Women at Home!
Favorite movies & shows I've watched that capture the empowering side of women in domestic roles as devoted homemakers, housewives, housekeepers, and nannies!
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- CreatorWilliam RobertsStarsDonna ReedPaul PetersenCarl BetzA loving mother and wife deals with situations and problems of a middle-class family in the late 1950s and the early 1960s.Oh, to be Donna Stone! But is the show satire or is it parody? To me it's quality programming for girls and women, and boys and men too, because modern men need just as much help with traditional roles as modern women do!
- StarsOzzie NelsonHarriet NelsonRicky NelsonOzzie and Harriet Nelson raise their two sons Ricky and David. As the sons age, they experience teenage dating problems, marriage and careers.Before 'Leave it to Beaver' and 'The Donna Reed Show' went on the air, Harriet Nelson was the epitome of housewifery in the world of 1950s TV sitcoms! She keeps her home in order with two adolescent boys, and a husband who sometimes get caught up in adolescent fun too!
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsMickey RooneyElizabeth TaylorDonald CrispA jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.How lucky Mr. Brown is to have wise Mrs. Brown, for she is not the standard homemaker! She won fame for swimming the English Channel as a young girl, and in the film she manages the books in her husband's butcher shop when not making sure her home is under control, which realistically depicts where many homemakers prefer to work when not in the home -- in the family business by their husband's side!
- DirectorGarry MarshallStarsGoldie HawnKurt RussellEdward HerrmannA cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.Taming a shrew for the better by turning her into a homemaker! While Annie's vile attitude toward housekeeping is as offensive as it can get for house-proud homemakers, the creative cleaning montage is always a hoot! Whether it's parody or satire about housewife life, it's just nice to see a woman transform for the better and become a master of housework, rather than letting it master her by fighting it every step of the way, which is the only thing that Hollywood teaches women to do nowadays!
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsJohn MillsDorothy McGuireJames MacArthurA Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.A shipwreck can't wreck Mother Robinson's spirits nor lower her standards! Not every wife is up for an ocean voyage to the New World in order to escape Napoleon Bonaparte's reign, but Mother Robinson faces the unknown with faith because she knows what is best for her family!
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsSissy SpacekTommy Lee JonesLevon HelmThe fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.Before Loretta Lynn was a country music legend, she was a rural homemaker who survived multiple hardships that most women today would not tolerate in any way. Her husband wasn't a saint and her life was far from ideal with more kids than money, but the two stayed together and worked through everything to create something truly legendary -- their marriage!
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsHayley MillsDorothy McGuireBurl IvesA Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.Charming songs to sing along with and two empowering wife characters in one delightful Disney movie! Mrs. Popham is a Maine homemaker to be reckoned with, while Mrs. Carey lovingly embraces a new financially uncertain future as a widow with three children who uproots from the well-to-do city life to a big yellow house sans maids in rural Maine!
- DirectorGary NelsonStarsBarbara HarrisJodie FosterJohn AstinA mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.Essential to watch every Friday the 13th! Mrs. Andrews knows that being a homemaker isn't easy work, and that's exactly what her daughter finds out on a monumentally busy Friday the 13th! It gets better with age and so does Barbara Harris; watching it at 40 is not the same as watching it as a non-critical-thinking child with an impressionable mind that hasn't experienced real life yet!
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartJune AllysonHarry MorganBiography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.The world may never have known Glenn Miller's sound if his devoted wife hadn't pinched the pennies to help him finance his musical dreams! She gracefully endured hardships as a struggling musician's wife and even experienced a miscarriage on the road; she continued his legacy after his mysterious disappearance that left her unsure if he would ever return. Bittersweet life lessons made beautiful with captivating actors (James Stewart and June Allyson) and the uplifting sounds of Glenn Miller's big band swing music!
- CreatorBlanche HanalisStarsMelissa GilbertMichael LandonKaren GrassleThe life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest.Mrs. Ingalls is a strong faithful pioneering matriarch whose devoted and loving care for her family made her wealthier than Mrs. Oleson could ever dream of being!
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsJoBeth WilliamsHeather O'RourkeCraig T. NelsonA family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.Mrs. Freeling would rather make the kids' beds than watch football with her husband and his friends -- now that's a homemaker after my own heart!
