Golden Age of the Silver Screen

 

Here are some of the greatest movies ever made, tons of the now hard to find Great classic Hollywood Golden Era Films!

Pictured above…Stars of the Hollywood Golden Age cinema era (c. 1917–1960). Top row, l-r: Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Marlon Brando, the Marx Brothers, Joan Crawford. Second row, l-r: John Wayne, James Stewart, Buster Keaton, Claudette Colbert, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas. Third row, l-r: Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Grace Kelly, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney. Fourth row, l-r: Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Orson Welles, Mae West, William Holden, Sophia Loren. Bottom row, l-r: Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Lillian Gish, Tyrone Power, Shirley Temple, Janet Leigh with Charlton Heston, Rita Hayworth, Mary Pickford

 

Ace in the Hole Kirk Douglas 1951

Chuck Tatum, (Kirk Douglas), is a cynical, disgraced reporter who uses a cave in at a local mine to try to regain a job on a major newspaper.

 

 

 

 

Action In The North Atlantic Bogart 1943

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat.

 

 

 

An Affair To Remember Cary Grant 1957

A man and a woman have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months.

 

 

 

Affair In Trinidad Rita Hayworth 1952

When nightclub performer Chris Emery (Rita Hayworth) discovers that her husband has been murdered, she resolves to help the police find his killer.

 

 

 

 

The African Queen Humphrey Bogart 1951

After religious spinster’s (Katharine Hepburn) missionary brother is killed in WWI Africa, dissolute steamer captain (Humphrey Bogart) offers her safe passage.

 

 

 

 

Against All Flags Maureen O’Hara 1952

A British naval officer (Errol Flynn) poses as a deserter to trick a pirate (Maureen O’Hara) and her cohort (Anthony Quinn) in 1700 Madagascar.

 

 

 

 

All Mine To Give Glynis Johns 1957

In this fact-based drama set in the 1850s, the Eunsons move from Scotland to the American Midwest, where they live happily and run a successful business — until the untimely deaths of both the father and the mother.

 

 

 

All Through The Night Peter Lorre 1941

When noted gambler Alfred “Gloves” Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) makes a trip to his local bakery to see why his cheesecake hasn’t been delivered, he sees nightclub singer Leda Hamilton (Kaaren Verne) leaving the bakery, and finds that his favorite baker has been murdered.

 

 

 

Anastasia Yul Brynner Ingrid Bergman 1956

A story about an amnesiac refugee named Anna Anderson (Ingrid Bergman) who could be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, purported sole survivor of the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918, and therefore the rightful heir to the Czar’s fortune.

 

 

 

Angels With Dirty Faces Bogart Cagney 1938

Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O’Brien) were brought up in one of New York’s toughest neighborhoods, Hell’s Kitchen. While his buddy Rocky gets caught up in racketeering in reform school, Jerry decides to become a priest. 

 

 

 

Has Anybody Seen My Gal Rock Hudson 1952

An aging heir-less millionaire wants to leave his fortune to the unsuspecting family of his first love but not before testing his prospective heirs by living with them under the guise of a poor boarder.

 

 

 

Appointment in Honduras Glenn Ford 1953

A soldier of fortune (Glenn Ford) takes a bickering U.S. couple (Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott) with him on a jungle delivery to an ousted leader.

 

 

 

 

April In Paris Doris Day 1952

Government office worker Sam Winthrop Putnam (Ray Bolger) mistakenly sends an invitation to a prestigious theater festival in Paris to New York City chorus girl Ethel “Dynamite” Jackson (Doris Day).

 

 

 

Arabesque Gregory Peck Sophia Loren 1966

When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock (Gregory Peck), a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme.

 

 

 

Around The World In 80 Days 1956

ictorian-era Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) proclaims before his fellow members of a London gentleman’s club that he can circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days.

 

 

 

 

Atlantis The Lost Continent Joyce Taylor 1961

After Greek fisherman Demetrios (Anthony Hall) rescues Princess Antillia (Joyce Taylor) at sea, he returns her to her home country of Atlantis.

 

 

 

 

What Ever Happened Baby Jane Bette Davis 1962

Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), also a former child actress.

 

 

 

 

Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer Cary Grant 1947

Artist playboy Dickie Nugent (Cary Grant) appears before beautiful judge Margaret Turner (Myrna Loy) for fighting at a nightclub, and charms her into dismissing the charge.

 

 

 

 

Bachelor in Paradise Bob Hope Lana Turner 1961

Author A. J. Niles writes about the romance and excitement in the life of a bachelor in a series called “Bachelor Books”. One day he finds himself in dire financial straits and needs to write a new book in record time.

 

 

 

The Balad of Josie Doris Day 1967

Recently acquitted for the accidental death of her abusive, alcoholic husband, Josie Minick (Doris Day) attempts to rejuvenate her dilapidated ranch.

 

 

 

 

Band of Angels Clark Gable 1957

Romantic drama film set in the American South before and during the American Civil War.

 

 

 

 

Bells of Saint Mary’s Bing Crosby 1945

Father O’Malley (Bing Crosby) is transferred to the Roman Catholic inner-city school St. Mary’s, where he quickly falls into conflict with its headmistress, Sister Mary (Ingrid Bergman).

 

 

 

 

Ben Hur Charleton Heston 1959

Epic drama about an aristocratic Jew living in Judaea who incurs the wrath of a childhood friend, now a Roman tribune.

 

 

 

 

 

Best Foot Forward Lucille Ball 1943

Beloved actress Lucille Ball plays herself in this lively musical comedy, based on the Broadway play and featuring the music of popular bandleader Harry James. 

 

 

 

 

The Big Country Charlton Heston 1958

Retiring to the American West to marry his fiancée, Patricia Terrill (Carroll Baker), Captain James McKay (Gregory Peck) enters a land-and-water feud between his future father-in-law and the rough and lawless Hannassey family.

 

 

 

The Big Heat Glenn Ford Lee Marvin 1953

A police officer seems to have committed suicide, but Detective Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) thinks there’s more to the story.

 

 

 

 

The Big Sleep Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall

Private investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by General Sternwood to help resolve the gambling debts of his wild young daughter, Carmen (Martha Vickers).

 

 

 

The Black Knight Alan Ladd 1954

Spurred by love for the beautiful Lady Linet (Patricia Medina), humble sword-maker John (Alan Ladd) begins training to become a knight.

 

 

 

 

The Black Rose Orson Welles 1950

Following the 13th-century death of his nobleman father, Walter of Gurnie (Tyrone Power) and his confidant, Tristram (Jack Hawkins), join a caravan led by the North African Bayan (Orson Welles) en route to China.

 

 

 

Black Widow Ginger Rogers George Raft 1954

At a party, Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) meets Nancy Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner), a young writer struggling to make it in New York City.

 

 

 

 

Blood and Sand Rita Hatworth 1941

Brash young Spanish peasant Juan Gallardo (Tyrone Power) aspires to follow his dead father’s footsteps into the bullring, despite his mother’s fears. 

 

 

 

 

Bonnie & Clyde Warren Beaty Fay Dunaway 1967

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

 

 

 

Born Free Elsa The Lioness 1966

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson (Bill Travers) and his wife, Joy (Virginia McKenna), care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple.

 

 

 

The Brass Bottle Barbara Eden Burl Ives 1964

A real-estate developer, (Tony Randall), buys an antique brass bottle that contains an ancient genie, (Burl Ives), who’s determined to fulfill his new master’s every wish. 

