The Golden Arrow 1936  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Eugene Pallette, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes, Catherine Doucet, Craig Reynolds, Henry O'Neill, Eddie Acuff, E.E. Clive
Daisy Appleby (Bette Davis) is a wealthy heiress who finds the solution to her problem of being plagued by fortune hunters–she wants a "marriage of convenience" with newspaperman Johnny Jones (George Brent).
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It Started with Eve 1941  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Tallichet, Catherine Doucet, Walter Catlett, Charles Coleman, Leonard Elliott, Irving Bacon, Gus Schilling, Wade Boteler
Rich playboy Jonathan Reynolds Jr. (Robert Cummings) asks hatcheck girl Anne Terry (Deanna Durbin) to stand in for his fiancee to please his dying father (Charles Laughton) who wants to meet his daughter-in-law-to-be But Dad gets well and, having taken a liking to Anne, the pretense puts Junior in quite a spot. A fun-filled comedy/musical with Laughton at his best.
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Jim Hanvey, Detective 1937 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Lucie Kaye, Catherine Doucet, Edward Brophy, Edward Gargan, Helen Jerome Eddy, Theodore von Eltz, Kenneth Thomson, Howard C. Hickman, Oscar Apfel, Wade Boteler
Detective Jim Hanvey (Guy Kibbee) takes on a contract with an insurance company to locate a valuable jeweled necklace, and, although the theft was just a prank, ensuing events involve a murder.
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Nothing But the Truth 1941  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Edward Arnold, Leif Erickson, Helen Vinson, Grant Mitchell, Willie Best, Catherine Doucet, Rose Hobart, Clarence Kolb, Glenn Anders, Mary Forbes, Leon Belasco, Helene Millard, Lee Shumway
Gwen Saunders (Paulette Goddard) gives stockbroker Steve Bennett (Bob Hope) $10,000 and tells him to double its value. Problems really begin when Steve uses the money for a bet that involves his telling the truth–and nothing but–for 24 hours.
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There's One Born Every Minute 1942 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Harold Young
Cast: Hugh Herbert, Tom Brown, Peggy Moran, Guy Kibbee, Gus Schilling, Edgar Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Catherine Doucet, Charles Halton
This movie contains the screen debut of 10-year-old Elizabeth Taylor who plays the young member of a very bizarre family.
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These Three 1936  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet, Bonita Granville, Margaret Hamilton, Walter Brennan, Alma Kruger, Marcia Mae Jones, Frank McGlynn Sr.
Based on Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour," this early version features Bonita Granville as the spiteful girl who spreads a vicious rumor that nearly destroys two founders (Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon) of a girls' school. Granville received an Oscar nomination for Supporting Actress.
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When You're in Love 1937 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Robert Riskin
Cast: Grace Moore, Cary Grant, Aline MacMahon, Henry Stephenson, Thomas Mitchell, Emma Dunn, Louise Brooks, Catherine Doucet, Luis Alberni, Frank Puglia
Singer Louise Fuller (Grace Moore) hires American Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) to marry her so that she will have a passport out of Mexico.
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| 1. The Golden Arrow (1936)
2. It Started with Eve (1941)
3. Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)
4. Nothing But the Truth (1941)
5. There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
6. These Three (1936)
7. When You're in Love (1937)
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