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRod TaylorTippi HedrenJessica TandyA wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.Mrs. Brenner is a widow who endures on the family farm in Bodega Bay after her husband passes, leaving her to raise their young daughter while she looks forward to weekend visits from her criminal lawyer son who lives in San Francisco. While dialogue exposes the sadder side of homemaker life when a husband passes and leaves a wife without a purpose, the hidden reality behind the scenes is that careers work the same way!
- CreatorJoe ConnellyBob MosherDick ConwayStarsJerry MathersHugh BeaumontBarbara BillingsleyThe misadventures of a suburban boy, family and friends.Mrs. Cleaver manages her traditional home of two boys and an engineer husband without breaking a sweat or losing her cool! She isn't a pushover, but she knows when not to argue with Ward because all smart women know there's no point in arguing with a husband. She also deals some hard lessons to her boys in order to help them grow up into well-mannered men!
- CreatorGarry MarshallStarsRon HowardHenry WinklerMarion RossThe Cunningham family live through the 1950s with help and guidance from lovable and almost superhuman greaser Fonzie.Happy Days are here again and Mrs. Cunningham makes the fictitious 1950s look absolutely fabulous as a happy homemaker in a stable traditional home! Satire or parody doesn't matter when it's all about seeing a woman be happy in her role as a homemaking housewife!
- CreatorCarol BlackNeal MarlensStarsFred SavageDan LauriaAlley MillsKevin Arnold recalls growing up during the late 60s and early 70s; the turbulent social times make the transition from child to adult unusually interesting.Mrs. Arnold handles her home like a CEO who knows her role! She eventually becomes a CEO too, as the narration tells in the final episode of the series; after her husband passes and the children grow and leave, she heads out into the world of work, as was typical of women back in the day who waited until the home was empty to go out and pursue a new career. And maybe that's why women live longer than men!
- 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.There's no cuter housewife than June Allyson in an apron! An adorably cute, albeit dated, tale of newlyweds who throw themselves into the experiment of marriage with high ideals that clash with real life realities to create G-rated slap-stick misunderstandings that are a charming blast from the pro-housewife past!
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsMary AstorRobert AmesJohn HallidayA wife turns the tables on her cheating husband.Instead of a traditional homemaker, this film features a society wife whose husband gets suckered into the grips of a gold-digger while his wife is away caring for sick family -- talk about nerve! The traits of the husband are not what every woman may want, but that is totally not the point. The point is that when a woman loves her husband and wants him for herself, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even if it means outsmarting him at his own game!
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsPeter BillingsleyMelinda DillonDarren McGavinIn the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.Mother Parker's got a 1940's houseful on her hands during the holiday season and she takes it all in patient stride, with imaginative Ralphie and young Randy, along with her feared furnace fighting husband who knows how to make everything right when Christmas dinner unexpectedly goes wrong -- take the family out to eat!
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Mary Bailey, played by none other than Donna Reed, is the epitome of a proud and devoted homemaker! She doesn't need a perfect brand new house -- she makes an old fixer-upper perfect by adding a womanly touch as only a loving housewife can do!
- CreatorSherwood SchwartzStarsRobert ReedFlorence HendersonAnn B. DavisThe misadventures of a large family united when a widower and a widow marry.Mrs. Brady may have had Alice by her side, but that was because her wonderful architect husband Mr. Brady was wise enough to keep Alice on as his family's live-in housekeeper when he remarried a woman with three girls of her own to match his three boys! Even with Alice, Mrs. Brady did not abandon her home for the office, nor did she leave everything in Alice's capable hands five days a week. On the contrary, the two women were a team of homemakers happily fulfilling two roles in one house -- Mrs. Brady as the devoted housewife and mother, and Alice as the dedicated housekeeper and extended family member!
- CreatorBrenda HamptonStarsStephen CollinsCatherine HicksJessica BielEric Camden, a minister, and his wife Annie deal with the drama of having seven children, ranging from toddlers to adults with families of their own.Annie Camden is proud to be a full-time devoted homemaker to her minister husband and five children, which later becomes seven with a set of twins! Annie manages her home with a firm hand and isn't scared to take control over her family's never-ending dramas that could only unfold in the Camden household!
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.Karen Hill (as portrayed in the film) was a different kind of housewife and a tough one at that, as is required when married to the mob! Karen was no Donna Reed, but she was a survivor and a stay-at-home housewife who kept her family together as best she could. She wasn't scared to chastise her husband's girlfriends (in the movie), and in real life she stayed married to her husband Henry for 25 years until she divorced him, which is a longer marriage than many women have who aren't married to the mob!