 

 

 

The Brave One Michel Ray 1956

An adventure film of a Mexican boy (Michel Ray) who seeks a presidential pardon for his pet bull, taken from his poor family and sold to face a matador in the bullring.

 

 

 

 

Breakfast at Tiffany’s Audrey Hepburn 1961

Based on Truman Capote’s novel, this is the story of a young woman in New York City who meets a young man when he moves into her apartment building. 

 

 

 

 

The Bridge on the River Kwai William Holden 1957

British POWs are ordered by their Japanese captors to construct a bridge of strategic importance and are happy to sabotage and delay the progress

 

 

 

 

The Buccaneer Yul Brynner 1958

During the War of 1812, New Orleans is the target of a major British offensive. General Andrew Jackson (Charlton Heston) feels they should ask for help from Jean Lafitte (Yul Brynner), a pirate who occupies a strategic island near New Orleans.

 

 

 

Bus Stop Marilyn Monroe 1956

Cowboys Beauregard Decker (Don Murray) and Virgil Blessing (Arthur O’Connell) attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie (Marilyn Monroe).

 

 

 

 

Caesar & Cleopatra Vivien Leigh Claude Rains1945

The Roman conqueror Julius Caesar (Claude Rains) takes over the Egyptian city of Alexandria, and in so doing inherits a pressing problem.

 

 

 

 

The Caine Mutiny Humphrey Bogart 1954

During World War II, a dilapidated vessel, the Caine, gets a new ensign, Willis Keith (Robert Francis), and a new captain, Commander Queeg (Humphrey Bogart).

 

 

 

 

Calamity Jane Doris Day 1953

In the lonely Deadwood, Dakota, territory, sharpshooter Calamity Jane (Doris Day) falls for cavalry Lt. Danny Gilmartin (Philip Carey) when she is forced to rescue him from the Indians.

 

 

 

California Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland 1947

As the California Gold Rush begins, Jonathan Trumbo (Ray Milland) goes AWOL from the Army and decides to lead a wagon train to the West Coast. With saloon girl Lily Bishop (Barbara Stanwyck).

 

 

 

A Canterbury Tale Sheila Sim 1944

On the way to Canterbury during World War II 3 travelers are confronted with a strange mystery of a serial criminal who puts glue in women’s hair.

 

 

 

 

Caprice Doris Day 1967

An industrial spy (Doris Day) for a cosmetics firm falls for another (Richard Harris) who may not be on her side.

 

 

 

 

Captains Courageous Spencer Tracy 1937

When spoiled Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is suspended from boarding school, his businessman father (Melvyn Douglas) takes him to Europe on a business trip. When the rebellious lad falls overboard from the steamship, he is saved from death by a humble fisherman.

 

 

 

The Carpetbaggers Alan Ladd 1964

When playboy Jonas (George Peppard) inherits his father’s industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruthless.

 

 

 

Casablanca Humphrey Bogart 1942

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). 

 

 

 

Casanova’s Big Night Bob Hope 1954

A valet (Basil Rathbone) and a widow (Joan Fontaine) help a tailor’s apprentice (Bob Hope) pose as Casanova in 1700s Italy.

 

 

 

 

The Cat and the Canary Bob Hope 1939

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman (Paulette Goddard) and Wally Campbell (Bob Hope). 

 

 

 

To Catch a Thief Cary Grant 1955

Notorious cat burglar John Robie (Cary Grant) has long since retired to tend vineyards on the French Riviera. When a series of robberies is committed in his style, John must clear his name.

 

 

 

The Catered Affair Bette Davis 1956

When Jane (Debbie Reynolds) tells her parents that she is getting married to Ralph Halloran (Rod Taylor), her mother, Agnes (Bette Davis), starts planning an elaborate wedding, even though Jane does not wish it.

 

 

 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Liz Taylor 1958

After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), visit his family’s Mississippi plantation.

 

 

 

That Certain Feeling Bob Hope 1956

A meek unknown (Bob Hope) draws a popular comic strip for a pompous cartoonist (George Sanders) engaged to his ex-wife (Eva Marie Saint).

 

 

 

 

Charade 1963 Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn

After Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered.

 

 

 

China Alan Ladd Loretta Young 1943

A war profiteer (Alan Ladd) and his buddy (William Bendix) protect a U.S. teacher (Loretta Young), her Chinese schoolgirls and a baby from the Japanese.

 

 

 

 

Cimarron Glenn Ford Anne Baxter 1960

After Sabra (Maria Schell) marries cowboy Yancey Cravat (Glenn Ford) against her parents’ wishes, the newlyweds travel to Oklahoma to participate in a land rush for territory taken from the Indians.

 

 

 

Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941

When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s (Orson Welles) dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights.

 

 

 

Cleopatra Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton 1963

Epic 4 hour love story of Cleopatra’s manipulation of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony in her ill-fated attempt to save the Egyptian empire.

 

 

 

 

Cold Turkey Dick Van Dyke 1971 Quit Smoking

In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Reverend Brooks (Dick Van Dyke) spearheads his community’s effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. The Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25,000 cash prize to any town in America that can quit smoking for 30 days.

 

 

 

Come September Rock Hudson Sandra Dee 1961

American mogul Robert Talbot (Rock Hudson) customarily spends the month of September in his lush Italian villa. But this year he arrives early and gets a surprise, his money-grubbing overseer has turned the villa into a hotel in his absence!

 

 

 

They Came To Cordura Rita Hayworth 1959

On a mission to Mexico, U.S. Maj. Tom Thorn (Gary Cooper) is branded a coward, while several of his fellow servicemen are praised for showing bravery.

 

 

 

 

The Court Jester Danny Kaye 1955

Former carnival performer Hubert Hawkins (Danny Kaye) and maid Jean (Glynis Johns) are assigned to protect the infant royal heir from tyrannical King Roderick I (Cecil Parker).

 

 

 

The Crimson Pirate Burt Lancaster 1952

Capt. Vallo (Burt Lancaster), the leader of a roving band of pirates, hijacks a ship filled with expensive cargo. 

 

 

 

 

Crisis Cary Grant 1950


Vacationing in a Latin American country, American brain surgeon Eugene Ferguson (Cary Grant) and his wife, Helen (Paula Raymond), get caught in a revolutionary uprising. 

 

 

 

Dante’s Inferno Rita Hayworth 1935

After losing his job as a stoker on a luxury cruise liner, the resentful but ambitious Jim Carter (Spencer Tracy) joins a carnival run by Pop McWade as a cleaner for a show called Dante’s Inferno.

 

 

 

 

Dark Passage 1947 Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall

Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart) has just escaped from prison after being locked up for a crime he did not commit…murdering his wife. On the outside, Vincent finds that his face is betraying him, literally, so he finds a plastic surgery to give him new features.

 

 

 

Dear Heart Glenn Ford Geraldine Page 1964

Bubbly, middle-aged Evie Jackson (Geraldine Page) has been single and alone for quite some time. When she attends a postmasters’ convention at a New York City hotel, she meets rakish greeting card salesman Harry Mork (Glenn Ford) and falls in love.

 

 

Designing Women Lauren Bacall 1957

Sports reporter Mike (Gregory Peck) and clothes designer Marilla (Lauren Bacall) meet and fall in love while on vacation. They marry on a whim, only to come to the shocking realization that they have very little in common.

