry him over until the shack is removed. Dave, who accompanied his father on the trip to the Hutchinses, is formally introduced to Irene, and before leaving, he invites her to a party. When Hutch goes to cash the banker's payment, he nearly faints when he learns that the banks are checking all the serial numbers of $1,000 bills against those known to be missing from a recent Buffalo bank heist, in which $100,000 was stolen. The panicked farmer quickly makes travel arrangements to the South Seas, where he thinks he can cash the stolen bills without risk. In need of immediate access to his money, Hutch goes to Jolly to ask if he can tear down the shack and use the wood to build a chicken coop, but he accidentally stumbles upon Dave's party, where he proceeds to create a scene during a poetry recital. Irene escorts her father home, and his wife upbraids him for ruining their daughter's evening. The dejected farmer then leaves his home and goes to dig up his treasure, but when he finds that the money has been removed from the box, he collapses. He is found the next day and, while being nursed back to health by Irene, divulges the truth about the money to her in his delirious mutterings. After his recovery, Hutch returns to the creek, where a carload of gangsters abduct him and, after informing him that they have recovered the money that they buried, force him into laundering the money for them. They make Elliot's drugstore their first stop, and Irene, noticing her father's suspicious escorts, calls the police. Hutch is unable to stall the thieves until the police arrive, and the gangsters take off with him. A chase ensues and during the escape, Hutch faints across the front seat and causes an accident. The robbers are caught, and after Hutch's innocence is proven, the farmer is hailed as a hero and rewarded $5,000 for his help. He thus earns his first honest dollar in 20 years.
- DirectorJ. Walter RubenStarsWallace BeeryUna MerkelEric LindenA small-town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsWallace BeeryMickey RooneyArthur HohlA washed up, alcoholic Vet and a dreamer stable boy help nurse a sick race horse back to health.
- DirectorRobert B. SinclairStarsFrank MorganMary HowardBillie BurkeIn 1902, medicine show con man Dan Thompson settles down with the daughter he hardly knows in a New York theatrical boarding house full of eccentric characters. Forced to take a job in an arcade sideshow, he tries to con daughter Mary and his fellow boarders into thinking he's on the legitimate stage.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWallace BeeryMarjorie MainLeo CarrilloA grumpy old fisherman tries to avoid marriage, contend with a daughter he never knew he had and scuttle the attempts of landlubbers who want to rob him of his seagoing livelihood, while the locals try to reform him.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJoan CrawfordMelvyn DouglasConrad VeidtA female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJohn WayneBetty FieldHarry CareyA mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsClark GableLana TurnerFrank MorganFast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
- DirectorS. Sylvan SimonRichard ThorpeStarsWallace BeeryMarjorie MainLewis StoneSergeant "Hap" Doan, heartbroken that the Nineteenth Cavalry, in which he has served for so many years, is to be mechanized and replenished with twenty recent draftees, goes on a drinking spree. He rails about leaving the Army, but is there when the draftees arrive, ready to make good soldiers out of them. After his horse, Cantigny, is killed by the explosion of a tank that had been sabotaged by Nazi agents, he goes AWOL, and is court-martialed upon his return and given a dishonorable discharge. But he is under secret orders from his commanding officer to join the gang of German spies who have every reason to believe they can trust the disgruntled ex-sergeant..
- 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.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsWallace BeeryMarjorie MainJ. Carrol NaishTiny Tucker delivers mail and, attracted to her, Just Baggot becomes her new carrier. After he kills a man in a gunfight, the man's son joins him in the deliveries and they become good friends. But Baggot has two problems - alcohol and the urging of his friend Signor to rob the mail shipments. After the boy learns Baggot killed his father and leaves him, Baggot decides to join Signor in a train robbery. When other outlaws beat them to it, they have a chance to become heroes.