- CreatorSol SaksStarsElizabeth MontgomeryDick YorkDick SargentA witch married to an ordinary man cannot resist using her magic powers to solve the problems her family faces.Samantha Stephens is a witch-turned-housewife who is determined to be a normal homemaker without relying on her special skills, even though it doesn't always work out as she hopes!
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanMichael OntkeanMädchen AmickAn idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.Mrs. Palmer is a traditional housewife whose husband is a successful lawyer and daughter is homecoming queen! Unfortunately, both Mrs. Palmer's husband and daughter have secret lives that she knows nothing about, but it's a hoot to watch her hair get bigger and bigger as the twisted stories of Twin Peaks' residents get curiouser and curiouser!
- DirectorBruce BilsonStarsEdward HerrmannBarbara HarrisSusan ClarkA new preacher in town joins forces with an unlikely group of crimefighters: six dedicated church ladies who are ready, but not necessarily equipped--to help.What do women do when they're not at home? They volunteer at their local church! A mix of housewives and unmarried women join forces thanks to their pastor who figures out an unconventional way to literally drive crime out of their community! A fun movie with funny women, 1970s cars, and physical stunts, too!
- DirectorHoward DeutchStarsDan AykroydJohn CandyStephanie FaracyA Chicago man and his family go camping with his obnoxious brother-in-law.Connie Ripley is a wife to Chet, a mother to Buck & Ben, and a sister-in-law to Roman Craig! Even on vacation in the woods, Connie refuses to rest in a filthy cabin and takes to cleaning up the last tenant's fishy mess so that she can enjoy time with her family in a clean space, proving to me that she's a homemaker at heart and not a working wife!
- DirectorStan DragotiStarsMichael KeatonTeri GarrFrederick KoehlerAfter he's suddenly laid off, a husband switches roles with his wife. She returns to the workforce, and he becomes a stay-at-home dad, and he has to take care of three young children, a job he has no clue how to do.You can take the wife out of the home, but you can't take the homemaker out of the wife! Caroline Butler temporarily steps into the role of the breadwinner, only to discover she can't help but clean up after others nor avoid cutting her boss's meat, just as if she were at home! She also gets hit on by her married boss while her Mr. Mom husband gets hit on by the cattiest of divorced women! Moral of the movie -- wives who take pride in their homemaking role are better off staying at home!
- DirectorRon HowardStarsSteve MartinMary SteenburgenDianne WiestFour Buckman siblings attempt to raise their children - each in their own different style - and deal with the joys and sorrows that the process brings.Karen Buckman is a mother of three at the beginning of the movie and a mother of four at the end! Even though she can return to work, she learns that she has a preference for being a homemaker and likes it! Unfortunately, her husband Gil tells her that she can do what she wants without realizing that modern women don't need to be told what they already know -- they need to be told that it's okay to stay home!
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsDean JonesNancy OlsonHarry MorganWhen John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves west to run it--only to find his "estate" in a state of total dilapidation.What does a housewife do when her husband inherits a hotel and quits his steady job? She stands by her man and follows her husband with kids in tow into the wilds of Colorado! Even though she wants to abandon ship when she's had her fill, she fulfills her wifely role by being there for him when he needs her the most and proves that there are no losers when a family stays together!
- CreatorEd HaasNorm LiebmannStarsFred GwynneAl LewisYvonne De CarloA family of friendly monsters have misadventures, never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.Lily Munster is not only a vampire but a devoted wife, mother, daughter, and aunt! She gives her creature-filled home a womanly touch amid the cobwebs and keeps everyone in order, with her werewolf son, vampire father, normal niece, and loving husband who is one of Frankenstein's monsters!
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsJohn WayneMaureen O'HaraPatrick WayneWealthy rancher G. W. McLintock uses his power and influence in the territory to keep the peace between farmers, ranchers, land-grabbers, Indians and corrupt government officials.Behind every strong man is an even stronger woman, or in this case two strong women; with Mrs. McLintock as the woman of the house and widowed Mrs. Warren as the cook of the house! Even though Mrs. Warren is employed by the McLintocks, she's happy to fulfill her womanly role in the kitchen and isn't scared to put the high-and-mighty Mrs. McLintock in her place when it's needed!