 

 

 

Désirée Marlon Brando 1954

Desiree Clary (Jean Simmons) has met the love of her life, and his name is Napoleon Bonaparte (Marlon Brando). But their love is a difficult one

 

 

 

 

Dial M For Murder Ray Milland Grace Kelly 1954

Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) wants to have his wealthy wife, Margot (Grace Kelly), murdered so he can get his hands on her inheritance. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

 

 

 

The Diary of Anne Frank 1959

In Nazi-occupied Holland in World War II, shopkeeper Kraler hides two Jewish families in his attic. Young Anne Frank (Millie Perkins) keeps a diary of everyday life.

 

 

 

Distant Drums Gary Cooper 1951

During the 1840 Seminole Wars in Florida, Quincy Wyatt is an army captain who leads a small force to attack gun runners who are supplying the enemy. Successful in the mission, his force are now the target of the Seminoles.

 

 

 

Do Not Disturb Doris Day 1965

American Mike Harper (Rod Taylor), sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet (Doris Day). But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with his attractive new assistant.

 

 

 

Don’t Bother To Knock Marilyn Monroe 1952

Pilot Jed Towers (Richard Widmark) encounters the beautiful Nell Forbes (Marilyn Monroe) while staying at a hotel in New York City. Jed pursues Nell, initially thinking she’s a woman of means, but comes to learn that she is actually a babysitter!

 

 

 

Double Dynamite Jane Russell Frank Sinatra 1951

Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra), a poor bank teller who works tirelessly to save enough money to marry his doting girlfriend (Jane Russell), comes across a fortune when he rescues a duplicitous bookie.

 

 

 

Down To Earth 1947 Rita Hayworth

Deity of dance Terpsichore (Rita Hayworth) and her fellow muses are enraged when they learn that Broadway hotshot Danny Miller (Larry Parks) is planning to spoof Greek mythology in his next play. 

 

 

 

Down to the Sea in Ships Richard Widmark 1949

The aging Captain Bering Joy, (Lionel Barrymore), goes on one last whaling mission, bringing along his young grandson, Jed (Dean Stockwell), as an apprentice.

 

 

 

Easy To Wed Lucille Ball 1946

When a newspaper runs a scandalous story about debutante Connie Allenbury (Esther Williams), her powerful broker father threatens the paper’s owner, Warren Haggerty (Keenan Wynn), with a massive lawsuit.

 

 

 

The Egg and I Fred MacMurray 1947

World War II veteran Bob MacDonald (Fred MacMurray) surprises his new wife, Betty (Claudette Colbert), by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. 

 

 

 

El Cid Charlton Heston Sophia Loren 1961

Spain is overrun by the Moors and the country’s only hope rests in a heroic knight known as El Cid (Charlton Heston).

 

 

 

 

The Emperor Waltz Bing Crosby 1948

Salesman Virgil Smith (Bing Crosby) is making his next big move in Austria, pushing the gramophone. He believes that if he can persuade Emperor Franz Joseph (Richard Haydn) to purchase the record player, he’ll strike it rich

 

 

 

Escape To Burma Barbara Stanwyck 1955

Henchmen and a British policeman (David Farrar) track a man (Robert Ryan) wanted for murder to a woman’s (Barbara Stanwyck) jungle plantation.

 

 

 

 

From Here To Eternity Burt Lancaster 1953

At an Army barracks in Hawaii in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, lone-wolf soldier and boxing champion “Prew” Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) refuses to box, preferring to play the bugle instead.

 

 

 

Exodus Paul Newman Sal Mineo 1960

Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus.

 

 

 

Experiment in Terror Glenn Ford Lee Remick 1962

Kelly Sherwood (Lee Remick) is a bank teller terrorized by murderer “Red” Lynch (Ross Martin). Red, whose asthmatic voice is heard through his many terrifying phone calls, threatens to kill Kelly if she doesn’t steal a large sum of money from the bank.

 

 

 

Fall of the Roman Empire Sophia Loren 1964

Toward the end of his reign, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness) intends to hand over his throne to the steadfast soldier Livius (Stephen Boyd).

 

 

 

 

My Fair Lady Audrey Hepburn 1964

In this beloved musical, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society.

 

 

 

Fancy Pants Bob Hope Lucille Ball 1950

To add a touch of English sophistication to her New Mexican estate, Effie (Lea Penman) convinces Humphrey (Bob Hope), a man she thinks is a British butler, to come to the United States in her employ.

 

 

 

Far from the Madding Crowd Julie Christie 1967

British drama focuses on Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie), a beautiful young woman who inherits a picturesque farm from her uncle and is determined to run it herself.

 

 

 

The Fastest Gun Alive 1956 Glenn Ford

Former gunslinger George Temple (Glenn Ford) wants to keep his gun-fighting days a secret as he builds a new life. It seems whenever Temple’s prowess with a gun is discovered, he and his wife, Dora (Jeanne Crain), have to skip town before someone challenges him.

 

 

 

Fate is the Hunter Glenn Ford 1964

An airplane has crashed, causing the deaths of 53 people, but who is to blame? It’s the job of Sam McBane (Glenn Ford) to find out, especially since the pilot was his good friend, and authorities believe he may have been drunk during the flight.

 

 

 

Father Goose Cary Grant Leslie Caron 1964

On an island in the South Seas, Walter Eckland, (Cary Grant), is persuaded to serve as a lookout for the Allies, watching for enemy ship when he finds a stranded teacher, Catherine (Leslie Caron), and her pupils.

 

 

 

Firecreek 1968 James Stewart Henry Fonda

Johnny Cobb (James Stewart) is the part-time sheriff in a small, rundown town, trying to stretch his meager salary to provide for his growing family when a gang of bandits led by Bob Larkin (Henry Fonda) makes themselves at home in town.

 

 

 

The Flame and the Arrow Burt Lancaster 1950

Italian archer Dardo Bartoli (Burt Lancaster) is waging a war against the Hessians. His grudge against their leader, Count “The Hawk” Ulrich (Frank Allenby), is more than simply political.

 

 

 

Flesh & Fantasy 1943 Barbara Stanwyck

Two members of a gentlemen’s club tell three tales of the supernatural. 

 

 

 

 

 

Fluffy Tony Randall Shirley Jones 1965

A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.

 

 

 

Foreign Correspondent Joel McCrea 1940

Crime reporter John Jones, (Joel McCrea), is re-assigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent When he stumbles on a spy ring, he feels ill-equipped to unravel the truth alone and he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter.

 

 

 

Forever Darling Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz 1956

After five years of marriage, Susan (Lucille Ball) and Lorenzo Vega (Desi Arnaz) have grown apart from each other when Susan starts seeing her Guardian Angel (James Mason), who advises her to try to support her husband.

 

 

 

The Fountainhead Gary Cooper 1949

Unconventional and arrogant architect Howard Roark (Gary Cooper) sees himself as misunderstood, having been openly criticized by writer Ellsworth Toohey (Robert Douglas).

 

 

 

The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse Glenn Ford ’62

Argentinian patriarch Julio Madariaga (Lee J. Cobb) urges his German-born nephew, Heinrich von Hartrott (Karl Boehm), to give up his Nazi allegiance on the brink of World War II, but the request is refused.

 

 

 

The Fuller Brush Girl Lucille Ball 1950

Humphrey Briggs (Eddie Albert) and his girlfriend, Sally Elliot (Lucille Ball), are office workers at a shipping firm whose corrupt owner, Harvey Simpson (Jerome Cowan), uses his company as a front for a massive smuggling operation.

 

 

 

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Marilyn Monroe 1953

Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond (Tommy Noonan), much to the disapproval of Gus’ rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money.

 

 

 

The Ghost Breakers Bob Hope 1940

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter (Paulette Goddard) becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located on Black Island near the Cuban coast, a stranger (Anthony Quinn) phones to warn her to stay away from the castle.