- DirectorS. Sylvan SimonStarsMarjorie MainZasu PittsAline MacMahonLetitia "Tish" Carberry, an eccentric New England spinster, lives with her nephew, Charlie Sands, and her two cronies, Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, live in a near-by boarding house. Cora Edwards also lives at the boarding house and is in love with Charlie, who, however, loves Katherine "Kit" Bowser, the daughter of Judge Horace Bowser. Tish and her cronies promote a romance between Cora and Charlie, but Cora decides it is Theodore "Ted" Bowser she loves and they are secretly married before Ted leaves for a training school in Toronto, learning to ferry planes to England. Charlie and Katherine also elope secretly. Cora, anxious to join Ted, borrows money from the church organ fund and leaves, telling no one where she is going. Tish takes the blame for the shortage. Cora raises the money to repay Tish and goes to the post office, while Ted is on a flight. Before she mails it, she opens a letter she received from the Canadian government announcing Ted's loss at sea. She faints, is taken to the hospital and gives birth to a boy, and dies. The only clue to her identity is the letter addressed to Tish. She arrives, decides the baby is Charlie's son, declares herself the grandmother and takes it home. Once there, she and her cronies take care of it in a rented cottage and she now claims it is her own. As a result Charlie, not knowing why she makes such a claim, has her put into a sanitarium for mental cases, and he and Katherine take the baby and plan to send it to an orphanage as Katherine does not realize it is her own nephew.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsVan HeflinLionel BarrymoreRuth HusseyBiography of Andrew Johnson, who followed Abraham Lincoln into office and became the first President of the United States ever to be impeached.
- DirectorS. Sylvan SimonStarsWallace BeeryFay BainterReginald OwenWallace Beery stars in this patriotic World War II drama about a tough retired Marine who is caught in the middle of the Philippines campaign, experiencing action, heroics and tragedy. Gruff Sergeant Bailey has never actually been in combat, but when the Japanese invade, the untested leader finally sees battle, ironically as a civilian in charge of organizing the citizens' withdrawal.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJames CagneyGrace GeorgeMarjorie MainNewspaper man wanders about and helps older woman save her paper.
- DirectorWillis GoldbeckStarsWallace BeeryMarjorie MainDonald MeekA village butcher bickers with the postmistress in charge of World War II ration stamps.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsWallace BeeryBinnie BarnesJohn CarradineHonest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsJames CraigDonna ReedMarjorie MainIn 1901, an undercover US Marshal is sent to Oklahoma Territory to investigate a string of train robberies and arrest the culprits.
- DirectorS. Sylvan SimonStarsWallace BeeryMargaret O'BrienMarjorie MainAn outlaw, Bascomb, and his sidekick Yancey join a Mormon wagon train to hide out after a failed bank robbery. Bascomb undergoes a reformation as a result of his interactions with a young girl who becomes attached to him.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsKatharine HepburnRobert TaylorRobert MitchumMiddle-aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsWallace BeeryDean StockwellEdward Arnold"Slag" McGurk, a former boxing champ living on memories of glories past, spends his days and nights as a bouncer/braggert/boozer at Glenson's saloon. But when "Slag" stumbles upon a young orphaned lad and agrees to help him find a relative, his life takes on a whole new meaning.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsWallace BeeryTom DrakeDorothy PatrickAging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsDonald O'ConnorMarjorie MainPercy KilbrideA fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWallace BeeryJane PowellElizabeth TaylorHyperactive teenager Judy Foster (Jane Powell) challenges, and is challenged by, her overly-proper parents, pesky brother Randolph (Jerry Hunter), and boyfriend Ogden "Oogie" Pringle (Scotty Beckett).
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWallace BeeryRichard ConteMarjorie MainAn outlaw finds a place in his gang for a grave-robbing doctor.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsMarjorie MainJames WhitmoreAnn DvorakA paroled embezzler skips town with his $100K loot and boards the Chicago-New York train, followed by an assortment of shady characters who want the money, but en-route to NYC the embezzler is murdered and his loot disappears.
- DirectorDon HartmanStarsLana TurnerEzio PinzaMarjorie MainA beautiful romance between a singer and a persistent prince
- DirectorEdwin H. KnopfStarsGreer GarsonMichael WildingFernando LamasA beguiling international jewel thief loses her heart.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsMarie DresslerWallace BeeryRobert YoungAnnie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsJohn MillsValerie HobsonTony WagerA humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.
