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Director: Charles Lamont    More Info
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patricia Medina, Walter Slezak, Douglass Dumbrille, Marc Lawrence, Leon Belasco, Tor Johnson, Jack Raymond, Fred Nurney

 After joining the Foreign Legion, Bud Jones (Bud Abbott) and Lou Hotchkiss (Lou Costello) end up in Algeria under the thumb of Sergeant Axmann (Walter Slezak).

Director: Albert S. Rogell    More Info
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Sands, Steve Brodie, Richard Erdman, Hillary Brooke, Richard Lane, Garry Owen, Fred Essler

 Problems of entering the stage of readjustment to civilian life for many World War II servicemen is evidenced in this story about unemployed ex-sailors who plan to evade work indefinitely and meet regularly at a social club. When a WAVE (Wanda Hendrix) enters the club looking for a lost boyfriend, she immediately catches the eye of Jimmy (Edmond O'Brien) but shuns him because of his deadbeat lifestyle. To win her love, Jimmy enters a boxing contest to win $100, and the chase begins.

Director: George Sidney    More Info
Starring: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Clinton Sundberg, James Harrison, Mae Clarke

 This film features Irving Berlin songs "Anything You Can Do," "Doin' What Comes Naturally," and "There's No Business Like Show Business." It is the story of sharpshooter Annie Oakley's (Betty Hutton) life in Buffalo Bill's (Louis Calhern) Wild West Show and her romance with the show's star sharpshooter Frank Butler (Howard Keel).

Director: Hal Walker    More Info
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin, Jimmie Dundee, Dick Stabile, Tommy Farrell, Polly Bergen, Angela Greene, Douglas Evans, Frank Hyers

 This is Dean Martin's and Jerry Lewis' first film in which they are the headliners. They play two Army friends, 1st Sgt. Vic Puccinelli and Pfc. Alvin Korwin, who have grown up together and performed as a song-and-dance team before enlisting in the Army. Their lives are heading in different directions, both professionally and personally. Vic has done well in the Army, but Alvin continues to bumble his way through assignments. Alvin is married, but Vic is involved in womanizing adventures with beautiful Helen (Polly Bergen) while his pregnant ex-girlfriend Millie (Jean Ruth) continues to pursue him. Nevertheless, Vic and Alvin do stick together through a number of escapades.

Director: Edward Bernds    More Info
Starring: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Kent, Adele Jergens, Jack Rice, Danny Mummert, Dick Wessel, Edward Earle

 In this, the last of the "Blondie" movies, Mr. Dithers (Edward Earle) makes a huge mistake when he puts Dagwood in charge of the office and goes on vacation. There were 28 movies in the series, and it was time to finish, as the episodes were becoming too much of a formula.

Director: Norman Krasna    More Info
Starring: Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Percy Waram, Fay Holden, Edgar Buchanan, Leon Ames, Gene Lockhart, Rosemary DeCamp

 David Meldon (Van Johnson) joins an important law firm and finds–to his dismay–that his new allergy to alcohol is defeating his social expectations.

Director: Edward Bernds    More Info
Starring: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, William Frawley, Larry Simms, Marjorie Kent, Danny Mummert, Joe Sawyer, Iris Adrian, Teddy Infuhr, Frank Jenks

 Dagwood accidentally joins the Army Reserves in this next-to-last entry of the long-running series.

Director: George Cukor    More Info
Starring: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden, Howard St. John, Frank Otto, Larry Oliver, Barbara Brown, Grandon Rhodes, Claire Carleton, Charles Cane

 Tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) goes to Washington, D.C., with his girlfriend Billie (Judy Holliday) and, once there, decides she needs lessons to help her learn social graces. Professor Paul Verrall (William Holden) is hired, and, during the course of his teaching, tutor and student fall in love. Holliday won the Oscar for her role as the dizzy blonde. Nominations for Best Picture, Director, Writing, and Costume Design were also received.

Director: Frederick De Cordova    More Info
Starring: Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester, Andrea King, Norman Lloyd, Jay C. Flippen, Henry Daniell, Douglass Dumbrille, Verna Felton

 Debbie (Yvonne De Carlo) stows away on a pirate ship and falls in love with the captain, Robert Kingston (Philip Friend). But Debbie wants to marry into wealth, so when they arrive in New Orleans Debbie opts for attending a school for refined young ladies. By story's end, she ends up with Captain Kingston and wealth as well.

Director: Richard Whorf    More Info
Starring: Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter, Byron Foulger, Mel Blanc, Peter Brocco, Douglas Evans, John Eldredge

 Professor Beauregard Bottomley (Ronald Colman) makes a fortune as a contestant on a quiz show while sponsors stop at almost nothing to break his winning streak.

Director: Walter Lang    More Info
Starring: Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Betty Lynn, Edgar Buchanan, Barbara Bates, Mildred Natwick, Sara Allgood, Jimmy Hunt, Carol Nugent

 This film is based on the true story of the Gilbreth family whose father (Clifton Webb) was an advocate of work efficiency in raising his family of 12 children who endure a multitude of comedic situations to achieve their father's goal. A sequel to this movie, "Belles on Their Toes," followed in 1952.

Director: Charles Lamont    More Info
Starring: Donald O'Connor, Gale Storm, Walter Brennan, Vincent Price, Eve Arden, Chick Chandler, Joe Sawyer, Harry Shannon, Rex Lease, I. Stanford Jolley

 Stagehand Edward Timmons (Donald O'Connor) is a would-be actor who gains fame and the chance to act after he nabs a criminal hiding out in his theatrical troupe.