 

 

 

 

Giant James Dean Rock Hudson Liz Taylor 1956

Epic Western Drama! Wealthy Texas rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) shakes things up at home when he returns from a trip to the East Coast with a love interest, the refined Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor). who draws the admiration of the ambitious young Jett Rink (James Dean).

 

 

 

The Glass Bottom Boat Doris Day 1966

Jennifer Nelson (Doris Day) works at an aerospace lab, but moonlights as a mermaid to boost sales for her father’s glass-bottom boat company.

 

 

 

 

A Global Affair Bob Hope 1964

When a mother leaves her baby at the United Nations, authorities give the child to Frank Larrimore (Bob Hope), the head of the women’s rights department.

 

 

 

 

 

Gone With The Wind

Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh). The film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).

 

 

 

They Got Me Covered Bob Hope 1943

A cowardly newsman (Bob Hope) and his girlfriend (Dorothy Lamour) foil Axis spies who intend to blow up Washington.

 

 

 

 

 

The Grass is Greener Cary Grant 1960

In order to maintain their crumbling stately home, Earl Vincent Rhyall and his wife Lady Hilary reluctantly open it to coach parties of American tourists

 

 

 

 

The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965

Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker, Victor Buono, Claude Rains, Roddy McDowall, Angela Lansbury, Martin Landau, Richard Conte ,Sal Mineo, Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, John Wayne, Van Heflin, José Ferrer.

 

 

 

It’s A Great Feeling Doris Day 1949

A waitress in the Warner Bros. cafeteria, Judy Adams (Doris Day), is picked by actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan to star in their next picture, but Several problems arise from the decision.

 

 

 

The Great Lover Bob Hope 1949

The leader (Bob Hope) of a scout troop flirts with a duchess (Rhonda Fleming) and nabs a card-shark strangler (Roland Young) on a cruise.

 

 

 

 

Green Dolphin Street Lana Turner 1947

The year is 1840, and siblings Marianne (Lana Turner) and Marguerite Patourel (Donna Reed) have found love; the problem is, both women want William Ozone (Richard Hart).

 

 

 

 

Green Mansions Audrey Hepburn 1959

When his father is murdered by a corrupt political regime, Abel (Anthony Perkins) flees Caracas and for the Venezuelan forests, searching for hidden gold to fund his revenge. In the jungle, he finds Rima (Audrey Hepburn), a “bird girl” who has reverted to a natural and innocent state. 

 

 

 

Gunga Din Cary Grant 1939

British army sergeants Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), Cutter (Cary Grant) and MacChesney (Victor McLaglen) serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe).

 

 

 

Hamlet Laurence Olivier 1948

British made Oscar-winning film of the Shakespearean tragedy about the Danish prince who seeks vengeance when his uncle usurps the throne by killing his father and marrying his mother.

 

 

 

Haunted Honeymoon Robert Montgomery 1940

After marrying, amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey (Robert Montgomery) and mystery novelist Harriet Vane (Constance Cummings) agree to retire from their sleuthing interests…..

 

 

 

All That Heaven Allows Rock Hudson 1955

Predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), is considerably older than the man, handsome gardener-landscaper Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson).

 

 

 

Her Jungle Love Ray Milland Dorothy Lamour 1938

While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell (Ray Milland) and Jimmy Wallace (Lynne Overman) are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island.

 

 

 

A Hole In The Head Frank Sinatra 1959

Tony, (Frank Sinatra), is dedicated to his young son, Ally (Eddie Hodges), though he butts heads with his own brother, Mario (Edward G. Robinson). When Mario agrees to help Tony out financially, the catch is that the bachelor has to settle down and find a mother for his son.

 

 

 

Houseboat Cary Grant, Sophia Loren 1958

Tom Winston (Cary Grant) is struggling to raise his three children on his own after his wife’s death. After meeting the charming and beautiful Cinzia Zaccardi (Sophia Loren) at a concert, he hires her as a live-in nanny.

 

 

 

The Incredible Mr. Limpet Don Knotts 1964

Aquatic life fanatic Henry Limpet (Don Knotts) falls into the sea and transforms into a fish, quickly becoming pals with a crab and developing a romantic bond with a fetching female fish.

 

 

 

Indiscreet Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman 1958

Famous theater actress Anna Kalman (Ingrid Bergman) has resigned herself to her single life, believing that she has missed her chance at meeting a husband.

 

 

 

 

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Ingrid Bergman 1958

Gladys Aylward (Ingrid Bergman), a British maid, believes that she is destined to go to China and eventually leads a group of orphans to safety by embarking on a dangerous mountain journey durring a Japanese invasion.

 

 

 

 

I Remember Mama Irene Dunne 1948

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson (Irene Dunne) keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband (Philip Dorn) and a highly-educated lodger (Cedric Hardwicke) who reads Charles Dickens to the family every evening.

 

 

 

The Iron Petticoat Katharine Hepburn Bob Hope ’56

A humourless Russian, Captain Vinka Kovelenko, defects from her home country. Major Chuck Lockwood is assigned to show her the bright lights of London while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. 

 

 

 

It Started With A Kiss Debbie Reynolds 1959

A penniless sergeant in the Air Force, Joe Fitzpatrick (Glenn Ford), impulsively marries a feisty nightclub showgirl named Maggie (Debbie Reynolds), who thinks money is more important than love.

 

 

 

Ivanhoe Elizabeth Taylor Joan Fontaine 1952

Loyal British knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor) sets out on a mission to free the kidnapped King of England, Richard the Lionheart (Norman Wooland), in this rousing adventure tale.

 

 

 

Jamaica Run Ray Milland Arlene Dahl 1953

Cargo ship owner Pat Fairlie (Ray Milland) loves Ena Dacey (Arlene Dahl), but her unconventional mother (Carroll McComas) and supercilious brother, Todd (Wendell Corey), don’t approve of their relationship. 

 

 

 

It Happened To Jane Doris Day 1959

After a shipment of fresh lobsters isn’t delivered on time to Jane Osgood (Doris Day), she hires her lawyer friend George Denham (Jack Lemmon) to sue the railroad company she believes is responsible for the damages.

 

 

 

Jivaro Brian Keith 1954

A South American jungle trader (Fernando Lamas) leads a Californian (Rhonda Fleming) to her fiance and gold in headhunter country.

 

 

 

 

The Journey Yul Brynner Debra Kerr 1959

During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, a group of international travelers tries to get out of Budapest, but are thwarted at every turn by the Soviets.

 

 

 

 

Judgment At Nuremberg 1961 Marlene Dietrich

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity.

 

 

 

 

Julie Doris Day 1956

Julie’s first husband, Bob, supposedly committed suicide due to a financial crises, but a while into her second marriage, an emotional outburst from her new husband, Lyle, leads her to discover that Bob was murdered by Lyle. 

 

 

 

Julius Caesar Marlon Brando Deborah Kerr 1953

Brutus (James Mason) is convinced by a scheming band of Roman senators, led by Caius Cassius (John Gielgud), that his dear friend Julius Caesar (Louis Calhern) intends to dissolve the republic and install himself as monarch.

 

 

 

Jumbo Doris Day Jimmy Durante 1962

Pop and Kitty Wonder are father-and-daughter circus hands trying to save their tiny business from rival owner John Noble, whose son, Sam has secretly joined their circus as a tightrope walker

 

 

 

Key Largo Humphrey Bogart 1948

World War II vet Frank McCloud, (Humphrey Bogart), Visiting Key Largo to pay his respects to the family of his late war buddy, attempts to comfort his comrade’s widow, Nora (Lauren Bacall), and father, James Temple (Lionel Barrymore), who operate a hotel.