- DirectorCharles FrendStarsDonald HoustonMeredith EdwardsMoira ListerBrothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and various other urban distractions.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsIrene DunneAlec GuinnessAndrew RayAn urchin, scavenging on a bank of the River Thames, finds a cameo depicting Queen Victoria. So taken by her beauty, he is determined to see her and sets off for Windsor Castle.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsMarilyn MonroeJoseph CottenJean PetersAs two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMontgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorShelley WintersA poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsAlec GuinnessPeter BullCharles GoldnerThe captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsMarlon BrandoTeresa WrightEverett SloaneA paralyzed war vet tries to adjust to the world without the use of his limbs.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoJean PetersAnthony QuinnThe story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsLouis CalhernMarlon BrandoJames MasonThe growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsRod CameronCathy DownsReed HadleyJohn Sands, a former Texas marshal turns to ranching, and later to a gunfighter when he sets out to prove that casino/saloon owner, Matt Garson, had his brother, a newspaperman, killed.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsRod CameronGale StormJohnny Mack BrownIn 1887 Arizona, in the context of the settler-vs-cattleman struggle, two rancher brothers fall in-love with the same settler girl while crooked businessmen try to swindle both sides.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsMickey RooneyAnne JamesSammy WhiteAn obnoxious nightclub comedian at Ciro's is drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. At his arrival at his basic training he meets a WAC Lieutenant and romantically pursues her. His activities irritate the entire army.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsFrankie LaineBilly DanielsCharlotte AustinTwo singers (Frankie Laine, Billy Daniels) step in to help an aspiring actress (Charlotte Austin) whose grandmother opposes her bid to launch a show-business career.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsMickey RooneyDick HaymesPeggy RyanThree sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsDick HaymesAudrey TotterBilly DanielsBeauregard Clemment, a New York nightclub crooner, inherits a broken-down Georgia showboat and decides to turn it into a nightclub. He falls in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of Thadeus Jackson, arch-enemy of Beau's late grandfather. Contains many, many songs and a parody of "Ten Nights in a Barroom" (a Blake Edwards touch), with music featuring the Bell Sisters.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûChieko HigashiyamaSô YamamuraAn old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSpencer TracyRobert RyanAnne FrancisA one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
- DirectorBorivoj ZemanStarsJan WerichVlasta BurianIrena KacírkováA story about a king who out of three daughters preferred two: the most beautiful and the most cheerful, and the most intelligent, and even able to cook well, he kicked out, which he later bitterly regretted.
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierCedric HardwickeNicholas HannenShakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
- DirectorDon HartmanRudolph MatéStarsGinger RogersCornel WildePercy WaramA woman is noted for leaving her bridegrooms at the altar until a dashing fireman walks into her life.
- DirectorJohn FordMervyn LeRoyJoshua LoganStarsHenry FondaJames CagneyWilliam PowellIn the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritations.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsKanu BannerjeeKaruna BannerjeeSubir BanerjeeImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsAudrey HepburnHenry FondaMel FerrerNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
- DirectorTay GarnettPaul MantzAndrew MartonStarsLowell ThomasPaul MantzClaude DauphinLowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience to try to update the ancient Greek list of "Seven Wonders of the World."
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsBing CrosbyJack OakieRichard 'Skeets' GallagherA singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsMarion DaviesBing CrosbyFifi D'OrsayA love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsBing CrosbyCarole LombardGeorge BurnsYacht owner is stranded on island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband and wife research team, and a singing sailor.
- DirectorElliott NugentStarsBing CrosbyMiriam HopkinsKitty CarlisleA cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsBing CrosbyKitty CarlisleRoland YoungA rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsBing CrosbyJoan BennettLynne OvermanA songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsBing CrosbyEthel MermanCharles RugglesA young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsBing CrosbyFrances FarmerBob BurnsCowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the ranch where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsBing CrosbyBob BurnsMartha RayeA beauty contest winner of the "Miss Pineapple Princess" pageant takes part in a publicity scheme in Hawaii, and is pursued by an advertising executive for the agency doing the promotion.