- DirectorSeth HoltStarsBette DavisWendy CraigJill BennettThere's just something not quite right when Bette Davis stars as an English nanny. And is her 10-year-old charge an emotionally disturbed murderer or just an insolent brat?While Mrs. Fane mourns for the loss of her daughter, Nanny looks after the home and everyone in it -- with barmy results!
- CreatorAJ CarothersThomas L. MillerStarsJuliet MillsRichard LongDavid DoremusA remarkable young English nanny takes over the household of a widowed professor and his three children.Nanny Phoebe may not be a member of the family, but she's not neglecting her own family to care for the professor and his children in her own magical way!
- CreatorCharles Marquis WarrenStarsDoug McClureJames DruryLee J. CobbPersonable Western series based in Wyoming from the 1890s onward.While the Virginian and other men at Shiloh keep the ranch in order, it's up to Holly Grainger to keep the home in order with the help of her niece Elizabeth!
- DirectorChester ErskineStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayMarjorie MainOn their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.Betty makes the best of rural living when her husband Bob decides to start their marriage by leaving the city to live on a chicken farm! Betty rises to the new challenges of being a farm wife with patience and perseverance; and she learns that leaving farm life behind is easier said than done! Not far from Betty is her neighbor Ma Kettle, another woman at home who has her hands full with numerous children and dealing with Pa Kettle!
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDebbie ReynoldsTony RandallPaul DouglasAn uptight IRS agent is ordered to investigate a rural family in debt to the government...but the family - including lovely daughter Mariette - help him loosen up.Ma Larkin has an eventful life in a comfortable home with Pop's trading business, their five kids, and countless animals on the Larkin farm!
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLionel BarrymoreCecilia ParkerEric LindenJudge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and his son Andy discovers Polly Benedict. As usual, Judge Hardy is concerned with everyone in the family and lends wisdom and calm to all.Mrs. Hardy takes care of the home while her husband, the Honorable Judge Hardy, takes care of the people of Carvel. With adolescent children, both parents have a hand in steering their kids in the right direction while also letting them experience the growing pains of life!
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneCecilia ParkerMickey RooneyOn vacation with his family on California's Catalina Island, Andy Hardy falls head over swim fins for a sophisticated young beauty. Judge Hardy warns his son that she is too fast for him.Even when the Hardy family goes on vacation to California, Mrs. Hardy's homemaking skills don't get a rest! She lovingly makes sure their temporary vacation home is the best it can be for her husband and children; and her sister helps in the homemaking too as an extended member of the family!
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyCecilia ParkerWhile Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.As Andy grows out of adolescence, Mrs. Hardy lovingly reflects on the fine young man he is becoming! She continues to care of her home, her husband Judge Hardy, and her children -- who still find themselves in tight situations as they learn how to navigate their lives -- along with the help of her sister who lives with the family!
- DirectorMichael RitchieStarsChevy ChaseJack PalanceDianne WiestA counterfeiter with a habit of "eliminating" the competition moves in next door to the Robbersons. Two cops move in with the Robbersons for a stakeout.Mrs. Robberson has a criminal living next door, a husband who wants to be a cop, a toddler who acts like a vampire, a teenage son who wants to smoke cigarettes, and a teenage daughter to look after; when two cops use her home for a stakeout she rises to the challenge and makes them part of the family!
- CreatorEarl Hamner Jr.StarsJon WalmsleyMary Beth McDonoughEric ScottThe life and trials of a 1930s and 1940s Virginia mountain family through financial depression and World War II.There are two women who keep the Walton place in order: Mrs. Walton and Grandmother Walton! With 11 people in the rural depression-era household (7 kids and 4 adults) both women work hard to keep the home in order as well as the kids and their husbands!
- DirectorAndrew DominikStarsBrad PittCasey AffleckSam ShepardRobert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.Zee James quietly takes care of her home, which changes often due to her husband's line of work, while raising their two children who love their father but don't know he's the notorious outlaw Jesse James!
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsMickey RooneyLewis StoneFay HoldenJudge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDoris DayGordon MacRaeJack SmithDuring World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDoris DayGordon MacRaeLeon AmesMarjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
- DirectorJames SignorelliStarsRodney DangerfieldJoe PesciGeraldine FitzgeraldTo inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard-living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before they get the best of him.