 

 

Kim Errol Flynn 1950

During the 1880s in India, a young orphan named Kim (Dean Stockwell) is employed by Mahbub Ali (Errol Flynn), an English spy who masquerades as a horse trader.

 

 

 

The King and I Deborah Kerr Yul Brynner 1956

In this film adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens (Deborah Kerr) becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam (Yul Brynner)

 

 

 

A Kiss Before Dying Robert Wagner 1956

Amoral Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) pursues young heiress Dorie Kingship (Joanne Woodward) in the hopes of getting his hands on the fortune amassed by her father (George Macready). But after Dorie succumbs to Bud’s charms and becomes pregnant as a result.

 

 

 

The Last Time I Saw Paris Elizabeth Taylor 1954

Reporter Charles Wills (Van Johnson), in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor) following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion (Donna Reed).

 

 

 

Lawrence Of Arabia 1962

Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness) and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. 

 

 

 

The Left Hand Of God Humphrey Bogart 1955

Having crash-landed in remote China during World War II, Jim Carmody (Humphrey Bogart) sees one of the local chinese warlord’s soldiers murder a priest in cold blood, Carmody adopts the dead man’s identity in a bid to escape.

 

 

 

 

The Lemon Drop Kid Bob Hope 1951

Bob Hope plays a con artist whose betting mistake leaves gangster Moose Moran $10,000 out of pocket. Given until Christmas to come up with the cash, he goes into scamming overdrive to come up with the cash.

 

 

 

 

Little Women Liz Taylor June Alyson 1949

The March sisters — Meg (Janet Leigh), Jo (June Allyson), Beth (Margaret O’Brien) and Amy (Elizabeth Taylor) — struggle to make ends meet in their New England household while their father is away fighting in the Civil War.

 

 

 

The Long Long Trailer Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz 1953

Nicholas Collini (Desi Arnaz) has to travel for his job as an engineer — so his fiancée, Tacy (Lucille Ball), suggests that rather than buy a house after their wedding, they invest in a motor home so they can see the country together.

 

 

 

The Long Ships Richard Widmark 1964

Moorish ruler El Mansuh (Sidney Poitier) is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the “Mother of Voices.” A Viking explorer Rolfe (Richard Widmark) also becomes intent on finding the mythical treasure.

 

 

 

Lord Jim Peter O’Toole 1965

Young merchant seaman Jim (Peter O’Toole) signs onto a ship bound for Mecca. During a storm, the crew flees, and Jim goes with them, leaving the passengers to fend for themselves. A guilty Jim confesses to his dereliction of duty and becomes a drifter.

 

 

 

The Lost World Irwin Allen Claude Rains 1960

Anthropology professor George Challenger (Claude Rains), explorer Lord John Roxton (Michael Rennie) and an assorted team of thrill seekers and experts trek through a Venezuelan rainforest that they suspect may be home to living prehistoric creatures.

 

 

 

Love Is A Many Splendored Thing BillHolden 1955

In Hong Kong in 1949, Mark Elliott (William Holden) is an American reporter covering the Chinese civil war. Undergoing a trial separation from his wife, he meets the beautiful Dr. Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones).

 

 

 

Love Me Or Leave Me Doris Day James Cagny ’55

During the 1920s, a small-time Chicago criminal, Martin Snyder (James Cagney), discovers a beautiful dancer, Ruth Etting (Doris Day), after she’s fired from her job at a nightclub.

 

 

 

Lover Come Back Doris Day, Rock Hudson 1961

Jerry (Rock Hudson) is a slick adman who uses women and booze to woo his clients. One day, his tactics draw the ire of Carol (Doris Day), an executive at a rival agency, who reports him to the Ad Council.

 

 

 

Lucky Me Doris Day 1954

Musical comedy with Doris Day as a singer who takes her two-bit theatre troupe to Florida but without much luck.

 

 

 

 

Macbeth Orson Welles 1948

In director Welles’ retelling of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Macbeth (Orson Welles), a medieval Scottish general, is told by three witches he will rise to be king.

 

 

 

 

I Was A Male War Bride Cary Grant 1949

Henry Rochard (Cary Grant) is a captain in the French army who is forced to work with the combative but beautiful U.S. Army Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan).

 

 

 

The Maltese Falcon Humphrey Bogart 1941

Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman (Mary Astor). With Peter Lorre.

 

 

 

A Man For All Seasons Orson Welles 1966

When the highly respected British statesman Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) refuses to pressure the Pope into annulling the marriage of King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw) and his Spanish-born wife, More’s clashes with the monarch increase in intensity.

 

 

 

Mara Maru Errol Flynn Raymond Burr 1952

A yachtsman (Raymond Burr) hires a deep-sea diver (Errol Flynn) to find treasure in a PT boat in postwar Manila.

 

 

 

 

How To Commit Marriage Bob Hope 1969

Bickerers (Bob Hope, Jane Wyman) fake a happy marriage to adopt their hippie daughter’s out-of-wedlock child. With Jackie Gleason!

 

 

 

 

How to Marry a Millionaire Marilyn Monroe 1953

Schatze Page, Loco Dempsey and Pola Debevoise (Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe) are three women on a mission: They all want to marry a millionaire. 

 

 

 

The Mating Game Debbie Reynolds 1959

Uptight IRS man Lorenzo Charlton (Tony Randall) is ordered to investigate rural rancher Pop Larkin (Paul Douglas), who is significantly in debt to the government.

 

 

 

 

Meet Me in St. Louis Judy Garland 1944

Wonderful classic MGM romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters (one of whom is the nonpareil Judy Garland) on the cusp of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. 

 

 

 

Midnight Lace Doris Day 1960

When the American wife of a wealthy London-based financier starts receiving frightening phone calls, she believes her life is in danger, but when she protests to her family following a near-fatal accident, they and the police doubt her claims and even her sanity.

 

 

 

The Lady Wants Mink Eve Arden 1953

Jim Connors (Dennis O’Keefe), who works a low-level office job at a department store, saves enough to buy his wife, Nora (Ruth Hussey), a nice coat for her birthday. However, when neighbor Gladys (Eve Arden) shows up with a mink coat, it makes both of the Connors upset.

 

 

 

Mogambo Clark Gable 1953

Victor Marswell (Clark Gable) is a big-game hunter in Kenya who has 2 women in love with him, (Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly), engaged in a battle of will though he seems oblivious to it…

 

 

 

Montana Belle Jane Russell 1952

Belle Starr (Jane Russell), a voluptuous outlaw, is lying low in a small desert town with Bob Dalton (Scott Brady) and his feckless bank robber brothers.

 

 

 

 

On Moonlight Bay Doris Day Gordon MacRae 1951

When tomboy Marjorie moves with her family to a new house in a small town in Indiana, she begins a romance with William. While she transforms from a tomboy to a young lady, her father is not so sure about William who has unconventional ideas.

 

 

 

Move Over Darling 1963 Doris Day James Garner

Nicholas Arden (James Garner) has struggled to get over the absence of his wife, Ellen (Doris Day), but when it seems clear that she’s perished in a plane crash, he decides to move on.

 

 

 

Mr Blandings Dream House Cary Grant 1948

When advertising executive Jim Blandings (Cary Grant) discovers his wife’s (Myrna Loy) plan to redecorate their New York apartment, instead they buy a house in Connecticut which quickly becomes a complete nightmare.