- DirectorTheodore ReedStarsBing CrosbyMartha RayeAndy DevineAccording to the will of an eccentric millionaire, one of four randomly chosen strangers will become his heir if he/she can double $5000 by honest means.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsBing CrosbyFred MacMurrayDonald O'ConnorOf the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but reckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows. Hilarious sequence involving a lecturer on seals.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsBing CrosbyFranciska GaalAkim TamiroffA Texas millionaire travels to Europe to meet his girlfriend, a European countess. He stops in a rustic mountain village and meets a beautiful peasant girl. He falls in love with her, then must decide if he wants her or the rich countess.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsBing CrosbyJoan BlondellMischa AuerA man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsBing CrosbyLouise CampbellLinda WareThis is a film based on the life of Gus Edwards, a well-known vaudeville composer, entertainer and producer.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsBing CrosbyGloria JeanCharles WinningerAfter a fellow bridge builder is killed in an accident, two of his co-workers take his now-orphaned daughter to New York to be adopted by relatives.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsBing CrosbyMary MartinBrian DonlevyJeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louey to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsBing CrosbyBetty HuttonSonny TuftsShow business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsEddie BrackenVeronica LakeDiana LynnAfter struggling to become a success, Betty Miller and her all-girl orchestra finally hit pay dirt when crooner Herbie Fenton comes on board. Problems arise when Betty and her girls try to find backers to invest in Herbie and they sell 125 percent of him.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsEd GardnerBing CrosbyBetty HuttonThe staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
- DirectorStuart HeislerMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireBing CrosbyJoan CaulfieldAn ex-dancer and New York radio star narrates his love story for a band singer who loved a self-centered man who was unable to commit to his nightclub business or his family.
- DirectorElliott NugentStarsBing CrosbyBarry FitzgeraldJoan CaulfieldThe old-time town doctor of Fallbridge plans his first vacation in 30 years. But his dislike of, and frequent squabbles with his young interim replacement may jeopardize more than his vacation.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsMary HatcherOlga San JuanDeForest KelleyAlmost everyone under contract to Paramount Pictures at the time make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsBing CrosbyRhonda FlemingCedric HardwickeA singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsBing CrosbyAnn BlythBarry FitzgeraldA singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone...and romance the local policeman's daughter.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBing CrosbyColeen GrayCharles BickfordA horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
- DirectorRichard HaydnStarsBing CrosbyNancy OlsonCharles CoburnA golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.
- DirectorElliott NugentStarsBing CrosbyJane WymanEthel BarrymoreJordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway producer who has always been too busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. His girlfriend Carolina, a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to take his kids on a vacation and get to know them before they are all grown up. Is Jordan already too late?
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsBing CrosbyClaude DauphinChristian FourcadeA war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during World War II married a French girl who was murdered by the Germans. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but who he has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.
- DirectorRobert LewisStarsBing CrosbyDonald O'ConnorZizi JeanmaireBill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each discovers the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along. It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his find that she might not get the role after all.
- DirectorRobert DayBasil DeardenStarsAlastair SimGeorge ColeTerry-ThomasAn assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.
- DirectorRobert BressonStarsFrançois LeterrierCharles Le ClaincheMaurice BeerblockA captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
- DirectorJoseph AnthonyStarsBurt LancasterKatharine HepburnWendell CoreyDuring the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonDorothy SebastianEdward EarleAn unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaFrançois PérierFranca MarziA waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
- DirectorRichard WhorfStarsFrank SinatraKathryn GraysonPeter LawfordSoldier Danny Miller returns home to Brooklyn after war. Aiming for singing success, he helps friends chasing dreams.
- DirectorIrving PichelStarsFred MacMurrayAlida ValliFrank SinatraA press agent brings a dead actress home for burial. To promote her one film, he asks churches to ring bells for 3 days, hoping to get the studio head to release it.
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsFrank SinatraKathryn GraysonJ. Carrol NaishRicardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's footsteps and become "The Kissing Bandit".
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsJane RussellGroucho MarxFrank SinatraAn innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsFrank SinatraShelley WintersAlex NicolA nightclub singer has a racketeer for a manager and a rivalry with his pianist for a girl.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsClifton WebbDorothy McGuireJean PetersThree American women working in Rome, Italy share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage. Each one experiences a few bumps in her journey to romance.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsFrank SinatraSterling HaydenJames GleasonIn the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.