Deadline U.S.A. 1952  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Kim Hunter, Ethel Barrymore, Ed Begley, Paul Stewart, Jim Backus, Warren Stevens, Joe De Santis, Carleton Young, Martin Gabel
Humphrey Bogart plays the honest newspaper editor who fights the evil underworld as his publisher (Ethel Barrymore) struggles to keep the business going.
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The Farmer's Daughter 1947  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: H.C. Potter
Cast: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Charles Bickford, Ethel Barrymore, Rose Hobart, Rhys Williams, Harry Davenport, Tom Powers, Lex Barker, Thurston Hall
Loretta Young won the Oscar for her role of Katrin who moves to St. Paul to study nursing but is naive and loses her money. As a result, she works as a servant for Congressman Glenn Morley (Joseph Cotten) and ends up running for the congressional seat of her boss.
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The Great Sinner 1949  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Ludwig Stossel, Ludwig Donath, Curt Bois
Based on Dostoyevsky's "The Gambler," this film is about gambling addictions. When Fedja (Gregory Peck) helps Pauline Ostrovsky (Ava Gardner) overcome her gambling problems, he becomes addicted himself.
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It's a Big Country 1951  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Van Johnson, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh, William Powell, Marjorie Main, George Murphy, Keefe Brasselle, James Whitmore
This film is comprised of vignettes depicting diverse groups of people making up the United States, including the ideas and talents of the people. However, it rambles on and isn't really the advertisement it apparently was meant to be.
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Just for You 1952 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Ethel Barrymore, Robert Arthur, Natalie Wood, Cora Witherspoon, Regis Toomey, Art Smith, Willis Bouchey, Herb Vigran
This film's song "Zing a Little Zong" was nominated for an Academy Award. The story is loosely based on Stephen Vincent Benet's novel "Famous." Jordan Blake (Bing Crosby) is a successful Broadway producer who realizes–almost too late–that he has devoted too much time to work and not enough to his family.
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Kind Lady 1951 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury, Keenan Wynn, Betsy Blair, John Williams, Doris Lloyd, John O'Malley, Henri Letondal
Mary Herries is a kind old woman. And rich. Along comes painter Henry Elcott, who enters her home after demonstrating his painting skills. But, of course, he is after her money. A good update of the 1936 film, partly because the author of the original play, Edward Chodorov, coscripted this tale.
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Moonrise 1948 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Harry Morgan, Harry Carey Jr., Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, Irving Bacon, Selena Royle
Danny Clark (Dane Clark) grew up under the shadow of his father's hanging following a murder. When he is pushed to the breaking point, he commits murder, tries to establish a cover-up, and finally admits his crime and seeks redemption.
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Moss Rose 1947 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Peggy Cummins, Ethel Barrymore, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, George Zucco, Patricia Medina, Rhys Williams, Patrick O'Moore, Billy Bevan
Chorus girl Belle Adair (Peggy Cummins) uses blackmail as an entry into society to get Michael whose mother, Lady Margaret Drego (Ethel Barrymore), allows her selfish love for her son to cause two murders.
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None But the Lonely Heart 1944 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clifford Odets
Cast: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, June Duprez, Barry Fitzgerald, Jane Wyatt, Dan Duryea, George Coulouris, Konstantin Shayne, Helen Thimig, Morton Lowry
For this film, Ethel Barrymore won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role of the dying mother whose son, Ernie Mott (Cary Grant), strives to help in her hour of need.