 

 

 

The Three Musketeers Lana Turner 1948

Aspiring swordsman D’Artagnan (Gene Kelly) arrives in Paris with hopes of joining the royal guard and falls in love with the beautiful Constance (June Allyson).

 

 

 

My Dream is Yours Doris Day 1949

When Gary Mitchell (Lee Bowman), a highly successful radio singer, decides against renewing his contract, his agent, Doug Blake (Jack Carson), opts to cut ties and find an even better talent.

 

 

 

My Favorite Blonde Bob Hope 1942

Vaudevillian Larry Haines (Bob Hope) sets out for California seeking fame and fortune, but instead he finds himself entangled in a world of intrigue and espionage.

 

 

 

 

My Favorite Brunette Bob Hope 1947

Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband.

 

 

 

My Favorite Spy Bob Hope 1951

Comedian Peanuts White (Bob Hope) is certainly not a spy — he just happens to look like one. Nabbed by FBI agents at an airport, he’s mistaken for Eric Augustine (also Hope), an actual international spy. 

 

 

 

My Favorite Wife Cary Grant Irene Dunne 1940

After his wife, Ellen (Irene Dunne), disappears at sea, Nick Arden (Cary Grant) waits seven long years before finally marrying the lovely Bianca (Gail Patrick). As luck would have it, Ellen suddenly reappears.

 

 

 

Mutiny On The Bounty Clark Gable 1935

As the cruel captain of the HMS Bounty, a ship bound for Tahiti, William Bligh (Charles Laughton) wins few friends. When the crew members finally tire of his abuse, Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) leads a mutiny.

 

 

 

Never a Dull Moment Fred MacMurray 1950

While visiting New York, Wyoming cowboy and widower Chris Heyward (Fred MacMurray) falls for Broadway songwriter Kay Kingsley (Irene Dunne), and after a whirlwind romance, the two marry and return to Chris’ ranch.

 

 

 

A Night To Remember Loretta Young 1942

Nancy Troy (Loretta Young) and her mystery-author husband, Jeff (Brian Aherne), move into a dark basement apartment in New York City’s Greenwich Village, in hopes of stirring up writing inspiration and become entangled in a murder.

 

 

 

Northern Pursuit Errol Flynn 1943

A Mountie’s (Errol Flynn) fiancee (Julie Bishop) joins him as he leads a Nazi pilot (Helmut Dantine) and spies into a trap.

 

 

 

 

North West Frontier Lauren Bacall 1959

In British-controlled India just after the turn of the 20th century, an English captain (Kenneth More) is asked to escort a maharajah’s son out of town after an uprising by Muslim factions threatens the boy’s life.

 

 

 

Northwest Passage Robert Young 1940

An epic Western, about Major Robert Rogers, the tough frontiersman who led a gruelling expedition to Canada in 1759 to punish a fearsome Indian tribe and seek a northwest passage to the Pacific.

 

 

 

The Notorious Landlady Jack Lemmon 1962

When her husband disappears, Carly Hardwicke (Kim Novak) finds it impossible to rent a room in her London apartment, since everyone assumes she’s a murderer.

 

 

 

 

Oklahoma Shirley Jones Gordon MacRae 1955

There’s a box social coming up, and Curly (Gordon MacRae) asks Laurey (Shirley Jones) if she’ll be his date. Trouble is, Laurey thinks he’s waited too long.

 

 

 

 

The Old Man And The Sea Spencer Tracy 1958

An old Cuban fisherman (Spencer Tracy) has not caught anything in 84 days. Despite the devotion of the young boy (Felipe Pazos) who brings him coffee and food, the fisherman fears he has become perpetually unlucky.

 

 

 

Operation Petticoat Cary Grant Tony Curtis 1959

Lieutenant Commander Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) is in charge of the submarine “Sea Tiger,” which was badly damaged at a Philippine shipyard by a Japanese air raid. Once they’re underway, Sherman evacuates a group of beautiful nurses.

 

 

 

The Pajama Game Doris Day 1957

The boss of an Iowa pajama factory hires superintendent Sid Sorokin (John Raitt) to help oppose the workers’ demand for a seven-and-a-half-cent raise. 

 

 

 

 

Paradise Lagoon Peter Graves 1957

A group of shipwrecked English aristocrats stake their survival on the ingenuity of their trustworthy butler.

 

 

 

 

55 Days at Peking Charlton Heston 1963

This historical epic dramatizes the Battle of Peking, a turning point of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. When Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi (Flora Robson) orders the Boxers, a group of Chinese secret societies, to massacre foreigners within China.

 

 

 

Penny Serenade Cary Grant Irene Dunne 1941

Since marrying Roger Adams (Cary Grant), Julie (Irene Dunne) has wanted to start a family. An accident while she’s visiting Japan causes a miscarriage and makes Julie incapable of having children.

 

 

 

Phantom of the Opera Claude Rains 1943

Talented Christine (Susanna Foster) is unaware that her singing lessons are being funded by a secret admirer, Enrique (Claude Rains), a mysterious violinist with a disfigured face.

 

 

 

Pillow Talk Doris Day Rock Hudson 1959

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen’s (Rock Hudson) succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow (Doris Day), who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines.

 

 

 

Please Don’t Eat The Daisies Doris Day 1960

Lawrence Mackay (David Niven), a professor at Columbia University, lives happily with his wife, Kate (Doris Day), and their three children. But when he leaves his career in education to become a theater critic

 

 

 

The Pride of the Yankees Babe Ruth 1942

This moving biographical drama follows the life of revered baseball player Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper). Championed by sportswriter Sam Blake (Walter Brennan), Gehrig eventually gets recruited by the New York Yankees.

 

 

 

The Prince and the Showgirl Marilyn Monroe 1957

A traveling party of royals from central Europe arrives in England in 1911, as the host country prepares to celebrate the coronation of a new king. But when the visiting Regent (Laurence Olivier) goes to a musical theater, his attraction to American performer Elsie (Marilyn Monroe) makes it hard to stay focused.

 

 

 

Prince Valiant Robert Wagner Janet Leigh 1954

After the evil King Sligon exiles his family from Scandia, Prince Valiant (Robert Wagner) vows to become a member of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table in order to return his father to the throne.

 

 

 

Quo Vadis Robert Taylor Deborah Kerr 1951

Returning from a military campaign abroad, General Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) discovers that a new religion has taken hold in Rome: Christianity. When Vinicius encounters Lygia (Deborah Kerr), a follower of the strange religion, he quickly becomes smitten and tries to win her affections.

 

 

 

Raiders of the 7 Seas Donna Reed 1953

A fierce pirate, Barbarossa, (John Payne), captures a Spanish ship discovering the beautiful Contessa Alida, (Donna Reed), on board and Barbarossa falls for the elegant aristocrat.

 

 

 

 

Raintree County Elizabeth Taylor Lee Marvin 1957

Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) visits Indiana and falls for John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift), an abolitionist with strong ideals. After Drake deceives John into marriage, the two move to her New Orleans household, where he discovers that mental illness runs in her family.

 

 

 

The Rat Race Tony Curtis Debbie Reynolds 1960

Pete Hammond Jr. (Tony Curtis) is a friendly saxophonist who leaves his life in Milwaukee to try and hit it big in New York City.

 

 

 

Rebel Without A Cause James Dean 1955

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark (James Dean) is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. 

 

 

 

Return To Paradise Gary Cooper 1953

An island beauty (Roberta Haynes) and her people follow a beach bum (Gary Cooper) instead of a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Barry Jones).