Director: George Marshall    More Info
Starring: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood, Lea Penman, Eric Blore, John Alexander, Joseph Vitale, Norma Varden, Oliver Blake

 In this remake of "Ruggles of Red Gap," slapstick reigns as Bob Hope and Lucille Ball cavort in this story about early days in New Mexico. American actor Arthur Tyler (Hope) pretends to be a British butler and is hired by social climbing Agatha Floud (Ball) and her mother Effie (Lea Penman). They bring Arthur back to their ranch in New Mexico where the townsfolk believe that Arthur represents nobility, and he reaches celebrity status. He even keeps up the facade when President Teddy Roosevelt (John Alexander) arrives, and the citizens hope to achieve statehood for New Mexico.

Director: Norman Foster    More Info
Starring: William Holden, Coleen Gray, Mary Jane Saunders, Charles Winninger, Stuart Erwin, Sig Ruman

 After being adopted by a family of five orphaned children, Johnny Rutledge (William Holden) is ordered by the court to hone up on his parenting skills and, in the process, falls in love with the judge's daughter (Coleen Gray).

Director: Vincente Minnelli    More Info
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G. Carroll, Moroni Olsen, Melville Cooper, Paul Harvey, Russ Tamblyn

 This excellent film depicts a father Stanley T. Banks' (Spencer Tracy) emotions surrounding the approaching wedding of his only daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor). Mother Ellie (Joan Bennett) and daughter prepare wedding plans, but Father becomes concerned with financing the wedding. Underlying all this is Father's problem of coming to grips with losing his place of importance in his daughter's life. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Actor (Tracy), and Writing.

Director: Lloyd Bacon    More Info
Starring: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins, Jeff Donnell, Jerome Cowan, Lee Patrick

 This sequel to "The Fuller Brush Man" features Lucille Ball in the title role as Sally Elliot who unwittingly becomes involved in a murder.

Director: Irving Pichel    More Info
Starring: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth, Queenie Smith, Chick Chandler, Don Beddoe, Sara Haden, Jimmy Conlin, Hugh Sanders

 A pet squirrel uncovers lost money, which–at first–appears to solve all the problems for a troupe of struggling acrobats.

Director: Frank Launder    More Info
Starring: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Bernadette O'Farrell, John Bentley, Joyce Grenfell, Richard Wattis, Guy Middleton, Muriel Aked, Edward Rigby, Laurence Naismith

 When some girls from St. Swithins School are accidentally assigned to the dorm at male-only Nutbourne College, the fun begins. Good English humor.

Director: William A. Wellman    More Info
Starring: Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Margalo Gillmore, Leo G. Carroll, George Chandler, Danny Mummert, Peter M. Thompson

 Based on Owen Johnson's "Lawrenceville Stories," Dean Stockwell plays prep-schooler John Humperdink Storer who struggles with professors, girls, and older students as he grows through his adolescent years.

Director: Henry Koster    More Info
Starring: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Victoria Horne, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Wallace Ford, Nana Bryant, Clem Bevans

 James Stewart plays Elwood P. Dowd, a middle-aged eccentric who often drinks too much. Elwood has an imaginary friend–a very tall rabbit named Harvey. This social commentary on sanity pits Elwood against his social-climbing relatives. Josephine Hull won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her fine performance as Elwood's sister Veta Louise Simmons. Stewart received a nomination for Best Actor.

Director: Walter Lang    More Info
Starring: James Stewart, Barbara Hale, James Gleason, Fred Clark, Patricia Medina, Alan Mowbray, Natalie Wood, Tommy Rettig, Lyle Talbot, Robert Gist

 After winning "The Jackpot" on a radio quiz show, Bill Lawrence (James Stewart) finds his anxiety level leaping as he finds new financial complications.

Director: George Sidney    More Info
Starring: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Morgan, Raymond Burr, James Gleason, Lewis Stone, Raymond Walburn, Pamela Britton, Clinton Sundberg

 Attending a mayors' conference in San Francisco, Steve Fisk (Clark Gable) and Clarissa Standish (Loretta Young) find there is more than business-as-usual when romance blossoms between the two.

Director: Henry Cass    More Info
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh, Gregoire Aslan, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ernest Thesiger, Helen Cherry, Brian Worth, Sid James

 Salesman George Bird (Alec Guinness) has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and has been told that he has less than one month to live. George decides on one last fling–pretending to be a wealthy man and spending all of his money. He buys new clothes and rents a room at an exclusive inn. He meets new business prospects at the inn and, because he now does not mind taking risks, doors are opening in his world as a salesman. Then, George learns that his diagnosis is wrong, and that he is no longer in danger of dying in less than a month. How will George handle the news?

Director: Alexander Hall    More Info
Starring: Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, Piper Laurie, Scotty Beckett, Willard Waterman, Jimmy Hunt, Connie Gilchrist

 Louisa Norton (Spring Byington) is elderly in years but not in mind and spirit. When she moves in with her son and daughter-in-law (Ronald Reagan and Ruth Hussey), the fun begins.

Director: Charles Lamont    More Info
Starring: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Jim Backus, Ray Collins, Barbara Brown, Esther Dale, Ellen Corby, Oliver Blake

 Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride) wins a contest, and the prize includes a trip to New York City. Once there, Ma (Marjorie Main) and Pa meet up with some gangsters, but the bad guys are no match for the Kettles.