- DirectorCarl ReinerStarsJohn DenverGeorge BurnsTeri GarrWhen God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyCecilia ParkerJudge Hardy and family travel to Detroit to claim an inheritance where they experience life as millionaires and learn the cost of riding high.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsMickey RooneyLewis StoneFay HoldenJudge Hardy, trying to find a relative of an aged couple to prevent them from losing their home, enlists the aid of his son Andy.
- DirectorDavid S. Cass Sr.StarsDean CainJean Louisa KellyMimi KennedyA married couple takes in three boys from the local orphanage for the holidays and all three boys hope to be adopted.
- DirectorJan TroellStarsGene HackmanLiv UllmannEileen HeckartAn American settler marries an European mail-order bride and together they learn how to thrive in the harsh wilderness while working on their relationship too.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsEdward G. RobinsonMargaret O'BrienJames CraigA Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyCecilia ParkerJudge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. However, he finds the high society life too expensive and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerKathryn HarroldSam WanamakerA former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff agrees to help the FBI chief infiltrate the Chicago mafia when the FBI chief's son is killed by them.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsRay MillandGene TierneyFay BainterA columnist and his wife deal with obstacles when they try to adopt an abandoned baby.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyFay HoldenAndy starts freshman life at Wainwright College and gets caught up with helping blonde twin sisters.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsJames StewartMaureen O'HaraFabianMr. Hobbs wants to spend a quiet holiday at the beach, but his wife has invited all their family to stay with them.
- DirectorWillis GoldbeckStarsMickey RooneyLewis StoneSara HadenAndy Hardy goes to college after returning from World War II. He is in love with Kay Wilson this time.
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsRuss TamblynJune ThorburnPeter SellersA boy (Russ Tamblyn), no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves (Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers) determined to make a fortune from him.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsDoris DayDavid NivenJanis PaigeDrama professor turned theater critic balances his home life and career when he moves to the country with his wife and their four sons.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsZachary ScottBetty FieldJ. Carrol NaishThe life of the poor Tucker family who worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature was against them.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsKaren BlackOliver ReedBurgess MeredithA family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsBob HopeLana TurnerJanis PaigeA bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.Welcome to the suburban life in the 1960s, in a Californian housing development; where the women stay at home while their husbands are away, and they make friends with the newest neighbor, a bachelor writer who has a way with women that makes the neighbors talk!
- CreatorDavid DortortStarsLeif EricksonCameron MitchellHenry DarrowThe Cannon family runs the High Chaparral Ranch in the Arizona Territory in 1870s.Meet Victoria Cannon, who takes care of the men of the High Chaparral ranch in Arizona territory! While Victoria's marriage to Big John Cannon is an alliance for the sake of her father, she loves her husband, his son, and the life she has at the ranch where she is the woman of the house and proud of it!
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsKathleen FreemanHoward NegleyRuth LeeIn this entry in the Passing Parade series, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Annie Swenson, who worked as a cook/housekeeper in the Nesbitt home when he was growing up. Annie was one of thousands of Scandinavian immigrant girls who came to America in the early years of the 20th century in search of a better life.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsFredric MarchMartha ScottBeulah BondiEpisodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsCary GrantBetsy DrakeLurene TuttleNew Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose become foster parents to several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into serious trouble.
- DirectorS. Sylvan SimonStarsFrank MorganKeenan WynnCecil KellawayMan returns from heaven to make up for financial errors he made that caused harm to his family.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsHenry FondaMaureen O'HaraJames MacArthurGrand Teton quarryman and family patriarch carefully navigates issues of religion and education in order to eke out a brighter future for his family.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsMarjorie MainPercy KilbrideRichard LongOn the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but he is accused of plagiarizing his winning slogan by a jealous local woman.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJack BennyAnn SheridanCharles CoburnWhen Bill and Connie Fuller are forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment because of their pet dog, Connie purchases a dilapidated old Pennsylvania house where George Washington allegedly slept, and persuades Bill to renovate it.
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsJeni CourtneyEileen ColganMick LallyYoung Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsRory CalhounMary CostaJames GregoryA "confidence couple" pose as husband and wife while attempting a bank heist.
- DirectorWill PriceStarsMartha ScottJeffrey LynnHarry MorganIn order to cash-in a life insurance policy, a failing business owner asks one of his employees, who has financial woes of his own, to aid him in disguising his suicide into a robbery-murder.
- DirectorGeorge More O'FerrallStarsRalph RichardsonCelia JohnsonMargaret LeightonA heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Their story includes a remembrance of their World War II trials.