 

 

 

 

River of No Return Marilyn Monroe 1954

After serving a prison sentence, farmer Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum) returns to his 19th-century Pacific Northwest gold rush town and retrieves his adolescent son, Mark (Tommy Rettig).

 

 

 

 

 

Road to Rio Bob Hope Bing Crosby 1947

Suave singer Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby) and his partner, Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope), stow away on a ship leaving New Orleans for Rio de Janeiro.

 

 

 

 

Road to Bali Bob Hope Bing Crosby (1952)

Harold (Bob Hope) and George (Bing Crosby) are two vaudeville performers in Australia. After they realize their local gal pals intend to marry them, they sign up for a diving expedition.

 

 

 

The Road To Hong Kong Bob Hope 1962

In this 7th and last film of “The Road To” series, with their vaudeville act going nowhere, Harry Turner (Bing Crosby) and Chester Babcock (Bob Hope) decide to become con artists, except Chester is having a few problems with his memory.

 

 

 

The Robe Richard Burton Jean Simmons 1953

In this biblical epic, a drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton), wins Jesus’ robe in a dice game after the crucifixion.

 

 

 

 

Robin Hood Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland 1938

When King Richard the Lionheart is captured, his scheming brother Prince John (Claude Rains) plots to reach the throne, to the outrage of Sir Robin of Locksley (Errol Flynn), the bandit king of Sherwood Forest.

 

 

 

Robinson Crusoe Dan O’Herlihy 1954

When he is shipwrecked on a deserted island, aristocratic adventurer Robinson Crusoe (Dan O’Herlihy) must find a way to survive using only a few salvaged supplies and weapons.

 

 

 

Romance on the High Seas Doris Day 1948

Although Mike (Don DeFore) and Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) are in love, each suspects the other of unfaithfulness.

 

 

 

 

Roman Holiday Gregory Peck 1953

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) takes off for a night while in Rome.

 

 

 

The Russians Are Coming Jonathan Winters 1966

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, the farce that ensues nearly creates an international incident.

 

 

 

 

Sammy Going South Edward G. Robinson 1963

An orphan (Fergus McClelland) leaves Egypt with a toy compass to find his aunt in Durban, South Africa, about 5,000 miles south.

 

 

 

 

Samson And Delilah Hedy Lamarr 1949

Samson (Victor Mature), the hero of the Israelites, wins the hand of a Philistine woman, Semadar (Angela Lansbury), in a contest of strength. When she is killed during a conflict on her wedding night, however, Samson becomes a hunted man.

 

 

 

Saturday Island Tab Hunter 1952

A nurse (Linda Darnell) and a Marine (Tab Hunter) are marooned on an island when a British pilot, (Donald Gray), crash lands making a paradise for two into a threesome.

 

 

 

The Sea Hawk Errol Flynn 1940

As Spain prepares an armada to invade England, British privateer Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn) embarks on a mission to loot Spanish ships. 

 

 

 

 

Send Me No Flowers Doris Day 1964

After eavesdropping on his doctors as they discuss another patient, George (Rock Hudson), a middle-aged hypochondriac, leaves a hospital visit believing he’s terminally ill.

 

 

 

Separate Tables Rita Hayworth 1958

During the off-season at the Beauregard Hotel, the secret shortcomings of some guests are exposed.

 

 

 

 

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers 1954

During the 1850s, Milly (Jane Powell), a pretty young cook, marries Adam (Howard Keel), a grizzled woodsman, after a brief courtship. When the two return to Adam’s farm, Milly is shocked to meet his six ill-mannered brothers

 

 

 

Seven Days In May Burt Lancaster 1964

Martin “Jiggs” Casey (Kirk Douglas) stumbles on shattering evidence that a General, (Burt Lancaster), is plotting a coup to overthrow the President in seven days.

 

 

 

The Seven Year Itch Marilyn Monroe 1955

In the midst of a summer heat wave, New Yorker Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) ships his wife, Helen (Evelyn Keyes), and their son off to Maine for vacation. Left alone to work back in Manhattan, Richard encounters a gorgeous blonde model (Marilyn Monroe).

 

 

 

Shane Alan Ladd Jack Palance 1953

Enigmatic gunslinger Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into a small Wyoming town with hopes of quietly settling down as a farmhand

 

 

 

 

By The Light Of The Silvery Moon Doris Day 1953

The trials and tribulations of the Winfield family in small town Indiana as Marjorie Winfield’s boyfriend, William Sherman, returns from the Army after World War I.

 

 

 

 

Sirocco Humphrey Bogart 1961

American Harry Smith (Humphrey Bogart) is selling guns to Emir Hassan (Onslow Stevens), whose Syrian rebels are battling occupying French troops.

 

 

 

 

With Six You Get Eggroll Doris Day 1968

Abby McClure (Doris Day) starts dating Jake Iverson (Brian Keith), and soon they’re planning a wedding. But the relationship is complicated, as widow Abby’s three sons clash with the daughter Jake fathered with his late wife.

 

 

 

 

Soldier of Fortune Clark Gable 1955

Jane Hoyt (Susan Hayward) comes to Hong Kong to find her husband, Louis (Gene Barry), a photojournalist who has been missing for three months.

 

 

 

 

Solomon and Sheba Gina Lollobrigida 1959

Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon (Yul Brynner), should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah (George Sanders). 

 

 

 

 

Some Like it Hot Marilyn Monroe 1959

After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives.

 

 

 

Something’s Got To Give Marilyn Monroe 1962

Unfinished remake of “My Favorite Wife,” due to the firing of Marilyn Monroe from the film. She was eventually re-hired, but died in August, 1962. Film was never completed.

 

 

 

Son Of Paleface Bob Hope 1952

A man heads out West to claim the inheritance left by his father. Finding his father has left nothing but debts, to ward off those who are owed money, he pretends he has a fortune hidden away in the hills. 

 

 

 

Sorrowful Jones Bob Hope Lucille Ball 1949

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet.

 

 

 

 

South Sea Woman Chuck Conners 1953

A World War II Marine (Burt Lancaster) tells a court-martial where he, his buddy (Chuck Connors) and a nightclub camera-girl (Virginia Mayo) have been.

 

 

 

 

Spartacus Kirk Douglas 1960

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus.

 

 

 

 

Stalag 17 William Holden 1953

1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot dead. Among the remaining men, suspicion grows that one of their own is a spy for the Germans.

 

 

 

The Story of Three Loves Kirk Douglas 1953

Three passengers aboard an ocean liner reminisce about past loves.

 

 

 

 

Streetcar Named Desire Brando Vivien Leigh 1951

Based on the play by Tennessee Williams, this renowned drama follows troubled former schoolteacher Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) as she leaves small-town Mississippi and moves in with her sister, Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter), and her husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando), in New Orleans.

 

 

 

Sunset Boulevard Bill Holden 1950

An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback. 

 

 

 

 

The Taming of the Shrew Liz Taylor 1967

Grumio and Hortensio, both long to wed the same beautiful young woman. Unfortunately, her wealthy father will not let his daughter marry unless her hot-tempered sister, Katherina (Elizabeth Taylor), also has a suitor.

 

 

 

Tammy and the Bachelor Debbie Reynolds 1957

When pilot Peter Brent (Leslie Nielsen) crashes a small airplane in a swamp near the houseboat of Tambrey “Tammy” Tyree (Debbie Reynolds) in Mississippi, Tammy takes it upon herself to nurse him back to health.

 

 

 

 

 

Tammy and the Millionaire Debbie Watson 1967

A bayou girl (Debbie Watson) and her kin (Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle) have run-ins with some rich folks.