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The Paradine Case 1947 N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Alida Valli, Leo G. Carroll, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Joan Tetzel, Isobel Elsom, Edgar Norton, John Goldsworthy, Lester Matthews, Lumsden Hare, Patrick Aherne
This courtroom drama involves the case of Maddelena Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) who is on trial for murdering her wealthy husband. Defense attorney Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck), although married to Gay (Ann Todd), falls in love with his beautiful client, fails to see the blatant facts of the case, and believes that she is innocent. Meanwhile, Judge Lord Thomas Horfield (Charles Laughton) sees through Anna's facade, and the prosecuting attorney, Sir Joseph (Leo G. Carroll), is determined to find her guilty. Despite Anna's protests, Keane calls her lover, stableman Andre Latour (Louis Jourdan), to the stand and tries to prove that he is the murderer. After being disgraced, Latour commits suicide. Finally, Anna admits that she killed her husband and blames Keane for Latour's death. The story ends with a stunned Keane leaving the courtroom. Ethel Barrymore received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in her role as Lady Sophie Horfield, the judge's loony wife.
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Pinky 1949 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Nina Mae McKinney, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael, Griff Barnett, Evelyn Varden, Raymond Greenleaf, Arthur Hunnicutt
The absurdity of racial prejudice is shown in this film about a Black woman (Jeanne Crain) who passes for White in the Deep South. Crain was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, and both Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters were nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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Portrait of Jennie 1948 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, David Wayne, Cecil Kellaway, Albert Sharpe, Florence Bates, Henry Hull, Clem Bevans
Eban Adams (Joseph Cotten) is an artist whose subject (Jennifer Jones) grows older as he paints her portrait. Is she real, or does she represent someone from the world beyond?
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The Red Danube 1949  N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern, Francis L. Sullivan, Melville Cooper, Robert Coote, Alan Napier
This post-World War II film depicts Soviets as BAD in a story involving the plight of Russian refugees living in Austria and is a good example of propaganda used by the film industry during the Red Scare.
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The Secret of Convict Lake 1951 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Michael Gordon
Cast: Glenn Ford, Ethel Barrymore, Gene Tierney, Zachary Scott, Ann Dvorak, Barbara Bates, Ruth Donnelly, Cyril Cusack, Richard Hylton, Helen Westcott
In the 1870s, a group of convicts escape and hide out in a small California community of women.
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The Spiral Staircase 1946 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming, Gordon Oliver, Elsa Lanchester, James Bell, Charles Wagenheim, Ellen Corby, Richard Tyler, Erville Alderson, Sara Allgood, Rhys Williams, Myrna Dell
A crazed killer is on the loose, peeking through a hole in the wall looking for his next victim. He has his eye on Helen Capel (Dorothy McGuire), a mute servant girl, who works in the very eerie house of the bedridden Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore). Barrymore received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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The Story of Three Loves 1953 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Cast: Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Farley Granger, Agnes Moorehead, Ricky Nelson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Richard Anderson
While traveling on an ocean liner, three passengers remember their love stories in this movie which is actually a trio of short films.
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That Midnight Kiss 1949  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Musical / Romance
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Jose Iturbi, Ethel Barrymore, Mario Lanza, Keenan Wynn, J. Carrol Naish, Jules Munshin, Thomas Gomez, Marjorie Reynolds, Arthur Treacher
Mario Lanza makes his film debut in this film about truck driver Johnny Donnetti who is hired as the tenor lead in an opera production where he falls in love with heiress and female lead Prudence Budell (Kathryn Grayson).
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 Young at Heart 1954 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Alan Hale Jr., Frank Ferguson, Elisabeth Fraser, Lonny Chapman
Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day) finds love and romance when Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra) comes to her small town to help in writing a musical.
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| Oscar: Best Supporting Actress for None But the Lonely Heart (1944) |
1. Deadline U.S.A. (1952)
2. The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
3. The Great Sinner (1949)
4. It's a Big Country (1951)
5. Just for You (1952)
6. Kind Lady (1951)
7. Moonrise (1948)
8. Moss Rose (1947)
9. None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
10. The Paradine Case (1947)
11. Pinky (1949)
12. Portrait of Jennie (1948)
13. The Red Danube (1949)
14. The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
15. The Spiral Staircase (1946)
16. The Story of Three Loves (1953)
17. That Midnight Kiss (1949)
18. Young at Heart (1954)
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