 

 

 

 

Teacher’s Pet Doris Day Clark Gable 1958

Newspaper editor Jim Gannon (Clark Gable) doesn’t have much respect for college journalism programs, so he’s irate when his boss sends him to speak at a night-school class.

 

 

 

Tea For Two Doris Day 1950

Nanette (Doris Day) has dreams of Broadway, but lacks the funds to stage the musical her boyfriend, Larry (Billy De Wolfe), has written.

 

 

 

 

That Touch of Mink Cary Grant Doris Day 1962

Cathy Timberlake (Doris Day) is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne (Cary Grant) covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger (Gig Young), to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss.

 

 

 

There’s No Bus. Like Show Bus. Marilyn Monroe

Terry (Dan Dailey) and Molly (Ethel Merman) are vaudeville performers who eventually add their three children to the act to become “The Five Donahues.”

 

 

 

 

The Third Man Orson Welles 1949

A writer of pulp Westerns, who arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to find him dead.

 

 

 

 

The Thrill Of It All Doris Day 1963

When Beverly is introduced to the company’s owner, she is immediately offered a contract as the product’s spokeswoman for TV commercials.

 

 

 

 

Tom Jones Albert Finney Susannah York 1963

Commedy/Adventure, Tom Jones (Albert Finney), a bastard foundling raised by the kindly Squire Allworthy (George Devine), loves the beautiful Sophie Western (Susannah York), but cannot marry her due to the difference in their stations.

 

 

 

 

Tom Sawyer Jodie Foster 1973

Best friends Tom Sawyer (Johnnie Whitaker) and Huckleberry Finn (Jeff East) spend their days in their small Mississippi hometown causing havoc and having fun wherever they go.

 

 

 

Topper Cary Grant 1937

George (Cary Grant) and Marion Kerby (Constance Bennett) are a young, happy-go-lucky couple who love to party. But after a car accident kills them both, they discover that they haven’t done enough good deeds to earn a trip to heaven. 

 

 

 

Topper Takes a Trip 1938

To gain entry to heaven, ghost Marion Kirby (Constance Bennett) has to do some good on earth. That means reuniting a divorcing couple, Cosmo (Roland Young) and Clara Topper (Billie Burke).

 

 

 

Topper Returns 1941

Gail (Joan Blondell) and Ann (Carole Landis) are making their way to Ann’s family estate and are forced by circumstance to hitch a ride with Cosmo Topper (Roland Young), a dithering banker, and his wife, Clara (Billie Burke). 

 

 

 

Touch Of Evil Charlton Heston 1958

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles).

 

 

 

The Train Burt Lancaster 1964

With the Allies poised to retake Paris from the Germans, Col. Franz Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) conspires to sneak out by train all of the art masterpieces looted by the German army.

 

 

 

The Treasure of Lost Canyon William Powell 1952

In California, a boy and his adoptive father find an outlaw’s hidden treasure but the news leaks out, sending unscrupulous characters after the gold. 

 

 

 

 

Treasure of the Golden Condor Fay Wray 1953

Swindled out of his inheritance by his evil uncle, Jean-Paul (Cornel Wilde) absconds to Guatemala to find his fortune.

 

 

 

 

Unconquered Gary Cooper 1947

To avoid execution on a trumped-up charge, Abby (Paulette Goddard) agrees to be enslaved in the British colonies of North America. 

 

 

 

 

The Unforgiven Burt Lancaster 1960

The Zachary family live quietly on a cattle ranch in post-Civil War Texas. A stranger (Joseph Wiseman) appears and disturbs their bucolic existence by spreading a malicious rumor that their adopted daughter, Rachel (Audrey Hepburn), is a Kiowa Native American.

 

 

 

Valley of the Kings Eleanor Parker 1954

Mark Brandon (Robert Taylor) is an archaeologist heading to Egypt for an expedition. After meeting Ann Mercedes (Eleanor Parker), the daughter of his late mentor, he is persuaded to help her uncover the tomb of the pharaoh Ra-Hotep.

 

 

 

The Vicious Circle John Mills 1957

Dr. Howard Latimer (John Mills) heads to a London airport accompanied by a strange journalist en route to pick up a German actress as a favor. The next day, she’s found dead in his apartment.

 

 

 

The Vikings Kirk Douglas Tony Curtis 1958

Viking Prince Einar (Kirk Douglas) doesn’t know it, but his most fearsome enemy, the slave Eric (Tony Curtis), is actually his half brother. Their feud only intensifies when Einar kidnaps Princess Morgana (Janet Leigh).

 

 

 

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Frankie Avalon ’61

Harriman Nelson (Walter Pidgeon) is the creator of a revolutionary nuclear submarine. After testing its capabilities in the Arctic Ocean, Nelson and the commanding officer (Robert Sterling) surface the vessel, only to discover the sky ablaze.

 

 

 

War and Peace Audrey Hepburn 1956

In the years leading to Napoleon’s invasion, members of the Russian aristocracy face a myriad of personal tragedies.

 

 

 

 

On The Waterfront Marlon Brando 1954

Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) persuaded him to throw a fight.

 

 

 

We’re No Angels Humphrey Bogart 1955

After breaking out of prison on Devil’s Island, Joseph (Humphrey Bogart) and his two cohorts flee to a nearby town and hide in a shop run by kindhearted Felix (Leo G. Carroll) ; his wife, Amelie (Joan Bennett).

 

 

 

We’re Not Married Marilyn Monroe 1952

Five married couples discover, to their shock, that they’re not really married! The justice of the peace who presided over their nuptials didn’t have a valid license.

 

 

 

 

West Side Story Natalie Wood 1961

A musical in which a modern day Romeo and Juliet are involved in New York street gangs. On the harsh streets of the upper west side, two gangs battle for control of the turf. The situation becomes complicated when a gang members falls in love with a rival’s sister.

 

 

 

Whispering Smith Alan Ladd 1948

Luke “Whispering” Smith (Alan Ladd) is a mild-mannered policeman tasked with stopping a gang of train robbers, led by Barney Rebstock (Donald Crisp).

 

 

 

 

The Merry Widow Maurice Chevalier 1934

The kingdom of Marshovia is so small that one of its richest citizens, Madame Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald), is responsible for paying more than half of its taxes.

 

 

 

 

The Winning Team 1952 Doris Day

In 1908 Nebraska, young Grover Cleveland “Alex” Alexander (Ronald Reagan) saves to buy a farm for himself and his fiancée, Aimee (Doris Day), but also longs to realize his dream of playing baseball.

 

 

 

Written on the Wind Rock Hudson 1956

Mitch Wayne (Rock Hudson) is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jared (Robert Keith), works hard to establish the family business, his son and daughter are irresponsible.

 

 

 

Yankee Buccaneer Scott Brady Suzan Ball 1952

Navy frigate officers (Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady) pose as pirates to catch pirates, with a Portuguese countess (Suzan Ball) aboard to boot.

 

 

 

 

Young at Heart Doris Day Frank Sinatra 1954

Gregory Tuttle (Robert Keith), a widowed musician, is the father of three extraordinarily gifted daughters, Laurie (Doris Day), Fran (Dorothy Malone) and Amy (Elisabeth Fraser), all of whom are facing different romantic troubles.

 

 

 

Yours, Mine and Ours Lucille Ball 1968

Navy officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda) is struggling to raise his 10 children in the wake of his wife’s death. Frank soon begins dating Helen North (Lucille Ball), a widowed nurse with eight children of her own.